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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Co. see p. 268. Ex inf. gate-keeper, E.M.I.; cf. Maxwell, Highwaymen's Heath, 363. See Place Names of Mdx. (E.P.N.S.), …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1777 four men were to be paid for apprehending thieves and highwaymen. 67 The parish rate brought in £515 in 1776, of …
Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… times, though road travel retained its hazards, including highwaymen. 16 The most widespread problem was poor surfaces …
Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Watlington were mentioned in the 1530s and 1540s, 14 and highwaymen remained an occasional threat in the 1790s. 15 …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… corn or sheep stealing rather than domestic burglaries. 2 Highwaymen remained an occasional threat: post-chaises … from Bolney to Henley for the 1777 gala were stopped by highwaymen looking for diamonds, and twenty years later …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… they were common thieves, ravagers of the countryside, or highwaymen, and accused thereof before secular justices, … - having considered that the words and terms, namely, 'highwaymen and ravagers of the countryside' specified in the … or appeals bear the effect of such words - namely, 'highwaymen and ravagers of the countryside' or other words …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… the lodging of the ambassadors of Venice and Ferrara. Highwaymen captured in Normandy include two Spanish captains …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… [Cd. 3273], pp. 33, 38, H.C. (1906), xcvi. G. Maxwell, Highwaymen's Heath, 323; see photographs of carts carrying …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… popular association with the heath is as a resort of highwaymen. There are fairly frequent references to robberies … 51 but many of the stories commonly told of the Hounslow highwaymen have little foundation. There is, for instance, no … 185. D.N.B. Morning Advertiser, 9 Sept. 1801. G. Maxwell, Highwaymen's Heath, 136. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the increasing number of larcenies. 60 The activities of highwaymen and smugglers in the Uxbridge area were frequently … 61 and it was later said that in the 1750s notorious highwaymen lived openly in the town while travellers made a …