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Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 / Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road"

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Charles G. Harper
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The book surveys the rise, lore, and decline of roadside robbery, tracing the transformation from medieval outlaws to highwaymen and later footpads while contrasting romantic legend with legal record. It assembles anecdotes, trial accounts, and contemporary pamphlets about notorious robbers and gangs, examines superstitions such as the hand of glory, and details prisons, executions, wayside gibbets, and the watch system. Interleaving local road histories with portraits of individual figures, the author aims to balance popular tradition and documented evidence, preserving the period atmosphere without wholesale debunking or uncritical glorification.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEPARATE PLATES

Page
Mulled Sack Frontispiece
The Footpads 4
Robin Hood, under the Greenwood Tree 26
Margaret of Anjou and the Bandit 37
The "Hand of Glory": Beneath the Gallows Tree 50
"Open Lock, to the Dead Man's Knock" 53
The Fight in Needwood Forest 78
"Who Goes Home?" 93
Scandalous Scene at a Hertford Execution 143
The Bellman 153
Clever Tom Clinch going to Execution 169
At the "Bowl" 181
An Execution at Tyburn 187
Execution of the Idle Apprentice at Tyburn 188
Queen Henrietta Maria praying at Tyburn 191
"There he swings by the Roadside, in his Cage, in a contemplative Attitude, as though pondering on the Mysteries of Life and Death" 210
Falstaff on Gad's Hill 218
Exchange of Compliments 226
John Hawkins and George Sympson robbing the Bristol Mail 235
Murder of Mr. Steele on Hounslow Heath 243
Spiggott pressed at Newgate 253
"Shelling the Peas" 261
Moll Cutpurse 262
Allen and Hind attack Oliver Cromwell's Carriage 281
Hind robs Dr. Peters 289
Hind shows his Disguise 301
John Clavel 311
The Golden Farmer and the Tinker 327
"Old Mob" robs the Duchess of Portsmouth 335
Claude Du Vall dancing the Coranto on Hounslow Heath 348
The Fight in the Hollow Road 360
Captain Dudley on Hounslow Heath 388
Captain Dudley and the Clergyman 392

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

"A Terrible and Seasonable Warning" 69
The End of Wild Robert 70
Dr. Newman and his Pills 107
Eighteenth-Century Advertisement 108
Lansdowne Passage 110
"Clibborn's Post" 119
Decorative Headpiece from Pureney's "Life and Confession of Jonathan Wild and four other Malefactors" 139
The "Execution Bell," St. Sepulchre 155
The Road near Chester, 1675 200
Caxton Gibbet 202
Miles's Irons 211
The "True Protracture" of Captain Hind 274
"Here now thou seest me as a Butcher's Boy" 276
Captain Hind, the Cavalier Hero 284
"Next; here am I presented to thy view" 284
"Stand and Deliver! next in order comes" 287
"Behold! at last, the saddest sight of all" 301
Execution of the Golden Farmer 329

HALF-HOURS
WITH THE
HIGHWAYMEN