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Chapter 1: HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN
By Charles G. Harper
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A collection of illustrated biographical sketches and popular traditions recounting the lives and exploits of numerous highwaymen and related criminal figures. Each chapter profiles an individual or gang, narrating reputed robberies, escapes, captures, trials, and executions while contrasting romanticized anecdotes with documentary records. The author assembles ballads, prints, and local lore alongside legal and archival details to show how myth and reality became intertwined around these figures. Plates and text illustrations punctuate the accounts and underscore the interplay between popular imagination and recorded fact.

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Title: Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2

Author: Charles G. Harper

Illustrator: Paul Hardy

Release date: October 11, 2016 [eBook #53112]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN

WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.

The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.

The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."

Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of "The Ingoldsby Legends."

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast.

The North Devon Coast.

The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols.

Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.

Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).

The Manchester and Glasgow Road; This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.

Haunted Houses; Tales of the Supernatural.

The Somerset Coast. [In the Press.]

SIXTEEN-STRING JACK.

HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN

PICTURESQUE BIOGRAPHIES AND TRADITIONS OF THE "KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD"

By CHARLES G. HARPER

VOL. II

Illustrated by Paul Hardy and by the Author, and from Old Prints

London

CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited

1908

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HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.