Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2 / Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road"

Chapter 34: Transcriber's Note:

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About This Book

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.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them. The paginations in the list of illustrations have been adjusted accordingly.
Footnotes were moved to the end of chapters and numbered in one continuous sequence
In the index the numbers i. and ii. refer to volumes i. and ii.
Other notes:
- Page 191: "... three several times;" changed to "... several times;"
- In this text Edgware is spelled Edgeware.