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

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CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

NEVISON: "SWIFT NICKS"

JOHN COTTINGTON, alias "MULLED SACK"

THOMAS RUMBOLD

"CAPTAIN" JAMES WHITNEY

TWM SHON CATTI

JOHN WITHERS AND WILLIAM EDWARDS

PATRICK O'BRIAN

JACK BIRD

WILL OGDEN, JACK BRADSHAW, AND TOM REYNOLDS

JACK OVET

JOHN HALL, RICHARD LOW, AND STEPHEN BUNCE

"MR." AVERY AND DICK ADAMS

JONATHAN WILD

NICHOLAS HORNER

WALTER TRACEY

NED WICKS

DICK TURPIN

WILLIAM PARSONS, THE BARONET'S SON

WILLIAM PAGE

ISAAC DARKIN, ALIAS DUMAS

JAMES MACLAINE, THE "GENTLEMAN" HIGHWAYMAN

JOHN POULTER, ALIAS BAXTER

PAUL LEWIS

THE WESTONS

JACK RANN: "SIXTEEN-STRING JACK"

ROBERT FERGUSON "GALLOPING DICK"

JERRY ABERSHAW

JOHN AND WILLIAM BEATSON

ROBERT SNOOKS

HUFFUM WHITE

INDEX

Transcriber's Note:

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.]



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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