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Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road" — John Shaqi

Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road"Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

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

Name: Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 2: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road"
Author: Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

Brigands and robbers; Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs; Roads -- Great Britain

Transcriber's Note:

This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the second.
The first volume was released as Project Gutenberg ebook #53111,
available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53111.

  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._]

[Illustration: SIXTEEN-STRING JACK.]

  HALF-HOURS WITH
  THE HIGHWAYMEN

  _PICTURESQUE BIOGRAPHIES AND
  TRADITIONS OF THE "KNIGHTS
  OF THE ROAD"_

  BY CHARLES G. HARPER

  VOL. II

  [Illustration: [++] Man and woman talking.]

  _Illustrated by Paul Hardy and by the Author, and
  from Old Prints_

  LONDON

  CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED
  1908

  _All rights reserved_

  PRINTED AND BOUND BY
  HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
  LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

CONTENTS

                                                                   PAGE

  NEVISON: "SWIFT NICKS"                                              1

  JOHN COTTINGTON, _alias_ "MULLED SACK"                             26

  THOMAS RUMBOLD                                                     35

  "CAPTAIN" JAMES WHITNEY                                            41

  TWM SHON CATTI                                                     65

  JOHN WITHERS AND WILLIAM EDWARDS                                   75

  PATRICK O'BRIAN                                                    81

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