LIVES AND EXPLOITS _OF THE MOST NOTED_ HIGHWAYMEN, ROBBERS AND MURDERERS, OF ALL NATIONS, DRAWN FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. [Illustration] WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY SILAS ANDRUS & SON. CONTENTS. Page. Claude Du Vall, 7 Sawney Beane, 14 Thomas Wynne, 18 Thomas Witherington, 22 James Batson, 34 Mulled Sack, _alias_ John Cottington, 47 Capt. James Hind, 50 The German Princess, 61 Capt. Dudley, 76 William Nevison, 89 The Golden Farmer, 99 Jonathan Simpson, 104 William Cady, 107 Patrick O’Brian, 114 Thomas Rumbold, 117 Whitney, 134 Tim Buckeley, 144 Tom Jones, 147 Arthur Chambers, 151 Stephen Bunce, 157 Jack Ovet, 164 Tom Dorbel, 169 Dick Adams, 172 William Gettings, 176 Ned Bonnet, 181 Will Ogden and Tom Reynolds, 187 John Price, 190 Jack Shepherd, 194 Richard Turpin, 201 Henry Simms, 216 James Maclaine, 229 Eugene Aram, 245 George Barrington, 260 James Porter, 281 [Illustration: _Claude Du Vall._ P. 7.] CLAUDE DU VALL. It might very naturally be objected to us by some, that we should introduce into our work the life of any highwayman, however celebrated, whose fortune it was to have been born in France; but, without insisting upon the celebrity of the person whose life we are about to narrate, it will be sufficient to inform the objecting reader, that many of the adventures achieved by Claude du Vall were performed in England, and that he is accordingly, to all intents and purposes, although a Frenchman by birth, an English highwayman.