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 timeWhitehead, Charles
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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
Whitehead, Charles
Brigands and robbers -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Murderers -- Great Britain
She presently after embarked for Holland, and travelled by land to
Cologne, and having a considerable sum of money, took handsome lodgings
at a house of entertainment, and cut a dashing figure. As it is
customary for the gentry in England to frequent Brighton during the
season, so it was then customary for those in Germany to frequent the
Spa. Our heroine went thither, and was addressed by an old gentleman
who had a good estate in the vicinity. With the assistance of her
landlady, she managed this affair with great art. The old gentleman
presented her with several fine jewels, besides a gold chain and costly
medal, which had been given him, for some gallant action under count
Tilly, against the valiant Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. He at length
began to press matrimony with all the keenness of a young lover, and,
unable to resist the siege any longer, she consented to make him
happy in three days. Meanwhile, he supplied her with money in great
profusion, and she was requested to prepare what things she pleased
for the wedding. The Princess now deemed it high time to be gone, and,
to secure her retreat, acquainted her landlady with her design. Having
already shared largely of the spoils that our adventurer had received
from her old doating lover, the aged beldame, in hopes of pillaging
him a little more, encouraged and aided her flight. Our heroine
requested her to go and provide her a seat in a carriage which took a
different road from that of Cologne, as she did not wish that her lover
should be able to trace her route. When our Princess found herself
alone, she broke open a chest in which the good woman had deposited
all her share of the spoil that she had received from our heroine,
as well as her own money. Madame made free with all, and took her
passage to Utrecht, from thence went to Amsterdam, sold her chains and
some jewels, and then passed into Rotterdam, from whence she speedily
embarked for England.
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