told the writer that she remembers this robbery well; that two of the robbers were hanged together at Lincoln, with a sheep-stealer “Bill Clarke,” the last time that offence was punished by hanging; these two were known as “Lister,” (others say “Tippler,”) and “Tiger Tom”; {206a} the latter was a desperate character, and it was thought that no one would take him; but two men, powerfully built and fearless, David English of Hameringham, and a keeper named Bullivant, were set to the task, and they succeeded in running their men down at “The Bungalow,” a small public house on the bank of the Witham at Boston. {206b} Of the last hanged it is said, that he was such a bad character, that his own mother foretold that he would “die in his shoes,” and that, on the scaffold, he shook off his shoes, in order to falsify her prediction. One of them, who was transported for life, leagued with two other criminals on board the same vessel, and the three were caught in the act of attempting to scuttle the ship, and were afterwards thrown overboard. As a tinge of romance not uncommonly has attended daring exploits of this character, it was remarked at the time that Italian banditti could hardly have planned the robbery more cleverly, or carried it out with more deliberate courage. Some mystery seemed to hang about the apparent leader of the party, whose demeanour was said to be above that of his temporary position; and one of them, Timothy Brammar, was exalted into a hero, by being celebrated in a ballad.