courteously answered, “Sir, you are liberal, and shall have no cause to repent your being so; this liberality of yours shall excuse you the other three-hundred pounds”: and giving him the word, that if he met with any more of the crew, he might pass undisturbed, he civilly takes his leave of him. Here is the account of the lying in state after the execution:— After he had hanged a convenient time, he was cut down, and, by persons well dressed, carried into a mourning-coach, and so conveyed to the Tangier-tavern in St. Giles’s, where he lay in state all that night, the room hung with black cloth, the hearse covered with escutcheons, eight wax-tapers burning, and as many tall gentlemen with long black cloakes attending; mum was the word, great silence expected from all that visited, for fear of disturbing this sleeping lion. And this ceremony had lasted much longer, had not one of the judges (whose name I must not mention here, lest he should incur the displeasure of the ladies) sent to disturb this pageantry. The “Memoirs” are not to be taken too seriously. They are satirical, as is sufficiently shown by the title—“Intended as a severe Reflexion on the too great Fondness of English Ladies towards French Footmen: which, at that Time of Day was a too common Complaint.” According to the “Memoirs” Duval’s tomb bore the family arms curiously engraved and under them this epitaph:— Here lies Duval: reader, if male thou art, Look to thy purse: if female, to thy heart. Much havoc hath he made of both: for all Men he made stand, and women he made fall. The Second Conqueror of the Norman race, Knights to his arms did yield, and ladies to his face. Old Tyburn’s glory, England’s bravest thief: Duval, the ladies’ joy: Duval, the ladies’ grief. It must be admitted that the accounts of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, do not mention this monument. It is probable that Duval did really introduce gentler methods into the practice of robbery. The author of “Hudibras” in a “Pindaric Ode” claims this merit and one other for Duval:— Taught the wild Arabs on the road To act in a more gentle mode: Take prizes more obligingly than those Who never had been bred filous And how to hang in a more graceful fashion Than e’er was known before to the dull English nation. The third chapter of Macaulay’s History gives an excellent account of highwaymen in the reign of Charles II.