A rundown of the most romantic highwaymen of the English past -- when those who broke the law were as celebrated as those who upheld it -- and how they were taken to the Tyburn Tree.
Contents
Captain Hind -- Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild -- Ralph Briscoe -- Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack -- Thomas Pureney -- Sheppard and Cartouche -- Vaux -- George Barrington -- The Switcher and Gentleman Har...
Charles Whibley - A Book of Scoundrels
A Book of Scoundrels
Charles Whibley
Descrição
A rundown of the most romantic highwaymen of the English past -- when those who broke the law were as celebrated as those who upheld it -- and how they were taken to the Tyburn Tree.
Contents
Captain Hind -- Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild -- Ralph Briscoe -- Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack -- Thomas Pureney -- Sheppard and Cartouche -- Vaux -- George Barrington -- The Switcher and Gentleman Harry -- Deacon Brodie and Charles Peace -- The Man in the grey suit -- Monsieur l'abbé.