 | Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn - 1777 - 780 páginas
...went for. Amongft other malefactors, there were two gentlemen thieves, that robbed and took purfes from travellers in the highways (a theft that was never heard of in thofe parts before). I got them betrayed, took them, and fent them to Newcaftle gaol, and there they... | |
 | Robert Carey (1st earl of Monmouth.) - 1808 - 350 páginas
...were two gentlemen thieves, that robbed and • * Robbers, or, as sometimes termed, moss-troopers. took purses from travellers in the highways, (a theft...and sent them to Newcastle jail, and there they were hangedT I took not so few as sixteen or seventeen that summer, and the winter following, of notorious... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1909 - 338 páginas
...Sir Henry Widdrington and Sir William Fenwick his deputies. He began his operations by executing ' two gentlemen thieves that robbed and took purses from travellers in the highways,' who were both banged at Newcastle. The hero of the ballad may have been one of these two, whose names... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1909 - 324 páginas
...Sir Henry Widdrington and Sir William Fenwick his deputies. He began his operations by executing ' two gentlemen thieves that robbed and took purses from travellers in the highways,' who were both hanged at Newcastle. The hero of the ballad may have been one of these two, whose names... | |
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... was done ; for the Scotch riders were always guided by some of them in all the spoils they made. God blessed me so well in all my designs, as I never made journey in vain, but did that I went for. " Amongst other malefactors there were two gentlemen... 