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Stand & Deliver: Highwaymen from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin (1951)

Tekijä: Patrick Pringle

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The true story of the highwaymen has never been written, nor can it be. The chroniclers were slavishly faithful to their authorities-flatteringly so, in fact; for these authorities consisted of a lot of chapbooks, broadsheets, penny dreadfuls and twopenny bloods, "dying confessions" that had come in for a good deal of posthumous editing, and the contemporary gutter Press-which was even more unreliable then than it is today. Many of these 'authorities' were so contradictory that the truth-at-all-costs chroniclers left out some of the best bits of highway lore in their vain attempts to keep faithful to their ridiculous principles .Our own ambition is more modest. We have not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back to the same sources that the chroniclers used-and we have taken pains to ignore the latter gentlemen whenever contemporary reports are still extant. We have not moralized, like the chroniclers, nor have we embellished, like the novelists. We have added nothing-but we have taken away a good deal. We have tried to use our discretion in selection, and our judgment in discrimination between contradictory versions of the same events. Since it was impossible to be faithful to the letter, we have tried to recapture the spirit of the Age of Highwaymen.… (lisätietoja)
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That this is not written in a dull or dry way I learned as soon as I read the introduction, my favorite part of which I put in the quotations section. I'd have read it sooner if only I'd known that.

Chapter 8 includes the story about what happened to a highwayman who picked the wrong serving girl to rob. If you enjoy stories of the supposed weaker sex getting the better of their attackers, don't let yourself miss it.

Chapter 10 includes quotations from Jackson's Recantation, part of which reads like a manual for anyone who wants to become a highwayman. There are also quotations from the hints for figuring out if a person on horseback who is sharing the road with you is a highwayman and hints for innkeepers to guess which of their guests are highwaymen.

Among the tidbits I learned from this book:

1. Moll (or Mall) was short for 'Mary' before Moll Cutpurse (Mary Frith) was born, which was also before 'moll' came to mean the mistress of a professional thief/vagrant.

2. A 'gad' was a vagabond, hence 'Gad's Hill'.

3. A 'prig' used to be slang for a thief as a noun and slang for 'to steal' as a verb.

The 1951 edition must have been illustrated because at the end of chapter 19 the author wrote, 'But it is ungrateful of us to be so critical of Villette. His book is lavishly illustrated, and has provided us with many of our own plates.' Also, he mentions an illustration of Lady Caroline Petersham pleading for Maclain in chapter 23 and another called 'Highway Murder' in chapter 28. I'm sorry that this reprint edition didn't include them. This site has illustrations from the 'Newgate Calendar,' which includes some of the subjects of this book:
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm

Stephen Morse is the designer for the cover which includes a cropped copy of 'Mull (sic) Sack robbing the Oxford Wagon', which is ' 'an engraving from A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734) by 'Captain Charles Johnson' ' ', according to this site: http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com/pictures/mullsack.htm ( )
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There are highwaymen of sorts in the Old Testament.
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[From the introduction, after the author mentions how the original chroniclers of Highwaymen had a lot of apologies for writing about such a low subject] But to-day it seems that such apologies are no longer fashionable. Freud and Co. have knocked the bottom out of that bit of hypocrisy. We all know now that I am only writing about highwaymen for the vicarious gratification of my base, society-thwarted lusts for adventure, cruelty, murder, plunder, rapine (and rape)--and that you are reading this book for the same unworthy motives. So much the better. That means I haven't got to keep telling you I don't enjoy it when I do, and you haven't got to pretend to be shocked.
Pirate publishers, the forerunners of the Catnach Press, got their hacks to work as soon as a man was condemned, to make sure that their broadsheets would be printed in time for distribution at Tyburn, where they were sure of a ready sale. A condemned prisoner could always buy a copy of his last words and read it on the way to the gallows. (chapter 19)
The original gallows at Tyburn consisted of two poles with a cross-beam, but by the sixteenth century the accommodation was found to be insufficient to meet the demand. A new gallows was errected, with three solid uprights and the same number of cross-pieces, from which no fewer than twenty-four men could be hanged at the same time. (chapter 20)
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The true story of the highwaymen has never been written, nor can it be. The chroniclers were slavishly faithful to their authorities-flatteringly so, in fact; for these authorities consisted of a lot of chapbooks, broadsheets, penny dreadfuls and twopenny bloods, "dying confessions" that had come in for a good deal of posthumous editing, and the contemporary gutter Press-which was even more unreliable then than it is today. Many of these 'authorities' were so contradictory that the truth-at-all-costs chroniclers left out some of the best bits of highway lore in their vain attempts to keep faithful to their ridiculous principles .Our own ambition is more modest. We have not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back to the same sources that the chroniclers used-and we have taken pains to ignore the latter gentlemen whenever contemporary reports are still extant. We have not moralized, like the chroniclers, nor have we embellished, like the novelists. We have added nothing-but we have taken away a good deal. We have tried to use our discretion in selection, and our judgment in discrimination between contradictory versions of the same events. Since it was impossible to be faithful to the letter, we have tried to recapture the spirit of the Age of Highwaymen.

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