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Stories and extracts from fictional works

• Ratsey and the lawyer
• Ratsey and the parson’s daughter
• Hind and the committee-man
• How James Hind became a highwayman
• How Hind was enchanted
• Claude Du Vall and the lady
• The highwayman’s good advice
• Swiftnicks’s ride to York
• Dick Turpin at Newmarket races
• Extract from Paul Clifford, by Edward Bulwer
• ‘Black Bess’: extract from Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth

Ballads, songs and poems

• The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston (modern English translation)
• De Clerico et Puella (in Middle English)
• De Clerico et Puella (in modern English translation)
• Passage from Albions England, by William Warner
• Luke Huttons Lamentation
• Passage from Abuses Stript and Whipt, by George Wither
• Passage from Poly-Olbion, by Michael Drayton
• Passage from An Arrant Thief, by John Taylor the Water Poet
• ‘I keep my horse, I keep my whore’, by Thomas Middleton?
• Devol’s last Farewel
• Du Valls Epitaph from The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall, by Walter Pope
• To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du-Val, by Samuel Butler
• The Female Frollick
• The Penitent Highwayman
• To the Memory of Captain James Hind
• Turpin’s Rant
• The Flying Highwayman

‘Lives’, memoirs, underworld exposés

• The history of the bandit Bulla, from Cassius Dio’s ‘Roman History’
• Passages from Henry of Knighton’s Leicester Chronicle
• Passages from A manifest detection of Diceplay
• Passage from The Blacke Bookes Messenger, by Robert Greene
• Passages from A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, by John Clavell
• Passages from The Relation of the taking of Captain James Hind
• Passages from The Declaration of Captain James Hind
• Section on Robin Hood from The Worthies of England, by Thomas Fuller
• An item from a Restoration news letter about Claude Du Vall
• The Confession of the Four Highwaymen, by John Williams et al
• A highwayman’s oath, from A Complete History of the Highwaymen, by Captain Alexander Smith
• Passages from A Full and Impartial Account, &c, by Ralph Wilson
• News item from The Gentleman’s Magazine: a female mounted robber
• News report from The London Evening Post: Plunket and Maclaine rob Horace Walpole
• News report of the same robbery from The Gentleman’s Magazine
• Horace Walpole’s brief account of his robbery by Plunket and Maclaine

Letters

• Passage from a letter from Elizabeth I’s Privy Council
• Passage from a letter by César de Saussure
• Passages from a letter by Jean Bernard Le Blanc
• James Maclaine’s letter to Horace Walpole
• Passages from Horace Walpole’s letters relating to James Maclaine

Satire

• Passage from Abuses Stript and Whipt, by George Wither
• Character of a Highwayman, by Samuel Butler
• To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du-Val, by Samuel Butler

Social comment

• Passage from St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei [About the City of God]
• Quotation from William Langland’s Piers Plowman
• Passage from The Governance of England, by Sir John Fortescue (in Middle English)
• Passage from The Governance of England, by Sir John Fortescue (in modern English translation)
• Quotation from A Description of England, by an unknown Venetian diplomat
• Passages from Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
• Passages from A Discourse Upon Usury, by Thomas Wilson
• Chapter from A Politick Plat for the honour of the Prince, by Robert Hitchcock
• Passages from The Description of England, by William Harrison
• Passages from The Jesuit’s Memorial, by Robert Parsons
• Passage from Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell, by Samuel Rid
• Quotation from The Counter’s Commonwealth, by William Fennor
• Quotation from An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution, by Mary Wollstonecraft

Sermons

• Passage from Fasciculus Morum, by an unknown Franciscan
• Passages from Summa Praedicantium, by John de Bromyard
• Passages from sermons by Thomas Brinton

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