Contents of Site
Listed chronologically
Ancient times: some classic texts
| before 229: | section from the Roman History of Cassius Dio |
| betw 413 & 426: | chapter from De Civitate Dei [About the City of God], by St Augustine |
Fourteenth century
| betw 1305 & 1307: | The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston (modern English translation) |
| c. 1317: | passage from Fasciculus Morum, by an unknown Franciscan |
| 1326, 1331, 1346: | entries in Henry of Knighton’s Leicester Chronicle |
| c. 1330: | passages from Summa Praedicantium, by John de Bromyard |
| a. 1340: | De Clerico et Puella (in Middle English) |
| De Clerico et Puella (in modern English translation) | |
| betw 1373 & 1389: | passages from sermons by Thomas Brinton |
| c. 1377: | quotation from William Langland’s Piers Plowman |
Fifteenth century
| betw 1471 & 1476: | 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) | |
| c. 1497: | quotation from A Description of England, by an unknown Venetian diplomat |
Sixteenth century
| 1516: | passages from Utopia, by Sir Thomas More |
| 1552: | passages from A manifest detection of Diceplay |
| 1572: | passages from A Discourse Upon Usury, by Thomas Wilson |
| 1575: | passage from a letter from Elizabeth I’s Privy Council |
| 1580: | chapter from A Politick Plat for the honour of the Prince, by Robert Hitchcock |
| 1588: | passages from A Description of England, by William Harrison |
| 1589: | passage from 2nd edition of Albions England, by William Warner |
| 1592: | passage from The Blacke Bookes Messenger, by Robert Greene |
| 1596: | passages from The Jesuit’s Memorial, by Robert Parsons |
| 1598 (1596?): | Luke Huttons Lamentation |
Seventeenth century
| 1605: | story from Ratseis Ghost |
| 1605: | another story from Ratseis Ghost |
| 1610: | passage from Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell, by Samuel Rid |
| 1613: | passage from Abuses Stript and Whipt, by George Wither |
| c. 1615-1617: | ‘I keep my horse, I keep my whore’, by Thomas Middleton? |
| 1617: | quotation from The Counter’s Commonwealth, by William Fennor |
| 1619: | passage from Poly-Olbion, by Michael Drayton |
| 1622: | passage from An Arrant Thief, by John Taylor the Water Poet |
| 1628: | passages from A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, by John Clavell |
| 1651: | story from Hind’s Ramble, by George Fidge |
| 1651: | passages from The Relation of the taking of Captain James Hind |
| 1651: | passages from The Declaration of Captain James Hind |
| 1652: | story from The English Gusman, by George Fidge |
| 1652: | another story from The English Gusman, by George Fidge |
| 1662: | section on Robin Hood from The Worthies of England, by Thomas Fuller |
| 1666: | item about Claude Du Vall from a news letter |
| betw 1667 & 1669: | Character of a Highwayman, by Samuel Butler |
| 1670: | Devol’s last Farewel |
| 1670: | story from The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall, by Walter Pope |
| 1670: | ‘Duvalls Epitaph’ from The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall, by Walter Pope |
| 1671: | To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du-Val, by Samuel Butler |
| 1674: | The Confession of the Four Highwaymen, by John Williams et al |
| c. 1690: | The Female Frollick |
| 1695: | The Penitent Highwayman |
| 1695: | story from The Diary of Abraham de la Pryme |
Eighteenth century
| 1719: | a highwayman’s oath, from A Complete History of the Highwaymen, by Captain Alexander Smith |
| 1722: | Passages from A Full and Impartial Account, &c, by Ralph Wilson |
| 1724: | story of Swiftnicks’s ride to York, from A Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe |
| 1726: | passage from a letter by César de Saussure |
| before 1734: | To the Memory of Captain James Hind |
| 1735: | news item from The Gentleman’s Magazine: a female mounted robber |
| 1738: | passages from a letter by Jean Bernard Le Blanc |
| 1739: | Turpin’s Rant |
| 1749: | report from The London Evening Post: Maclaine and Plunket rob Horace Walpole |
| 1749: | report of the same robbery from The Gentleman’s Magazine |
| 1749: | letter by James Maclaine to Horace Walpole |
| 1750: | material from letters by Horace Walpole relating to James Maclaine |
| 1779: | brief account by Horace Walpole of his robbery by James Maclaine thirty years earlier |
| c. 1780: | The Flying Highwayman |
| 1794: | quotation from An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution, by Mary Wollstonecraft |
Nineteenth century
| 1830: | extract from Paul Clifford, by Edward Bulwer |
| 1834: | ‘Black Bess’: extract from Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth |
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