Site Map

Structural pages

• The History of the Highwaymen (home page): a general introduction to the material on this site
• Contents of Site: classified tables of contents listing all the individual documents
• Robbery in English Society and Culture: a historical survey, with links to some key texts
• Picture Gallery (recently added): images of highwaymen in old engravings and woodcuts

Document pages

• Ainsworth, William Harrison, extract from Rookwood
• Anon., De Clerico et Puella (in Middle English)
• —,  De Clerico et Puella (in modern English translation)
• —,  quotation from A Description of England, by a Venetian diplomat
• —,  Devol’s last Farewel
• —,  passage from Fasciculus Morum
• —,  The Female Frollick
• —,  The Flying Highwayman
• —,  news item from The Gentleman’s Magazine: a female mounted robber
• —,  news item from The Gentleman’s Magazine: Plunket and Maclaine rob Horace Walpole
• —,  The London Evening Post: report on the robbery of Horace Walpole by Plunket and Maclaine
• —,  Luke Huttons Lamentation
• —,  passages from A manifest detection of Diceplay
• —,  To the Memory of Captain James Hind
• —,  The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston (modern English translation)
• —,  The Penitent Highwayman
• —,  story from Ratseis Ghost
• —,  another story from Ratseis Ghost
• —,  passages from The Relation of the taking of Captain James Hind
• —,  news item from a Restoration news letter: a robbery by Claude Du Vall
• —,  Turpin’s Rant
• Augustine of Hippo, chapter from De Civitate Dei [About the City of God]
• Brinton, Thomas, passages from sermons
• Bromyard, John de, passages from Summa Praedicantium
• Bulwer, Edward, extract from Paul Clifford
• Butler, Samuel, Character of a Highwayman
• —,  To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du-Val
• Cassius Dio, section from his Roman History
• Clavell, John, passages from A Recantation of an Ill Led Life
• Defoe, Daniel, story from A Tour through England and Wales
• de la Pryme, Abraham, story from his diary
• Drayton, Michael, passage from Poly-Olbion
• Fennor, William, quotation from The Counter’s Commonwealth
• Fidge, George, chapters from The English Gusman
• —,  another chapter from The English Gusman
• —,  story from Hind’s Ramble
• Fortescue, Sir John, passage from The Governance of England (in Middle English)
• —,  passage from The Governance of England (in modern English translation)
• Fuller, Thomas, passage from The Worthies of England, on Robin Hood
• Harrison, William, passages from The Description of England
• Henry of Knighton, passages from his Leicester Chronicle
• Hind, James, passages from The Declaration of Captain James Hind
• Hitchcock, Robert, chapter from A Politick Plat for the honour of the Prince
• Greene, Robert, passage from The Blacke Bookes Messenger
• Langland, William, quotation from Piers Plowman
• Le Blanc, Jean Bernard, extracts from Letters on the English and French Nations
• Maclaine, James, letter to Horace Walpole
• Middleton?, Thomas, song from The Widow, ‘I keep my horse, I keep my whore’
• More, Sir Thomas, passages from Utopia (Robinson’s translation)
• Parsons, Robert, passages from The Jesuit’s Memorial
• Pope, Walter, story from The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall
• —,  ‘Du Valls Epitaph’ from The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall
• Privy Council, 1575, passage from a letter
• Rid, Samuel, passage from Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell
• Saussure, César de, passage from a letter
• Smith, Captain Alexander, passage from A Complete History of the Highwaymen
• Taylor, John, passage from An Arrant Thief
• Walpole, Horace, passages from his letters relating to James Maclaine
• —,  passage from his Short Notes of My Life
• Warner, William, passage from Albions England
• Williams, John, et al, The Confession of the Four Highwaymen
• Wilson, Ralph, passages from A Full and Impartial Account, &c
• Wilson, Thomas, passages from A Discourse Upon Usury
• Wither, George, passage from Abuses Stript and Whipt
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, quotation from An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Menus and Special Notes

• Gentlemen gangsters in fourteenth-century England
• Outlaw literature
• Robin Hood
• Ballads
• Captain James Hind
• Claude Du Vall
• Dick Turpin
• James Maclaine and Horace Walpole
• Alfred Noyes - ‘The Highwayman’

Other pages

• A Select Bibliography: books and articles on the history of the outlaws and highwaymen
• About this site: information about this site
• Notes on some textual and copyright issues
• Outlaws and Highwaymen: abstract of Outlaws and Highwaymen, by Gillian Spraggs
• Gillian Spraggs: a short profile
• Links to Other Sites: a selection of links to sites containing relevant material