A highway robbery in Restoration England A mounted robber keeps lookout Three travellers are driven into a wood at swordpoint Foreground: two mounted robbers threaten a terrified victim A robber strips a traveller of his valuables
A gang of highwaymen holding up travellers

Frontispiece to The English Rogue (1665) by Richard Head

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© Gillian Spraggs, 2007

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