One of the highwaymen struck Hepner across the face with a club and felled him. The other then bound a cloth about his face. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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1883 Highwaymen were robbers on horseback and they usually worked alone or in small groups. They attacked travellers in carriages or on horseback. Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th ...

Mounted soldiers from the losing royalist armies turned to a life of crime, becoming the horseback robbers known as Highwaymen.

In between, tens of thousands of highwaymen, robbers, forgers, murderers, traitors and other convicted men and women met their end at Tyburn. From the Reformation period onwards, this included many ...

Hood and Turpin were highwaymen - thieves who specialised in robbing travellers ... fell on hard times after her marriage and was obliged to take up highway robbery. According to legend, the filching ...

They would rob people travelling on foot and they could be very violent. Highwaymen were robbers on horseback and they usually worked alone or in small groups. They attacked travellers in ...