Highwaymen
The four most celebrated are. —
Claude Duval,
who died 1670. James Whitney, who died 1694, at the age of
34. Jonathan Wild, of Wolverhampton (1682-1725) Jack
Sheppard, of Spitalfields (1701-1724).
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