Several men with this profession play the flute and prepare to dance with a woman in William Powell Frith's painting of Claude Duval.
Several men with this profession play the flute and prepare to dance with a woman in William Powell Frith's painting of Claude Duval. After Horace Walpole's face was burned, he received a letter from a man with this profession apologizing for what he called a "matrimonial scheme." Because of the colorful strings on his breeches, John Rann, a famous example of these people, was known as "Sixteen String Jack." A man using the alias of John Palmer was revealed as one of them after he shot another person's gamecock. That man with this profession mythically (*) rode 200 miles in one night from London to York, owned the horse Black Bess, and was named Dick Turpin. They tended to strike targets at places like Shooter's Hill. For 10 points, "stand and deliver!" was frequently shouted by what kind of thief who victimized travelers in England?
Several men with this profession play the flute and prepare to dance with a woman in William Powell Frith's painting of Claude Duval.
highwaymen [or stagecoach robbers; accept anything about a thief on the road; prompt on things like thieves or robbers; do not accept "train robbers"; do not accept "bushrangers"]