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  HALF-HOURS WITH
  THE HIGHWAYMEN




WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER


     =The Portsmouth Road=, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of
     Old.

     =The Dover Road=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

     =The Bath Road=: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old
     Highway.

     =The Exeter Road=: The Story of the West of England Highway.

     =The Great North Road=: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

     =The Norwich Road=: An East Anglian Highway.

     =The Holyhead Road=: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

     =The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road=: The Great Fenland
     Highway.

     =The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road=: Sport and
     History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

     =The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road=: The Ready Way
     to South Wales. Two Vols.

     =The Brighton Road=: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic
     Highway.

     =The Hastings Road= and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."

     =Cycle Rides Round London.=

     =A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of
     Reproduction.=

     =Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore.= Two Vols.

     =The Ingoldsby Country=: Literary Landmarks of "The Ingoldsby
     Legends."

     =The Hardy Country=: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

     =The Dorset Coast.=

     =The South Devon Coast.=

     =The North Devon Coast.=

     =The Old Inns of Old England.= Two Vols.

     =Love in the Harbour=: a Longshore Comedy.

     =Rural Nooks Round London= (Middlesex and Surrey).

     =The Manchester and Glasgow Road=; This way to Gretna Green. Two
     Vols.

     =Haunted Houses=; Tales of the Supernatural.

     =The Somerset Coast.=      [_In the Press._]




[Illustration:

  _I walke the_ Strand, _and_ Westminster; _and scorne
  to march i'th'_ Cittie, _though I beare the_ Horne.
  _My_ Feather, _and my yellow_ Band _accord
  to proue me_ Courtier: _My_ Boote, Spurr, _and sword_

  _My smokinge_ Pipe, Scarfe, Garter, Rose _on shoe;
  showe my brave minde t'affect what_ Gallants _doe.
  I singe, dance, drinke, and merrily passe the day,
  and like a Chimney sweepe all care away_

  MULLED SACK.]




  HALF-HOURS WITH
  THE HIGHWAYMEN


  _PICTURESQUE BIOGRAPHIES AND
  TRADITIONS OF THE "KNIGHTS
  OF THE ROAD"_


  BY CHARLES G. HARPER


  VOL. I

  [Illustration: [++] Man on Horseback.]


  _Illustrated by Paul Hardy and by the Author, and
  from Old Prints_


  LONDON

  CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED

  1908


  _All rights reserved_




  PRINTED AND BOUND BY
  HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
  LONDON AND AYLESBURY.




[Illustration: [++] Two Men on Horseback.]




Preface


_In a series of books designed to tell the story of the roads, and
not only of the