Season: 3 Episode: 29

The great age of highwaymen was the period from the Restoration in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. Some of them are known to have been disbanded soldiers and even officers of the English Civil War and French wars.

In this episode , you'll hear about a few of these robbers of the roads and their stories.

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SOURCES

Ancestry

Outlaws and Highwaymen: the Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, Gillian Spraggs

The Old Bailey

The Outlaw Legend: a cultural tradition in Britain, America and Australia, Graham Seal

 Half-hours with the Highwaymen: picturesque biographies and traditions of the "knights of the road", George Charles

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Intro music by The Model Folk 

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