CONTENTS

Introduction

  1   The Age of Robin Hood

  2   Roads in Medieval Times

  3   Early Highwaymen

  4   Highwaymen and the Civil War

  5   Some Ladies of the Road

  6   The Highways of England Before the Industrial Revolution

  7   Highwaymen After the Restoration of the Monarchy

  8   Some Eighteenth-century Highwaymen

  9   Road Travel in Georgian Times

10   Dick Turpin

11   Policing Before Robert Peel

12   Prisons and Punishment

13   Street Robbery

14   Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard

15   Highway Robbers in Literature and Film

16   Some Places Associated with Highwaymen

17   Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography