Identifier: historyofenglandm05macauoft (find matches)
Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, "Thomas Babington Macaulay," Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, "C." H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and "Mary," 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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In a few weeks the roads were as safe
as usual. The executions were numerous : for, till the evil had been
suppressed, the King resolutely refused to listen to any solicitations for
mercy. Among those who suffered was James Whitney, the most
celebrated captain of banditti in the "kingdom." He had been, during
some months, the terror of all who travelled from London either north-
ward/westward. And was at length with difficulty secured after a
desperate conflict in which one soldier was killed and several wounded.

Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 1692. Ibid. Nov. 1692. Ibid. August 1692.
Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Dec. 23 169/₃. The Dutch despatches of this year
are filled with stories of robberies.
Hop, Dec 23, 169₃; Historical Records of the Queen's Bays, published by authority ; Nar-
cissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 15.
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 22.
Ibid. Dec. 1692; Hop, Jan. /₁₃ Hop calls Whitney, "den befaamsten roover in
Engelandt."

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The True Effigies of James Whitney the Notorious Highwayman

>JAMES WHITNEY

From an engraving in the British Museum

2256 HISTORY OF ENGLAND CHAP. XIX

The London Gazette announced that the famous highwayman had been
taken, and invited all persons who had been robbed by him to repair
to Newgate and to see whether they could identify him. To identify
him should have been easy : for he had a wound in the face, and had
lost a thumb. He, however, in the hope of perplexing the witnesses
for the Crown, expended a hundred pounds in procuring sumptuous
embroidered suit against the day of trial. This ingenious device
was frustrated by his hardhearted keepers. He was put to the bar in
his ordinary clothes, convicted, and sentenced to death. 2 He had
previously tried to ransom himself by offering to raise a fine troop
of cavalry, all highwaymen, for service in Flanders : but his offer had
been rejected. He had one resource still left. He declared that he
was privy to a treasonable plot.

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