Dick Turpin was a real life Highwayman. He lived 34 years and was executed on April 7. 1739. His exploits were the subject
of artwoks and literature. He was known for a fictional 200-mile (overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess. The story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth on his novel Rookwood published in 1834. Rockwood was one of the most successful novels of the nineteenth century.He was also the subject of the
Penny Dreadful Black Bess or The Knight of the Road by Edward Viles. In 1925 Fox produced the movie
Dick Turpin,starring Tom Mix, Alan Hale, and Carole Lombard.
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John Nevison, (1639 - 4 May 1684), was one of Britain's most notorious highwaymen. He was nicknamed Swift Nick by King Charles II after a renowned 200-mile ride from Kent to York to establish an alibi for a robbery he had committed earlier that day. English Folk Singer Joseph Taylor recorded a song about him in 1908. I've now rob'd a gentleman of two-pence,
I've neither done murder, nor killed,
But guilty I've been all my life time,
So gentlemen do as you will
I's when that I rode on the highway,
I've always had money in great store;
And whatever I look from the rich
I freely gave it to the poor. He was the subject of the 1913 novel Swift Nick Of The York Road by George Edgar,
I've neither done murder, nor killed,
But guilty I've been all my life time,
So gentlemen do as you will
I's when that I rode on the highway,
I've always had money in great store;
And whatever I look from the rich
I freely gave it to the poor. He was the subject of the 1913 novel Swift Nick Of The York Road by George Edgar,