Comments on: Dick Turpin, Highwayman & Butcher

By: Hermann Hasler

Hermann Hasler — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:33:54 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBL8KddQu4

And here the Ballad to the story.

By: Gillian Tindall

Gillian Tindall — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 11:55:38 +0000

You are surely right in thinking that the romanticisation of this brutal petty thug was brought about by Ainsworth, when the coming of railways and the new police force were making highway robbers a thing of the past. But I suspect that the good-bad romantic poet Alfred Noyes, with his love-story-plus-ghost poem `The Highwayman’, published two generations later again, had a hand in the myth too. The highwayman in it is in love with an inn-keeper’s daughter –

… “Look for me by moonlight, watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way”…

By: Milo

Milo — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:25:15 +0000

I really didn’t need to know that the ‘legendary’ Dick Turpin was once had up for taking a pop at a ‘tame fowl.’
I wonder wether he killed it or was reduced to chasing it around its pen with a stick?