Delightful to be Robbed
E.S. Turner: Stand and deliver, 9 May 2002
Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
by Gillian Spraggs.
Pimlico, 372 pp., £12.50, November 2001,0 7126 6479 3 Show More
by Gillian Spraggs.
Pimlico, 372 pp., £12.50, November 2001,
“... justification of the outlaw. The judge robbed by the brothers was said to have ‘sold the laws as if they were oxen or cows’. In William Langland’s Piers Plowman is a reference to ‘Folvilles’ laws’, under which men were entitled to ‘ride and recover’ by force from wicked men what had been unlawfully ... ”