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,
“... tax-gatherers? These are some of the questions, not necessarily posed in those words, pondered by Gillian Spraggs in her scholarly, close-textured Outlaws and Highwaymen, which began as a thesis on the robber in Tudor and early Stuart times. Outstanding among her early villains is the Folville gang, headed by a rascally rector, who murdered a ... ”
