The Highwayman
Once upon a time there was a man named Dick Turpin who was…not a very nice man. Though born into a nice enough family (his father was a butcher and innkeeper), Dick seemed reluctant to take up a trade and, after a brief stint as a butcher himself, he fell in with a gang of deer thieves in the early 1730s. Deer poaching was becoming … Continue reading The Highwayman