They attacked travellers in carriages or on horseback. Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th century. They targeted stagecoaches, carriages, farmers returning from market and the mail ...

Of course, some 18th-century highwaymen such as Jack Sheppard (1702-54) became popular fellows, but this was the exception rather than the norm, and the romanticisation of highwaymen only occurred ...

Current rules are creating a generation of moped "highwaymen" in London according ... "We're going back to the 18th Century. "We've got roving bands of thieving nasty people who have no concern ...

One of the most ruthless and fearsome of all highwaymen was surely Hereford-born William Spiggot, the scourge of southern England’s coaching routes in the early 18th century. For upwards of twelve ...

They attacked travellers in carriages or on horseback. Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th century. They targeted stagecoaches, carriages, farmers returning from market and the mail ...