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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand and deliver!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cock," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was, of course, one of the gamesters aforesaid; and any of them who had the misfortune to lose his money went immediately, as he tells us, upon the Heath, to replenish his pockets. They were by no means proud, and did not disdain to rob rustics of their pence." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robb'd the 10th of _Nov._ last, from Mr. _Joseph Bullock_ of _Bristol_, on the Road between _Hungerford_ and _Newbury_ in _Barkshire_, one Silver Watch and Case, there being on the backside of the Case an Almanack, a Hanger with a Plate Hilt, a Buff Belt, with Silver Buckles; by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On Whitsunday in the Evening was committed a great Robbery by four Highwaymen within half a mile of Watford Gap in the County of Northampton, to the value of above Eight score Pounds taken from some Passengers. They were of indifferent stature, their Coats were all turned up wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is likewise abroad one Augustine King, formerly convicted at Cambridge; a Notorious Highway Robber, who made his Escape from the _Gatehouse_. He is a lusty fat man, about 31 or 32 years of Age, fresh-coloured, full Ey'd, his own Hair, lank, inclinable to black: he hath sev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in November the Oxford coach was pillaged in mid-day, after a bloody fight. About the same time, we read in Narcissus Luttrell's diary, fifteen butchers, going to Thame market to buy cattle, were robbed by nine highwaymen, who carried them over a hedge, made them drink King ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand and deliver way. Opportunity helped them. They were already armed, and, as they did not live in barracks until about 1790, and were merely quartered on the inhabitants of London and Westminster, they were free at all hours of the night to" }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, do you know me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It does not appear exactly how this idea was worked, or if travellers were supposed to wait until such highwaymen or footpads retired: but, according to a newspaper report of that time, the scheme was successful, for we read:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who goes Home? When the House rises, and the legislators, who have left their brains outside and have voted" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are dispersing, the stentorian shout of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who goes Home?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WHO GOES HOME?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Gentleman going from St. James's to Kensington was met and attacked in Hide Park by two Foot Pads, who took from him his Sword, Watch, Perriwig, and Rings, in all to the value of £130, and left him in a deplorable condition." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for examp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentleman Harry was but a gentleman by the popular recognition accorded his dashing ways; but a real, officially recognised gentleman was at the same time upon the road; no less a personage than Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., who, in company with a certain Lieutenant Arnott, scoured t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like the importunate widow set forth in the Gospel, says the good Told," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Society must be protected," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give the old fellow his spectacles back, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flying Bath Coach" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Coach, four guineas, and his silver watch. He threatened every minute to blow out their brains with a horse-pistol he flourished, and although he had succeeded, without any trouble, in securing a not inconsiderable booty, cursed them violently, saying," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Begs leave to acquaint all Gentlemen and others (others!) that he has taken a large House in Beer-Cart Lane, advertises sporting and other guns, and has a very choice assortment of pistols" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We hear, says the journal," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This curious juxtaposition looks uncommonly like a sly example of editorial sarcasm at the expense of the excellent advertiser: a hint after the style of the sardonic French philosopher's comment upon the simi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop thief!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is supposed, says the _Gentleman's Magazine_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CLIBBORN'S POST" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was not all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Master, said Reader," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has a great blue coat, and a sorrel horse," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll e'en hang him myself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cherhill Gang," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A captain in the army, who was going to Bath in a postchaise, was stopped near Sandy Lane by two highwaymen, by one of whom he was told that he wanted but a guinea, which he hoped to be soon able to pay him again. The captain gave him the guinea, and the fellow gave the driver a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flower Pot inn at Sunbury that night, at ten o'clock, presumably with the intention of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "usually impudent fabrications, and, when not entirely un-authentic, generally the utterly unreadable productions of the Ordinaries of Newgate and other prisons, who turned an honest, if somewhat discreditable, penny in hearing the generally boastful and lying accounts by prisone...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Newgate Sessions Papers, the somewhat too famous" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Newgate Calendar, which shared with the Bible the favour of George Borrow; the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "New Newgate Calendar ; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soldier's Farewell to Home and Parents," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "lives of the criminals to whom they extended ghostly counsel. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bishop of Newgate" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Last Dying Speech and Confession of Thomas Idle is being bawled out at the moment of his hearing the final ministrations in the cart. Obviously, these productions could not be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(much _they_ knew of such things, to be sure!)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He soon became a Flash Cull and set up half a dozen Doxies of his own, who empty'd his Pockets as soon as he filled 'em." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He then, observing that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LIFE AND CONFESSION OF JONATHAN WILD AND FOUR OTHER MALEFACTORS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parson Trullibers" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! that ye were all like Jack Sheppard! Mistake me not, my brothers, I mean not in a carnal, but in a spiritual sense; for I purpose to spiritualise these things. What a shame it would be, if we did not think it worth our while to take as much pains, and employ as many deep tho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "James Carrick, as he is also styled, was son of a retired jeweller, who was wealthy enough to set up for a gentleman, and to purchase his son an ensign's commission in the army. Like hundreds of others of his class, the young ensign gambled freely; like most, he lost, and like a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good folks, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The company he kept—and was by the lax regulations of the prison readily allowed to keep—in gaol was of the most depraved type. At any rate, these dissolute companions served to keep up his spirits to the very ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Highwayman, was greatly honoured. He had been condemned in July 1774, on the paltry charge of stealing a small quantity of linen: quite beneath a person of his skill, and, like many another fine fellow, received very distinguished company as he lay in his dungeon cell. Ra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; as that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John Hall, executed 1708, very pertinently remarks in his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Memoirs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ye hear, Mr. Bellman, she shouted out from her window;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "EXECUTION BELL," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hangman's Highway." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hangman's Highway, for from the west gateway in the wall of Roman _Londinium_, from the spot in after-years known as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Newgate, the malefactors of the Roman period were marched out and done to death. But in mediæval times, the citizens of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was at London drawne and hanged at the commen place of execution called in those daies The Elmes, and now Tiborne, as in some bookes we find." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Novelles furches, _i.e._ the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Porter's Block, near Cowcross Street. The equally celebrated, or notorious, John Cottington, called" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mulled Sack, was hanged at" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "West Bourne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "_i.e._" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tyburn and the rise of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. Mary-le-bourne." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Banqueting House," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tyburn. It clearly means" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somewhat similar derivations of place-names are found in the numerous" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twyfords throughout the country, and in the name of Tiverton: the meanings being, of course, res...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elms, to a site midway between the two branches of the Tye Burn, and fixed the scene of execution for some two centuries at what was later known as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tyburn Gate, until at last" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tyburn," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All, all are gone, the old familiar faces, sighed the poet; and the thing remains just as true and as sad when we substitute" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to suit our own present needs. Newgate prison is gone and Skinner Street is abolished, that once stood immediat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet, returned the driver, who knew his business;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bowl for a bottle of sack, And promised to pay for it when he came back. His waistcoat and stockings and breeches were white, His cap had a new cherry ribbon to tie't. The maids to the doors and the balconies ran, And said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lack-a-day, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The heroes of the day were often on excellent terms with the mob, and jokes were exchanged between the men who were going to be hanged, and the men who deserved to be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "enjoyed these occasions: people who, by position and education ought...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, my little man, whispered Nollekens," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The windows of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old Bell" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, he is reported to have said, when the deputy asked what it was he wanted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I owe a small matter at the 'Three Cups' inn, a little further on, and I am afraid I shall be arrested for debt as I go by the door. So I shall be much oblig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holborn Bars" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turnstile streets still keep the ancient narrowness of the country lanes they once were, when the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "News Letters of Charles the Second's time, under date of 1666:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Last Monday week in Holborn Fields, while several gentlemen were travelling to Newmarkett, to the Races there, a Highway Man very politely begg'd their Purses, for he said h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rookery, but satirists called it, in obvious contrast with its real character, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Holy Land. None dared venture into that select purlieu, except under police protection; and London breathed more freely when, in 1844, it was at last...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clever Tom Clinch, mentions the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bowl inn, at which the convict called" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This was a house that stood at the corner of what is now Endell Street and Broad Street. For" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to pay for it. It was as essential and as conventional as the clown's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we are again! Some surly ruffian might be moved, once in a way, to drain the bowl, fling it empty at the landlord, and bid him" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I remember Oxford Street, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bird Street," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He that is to be hanged, or otherwise executed, first takes Care to get himself shaved and handsomely dressed; either in Mourning, or in the Dress of a Bridegroom. This done, he sets his Friends at Work to get him Leave to be buried, and to carry his Coffin with him, which is ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Last Dying Speech and Confession of Thomas Idle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "itself, at that time a fixed, and a very roomy and most substantial structure, designed to accommodate as many as a dozen or so criminals at one time; so plentiful then were the hangings....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and added that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Through the particular interest of her ladyship, the place of execution will be removed to another spot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The age is running mad after innovation, he exclaimed to Sir William Scott," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he vehemently retorted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir, it is _not_ an improvement; they object that the old method drew together a nu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "like a football goal, a mile and a half on the London side of Croydon, and on the Tarporley-Chester Road shows a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gibbit," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gibbet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he savagely continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Red Lion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About 1753-54, the son of Mrs. Gatward, who kept the 'Red Lion' at Royston, being convicted of robbing the mail, was hanged in chains on the Great Road. I saw him hanging in a scarlet coat, and after he had hung about two or three months it is supposed that the screw was filed w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rizpah" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Rizpah ... took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mother, come out to me. Why should he call me to-night, when he knows that I cannot go? For the downs are as bright as day, and the full moon stares at the snow. We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE HE SWINGS BY THE ROADSIDE, IN HIS CAGE, IN A CONTEMPLATIVE ATTITUDE, AS THOUGH PONDERING ON THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND DEATH." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which was accorded those exquisite thieves, Claude Du Vall and Captain Hind, must needs be withheld from them. We read in the entertaining and instructive diary of Samuel Pepys how on April 11th, 1661, with a lady, he rode along the Dover Road," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The assailants rode off with great precipitation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn your eyes! Your money or your life!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Jack! I'm floor'd by that 'ere bloody Frenchman!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, thought he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold! I've got my gruel; Oh, for a glass of max! We've miss'd our booty; Let me die where I am! And as the fuel Of life shrunk in his heart, and thick and sooty The drops fell from his death-wound, and he drew ill H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The same necessity that enforc't ye Tartars to breake ye wall of China compelled them to wait upon him at Gad's Hill. Once in a way, however, travellers were more than equal for these gentry, as we may well see in these extracts fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Ridge, of Portsmouth, who was killed by thieves, almost at Knightsbridge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But this, remarks the Duke, in his _Memoirs_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, the people of the house were used to, and so took no ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At Kensington, within the memory of man, on Sunday evenings a bell used to be rung at intervals, to muster the people returning to town. As soon as a band was assembled, sufficiently numerous to ensure mutual protection, it set off; and so on, till all had passed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Lion, Hounslow. From that situation he rose to be a butler to a knight; one Sir Dennis" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dulry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Lion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The New Highways Exploitation Company," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The meaning of taking the mail twice, explains Wilson, in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Full and Impartial Account," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord Bishop Twysden, of Raphoe, a member of the old Kentish family of that name, was found suspiciously out at night on Hounslow Heath, and was most unquestionably shot through the body. A correspondent of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ asked, 'Was this the bishop who was taken ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turk's Head Inn, Dyot Street, Holborn. Evidence was adduced by which it appeared that a coach passed at a little distance along the road while they were robbing Mr. Steele, who cried out for help. Holloway exclaimed, with an oath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Green Man, and in the trunk of this last survival of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "there have been found, from time to time, quite a number of pistol bullets; the said bullets supposed to have been fired at the trunk to frighten the highwaymen who might chance t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Edmund Tooll, _alias_ Tooley, prominent on one side, and an unfortunate gentleman, Mr. Robert Leader, on the other. Mr. Leader was travelling from London across this waste, in company with his servant, when he was set upon by Tooll and some companions (one of whom afterw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as they went across this waste; or patrolled the darkest side of the road, ready to spring upon the solitary traveller. Indeed, the childlike simplicity of the lonely travellers of those days is absolutely contemptible, considering the well-known dangers of the roads. For instan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as the phrase ran, was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That the prisoner shall be remanded to the place from whence he came, and put in a low, dark room, and there laid on his back, without any manner of covering except a cloth round his middle; and that as many weigh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one shall say I was hanged in a dirty shirt and a ragged coat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Mob," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Honour among thieves" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Mob," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wer—what do you wer—want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a sher—shave, rejoined the knight of the road, mocking the man's frightened speech;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, ho, my friend! said the highwayman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're not so poor as you thought. 'Tis treasure-trove, indeed, and of right belongs to the King. God bless him! But since His Majesty has small need of a matter of twenty guineas, and I a very pr...