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Friday, June 6, 2008

Claude Duval a French-born gentleman HIGHWAYMAN

Another Hottie, Highwayman to flaunt - CLAUDE DUVAL - b. 1643 - d. January 21, 1670. "Also known for robbing passing stagecoaches on the roads to London, between Highgate and Islington. Unlike most other brigands, he distinguished himself with gentlemanly behaviour and fashionable clothes. He reputedly never used violence." wikipedia

"There are many tales about Duval. One particularly famous one - placed in more than one location and later published by William Pope - claims that he took only a part of his potential loot from a gentleman when his wife agreed to dance with him in the wayside." wikipedia "I'd dance with him, what about you?"

Claude Duval's ghost allegedly haunts the tavern where he was arrested before being condemned to death. "My kind of ghost!"

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Dick Turpin "THE SEXY HIGHWAYMAN" - Stand & Deliver!!!

Here is a quick tidbit of interest-

Are you familiar with this gentleman/robber? There is much debate about the true legend surrounding this man. Many stories have glorified & romanticized his crimes - So much so, that rich women would purposely find themselves in his path, waiting to be his next victim! Humm.... I can't blame them!

After he was executed, Dick Turpin's body was buried a number of times as people kept digging it up. Finally he was buried in quicklime across from St. George's Roman Catholic Church in York near Walmgate Bar. "I was in York a few years back & I can't believe I missed my chance to meet him. Well, maybe next time!"

Headstone Reads: JOHN PALMER otherwise RICHARD TURPIN The notorious highwayman and horse stealer EXECUTED at Tyburn APRIL 7th 1739 and buried in ST GEORGES CHURCHYARD