A notorious highwayman, upon whose head there was a price.

The speaker was young, and he mentioned the name of the notorious highwayman with a kind of reverence.

Jackson's Recantation; or the Life and Death of a notorious highwayman, then hanging in chains at Hamstead, 1674.

However, a few years later, this notorious highwayman, who had several murders to answer for, was caught by the government authorities and shot.

And the father, remembering vaguely that this notorious highwayman was said to have helped many to escape from the West, burst out in pleading.

"What should you say if I made a match between her and this notorious highwayman, Gilbert Crosby?"

"Arthur Bastow," he said, producing his staff, "I arrest you in the King's name, as an escaped convict, as a notorious highwayman and house breaker."