stories are told of him. He had the credit of robbing Cromwell,
Bradshaw, and Peters. His discourse to Peters is particularly edifying.

[8] See Du-Val's life by Doctor Pope, or Leigh Hunt's brilliant sketch
of him in _The Indicator_.

[9] We cannot say much in favor of this worthy, whose name was Thomas
Simpson. The reason of his _sobriquet_ does not appear. He was not
particularly scrupulous as to his mode of appropriation. One of his
sayings is, however, on record. He told a widow whom he robbed, "that
the end of a woman's husband begins in tears, but the end of her tears
is another husband." "Upon which," says his chronicler, "the gentlewoman
gave him about fifty guineas."

[10] Tom was a sprightly fellow, and carried his sprightliness to the
gallows; for just before he was turned off he kicked Mr. Smith, the
ordinary, and the hangman out of the cart--a piece of pleasantry which
created, as may be supposed, no small sensation.

[11] Many agreeable stories are related of Holloway. His career,
however, closed with a murder. He contrived to break out of Newgate but
returned to witness the trial of one of his associates; when, upon the
attempt of a turnkey, one Richard Spurling, to seize him, Will knocked
him on the head in the presence of the whole court. For this offence he
suffered the extreme penalty of the law in 1712.

[12] Wicks's adventures with Madame Toly are highly diverting. It was
this hero--not Turpin, as has been erroneously stated--who stopped the
celebrated Lord Mohun. Of Gettings and Grey, and "the five or six," the
less said the better.

[13] One of Jack's recorded _mots_. When a Bible was pressed upon his
acceptance by Mr. Wagstaff, the chaplain, Jack refused it, saying, "that
in his situation one file would be worth all the Bibles in the world." A
gentleman who visited Newgate asked him to dinner; Sheppard replied,
"that he would take an early opportunity of waiting upon him." And we
believe he kept his word.

[14] The word Tory, as here applied, must not be confounded with the
term of party distinction now in general use in the political world. It
simply means a thief on a grand scale, something more than "a snapper-up
of unconsidered trifles," or petty-larceny rascal. We have classical
authority for this:--TORY: "An advocate for absolute monarchy; _also, an
Irish vagabond, robber, or rapparee_."--GROSE'S _Dictionary_.

[15] A trio of famous High-Tobygloaks. Swiftneck was a captain of
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