Brewer's: Highwaymen

The four most celebrated are. —

Claude Duval,
who died 1670. James Whitney, who died 1694, at the age of 34. Jonathan Wild, of Wolverhampton (1682-1725) Jack Sheppard, of Spitalfields (1701-1724).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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