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THE
Life and Exploits,
OF
RICHARD TURPIN,
The Highwayman,
The villian commonly called Dick Turpin must be regarded as one of the most distinguished public characters familiar to the country in which he figured; at all events, it a happy circumstance that few “public characters” a phrase to which individuals of a certain ‘order’ have evinced strong attachment) have become so distinguished as the delinquent whose history we are aboutto relate in the following pages, and it no less