| | 1 | Author: | Whibley, Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Book of Scoundrels  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JAMES HIND, the Master Thief of England, the fearless Captain
of the Highway, was born at Chipping Norton in 1618. His father,
a simple saddler, had so poor an appreciation of his son's
magnanimity, that he apprenticed him to a butcher; but Hind's
destiny was to embrue his hands in other than the blood of oxen,
and he had not long endured the restraint of this common craft
when forty shillings, the gift of his mother, purchased him an
escape, and carried him triumphant and ambitious to London. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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