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Rh was found to contain two shirts, two pair of stockings, a piece of lam, and a part of a bottle of wine.

Mons. C—, a Frenchman, was surprised on the road to Newmarket by Turpin, who, having repeated in vain the word of command, “Stand!” fired a pistol at him; but the ball happily missed him: fearing a second summons of the same kind, Mons. C. resolved to obey; when Turpin took his money, his watch and his snuff-box, leaving him only 2s. to continue his journey. Before he left him, he required his word of honour that he would not cause him to be parsued, nor inform against him before a justice, which being given, they parted very courteously.

Some vain attempts were made to take this notorious offender into custody; and among the rest the huntsman of a gentleman in the neighbourbood went in search of him with bloodhounds. Turpin percciving them, and recollecting that the Second Charles evaded his pursuers under covert of the friendly oak, mounted one of these trees, under which the hounds passed, to his inexpressible terror, so that he determined to retreat into Yorkshire.

Going first to Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, he stole some horses, for which he was taken into custody; but he escaped from the constable as he was conducting him before a magistrate, and hastened to Welton, in Yorkshire, where he assumed the name of John Palmer, with the character of a gentleman. Hence he frequently went into Lincolnshire, where he stole horses, which he brought into