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T 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 abouttoabout to [sic] relate in the following pages, and it no less