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rents iti Ipswick, in the county of Suffo by them put apprentice to a bricklayer, not serving out his time, inclination led very early to follow bad courses,by wha means being obliged to leave home, coming up to London, he soon got a gang of highwaymen, with whom often took a purse on the road, till at he began to venture robbing passenger himself; and among the several robberic committed alone, we have an account of following:— Being informed that the most rever Dr. William Sancross, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Reign of King James second was to take a journey from Lamb palace to the city of Canterbury, he rested to way-lay him; and accordingly have a sight of his grace betwixt Rochester Sittingborn in Kent, he gets into a and presently spreading a large table- on the grass, on which he had placeed several handfulls of gold, he then take box and dice out of his pocket, and be playing at hazard by himself His riding by that place, a and espying shaking his elbows by himself, seal his footmen to know the meaning of The man was no sooner come up to R bold, who was still playing, swearing at losses, then he returned to the Rever prelate, and telling what he had seen,