Rogues of the Road : four hundred years of Oxfordshire highwaymen

`The tradition of stand and deliver is older than we might have thought .'�For centuries, the roads of Oxfordshire were the haunt of highwaymen and footpads.��From Elizabethan villains to famous names such as Dick Turpin, Captain Hind and Claude Duval, traces of their stories survive in historical documents and even their own testimonies.��But who were these elusive rogues of the road? Who held up a duchess from the household of King Charles I? How did a ghost pull off his largest crime? And which band of brothers made robbing the highways their family business?��Take a journey from Oxford to Banbury, through the wilds of Wychwood Forest, to Henley-on-Thames, Abingdon and Wantage, into Witney's inns, and even through the doors of Britain's oldest university. �Four hundred years after the term highwayman was first coined, meet Oxfordshire's rogues of the road