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Richard Turpin (1705-1739) was a legendary English highwayman.

'In choosing heroes, the folk are weird. Dick Turpin, an East End butcher’s boy, commenced his wild career by stealing cattle in West Ham and selling the beef, door to door. Pursued by the law, he took to housebreaking and highway robbery. Things became hot, he retired, got into a squabble over a gamecock, was arrested, unmasked, and hanged on 6 April 1739. Ignoble enough; even the celebrated ride to York was not his (it was performed by the bandit ‘Nicks’ Nevison in 1676), but somehow Turpin became a legendary hero. Several apocryphal adventures were strung into an epic ballad that did brisk business as a broadside. But over the years, it got whittled down till only the exploit with the lawyer remained'. (A L Lloyd)

There are a multitude of versions. This particular version is the one sand by Brian Peters and purports to be of the meeting of a lawyer and Dick Turpin in Lincolnshire.

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