INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
This reproduction is a true account of a Stage Coach
being attacked by a Highwayman single-handed in Ep
ping Forest during the year 1728. A passenger who
travelled by the Cambridge Coach, hands down the
story in a quaint form of verse, which has been in this
reproduction necessary to slightly alter here and there.
However the original has been preserved intact as far as
possible. This traveller on the coach gives a very
graphic description of the manner in which the coach
was approached by the Highwayman, on the old high-
way in the forest near the town of Epping, presumably
between the eleven and thirteen milestones on the
Epping road. Although the highwayman was apparently
alone, there is little doubt that others of his tribe were
ambushed in the thick coverts.
That the occupants of the coach promptly and with
alacrity, they having no choice in the matter, contri-
buted with generosity to his receiver will be seen. It
will be thus observable with what vile abuse, the
peaceful and law abiding citizens, who travelled abroad
in those days, suffered at the hands of those night road
agents whose brutality was only equalled by their
cowardice, when demanding toll on the road.