Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Who Was The Real Dick Turpin?" video.

True. But we are talking of a period of English history which was extremely repressive towards the poor. As an example there is a record of a young girl hanged for stealing a gentleman's handkerchief. While at the same time a chimneysweep whose brutal actions caused the death of his young apprentice was only deported to Australia. So a gentleman handkerchief had more value than that of a young boy. There is also a record from the early 19th century of two young girls being hung, or more accurately slowly choked to death, for being in possession of forged banknotes. Their only crime being that they were sent by some person to take these fake banknotes to another person. So as far as the poor were concerned these were people striking back at their repressors.
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@Jaymark-gk4li Thanks. Yes and most of them used to suppress the poor.
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@vitabricksnailslime8273 Me too. You probably know this already but Stalin was also training for the priesthood. Imagine what he would have done to the birds and the animals
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Many highwaymen stories included some wealthy lawyer being robbed and this class was much hated amongst the poor. There is one story of a man who on being stopped by a highwayman avoided being robbed by claiming he too was a highwayman and was about to rob the robber. He was convincing enough that he was sent on his way. Later that evening at an inn he related the story of how he had made a fool of the highwayman and had kept his wealth. When he set off the following day he was again held up by a highwayman but this time his story of him also being a highwayman failed to get the results ha had hoped for. It turns out that the first highwayman was also in the inn that night and heard him boasting. So that morning the highwayman had departed early to get ready to stage the second holdup. There was a very successful farmer called William Davis, 1627 to 1689, who paid for everything in gold and as such he became known as Golden Farmer. Then one night he was shot and wounded near a highway. The shooter was a passenger in a coach Davis had just robbed. He had been a successful highwayman for some 40 year, extremely unusual in that profession. In fact he should have been called the Golden Highwayman and not the Golden Farmer. He had retired from being a highwayman but decided to return to his old trade one last time. The problem was he had lost his edge and failed to check the passengers for weapons. As he turned to ride away one passenger produced a hidden pistol and shot him in the back. He was taken to trail, convicted and hung. There is a story of him paying his landlord the yearly rent for the farm only for the landlord to be robbed by a highwayman on his way home. Next time Davis saw the landlord he was very sympathetic and his loss. And yes it was Davis. Interestingly many pirates at this time were also royalists, though many decided to remain in the pirate trade even after the restoration of the monarch. The just refrained from attacking English ships.
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@kaoskronostyche9939 your welcome
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