ABSTRACT
The author relates a story how he and six other padders robbed a carrier of six hundred pounds, and that one of the company in consideration of an hundred pounds paid him by the country where the robbery was committed, owned the fa, and thereby saved the country (who were sued) from payment of the rest, and at length by their assistance gained his pardon : also how a young pickpocket is put on by an old one, to cut an old woman’s purse whilst she is at prayers in a churchyard by a tombstone : the boy performs the exploit, but is discovered and shewed by the old pickpocket to the people, who coming to stare on the boy had their pockets picked by the old one and his companions : and also how an old padder being in danger to be hanged for a robbery, a young one for fifty pounds took the fa upon himself, discharged the old one, and in the end came clearly off himself
