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M&D.9 Dick Turpin


http://www.britannia.com/BritHeritage/turpin.html

On 19th April, 1739, Dick Turpin rode through the streets of York in an open 
cart,
                 bowing to the gawking crowds. At York racecourse he climbed 
the ladder to the gibbet and
                 then sat for half an hour chatting to the guards and the 
executioner. At last, seemingly
                 bored with the proceedings, he stood up and, without help, 
threw himself off the ladder and
                 was dead in a few minutes. In death, Turpin attained some 
of the gallantry that had eluded
                 him in life.

                 Despite the bravery of his demise, the question remains: 
How did history transform Turpin
                 from a ruffian into such a glamorous character? The answer 
lies in the pages of the 1834
                 novel Rookwood by Harrison Ainsworth in which the 
highwayman 'Dick Turpin' is a
                 secondary character.

http://www.litgothic.com/Images/Rookwood5.jpg

M&D.9 Is there a pun on Parson/Person?

"I should closely resemble the nomadic Parson…"

What Sect does Wicks Cherrycoke belong to?
He is not a Methodist.
Does he suggest, facetiously, that his spirit would have been subjected to 
Methodist dogma ("a knew Knowledge of the terms of being") had he been 
executed during the era of Wesley and Whitefield?
Is this a trivial gibe? I doubt it is.

The crimes that Wicks notices are crimes of the courts and the military. 
What are enclosures in the legal sense? He notices evictions, Assize 
verdicts, and activities of the military. What was the military up to?

Best Regards,

Gary




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