History Smuggling 1700-1800
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- Highway Robbery
- Reason For Growth
- Increase in travel
- Improvements on roads
- Limited banking facilities, lots of money carried around
- Inns were built on the sides of the main roads
- Involved
- Robbing pedestrians, or coaches either on foot or on horses - Armed
- Done in broad day light on common areas in London
- Decline = Last recored 1831
- Roads became busier
- greater use of bank notes /could be traced
- Horse patrol set up in 1805, guarded main roads (54 officers)
- Tollgates more difficult to get past
- Jp's refused to license taverns related to highway men
- **** Turpin 1706 - 39
- Used to be a butcher in Essex
- Gang of Gregory gave **** a gun and got him into highway robbery.
- Postman caught him when he was writing a letter to family
- Hanged 1739 in YORK
- Changed his name to James Parmer
- Reason For Growth
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