Thaxted

one of the keepers of epping forest and commit other notorious felonies and robberies near london his majesty is pleased to promise his most gracious pardon to any of his accomplices and a reward of 200 pounds to any person or persons that shall discover him so as he may be apprehended and convicted turpin was born at thaxter in essex is about 30 by trade butcher about five feet nine inches high brown complexion very much marked with smallpox his cheekbones broad, his face thinner towards the bottom, his visage short, pretty upright, and broad about the shoulders.

Also notable in the proclamation is the fact that it gives Turpin's place of birth as Thaxted instead of Hampstead, like other historical records do, but this might have been a mistake.

With a large bounty out on him, Dick Turpin decided that it would probably be a good idea to leave Epping Forest and go somewhere where he would be less recognizable, so he traveled up north to York.

He posed as a respectable horse trader named John Palmer, but he had not changed his ways very much.

Yep.

And then it turned out he went to a fucking house party in Thaxted-

[laughs]

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