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Turpin most likely became involved with the Essex gang of deer thieves in the early 1730s.
Another robbery was reported at Woodford toward the end of February — possibly by Gregory and his cohorts — but with most avenues of escape cut off, and with the authorities hunting them down, the remaining members of the Essex gang kept their heads down and remained under cover, probably in Epping Forest.
Two days before the hanging, a report of " four suspicious men " being driven away from an alehouse at East Sheen appeared in a newspaper, and was likely describing Gregory and his companions, but the remaining members of the Essex gang were not reported again until 30 March, when three of them ( unsuccessfully ) tried to steal a horse from a servant of the Earl of Suffolk.
With the Essex gang now smashed by the authorities, Turpin turned instead to the crime he became most noted for — highway robbery.
Turpin may have known Matthew King as early as 1734, and had an active association with him from February 1737, but the story of the " Gentleman Highwayman " may have been created only to link the end of the Essex gang with the author's own recollection of events.

Essex and sometimes
An observer reported in 1602 that " Her delight is to sit in the dark, and sometimes with shedding tears to bewail Essex ".
The eastern ( and sometimes southern ) boundary is a water boundary in the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair with Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
Ireton served under Fairfax in the second civil war in the campaigns, in Kent and Essex, although it was Fairfax, as Lord General, and not Ireton as is sometimes believed, who was responsible for the executions of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle at Colchester.
Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex PC ( 1631 – 13 July 1683 ), whose surname is sometimes spelled Capel, was an English statesman.
Although Æscwine or Eorcenwine is sometimes credited with the foundation of the kingdom, genealogies included in the works of William of Malmesbury and John of Worcester ( Chronicon B ) make Sledd the first king of Essex and genealogies for Sigered and Swithred in Add.
William Bankes ( also spelled Banks or Banckes, and sometimes called Richard Bankes ) was born in Staffordshire, probably in the early 1560s, In the 1580s he became a retainer of Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex ; his job may have been working in the stables.
Two keepers have removed their pads and taken hat-tricks in first-class cricket: Probir Sen for Bengal v Orissa at Cuttack in 1954-55 and A. C. ( Alan ) Smith for Warwickshire v Essex at Clacton in 1965 ; Smith was a most unusual player in that he was primarily a wicket-keeper, but was sometimes selected as a frontline bowler.
The road then becomes the A1184 and goes through Sawbridgeworth: through the rest of the Essex stretch between Harlow and Stump Cross the road follows a more traditionally English course, characterized by bends of varying and sometimes uneven radii, with just one straight mile ( 1. 6 km ) ( to the south of Littlebury ) along the north Essex stretch.
Although the Labour Party is sometimes considered the " natural choice " for the working class, there has traditionally been a group within that class who have voted Conservative, who are distinct from the " Essex man " phenomenon.
Leigh-on-Sea ( pronounced ), sometimes called Leigh, is a civil parish in Essex, England.
Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams ( born October, 1942 in Walthamstow, Essex now London, England ), writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N. J. A.
The counties between the Midlands and London ( Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire ) may sometimes be considered part of Southern England, as may Essex and the counties of East Anglia ( Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk ).
Lettice Knollys (, sometimes called Laetitia, also known as Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley ), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester ( 8 November 1543 – 25 December 1634 ), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Lady Penelope Rich ; through her marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, she incurred the Queen's undying hatred.
The highway is sometimes called the Essex Freeway.
Felsted ( sometimes spelt ' Felstead ') is a village that lies in the north west of Essex in England, south of the A120 and is located near Braintree, Great Dunmow and Chelmsford.
Stoke by Nayland in the English county of Suffolk, lies close to the border with Essex in what is sometimes referred to as Constable Country.
The series ' theme song, " The Lightning Tree ", written by Steven Francis ( pen name of Francis Essex, the brother of Tony Essex ) and sung by The Settlers, is well-remembered, sometimes more so than the series itself.
* Livingston, West Orange, and the Upper Montclair section of Montclair are also sometimes — though far more rarely and not by many people in any Essex County town — considered to be part of West Essex.
Stan Nichols ( Morris Stanley Nichols and sometimes called since his death Morris Nichols ) ( born October 6, 1900, Stondon Massey, Essex, England – died 26 January 1961, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England ) was the leading all-rounder in English cricket for much of the 1930s.
Leyton St Mary, sometimes known as Low Leyton, was an ancient parish in the Becontree hundred of Essex, England.

Essex and called
* Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford
The witness whom Essex expected to confirm this allegation, his uncle William Knollys, was called and admitted there had once been read in Cecil's presence a book treating such matters ( possibly either The book of succession supposedly by an otherwise unknown R. Doleman but probably really by Robert Persons or A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England explicitly mentioned to be by Parsons, in which a Catholic successor friendly to Spain was favored ).
It sold well and was followed in 1952 by a cover of a 1940s rhythm and blues song called " Rock the Joint " ( this time for Holiday's sister company, Essex Records ).
The areas closer to London are more commonly called part of the South East with Hertfordshire and Essex included in the " Home Counties ".
Prior to the Romans ' arrival, Haringey was part of a large area covering Essex and Middlesex which was home to a Celtic tribe called Trinobantes.
The Essex Freeway was selected as the interstate corridor, which was called FAI Corridor 105 before being designated I-280 in 1958.
Until 1847, when the state legislature recognized the community as a town, it was called interchangeably called the " New City ", " Essex " or " Merrimac ".
Manchester-by-the-Sea ( also called just Manchester ) is a town on Cape Ann, in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
It was named after Brentwood, Essex, originally called " Burnt Wood ", where, in 1177, King Henry II granted permission for of the king's forest to be cut, burned and cultivated.
The county seat of Essex County is a hamlet also called Elizabethtown.
After negotiations with the Administrator, the Inland Waterways Association ( IWA ) signed a maintenance and operating agreement in November 2005 to take over responsibility for the running of the navigation through a wholly owned subsidiary called Essex Waterways Ltd.
The appellation Colchester was applied in 1780 to the district previously called " Cobequid ," and was derived from the town of Colchester in Essex.
He was instrumental in opening the first training school for destitute Poplar children in 1905, called Hutton Poplars and situated near Hutton in the Essex countryside, the model for subsequent children's homes.
McGhee moved from Atlantic to Essex to create a record called " My Little Rose ".
His family soon moved to Essex and he grew up in the Halstead area in a village called Colne Engaine.
In 2005 the university, in partnership with the University of Essex, and with the support of Suffolk County Council, the East of England Development Agency, Ipswich Borough Council, Suffolk College, and the Learning and Skills Council, secured £ 15 million funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England for the creation of a new campus in the Waterfront area of Ipswich, called University Campus Suffolk or UCS.
In May 1959 Fleming, Bryce, Cuneo and McClory met first at Bryce's Essex house and then in McClory's London home as they came up with a story outline which was based on an aeroplane full of celebrities and a female lead called Fatima Blush.
* Essex House, built around 1575 for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and originally called Leicester House.
" The cartographer appears to have confused the vast Essex airport, which handles 25 million passengers a year, with this tiny Kent village, also called Stansted, which has a population of around 200 ".
The Essex movie theater now shows porno movies while the Town Theater is used for church services, and the courthouse is in a state of disrepair, and at night at least one homeless person ( called " Red " by Marty ) sleeps on the town square park benches.
Lord Cairns was a great supporter of Barnardo ’ s and was called upon by Dr. Thomas John Barnardo to open his first girl's home at Barkingside Ilford Essex on 9 July 1876.
There is a pub called the White Hart on the High Street in Witham, Essex.

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