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	Tom King (highwayman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King was a close associate of fellow highwayman Dick Turpin; however unlike Turpin, who is often seen by historians a mere rogue, King was the kind of swashbuckling, charming, devil-may-care character into which legend would later transform Turpin.
		King was arrested and later died of his wounds.
		Another Tom King was born in 1990 and lives in Nelson, New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_King_(highwayman) (269 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tom became one of the top 10 box office attractions in the country and all of his Fox films were features.
		Tom is accused of a murder he doesn't commit and evades the law for awhile.
		Tom's dying sister is abandoned by her unscrupulous gambler husband and Tom goes after him.
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	Highwayman: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Highwayman was a term used particularly in Britain (Britain: A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) during the 17th (17th: (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries)...
		A highwayman rode a horse (horse: Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times), and usually carried a pistol (pistol: A firearm that is held and fired with one hand).
		Tom King (Tom King: tom king (18th century), known as "the gentleman highwayman", was a close associate...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/highwayman (1021 words)

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		Tom had not been a comfort or support to his parents; he was likely, if he remained, to be a source of endless trouble to his mother during her reign at the old house; yet none the less did it seem to her a heart-breaking thing to have to part from him.
		Tom stared his fill at the newcomer, who was attended by several of the habitues of the coffee house, and received their welcome with a languid grace and indifferent goodwill.
		Tom replied that whatever else he was lacking in, he might certainly lay claim to horsemanship; and the pair walked on together, Lord Claud sunk in thoughtful silence, his companion always ready to give his attention to the sights of the streets, which had lost none of the attraction of novelty as yet.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/4/0/13404/13404.txt (20763 words)

	Chapter Tom Thumb <i>to</i> Tonio of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tom Thumb, the name of a very diminutive little man in the court of king Arthur, killed by the poisonous breath of a spider in the reign of king Thunstone, the successor of Arthur.
		Tom Tram, the hero of a novel entitled The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-Law to Mother Winter, whereunto is added his Merry Jests, Old Conceits, and Pleasant Tales (seventeenth century).
		Tom o’ Bedlam, a ticket-of-leave madman from Bethlehem Hospital; or one discharged as incurable.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1130/15046/1.html (668 words)

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		TOM: Scientists have been working around the clock to perfect or even begin on the art of universal transportation, and all this time it only took a TV and a malfunctioning circuit breaker.
		TOM: There she goes using that secret code or whatever it is. CROW: English teachers round the world are lining up on the balconies of tall buildings.
		TOM: Ah, she thinks Legolas will be more comfortable if he has to snatch his new clothes away from a barrow-wight.
	www.svamcentral.org /ewic/mstings/legolas-part2.txt (13254 words)

	Highwayman
		Highwayman was a term used particularly in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries to describe criminals who robbed people travelling by stagecoach and other modes of transport along public highways.
		A highwayman rode a horse, and usually carried a pistol.
		Poet Alfred Noyes made a highwayman the subject of one of his most well-known poems, aptly named "The Highwayman", which Phil Ochs later molded into a song.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/highwayman.html (366 words)

	Highwaymen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though highway robbery has always been a threat to the traveller, the period from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century is regarded as the heyday of the ‘highwayman’, that mounted robber who, usually alone, preyed on travellers then galloped away.
		With another highwayman Tom King, from a hideout deep in Epping Forest, he menaced coaches in the Essex area and on the London-Cambridge road.
		While ‘on the job’ he dressed very shabbily and though arrested on a number of occasions was always acquitted as his victims could not equate their badly dressed robber with the dandy that stood in the dock.
	www.bjcurtis.force9.co.uk /html/highwaymen.html (1780 words)

	Highwayman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Highwayman must have one of the country's most appealing pub interiors.
		The room to the right of the hall is reached through a latched barn style door and has a separate bar hewn from a single timber.
		The Highwayman is blessed by 18 inch thick walls and no fewer than three blazing open fires in the winter months.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /munrobasher/pubs/rainow/highwayman.htm (245 words)

	Dick Turpin: British Heritage on Britannia
		The dandy was 'Captain' Tom King, one of the best-known highwaymen of the day and the kind of swashbuckling, devil-may-care character into which legend would later transform Turpin.
		King, unlike the unscrupulous Turpin, seemed to observe some semblance of a code of honour.
		When Tom King came to collect the horse, he was arrested.
	www.britannia.com /BritHeritage/turpin.html (1747 words)

	An evening at a Whitechapel "gaff" (1866)
		The highwayman sang a song all about another highwayman, who "mounted on his mare, with his barkers at his belt," boldly faced an old miller "jogging home from market," and appropriated his bag of gold afteer blowing his brains out.
		Tom King rushed to the grey-haired side, and, flinging open the door, dragged out the old man, and, kneeling on his chest, pointed the naked sword at this throat, and the muzzle of his pistol at his temple.
		Tom King whispered in his ear, and the old man shook his head fiercely and very decidedly.
	mernick.co.uk /thhol/whitgaff.html (1605 words)

	Natick Indian Plantation & Needham West Militia Company - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tom Tray, his unjust hanging, and the exile of the Praying Indians to Deer Island in Boston Harbor during the harsh winter of 1675-76.
		Captain Tom Tray was a 17th Century resident of Natick and among the most trusted of John Eliot's Indian converts.
		Upon their release from Deer Island exile, at total of 600 Nipmucs served with distinction in King Philip's War for the Colonials, at the personal insistence of the commander of the new Massachusetts Settler's Army.
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	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Resistance to the highwayman's demands was futile he would hang for "highway robbery", so killing his victim made no difference to the punishment, which, if caught, was death by hanging.
		He was born around 1705 in Essex, and lived a life of crime in which he met up with the real "gentleman highwayman", Tom King, whom he accidentally shot and killed.
		It is said when King and Turpin accosted two women at Bungay, Suffolk, the gallant King chose not to rob them, but the greedy Turpin took their money.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=46458 (471 words)

	The Stag Inn Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The charming Stag Inn, originally built in 1232 AD, is situated in the heart of rural Devon, in the small unspoilt village of Rackenford, with delightful views of the Devon countryside.
		The cobbled tunnel, part of the Inn, is reputed to be the oldest in Devon and used by Tom King the Highwayman in the mid 18th Century.
		Tom Kings Bar offers a fine choice of local and guest real ales together with a large range of wines and spirits.
	www.thestaginn.com (174 words)

	BBC - Cult - Tamara - Weblogs
		King George offered 50 pounds for their capture.
		He met up with 'Captain' Tom King - the best known highwayman of the day.
		King was captured at the Red Lion pub in Whitechapel.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cult/tamaraswift/help/clue4.shtml (430 words)

	Dick Turpin
		This gang also made a practice of robbing farmhouses, terrorizing the women in the absence of their husbands and brothers, and Turpin took the lead in this class of outrage.
		On the gang being broken up Turpin went into partnership with Tom King, a well-known highwayman.
		A somewhat similar story was told about a certain John Nevison, known as "Nicks", a well-known highwayman in the time of Charles II, who to establish an alibi rode from Gad's Hill to York (some 190 miles) in about 15 hours.
	www.nndb.com /people/282/000101976 (252 words)

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		Dick Turpin (1705-1739) The "King of the Road" was born at the Bell Inn, Hempstead, Essex, and apprenticed to a butcher at Whitechapel at the age of 16.
		In 1735 he became a highwayman working around the south of London, and in 1736 began his partnership with Tom King; his effrontery became a public legend as did his activities in Epping Forest and Hounslow Heath.
		After the death of King in 1737 he shifted to Lincolnshre and then Yorkshire where he was finally apprehended and hanged at the Mount, outside the walls of York.
	www.things.org /music/billy_bragg/digest_archives/v01.n2444 (1355 words)

	Dick Turpin - Highwaymen and Highway Robbery
		In reality, Turpin's fictitious great ride was made by 17th-century highwayman John 'Swift Nick' Nevison, who early one morning in 1676 robbed a homeward-bound sailor on the road outside Gads Hill, Kent.
		Many people think of Dick Turpin as a lone highwayman, however for the majority of his criminal career he was a member of the Essex Gang (also known as the Gregory Gang).
		Turpin headed back into the familiar East Anglian countryside and lived rough for some time., until he began working with 'Captain' Tom King, one of the best-known highwaymen of the day and the kind of swashbuckling, devil-may-care character into which legend would later transform Turpin.
	www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk /highwaymen/dick_turpin.htm (1265 words)

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		This thing Nymphidia overheard, That on this mad king had a guard, Not doubting of a great reward, For first this business broaching; And through the air away doth go, Swift as an arrow from the bow, To let her sovereign Mab to know What peril was approaching.
		Stout Tomalin came with the King, Tom Thumb doth on Pigwiggin bring, That perfect were in everything To single fights belonging: And therefore they themselves engage, To see them exercise their rage, With fair and comely equipage, Not one the other wronging.
		King Oberon forgotten had, That he for jealousy ran mad, But of his Queen was wondrous glad, And asked how they came thither: Pigwiggin likewise doth forget That he Queen Mab had ever met; Or that they were so hard beset, When they were found together.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/plpm10.txt (19907 words)

	Fantastic Victoriana: T-U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rookwood takes place after he and Tom King have been chased from their cave headquarters, and so Turpin, under the alias of “Jack Palmer,” ranges around the south of England, leading a gang and robbing widely.
		Père Ubu is a Captain of Dragoons for the Polish King Venceslas and is relatively content with his life, but he’s also the former King of Aragon, and his wife, Mère Ubu, is not content with being the mere wife of a captain of dragoons.
		The Queen and her son, Bougrelas, try to dissuade the King from holding a Review of the troops, but Venceslas is so sure that Ubu is trustworthy that he says he will appear at the Review unarmed and without a sword.
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	Famous People in History from Yorkhire - NORTH COUNTRY WEB
		His reputation earned him a bounty on his head of Fifty Pound offered by King George, this was raised to One Hundred Pounds in February 1736 when his gang robbed a wealthy Farmer beating his wife and daughter.
		He met up with the then most famous Highwayman a Tom King, who past on his knowledge of the trade hence the start of career of Dick Turpin the Highwayman.
		After Tom King was arrested in the red Lion Pub in Whitechapel, Turpin moved north to Lincolnshire where he was arrested for rustling horses.
	www.northyork-moors.co.uk /famous-names.htm (603 words)

	Atom 6
		A Highwayman is holding up a stage coach but he gets a shock when its occupant turns out to be the armed letter writer.
		She tries to arrest Tom Palmer, or as he is better known Dick Turpin, but her inexperience shows and he kicks her pistol away and threatens to shoot her coachman.
		In fact he killed Tom King (who Ray left unconcious in this version) and fled to York where he was caught for horse stealing.
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	EN PASSANT LA RIVIERE
		King Charles I issued a warrent in 1632, directing this favored tune be learned (by the English army musicians) and "'preserved as a pattern and precedent to all posterity'...It may just be possible that 'The English March' goes back to the Hundred Years War" (Winstock, 1970).
		O’Neill (1913) points out that this belongs to a category of tunes which are formed of four parts of equal length; a first and last part which are nearly identical, a second part which ascends in scale and becomes “bold, energetic and impassioned,” and a third part which is a variant of the second.
		The infamous highwayman Dick Turpin and his dashing partner, Tom King, had their lair in a cave in the forest and for a time robbed nearly every traveler who ventured by (see note for “Turpin Hero”).
	www.ibiblio.org /fiddlers/EN_EU.htm (2663 words)

	Audio Book Contractors, Inc. Home Page
		Following the King James version closely, this storyteller’s bible is written in simple language for young and old.
		The stories of the chivalry and courage of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, the beautiful Lady Guinevere, Merlin the Magician, Sir Gawaine and the Lady of the Lake are vividly told.
		Tom, a little chimney sweep, sheds his outer shell of soot and plunges under the rivers and the sea to meet a variety of creatures of the deep.
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	Opening Times
		Old Tom was also on sale, in third of a pint nips as well as halves, and the two brave individuals who tried it pronounced it very good indeed.
		The Highwayman provides a timely reminder that rural pubs can still be successful if run by enterprising businessmen who want to run a successful pub, instead of people who want to run the pub down, turn it into a private home and make a fast buck.
		The Highwayman is on the B5470 on the outskirts of the village towards Kettleshulme.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /openingtimes/ot224.htm (13842 words)

	The National Archives \| Research, education & online exhibitions \| Treasures from The National Archives \| Dick ...
		Dick Turpin is remembered as a highwayman, robbing travellers whilst on horseback, but he did this for only a short time.
		It was only in the late 1730s that he started to work as a highwayman with the notorious Matthew 'Tom' King.
		The real rider was a 17th century highwayman called John Nevison, who made the ride to give himself an alibi for a robbery.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /museum/item.asp?item_id=25 (352 words)

	Dick Turin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Later Turpin gave up robbing the coaches in favour of better pickings when he joined a notorious 17-strong group of house-robbers known as Gregory's Gang.
		After leaving the gang in 1735, he teamed up with Tom King and started to rob stagecoaches again, but after a tragic accident (where he shot and killed Tom King) he decided to move north.
		Now the most wanted man in England, but always one step ahead of the law and travelling under the alias of Palmer, his mother’s maiden name.
	www.burtonuk.co.uk /research/dick_turpin.htm (576 words)

	The Contemplator's Short History of Famous Highwaymen
		Turpin fired at the owner, and hit King, who died as a result.
		When Charles II was restored to the throne, Duval returned to England as a footman to a nobleman, from whom he had clearly learned gentlemen's manners.
		By 1666 he was mentioned by name as a highwayman.
	www.contemplator.com /history/famous.html (886 words)

	Tin Pan Alley Composer and lyricist Biographies
		He was appointed composer to the Chapel Royal and the King in 1736 and the following year was chosen as the composer for the Goucester, Worcester and Hereford choir music festival.
		His skill was also recognized by the King of England during the American Revolution who commissioned him to write war songs as propaganda for England.
		King was one of those truly prolific composers whose output is not counted.
	www.parlorsongs.com /bios/composersbios.asp (14949 words)

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