Outlaws and Highwaymen

Did you ever wonder where the term “highway robbery” came from?
Well, highway robbery was the crime perpetrated by the highwaymen of old.
The apostle Paul spoke of the dangers of highwaymen in the Bible. So clearly these road-traveling scoundrels have been around for a long time.
Today’s FamilyFirst pick, Outlaws and Highwaymen, concentrates on the medieval English breed of highwayman.
Think Robin Hood.

Indeed, many of the tales of highwaymen that have been passed down for many centuries will make you think of the arrow-wielding fictional character.
For example, there is the tale of Ratsey and the parson’s daughter.
Ratsey encountered the parson’s daughter on her way to Stamford. He politely asked here for the contents of her purse. When she tearfully informed him that she carried forty shillings to buy a gown, a gift frrom her tight-fisted father, and how she would never receive such a gift again, Ratsey reaches into his own pocket and provided her with another thirty shillings.
Such was the romantic world of the highwayman.
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