One pointed a blunderbuss at the coachman, while the other put his pistol through the window of the carriage. Afterwards, to prove himself, Maclaine alone held up a gentleman on horseback in Hyde Park and relieved him of his money and his watch.

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There's a scene where Plunkett and Macleane are trapped inside a carriage, which is riddled with countless bullets, just like a car in a gangster movie. At his interrogation he was encouraged to lay evidence against his accomplices, and at his trial he sought to lay a good deal of the blame for his course of life upon Plunkett (who was never caught or tried), so his narrative may not be entirely accurate.Captain" James Maclaine (occasionally "Maclean", "MacLean", or "Maclane") (1724 – 3 October 1750) was an Irish man of a respectable presbyterian family who had a brief but notorious career as a mounted highwayman in London with his accomplice William Plunkett. By his own account, Maclaine embarked on his career of crime about six months after his wife's death. Read in the German edition, Geschichte der berühmten Miss Fanny Murray: In zween Theilen - Aus dem Englischen (Joseph Ehrenreich Ammermüller, Nuremberg 1768), pp. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's argument in Wyndham v Chetwynd', in Lord Camden's Genuine Argument in giving Judgement on the Ejectment between Hinsdon against Kersey (J.

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He next persuaded his old master, Colonel T-----n, to take him to England as a domestic servant, planning to acquire his fortune through an advantageous marriage. His mother's kin still refusing to help, his brother sent him subsidies and letters of good advice from The Hague: these proving insufficient, he considered joining the Irish Brigade in the French army, but was told that he would make little progress with them unless he became a Roman Catholic, which he was unwilling to do.His mother, Elizabeth (née Milling) died when he was five or six years old, and his father when he was sixteen or seventeen. Fox in the Old Baily, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sept 29 1750), British Museum accession number 1877,1013. Plunkett lived during the mid-eighteenth century in London, on Jermyn Street, and was said to have been an apothecary who was also presumed to be a gentleman. This was printed in A Complete History of James Maclean, the Gentleman Highwayman, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday, October 3, 1750, for a robbery on the highway (Charles Corbett, London 1750), Frontispiece. Maclaine, who was behind, commanded his Lordship to throw his blunderbuss out of the chaise, or he would "blow his brains through his face".

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But if this is true, and if he were the same man, he must already have been 60 at the time of the highway robberies on Hounslow Heath, and almost 85 when commanding the Northumberland Militia. Corbett, London 1750), at pages numbered 84-91, transcribed in Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online as pp.

After his death his body was dissected and his skeleton was suspended for display in a niche in the Surgeons' Hall in London. The soundtrack is cluttered with a lot of anachronistic music, as if the movie began life as an MTV music video and then had its period violently wrenched back into the past before the contemporary music could be removed.