Show NOTORIOUS ROGUE WAS HERO AMONG ENGLISH PEOPLE Clau Claude e Duval n a Frenchman was the he rn st notorious of nil all the highwaymen high high- waymen who Infested the tho roads road of England In the Seventeenth century and the first to have a price put upon his ils head hy by royalty yet et this pla plague of travelers when at last taken and hanged cd was honored with burial In Inho Inthe inthe the ho center ce aisle of Covent Cogent Garden church London and md the following Jocular ocular epitaph vas placed en on th the above his tomb Here lies Iles Du Vail Pall Header Reader if mall male thou art Look to th thy purse If IC female to thy heart The rogues rogue's gallantries with women had ind made him a romantic hero among the he people writes Walter Ios Fogg In One Thousand Savings of or History On one occasion he be hel held up the coach I of or a lad lady and amI returned booty worth when she a agreed reed to dance a courante courante courante cou- cou rante with him on the moonlit heath she bhe was one of the high born dames who afterward hurried hur hur- ried to condole with him In prison and who pleaded so tearfully with Charles II H for his life Ufe that the king would have haye pardoned him burn lm but for Judge ludge Jud e Morton who made short shrift of every road agent who fell under hIs Is Jurisdiction The Judge jude threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to resIgn unless Duval Dual got the rope so he ire was executed at T hurn January 21 1070 Before e be he became the captain of an nn outlaw band Duval had been a page of the duke of Richmond He was taken prisoner on one of his darIng daring daring dar dar- ing visits to London when he dallied too long with wine |