Show NOTORIOUS ROGUE WAS HERO AMONG ENGLISH PEOPLE Claude Duval n a Frenchman man was the most notorious of all nil the highwaymen high waymen n who Infested the roads road of England In the Seventeenth century and the first to have a price put upon his bl head by royalty yet this plague of travelers when at last taken and hanged banged was honored with burial In Inthe Inthe inthe the center aisle alste of ot Co Covent vent Garden church London and the following lor jocular epitaph was wa placed on the stone Itene above his tomb Here nere lies III's Du flu Vail Vall Reader Header If male thou art Look to thy purse If It female to thy heart f The rogues rogue's gallantries with women had made him a romantic hero among the people writes Walter Vatter Fogg In One Thousand Savings of History On one occasion he held up the coach of a lady and returned booty worth WOO 1100 when she agreed to dance a cone con con- rante with him on the moonlit heath she was one of the high born dames who afterward hurried hurried hur hur- ried to condole with him In prison and who pleaded so tearfully with Charles II li for his life that the king would have pardoned him but for Judge Morton 1 who made short shrift of or every road rood agent who fell under his Jurisdiction The Judge threatened threat threat- ened med to resign unless Duval Dural got th the rope so BO he was executed at Tyburn January 21 1 1070 1670 iO Before he became become the captain of an outlaw band Duval had been a page of the duke of Richmond He lIe was taken prisoner on one of his hI daring dar dar- ing lag visits to Ix London when he dallied too tOG long with wine |