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Show Engli.h King "H.Id Up" Lawlessness was rampant In Eng-lund Eng-lund during much of the Eighteenth century and the streets of London were so unsafe that even royal personages per-sonages were stopped and robbed. A highwayman once dropped over the wall of Kensington gardens, and with every expression of respect took from George II, who was walking there alone, his purse, watch and shoe buckles. Mall coaches were special objects of attack and they proved vuluerable until In 1702 an armed guard for the mails was provided-Detroit provided-Detroit News. |