Show NOTORIOUS ROGUE WAS HERO AMONG ENGLISH PEOPLE claude duval a frenchman wit was s the most notorious of nil the high waymen who infested estoil the roads of alln in the seventeenth century and the first to have a price put upon ills his head by royalty jet tills this plague of travelers when nt at last taken and hanged was honored with burial in the center nisle of covent garden church london and the following jocular epitaph was placed on the stene alkove his tomb here ilare lies du vall vail reader header if male thou art look to thy purse it if female to thy heart the rogues gallantries gallan tries with women had made him a romantic hero among the people writes walter voas fogg in one thousand savings of history i on one occasion lie he held up the ot of a lady and returned booty worth E when she agreed to dance a courante with him on the moonlit heath undoubtedly she was one of the alq alch h born dames who afterward hurried harried to condole with him in prison and who pleaded so tearfully with charles 11 II for his life that the king would he hane pardoned him but tor for judge morton SI orton who made short shrift of every road agent who fell under ills jurisdiction the judge threatened to resign unless duval got the rope so he be was executed at tyburn january 21 before he became the captain of an outlaw band duval had been a page of the duke of if richmond lie was taken prisoner on one of his daring visits to london when he dallied too long with wine |