The Reader may depend upon having the most authentic Accounts of every Highwayman, &ct. that can be any where procured, and of having those Accounts in a more agreeable Manner than they have ever yet appeared in. Our Reflections, when we make any, shall be just, and naturally arising from the Story, whether they are calculated to raise a Smile or a serious Thought.

But though his life was strange and most unaccountable, yet his death was not less admirable. For having done things beyond imagination, the fame, or rather infamy of Dun increasing every day, the country resolved no longer to endure his insolencies.

Her … Pranks and Feats will be good diversion to the honest and ingenious, and to him they are commended, desiring him to Excuse the Abruptness and Discontinuance of the Matter, and the severall independencies thereof; for that it was impossible to make one piece of so various a Subject, as she was both to herself and others.

In short, his whole Life … was as confused as the Account which we now give of it. He was one Day a Saint, the next a Lover, the next a Satirist, and the next a Highwayman, or Imposter, according as the occasion offered.

In their several characters the reader will find the most unaccountable relations of irregular actions as ever were heard.