He worked his way into the affections of a Lady who deserved better, but she was saved from ruin when a gentleman revealed to her Maclaine's character. The band performed their songs for the 1998 junk musical "Strawheaded Peter" live on stage in the touring puppetry production - effectively producing a live, animated concert performance of the album with accompanying puppet show. See John Franklin Meginness, History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (reprint Heritage Books 1996), Chapter 42 p. I will publish the answer at the end of the next millennium or when the sequel to this movie is released, whichever comes first. Here is a film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience.

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Between one and two o'clock in the morning of the same day, they held up the flying coach at Chiswick, between Turnham Green and Brentford, which was carrying six passengers on its way to Salisbury going westward out of London. At length he found himself a wife, the daughter of an innkeeper or horse-dealer in Oxford Road, London, whom he married in about 1746. With stolen pistols and horses, and their faces hidden by Venetian masks, Plunkett and MacLaine had a short but highly successful career as outlaws.They then obliged the coachman to help them to take two clothes trunks out of the coach boot, and rode off with them. Accordingly, Plunkett and Mclaine joined together and went on the road as highwaymen, agreeing to share the spoils equally. Plunkett is supposed to have encouraged MacLaine by telling him that they had a right to live, but that the means were not available to them unless they overcame a few scruples and took from the improvident wealthy. He stripped the lace from a waistcoat taken in the robbery and attempted to sell it to a pawnbroker in Monmouth Street, who by chance took it to the same man who had just sold the lace and recognised it. Execution of Maclean, Commonly Known by the Name of The Gentleman Highwayman, Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts (S.

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Read in the German edition, Geschichte der berühmten Miss Fanny Murray: In zween Theilen - Aus dem Englischen (Joseph Ehrenreich Ammermüller, Nuremberg 1768), pp. Allen, An Account of the Behaviour of Mr James Maclaine, from the time of his condemnation to the day of his execution (J.The two men lurk in the woods, spring upon the passing carriages of the rich, and relieve them of their wealth. At his interrogation he was encouraged to lay evidence against his accomplices, and at his trial he sought to lay a good deal of the blame for his course of life upon Plunkett (who was never caught or tried), so his narrative may not be entirely accurate. The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker (Viking, London 1997), pp. The highwaymen and their prey are seen through a murk of fog, mist, overgrowth, lantern shadows, bric-a-brac, triglyphs and metopes; their dialogue has to be barked out between the sudden arrival of more visual astonishments.

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While under sentence his portrait was drawn from the life and afterwards engraved by Louis Peter Boitard. After Maclaine was hanged, he earned a mention in the poem The Modern Fine Lady by Soame Jenyns: as an aside after the line "She weeps if but a handsome thief is hung" the following note was added: "Some of the brightest eyes were at this time in tears for one McLean, condemned for robbery on the highway. Fox in the Old Baily, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sept 29 1750), British Museum accession number 1877,1013. Maclaine, who was behind, commanded his Lordship to throw his blunderbuss out of the chaise, or he would "blow his brains through his face".

He was known as "The Gentleman Highwayman" as a result of his courteous behaviour during his robberies, and obtained a certain kind of celebrity. Some fictional details crept into popular accounts printed soon after the trial, which reappear in later accounts. A. McKenzie, 'The real Macheath: social satire, appropriation, and eighteenth-century criminal biography', Huntington Library Quarterly 69, no. To be "over shoes, over boots" with something meant "being up to one's neck in it", or "committed to a course of action"; "no half measures": Mrs Chatter in Charles Macklin's 1747 play, The New Play Criticized: or, The Plague of Envy, says, "I vow I am over Shoes and Boots with walking home from the Playhouse.

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The same story is quoted from Miner by Gideon Hiram Hollister, The History of Connecticut (Case, Tiffany and Co, Connecticut 1857), at pp.At his arrest (which was on 27 July 1750 [26]), Maclaine was first taken for examination before Mr Justice Lediard. His elder brother Archibald Maclaine (1722-1804) was educated in Glasgow and followed his own vocation as presbyterian minister, scholar and royal preceptor in the Netherlands between 1746 and 1796, famous as the first translator (1765) [9] of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History (of 1726). Maclaine could not have been the model for Captain Macheath, antihero of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (reinvented by Berthold Brecht as " Mack the Knife"), because The Beggar's Opera was written in 1728, when Maclaine was only four. He next persuaded his old master, Colonel T-----n, to take him to England as a domestic servant, planning to acquire his fortune through an advantageous marriage.