Turpin.

Turpin. DICK, born at Hempstead, Essex, in September 1705, was, successively or simultaneously, a butcher's apprentice, cattle-lifter, smuggler, housebreaker, highwayman, and horse-thief. He was hanged at York on 10th April 1739 for the murder of an Epping keeper, besides which he had accidentally shot his comrade, King. The myth of his ride to York, widely current through Ainsworth's Rookwood, belongs, if to any one, to 'Swift Nick Nevison,' who in 1676 is said to have robbed a sailor at Gadshill at 4 A.M., and to have established an 'alibi' by reaching York at 7.45 P.M. that same evening.