THE
LIFE
OF
RICHARD TURPIN.
RICHARd TURPIN was born at Hampstead, in Essex, where his father followed the occupation of a Butcher, with a fair reputation; and after being the usual time at school, he was apprenticed to a Butcher in Whitechaple, but did not serve out his time, for he was discharged, for the brutality, and egregious improprcty of his conduct, which was much increased by the improper indulgence of his parents, in supplying him with money, which enabled him to cut a dash round the town among the blades of the road and turf, whose company he affected to keep.
His friends, thinking that marriage, and a settlement in life, would reclaim him, persuaded him to marry Hester Palmer, a young woman of good family, but he had not long been married, before he again returned to vice, and became acquainted with a gang of theives, whose depredations alarmed the whole county of Essex, and the neighbourhood of London. His share of the spoil was not sufficient, it appears, to support his extravagance, for he
