The four most celebrated are.—
Claude Duval, who died 1670.
James Whitney, who died 1694, at the age of 34.
Jonathan Wild, of Wolverhampton (1682–1725)
Jack Sheppard, of Spitalfields (1701–1724).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.