%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Warning for all Wicked Livers / By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two no- / torious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made / a daily practise, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both / on the High-ways, and in any other places where they came, but / were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to dye for rob- / ing of a Coach, & murdering of a Captains man at Shooters-Hil, / in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offence / and others, Gibs was prest to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whit- / field was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hil, where he did the bloo- / dy deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be ex- / actly related in this Ditty. Price, Lawrence University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1655-1655 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/16/2018 36022

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R227893 1 Ned Smith [unknown] Ned Smith OF two notorious Theeves, / my purpose is to tell, Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 32 A Warning for all Wicked Livers / By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two no- / torious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made / a daily practise, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both / on the High-ways, and in any other places where they came, but / were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to dye for rob- / ing of a Coach, & murdering of a Captains man at Shooters-Hil, / in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offence / and others, Gibs was prest to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whit- / field was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hil, where he did the bloo- / dy deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be ex- / actly related in this Ditty. A Warning for all Wicked Livers By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two notorious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made a daily practice, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both on the Highways, and in any other places where they came, but were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to die for robbing of a Coach, & murdering of a Captain's man at Shooters-Hill, in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offense and others, Gibs was pressed to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whitfield was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hill, where he did the bloody deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be exactly related in this Ditty. Price, Lawrence 1655-1655 F. Grove

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OF two notorious Theeves, my purpose is to tell, Which near fair London Town long time did live and dwell. One of their names was Gibs, a Villain vile and base The other Dick Whitfield call'd, who ran a wicked race. To rob to theeve and steal, these couple gave their mind, And unto murder men, they daily were inclin'd. So stout and bold they were that they durst fight with ten, And rob them on the way though they were lusty men. Sometimes they would disguise themselves in strange attire, And to do mischief still, was all they did desire.
Sometimes about the fields they would walk in the night And use much cruelty to them that they did meet. A man could hardly pass. the fields at ten a clock, But they would be sure to have, the cloak from off his back. Or if he had no cloak they would his money take, Of what they went about they did no conscience make. If they with women met when it was in the night they would strip off their cloaths and leave them naked quite. Such unhumanity betwixt them did remain That by their bloody hands good Christians have been slain
[?] robberies these bloody villains did, But theft and murder both, long time will not lie hid. Sometimes they have been caught and unto New-gate sent, Yet they had mercy shown because they should repent. But though the Judges oft took pitty on those men, As soon as they got loose they would fall too't agen, But now behold and see what happened at the last, [?] they had scap'd through much [?] many dangers past. [?] met a gallant Coach [?]r from Greenwich town, [?]h were Gentlemen [?]ore Black-Heath down, [? Gi]bs and Whitfield both [?]d themselves to fight
[?] Theeves [?]it approach. He ask'd them what they were, quoth they, we mony crave, Mony we are come for and mony we must have. Their Pistols being fixt. their bullets they let fly The Captain drew his sword and fought couragiously. And in that dangerous fight the Captains man was slain And then they rob'd the rest that did i'th Coach remain. And for their bloody deeds and for that robbery They after taken were and suffered certainly, At Maidstone town in Kent there Gibs was prest to death, And Whitfield hangs in chains at Shooters-Hill near Black-Heath Let other wicked men, high and low, great and smal Remember and take heed by Gibs and Whitfields fall.
FINIS. L.P London Printed for F. Grove dwelling on Snow hill.