L. Sabine, Notes on Duels and Duelling: Alphabetically Arranged, with a Preliminary Historical Essay (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., Boston 1855), p. 243 (Google). Captain" James Maclaine (occasionally "Maclean", "MacLean", or "Maclane") (1724 – 3 October 1750) was an Irish man of a respectable presbyterian family who had a brief but notorious career as a mounted highwayman in London with his accomplice William Plunkett. [1] [2] He was known as "The Gentleman Highwayman" as a result of his courteous behaviour during his robberies, and obtained a certain kind of celebrity. [3] [4] Notoriously, he held up and robbed Horace Walpole at gunpoint: eventually he was hanged at Tyburn. [5] [6]

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Dr. Allen, An Account of the Behaviour of Mr James Maclaine, from the time of his condemnation to the day of his execution (J. Noon and A. Millar, London 1750). Read at Google. Abbreviated version in Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XX (for October 1750), pp. 435-37 (Hathi Trust). Plunketts Creek in Lycoming County bears the name of Col. William Plunkett. He reputedly died aged around 100 at Sunbury (Pennsylvania [5]), quite blind, and was buried there in 1791. [6] But if this is true, and if he were the same man, he must already have been 60 at the time of the highway robberies on Hounslow Heath, and almost 85 when commanding the Northumberland Militia. The facts can be reconciled if the estimate of his age at death is exaggerated. transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Plunkett And Macleane. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternallyHe was convicted: the jury brought him in Guilty without going out of court. No remission was forthcoming, despite various signs of penitence shown by the prisoner. When the judge asked him why he should not be sentenced, Maclaine, who had prepared a short speech expressing his contrition and pleading for mercy, was unable to say more than one or two words, "My lord, I cannot speak," and stood in silence. The poet Thomas Gray, in his poem "A Long Story", referred to this when he wrote, a b Print, "An Exact Representation of Maclaine the Highwayman Robbing Lord Eglington" (published 13 August 1750), with a text; see British Museum Accession Number 1894,0611.79 (British Museum). Some fictional details crept into popular accounts printed soon after the trial, which reappear in later accounts.

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Maclaine was the younger of two sons of a Scots-Irish presbyterian minister, the Revd. Thomas (?or Lauchlin) Maclaine [7] of 1st Monaghan Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His mother, Elizabeth (née Milling) died when he was five or six years old, and his father when he was sixteen or seventeen. He came of a family of many ministers, his grandfather (a Gaelic-speaking clergyman in the Church of Scotland) having received a calling to Ireland from Argyllshire in 1698. [8] 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). [10] You are the one I adore # You're the one # My heart beats for # You are my whore # Even now, old and poor # You're the one that my twisted heart beats for # You are my whore # Like the dog, I will gnaw # Like the dog, a dog # I will paw # You are my whore # On my knees on the floor a b For his speech of defence, see: 'Of Mr MacLean, the Gentleman Highwayman', in S. Urban (ed.), The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Vol. XX for the year 1750 (London 1750), pp. 391-92 (Hathi Trust). His brother Archibald, the minister and translator, though he was revolted and heartbroken by his brother's crimes and had often warned him of the consequences of his dissolute behaviour, wrote a letter from Utrecht to intercede with the court for mercy for his brother, and also wrote to James himself and to Dr Allen, the minister who attended him. Archibald expressed deep conflict between his compassion for the sinful man, his duty to uphold the path of righteousness, and his uncertainty of the true nature of his brother's repentance. [39] The letter written by Archibald Maclaine to his "Unhappy Brother" on 22 September 1750 was a call to absolute repentance before God in knowledge of the coming Judgement. [40] Dr Allen recorded his eventual narrative of confession.When you extract this story from the morass of style through which it wades, it's as simpleminded as an old B Western. The two men lurk in the woods, spring upon the passing carriages of the rich, and relieve them of their wealth. Trouble looms when Macleane is smitten by the beautiful Lady Rebecca Gibson ( Liv Tyler), who, wouldn't you know, is the niece of the Lord Chief Justice ( Michael Gambon). The pair become known as the Gentlemen Highwaymen, the chief justice is enraged that they have not been captured, and the oily Chance ( Ken Stott) is in charge of the chase. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's argument in Wyndham v Chetwynd', in Lord Camden's Genuine Argument in giving Judgement on the Ejectment between Hinsdon against Kersey (J. Wilkie, London 1771), passim (Google). Script (man) Captain James Macleane... ... for drunkenness, unruly behaviour... ... causing an affray and disturbing the King's peace... ... I hereby sentence you to be placed in the Knightsbridge debtors'jail... ... and to be held there until you are sober. Take him away. (man singing) The trial became a fashionable society occasion. A contemporary broadside includes an illustration: a Lady (perhaps Lady Caroline Petersham) is shown appearing as a character witness. One of the justices is saying, "What has your Ladyship to say in favour of the Prisoner at the Bar?", and she replies, "My Lord, I have had the Pleasure to know him well, he has often been about my House and I never lost anything." [29] Lord Eglinton declined to testify against him, and Walpole, reporting Maclaine's condemnation in a letter dated 20 September, added, "I am honourably mentioned in a Grub Street ballad for not having contributed to his sentence." [34] A short view of the Rev. Dr. Allen's account', Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XX (for October 1750), pp. 435-37 (Hathi Trust).