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Highway Robbery and Property Circulation in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives

Part of the highwayman's traditional defence is that all property originates in theft and that society is hypocritical in pursuing petty thieves. Introducing his collection of highwaymen's lives in 1734, Captain Charles Johnson asserts that a "universal History of Robbers" would be virtually tantamount to the "general History of all Nations," and that "even in Great Britain, where Property is better secur'd than anywhere else in the Universe," robbery is endemic—but only the "little Villains" tend to get caught.2 In The Beggar's Opera Mat of the Mint maintains that those who