The lady dying, and Macshane having
expended all her wealth, he was obliged to resume his former evil
courses, in order to save himself from starvation; whereupon he
robbed a Scotch lord, by name the Lord of Whistlebinkie, of a mull
of snuff; for which crime he was condemned to the Tolbooth prison at
Eddenboro, in Scotland, and whipped many times in publick.
"These deserved punishments did not at all alter Captain Macshane's
disposition; and on the 17th of February last, he stopped the
Bavarian Envoy's coach on Blackheath, coming from Dover, and robbed
his Excellency and his chaplain; taking from the former his money,
watches, star, a fur-cloak, his sword (a very valuable one); and
from the latter a Romish missal, out of which he was then reading,
and a case-bottle."
"The Bavarian Envoy!" said Tom parenthetically. "My master,
Beinkleider, was his Lordship's regimental tailor in Germany, and is
now making a Court suit for him. It will be a matter of a hundred
pounds to him, I warrant."
Doctor Wood resumed his reading. "Hum--hum! A Romish missal, out of
which he was reading, and a case-bottle.
"By means of the famous Mr. Wild, this notorious criminal was
brought to justice, and the case-bottle and missal have been
restored to Father O'Flaherty.
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