Harry Simms -- The Official Life

[Robin Hamilton]

While the 1747 _Life_ of Henry Simms isn't accessible online, it is 
substantially available in a reprinting in Charles Whitehead, _Lives and 
Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers, and Murderers, of All 
Nations_ (1835, and later editions):

        1867 edition, pp. 225 ff: 
https://archive.org/details/livesmostnotori00whitgoog

Whereas in the Narrative as identified by Garson, Simms is sent by his 
grandmother to be educated at an Academy run by a Dissenting minister, in 
the Official Life (as rendered by John Taylor, Ordinary of Newgate), he is 
(for a short space, before being expelled), "permitted to go to Eton school 
with the two sons of the noble lord."

Go figure ...

Hardly surprising that there's no reference to Flash Language in the 
Official Life.

Robin

 

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