A Sunday-evening full episode IN WHICH —

0:05:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

• We hear of an event in which a woman hanged for the murder of her child recovered miraculously, as if God Himself was vouching for her innocence.

0:09:10: BLACK BESS (DICK TURPIN), Ch. 17:

• IN WHICH: Dick withdraws into the shadows to watch the beadle, Solomon Goggs, preparing the church for what looks like it’s going to be a midnight wedding. And as we’ll see, that’s exactly what’s intended. We’ll soon find out who is marrying whom, by dark of night, one of them eager and the other extremely reluctant; but, if you’d like to learn a little more about the actual historical context of this chapter, do yourself the favor of looking up “Elizabeth Pierrepont” on Wikipedia. It’ll be 15 minutes well spent!

0:24:50: THE BLACK BAND, Ch. 17:

• IN WHICH: we cut to a new scene. A heavily veiled woman is meeting a usurer named Mr. Lucas to borrow money. But something is going on; she’s clearly not what she seems. Then we learn that this usurer is Lucas Clavering, Ellen Clavering’s father, who has not heard a word from Ellen in six months and, feeling betrayed by her, no longer cares if he lives or dies. Which is good, because it’s soon obvious that the woman is an agent of the Companions of Midnight, and Colonel Bertrand is this night planning his destruction …

PLUS —

• We learn a new Flash song (starting around 0:22:25): "Cadgers' Holiday," full of fun highway-robber slang (see below). — And ...
• We read a satirical cover letter for the position of Literary Critic for Punch, the comedy magazine of the 1840s. — And ...
• We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!

FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• SCAMP FOOT: Street robber
• OLI CAMPOLI: Rogue of the canting crew
• TOGGERY: Clothing
• OLD TOM: Good gin
• PIPKIN: Head
• FLAT: A con man's mark, a sucker
• HAMLET: High constable
• RUM QUOD CULL: A jailer (quod = jail or prison, cull = disparaging reference to a man)
• CADGERS: Beggars and petty thieves
• MAUNDER: To beg
• PECK AND BOOZE: Food and drink
• DOXIES: High-spirited, possibly disreputable ladies
• PIKE OFF: Flee to avoid being caught
• RED WAISTCOAT: Uniform of the Bow-street Runners, London's first police force
• KNIGHT OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellow wandering amok in fields and ditches trying to stagger home

EPISODE ART: A portrait of Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Pierrepont, the "bigamous duchess who was also a countess," as a young lady. She appears in today's chapter of Dick Turpin's story.