graziers, farmers and others.  Then they went to Bishop’s Stortford, in Hertfordshire, where they robbed one man in particular who had his money tied up under his arm in a great purse.  Doyle says that he had some intelligence from a friend that the man had money about him, he made him strip in buff, and then found out where he lodged it, and took it, but he did not use him in any way ill, for he says it was the man’s business to conceal it, as much as his to discover it.

Doyle and his partner hearing of a certain fair which was to be held a few days after, they resolved to go to it, and coming there took notice who took most money.  In the evening they took their horses, and about three miles distant from the town there was a green, over which the people were obliged to come from the fair.  There came a great many graziers and farmers, whom they robbed of upwards of eight hundred pounds.  At this time Doyle had in money and valuable things, such as diamonds, rings, watches, to the amount of about sixteen hundred pounds.  His partner had also a great deal of money, but not so much as Doyle, by reason that he (D) had got some very often which he had no right to have a share of.

Doyle went again for Ireland, and carried all his money with him, and having a great many poor relations, distributed part of it amongst them; some he lent, which he could never get again, and in a little his money grew short, having frequented horse races and all public places.  However, before all was spent he returned to England.  Following his old course of life, he happened into several broils, with which a little money and a few friends he got over.  In a short space of time he became acquainted with Benjamin Wileman.  They two, with another person concerned with them, committed several robberies.  At length they were discovered, apprehended and committed to Newgate.  Wileman, it seems, had an itching to become an evidence against Doyle and W. G. But Doyle made himself an evidence, being really, as he said, for his own preservation and not for the sake of any reward.

Doyle’s wife being for a second time transported, he went with her in the same ship, and having arrived in Virginia, slaved there some time, until he began to grow weary of the place.  But as he was always too indulgent to her, he bought her her liberty, and shipped her and himself on board the first ship that came to England, when in seven weeks time they arrived in the Downs.  Soon after they came up to England, but were not long in town before his wife was taken up for returning from transportation, and committed to Newgate, where she remained until the sessions following, and being brought upon her trial, pleaded guilty.