coaleys

Updated: May 8, 2025

One of the most noted Thief-takers of that day almost as great a one as Jonathan Wild comes down post, and sets up his Standard at Reading, as though he had been King William on the banks of the Boyne. Thief-taker's orders. He and his Bandogs, ay, and his Grenadiers, might have hunted us through Charlwood Chase until Doomsday but for the treachery of the "Coaleys."

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...