John Austin (highwayman) of London by cart to the gallows. The 2½ mile journey along Tyburn Road would have taken up to three hours. Standing shackled in the cart, he would have been accompanied by two guards and a chaplain. They would traditionally stop on the way at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate and two public houses where drinks would be served. On arrival at Tyburn, Austin's cart would have been positioned under a beam and a noose attached around his head. He would then be permitted to address the crowd, his last words were: However, for Austin the noose slipped up the back of his
Highwayman Circus", in which John Cleese played the titular criminal who stole only lupins. In "Blackadder the Third", Mr. E. Blackadder turns highwayman in the episode "Amy and Amiability". In the British children's television series "Dick Turpin", starring Richard O'Sullivan, the highwayman was depicted as an 18th-century Robin Hood figure. Additionally the actor Mathew Baynton played Dick Turpin in "Horrible Histories". A singing highwayman appears in the fourth episode of the animated mini-series, "Over the Garden Wall", "Songs of the Dark Lantern". The highwayman known as Juraj Jánošík (1688–1713) became a hero of many folk legends in the Slovak, Czech, and