CHAP. LXIII.
Directions, if robbed, how to follow the Thieves; which way to setHueandCryafter them; how to coast, and where to find them.
If you are robbed, there is no help but to indeavour to surprize the Thieves by a strict pursuit: Therefore let noRemoraor delay deter you from obtaining your wish, and so seize them that so lately seized you. In the first place, scowre the next Road, not streight before, but either on the right or left hand; for they knowHueandCriesnever cross the passages, but go straight along. If in so doing you miss them, then conclude they are sheltred in some Inn which you have past, and therefore you must set some careful Spies, with a sufficient assistance near at hand, and be confident you will see them come that way, without the least apprehension of fear, or fear of apprehension. But this observe, that if they light of any considerable sum, then do they ride that night to their general Rendezvous inLondon, which is too sure a shelter for them: but observably take notice, for here is as eminent an example of their subtilty, as any ever the Devil enrich’d their knowledge with; For, if you are robbed in the eastern quarter, pursue them not in the direct Road toLondonwithHueandCry, for by some other way they are fled; but haste to the City, and inWestminster,Holborn, theStrandandCovent-gardensearch speedily, for there they are. If Northward they light on you, then toSouthwark, theBankside, orLambeththey are gone; and when you find any one, seize all with him, for they are all Companions that are together.