the Duke led to his identification and subsequent conviction. The Jottings were written by the Rev Dr Churchill Julius in 1901 when he was Bishop of Christchurch, in New Zealand. In popular culture A play about Rann, Sixteen String Jack, was a first hit for playwright William Leman Rede in 1823. A novel based on his life, titled Sixteen String Jack, was published in 1841. Sixteen String Jack features prominently in the English penny dreadful Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road by Edward Viles (1866). The production company for the HBO television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is named Sixteen String Jack Productions. Further reading Andrews, Williams. Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. W. Andrews & Co., 1900. Gatrell, V. A. C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770–1868. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Thornbury, Walter and Edward Walford. Old and New London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places. Cassell & Company, 1881. References External links Roads, Tolls and Highwaymen: Travellers in 18th Century England A Book of Scoundrels: Chapter VIII – Gilderoy and the Sixteen String Jack, Part II Sixteen-String Jack, Part III A parallel: Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack 1750 births 1774 deaths English highwaymen 18th-century English people 18th-century English criminals People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain Executed people from Somerset English criminals People executed for robbery People executed by England and Wales by hanging People executed at Tyburn