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CLAUDE (dü-väl'), an English highwayman; born in Domfront, Normandy, in 1643. He went to England at the Restoration, in the train of the Duke of Richmond. Taking soon to the road, he robbed many gentlemen of their purses, and ladies of their hearts till, having been captured while drunk, he was hanged at Tyburn, Jan. 21, 1670, and was buried in the mid aisle of Convent Garden Church.

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