Sixteen-String Jack, Or, What's in a Name

[ragnvaeig]

From time to time, I catch up on a lovely blog entitled the Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century, one of the recent posts of which mentions a highwayman who went by "Sixteen-String Jack", John Rann. He was so called because he wore "sixteen strings at each knee". My curiousity piqued, I disbelieved the pub-sign recreations of

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[thirteenletters]

Am rather curious now. The game is afoot.