charles johnson is the author of An Inquiry Into the Musical Instruction of the Blind,, Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen, etc. Sawney Beane; or, the Highland murderer ... Together with the lives of the Golden Farmer, Dick Walton ... and Tom Gerrard. [An extract.], The History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-robbers ... to which is Added, a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates, The Complete Art of Writing Letters, The Song of Solomon Paraphrased.