Eventually, Wentworth pursued a number of prominent players who had defaulted on their debts. Chief Magistrate and novelist Henry Fielding described gambling as the School in which most Highwaymen of great Eminence have been bred.Henry Fielding, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase in Robbers, London, 1751, Part III. Wentworth was arraigned before the Courts four times for highway robbery, but never convicted. On each occasion his defaulter either failed to appear to prosecute him, found himself unable to positively identify D'Arcy Wentworth, or sought only to name and shame him.
