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A POLOGY
FOR THE
LIFE
O F
Mr. Bampfyldc-Moore Carezv,
Commonly call'd
The KING of the BEGGARS ;
Being an impartial Account of his Life, from his lea-
ving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and
entering into a Society of Gypjies^ to the prefent
Time ; wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be
explain'd, and the great Number of Characters and
Shapes hehas appeared inthrough Great Britain,
Ireland, and feveral other Places of Europe be
related ; with his Travels twice through great
Part of America.
A particular Account of the Original, Government
Language, Laws and Cuftoms of the Gypf.cs ; their
Method of electing their King, of. And a Parallel
drawn after the Manner of Plutarch, between
Mr. Bampfylde - Moore Carbw and Mr.
Thomas Jones.
The Sixth Edition, with Additions.
Totus Mundus agit) Hijlrioiav,
LONDON: Printed for R. Goadby, and W. Ovseri;
BooktVller, at 7V«/>/* Bar.
( Hi ;
n Ay there. You have not the worfe Opinion
M of a young Fellow for getting a Ballard, have you
" Girl ? No no, the Women will like un the better
" for if."
I am afraid, Sir, what I have now faid too plainly
proves that every Body knows what the Word Low
means, and that it is likewife very cxprejfive in its Sig-
nification-, I am therefore doubtful that the Publick will
not think, what you have aflign'd Sir, a fufficient Ren-
fon for the Difufe of it : I cannot flatter you neither
that they will fall in with your Sentiments of confining
the Ufe of this Word to Right f-Ionourablt's, and putting
a Gag in the Mouths of all under that Rank, for tho*
you, Sir, are in too great a Station now, to fuppofe
the People know any thing, yet there happens to be
two fmall Objections to this Opinion of your's ; the firft
is, that the wifeft and moil learned Men of all Ages
have thought directly contrary ; the fecond is, that Ex-
perience has fhewn that the People, that is, what you
with fo j uft Contempt denominate Gentlemen of the
Law, Apprentices, Clerks, &c. and if you adJed
Shoemakers and Taylors, it would have made no Dif-
ference ; have always been right in their Judgment, ur>
lefs biafs'd and led aftray by (uperior Examples j Cicrro
Sir, if you ever read that Author, or have not quite
forgot him, fays, Numqunm dc bono Oratore, av.i non
bono) doclis bominibus cum Populo dijfentio fuit, that is, as
I take it, Sir, that it had been never known in his Tune,
that the People and the Learned ever difatnecd in their
Sentiments, in Regard to a good or bad Orator ; how
unluckily does the Opinion and Experience of this great
Man clafh with your Sentiments on this Head : Some
other Authors tell us that Taftc, I mean thediitmguifh-
xvili D E D I C A T I ON.
ing Quality of judging what is High or Lew, is a kind of
natural Reafon, which every one brings into the World
With him : ^ulntihan (who is allowed to be fomething
of a Judge) fays, it is no more to be attain'd by Art
than the Tafre or Smell ; therefore I think we may
fairly conclude, that it never enter'd into his Head that
the Tide of Right Honourable, or the wearing of a Rib-
band acrofs the Shoulders could ever give it to any one.
Mr. Addifon has likewife told us, " Human Nature
* { is the fame in all reafonable Creatures ; and what-
<; ever falls in with it, will meet with Admirers amongft
e Reader is fome
Gentleman of the Laiv -, if fo, let him confider before
he is angry with me, if he ?iever took in Hand a bad
Caufe,
( xxvJii )
Caufe, and affured his Client of the Goodnefs of it t
the? he knew in his own Breaft he fhould never gain
the Point -, and when he has been caft in one Courts
has he not by fpecious Promifes andfalfe Hopes en-
ticed his Client to try the Iffue in another ; and thus
drained his Pockets without Moderation ; has he
never fomented Differences among/ihis Neighbours,
that he might reap fome Harv eft from it -, or, has
he never agreed with his Brother Coun feller, of the
Defendants Party, to fpin out the Caufe by unne-
ceffary Delays, till they have got the Oyfter between
them, and left their Clients nothing but the Shells.
But, perhaps, fome plodding honeft I'radefman is
reading my Memoirs, with loud Exclamations rf my
Cheats and Impoftures -, but he muft be much bet-
ter than his Neighbours, if he has never contrived
to darken his Shop -Windows, to prevent his Cufto-
mers feeing the Inlaws in his Gonds, if he has never
put off a bad Commodity for a good one \ or made his
Goods weigh heavier than when he bought them.
In a Word, moft gentle Reader, every Profejfwn has
its Fourberies and Impoftures ; even the Printer of
thefe Memoirs intends to print them on a large Let-
ter, and with a broad Margin,* which he may tell
you is to adorn them, but it is in H ruth for nothing
elfe than to make thee pay the more for them.
HAVING thus, I hope, proved to thy Content-
ment, that every Prcfejfion has its "Tricks as well as
mine] Ifhallprefent you with my true Hift cry from my
Birth to this prefent Tear.
Bampfylde-Moore Carew.
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AN
A N
APOLOGY
FOR THE
LIFE
O F
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew.
EADER, we are going
to prefent you with the
Hiftory of a Man truly
remarkable; one who has
indeed gone through an uncom-
mon Variety of Adventures, has
feen the Manners of many Men,
and has at leaft dived as deep into
A the
( a )
t*he Knowledge of Human Nature,
as that great Painter of it, the Au-
thor of the Hiftory of Tom Jones.
We fhall endeavour to execute the
Office of Hiftoriographer with all
the Dignity and Decorum that be-
longs to the Character; keeping,
however, ftri&ly to Truth, accord-
ing to the exprefs Injunctions we
have received from the Hero, who
is the Subjed: of it : Neither fhall
we, according to the Vogue of thefe
Times, lard it with trifling Mat-
ters, which have no Regard or
Connection with the Hiftory, but
ferve only to fwell out the Volume,
or rather to make many Volumes,
of what might well be comprifed
in one.
As there is no truer Standard of
judging both of Men and Things,
than
( iii )
than Companion, we £hall follow
the Example of that excellent Wri-
ter of Lives, Plutarch, in drawing
a Parallel between our Hero, and
that mofc renowned and fliining
Chara&er of the Age, Mr. Thomas
Jones, whom we have chofen pre-
ferable to all others, not only on
Account of the Similarity of the two
Charaders, but becaufe we are in-
formed that the Writer of the Hi-
ftory of this celebrated Hero re-
ceived a Reward for it ; which, in
lefs generous Times, would have
been thought an adequate Compen-
fation for one who had, with great
Toil, found out fome moft ufeful
Invention ; and that the noble
Lives of Plutarch grow mouldy in
the Bookfellers Shops, whilft the
Hiftory of Tom Jones is in every
Hand, from the beardlefs Youth,
A 2 up
( iv )
up to the hoary Hairs of Age : And
befides all this, we fhall find here-
after that Mr. Thomas Jones^ and
our Hero have had fome previous
Acquaintance together.
Having thus premifed the Rea~
fons we have for drawing this Pa-
rallel, we fhall proceed to our Hi-
ftory.
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M
APOLOGY, @>r .
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CHAP. I.
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew's Birth ; A/i
Studies at Tiverton School •, the Reafon of
his leaving it •, his Admittance into the Com-
munity of the Gypfies \ a particular Account,
of the Government, Laws and Manners of
thofe People ♦, his Return to his Father's
Houfe y &c.
R. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, is
defcended from the antient Family
of the Carews^ Son of the Rev. Mr.
Theodore Carezv, of the Parifh of
Btckley^ near Tiverton^ in the County of Devon^
of which Parifh he was many Years Rector,
very much efleemed while living, and at
A 3 his
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his £>eatfr univerfally lamented. Mr. Carew
was born in the Month of July* 1693, and ne-
ver was there known a more fplendid Ap-
pearance of Gentlemen and Ladies of the firft
Rank and Quality at any Baptifm in the Weft
of England, than at his ^ the Hon. Hugh Bamp-
fylde Efq-, (who afterwards died of an unfortu-
nate Fall from his Horfe) and the Hon. Ma-
jor Moore, were both his illuftrious Godfathers,
both of whofe Names he bears •, who fome
Time contending whofe mould be the Prece-
dent, (doubtlefs prefaging the Honour that
would redound to them from the future
Actions of our Hero) the Affair was deter-
mined by throwing up a Piece of Money,
which was won by Mr. Bampfylde - 9 who, up-
on this Account, prefented a large Piece of
Plate, whereon was engraved in large Letters,
BAMPFYLDE -MOORE CAREW.
The Rev. Mr. Carew had fevera* other
Children, both Sons and Daughters, befides
Mr. Carew, all of whom he educated in a
tender and pious Manner •, and 1 Mr. Carew
was at the Age of Twelve fent to Tiverton
School, where he contracted an intimate Ac-
quaintance with young Gentlemen' of the firft
Rank in Somerf or, in plainer Englifh, Enlarg-
ing*
* The two Authors above-mentioned have a&ed very can-
didly in publishing their Figures while they are flill alive, thac
the World may be enabled to judge of the Skill and Impartia-
lity of the Engraver.
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ing, prefent our Reader with a very amiable
Picture.
The Stature of our Hero is tall and ma-
le [ his Limbs ftrong and well-proportion'd,
Iv Features regular, his Countenance open
and ingenuous, bearing all thofe characterifti-
cal Marks which Phyfiognomifts affert denote
an honeft and good natur'd Mind ; and tho*
Hardfhips and even Age itfelf (he being now
fixty) have made fome Alterations in his
Features, yet we dare venture to compare his
Countenance with Mr. Thomas Jones's, tho J
the Author of that Gentleman's Life aflerts he
is tht fneft Figure ever beheld
During the firfl four Years of his Continu-
ance at Tiverton School, his clofe Application
and Delight in his Studies gave his Friends
great Hopes that he might one Day make a
good Figure in that honourable Profefllon
which his Father became fo well, and for
which he was defigned.
Fie attained, for his Age, a very confi-
derable Knowledge in the Latin and Greek
Tongues •, but foon a new Exercife, or Ac-
complifhment, engag'd all his Attention :
This was that of Huntings in which our Hero
foon made a furpriiing Progrefs. We hope it
will be no Difparagement to the Character of
Mr. Thoma! Jones, to fay that he furpafs'd
even him in this Study, for befide that Agi-
lity of Limbs, and Courage requifite for leap-
ing over five-bar'd Gates, &V. which Mr.
Jones
i a
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 5
Jones was remarkable for, our Hero, by in-
defatigable Study and Application, added to
it, a remarkable chearing Halloo to the Dogs,
of very great Service to the Exercife, and
which we believe is peculiar to himfelf ; and,
befides this, found out a Secret hitherto un-
known but to himfelf, of enticing any Dog
whatever to follow him.
The Tiverton Scholars had at this Time the
Command of a fine Cry of Hounds, whereby
Mr. Carew had frequent Opportunities of gra-
tifying his Inclinations to that Diverfion. It
was then that he entered into a very ftri<5t
Friendfhip and Familiarity with John Martin,
Thomas Coleman, John Efcott, and other young
Gentlemen of the befl Rank and Fortune,
The wife Spaniards, have, we think, a Pro-
verb, Tell me who you are with, and I will tell
you what you are ; and we ourfelves fay, That
Birds of a Feather will flock together. It is
generally allowed, that Proverbs are built up-
on Experience, and contain great Truths ; and
if the two I have mentioned above are not
worfe founded than the reft, we think we may
be allowed, without Partiality, to give the
Preference to Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew in
this Refpect, that he at leaft kept better Com-
pany than Mr. Jones \ for though at this Time
very young, he contracted no Acquaintance,
and kept no Company, but with young Gen-
tlemen of Birth and Fortune, who were rather
fuperior to himfelf, than beneath him -, but
Mr.
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Mr. Jones was delighted with no Company fo
much as Black George's, * a Fellow of the
loweft Condition and not over honeft Princi-
ples.
It happened that a Farmer, living in the
County adjacent to Tiverton, who was a very
great Sportfman, and ufed to hunt with the
Tiverton Scholars, came and acquainted them,
of a fine Deer which he had feen, with a Col-
lar about its Neck,, in the Fields about his
Farm, which he fuppofed to be the favourite
Deer of fome Gentleman not far off: This
was very agreeable News to the Tiverton
Scholars, who, with Mr. Carew r John Martin,
Thomas Coleman, and John Efcott, at their
Head, went in a great Body to hunt it : This
happened a fhort Time before Harveft ; the
Chafe was very hot, and lafted feveral Hours,
and they ran the Deer many Miles,, which did
a great deal of Damage to the Fields of Corn,
which were then almoft ripe. Upon thq Death
of the Deer, and Examination of the Collar,
it was found to belong to Col. Nut combe, of
the Parifh of Clayhanger. Thofe Farmers and
Gentlemen that fuftained the greateft Damage,
came to Tiverton, and complained very hea-
vily to Mr. Rayner, the School-Mailer, of
the Havock made in their Fields, which oc-
cafioned ftric"r. Enquiry to be made concern-
ing the Ringleaders^ who proving to be our
Hero
* This was Game keeper to one Mr. Altttortby, a worthless
Tellovv, whofe Company Mr. Jwes was much delighted with.
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew y
Hero and his Companions, they were fo fe-
verely threatened, that for Fear they abfented
themfelves from School ; and the next Day,
happening to go in the Evening to Brick-
Houfe, an Ale-Houfe about half a Mile from
Tiverton, they accidentally fell into Company
with a Society of Gypfies, who were there
feafling and caroufing. This Society confifted
of feventeen or eighteen Perfons of both Sexes,
who that Day met there with a full Purpofe
of Merriment and Jollity ; and after a plen-
tiful Meal upon Fowls, Ducks, and other
dainty Dimes, the flowing Cups of October,
Cyder, &V, went mod chearfuliy round, and
merry Songs and Country Dances crowned
the jovial Banquet : In fhort, fo great an Air
of Freedom, Mirth, and Pleafure, appeared in
the J£aces and Geftures of this Society, that
our Youngfters from that Time conceived a
fudden Inclination to enlift into their Com-
pany, which, when they communicated to
the Gyp/ies, they confidering their Appearance,
Behaviour and Education, regarded as only
fpoken in Jeft •, but as they tarried there all
Night in their Company, and continued in the
fame Refolution the next Morning, they were
at length induced to believe them to be ferious,
and accordingly encouraged them, and admit-
ted them into their Number, the requijite Ce-
remonials being firft gone through, and the pro-
per Oaths being adminiftered.
The /
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The Reader may perhaps be furprized at the
Mention of Oath; adminiftered, and Ceremo-
nials ufed, at the Admittance of thefe young
Gentlemen ; but his Surprize will lefien, when
we inform him that thefe People are fubject
to a Form of Government and Laws pecu-
liar to themfelves, and all pay Obedience to
one who is filled their King ; (to which great
Honour we fhall hereafter fee our Hero arrive,
having firft proved himfelf worthy of it by a
great Number of neceflary Atchievements.)
There are, perhaps, no People fo compleat-
ly happy as thefe are, or enjoy fo great a Share
of Liberty. Their King is elective by the
-whole People, but none are allowed to fland
•as Candidates for that Honour, but fuch who
have been long in their Society, and perfect-
ly fludied the Nature and Inftitution of it :
They muft likewife have given repeated Proofs
of their Perfonal Wifdom, Courage, and Ca-
pacity : This is the better known, as they al-
ways keep a public Record or Regifter of all
remarkable (either good or bad) Actions per-
formed by any of the Society : And they can
have no Temptation to make Choice of any
but the moft Worthy as their King has no
Titles nor lucrative Employments to beftow,
which might influence or corrupt their Judg-
ment.
The only Advantage the King enjoys, is,
that he is conftantly fupplied with whatever is
neceffary for his Maintenance from the Con-
tribution
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 9
■tribution of his People ; whilft he, in Return,
directs all his Care to the defending and pro-
tecting his People from their Enemies, in con-
triving and planning whatever is molt likely
to promote their Welfare and Happinefs.,
in feeing a due Regard paid to their Laws*
4n regiftering their memorable Actions., and
making a due Report of all thefe Things at
their general AiTemblies ; fo that, perhaps, at
this Time it is amongft thefe People only that
the Office of a King is the fame as it was at its
firft Inftitution, viz. a Father and Protector of
his People.
The Laws of thefe People are few and fi tri-
ple, but mod exactly and punctually obferved^
the Fundamental of which is, that ftrong Love
and mutual Regard for each Member in par-
ticular, and for the whole Community in ge-
neral, which is inculcated into them from their
earlieft Infancy ; fo that this whole Com m 11 •
nity is connected by ftronger Bands of Love
and Harmony, than oftentimes fubfift even in
private Families under other Governments :
This naturally prevents all Oppreflions, Frauds,
and over-reaching of one another, fo common
amongft other People, and totally extinguifhes
that bitter Paflion of the Mind (the Source,
perhaps, of moft other Vices) Envy •, for it is
a great and certain Truth, that Love ivcrkctb
.no Evil.
Their general Meetings at ftated Times,
which they are all obliged to be prefer^ at, is
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a very ftrong Cement of their Love, and in-
deed of all their other Virtues •, for as the ge-
neral Regifter of their Actions, which we have
before fpoken of, is read at thele Meetings,
thofe who have deferved well of the Com-
munity, are honoured by fome Token or Di-
flinction in the Sight of all the reft ; and thofe
who have done any Thing againft their Fun^
damental Laws, have fome Mark -of Ignomi-
ny put upon them •, for they have <\o high
Senfe of Pecuniary Rewards^ and they think
the punching of the Body of little Service
towards amending the Mind : Experience has
fhewn them, that by keeping up this nice
Senfe of Honour and Shame, they are en-
abled to keep their Community in better Or-
der than the moft fevere corporal Punifhments
have been able to effect in other Govern-
ments.
But what has flill more tended to preferve
their Happinefs, is, that they know no other
Ufe of Riches than the Enjoyment of them ;
but as this Word is liable to be mifconftrued
by many of our Readers, we think it neceffary
to inform them, we do notmeanby.it, that
fordid Enjoyment which the Mifer feels when
he bolts up his Money in a and
in French JEgyptienne^ that they derive their
Original from the JEgyptians^ one of the moft
antient and learned People in the World •,
(though afterwards feveral other People imi-
tated them;) and that they were Perfons of
more than common Learning, who travelled
to communicate their Knowledge to Man-
kind. Whether the Divine Homer himfelf,
might not have been of this Society, will ad-
mit of a Doubt* as there is fo much Uncer-
tainty about his Birth and Education, though,
nothing more certain than that he travelled
from Place to Place : Mr. Carezv did not.
continue long in it,, without being confulted
in important Matters, particularly Madam
Mufgrove, of Munkton^ near Taunt on *. hearing,
of his Fame, fent for him to confult in an Af-
fair of Difficulty : When he was come, fhe
informed him* that lhe fufpe&ed a large
Quan-
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 13
Quantity of Money was buried fome where
about her Houfe, and if he would acquaint
her with the particular Place, fhe would hand-
fomely reward him .
Our Hero consulted the Secrets of his Art
upon this Occafion, and, after long Toil and
Study, informed the Lady, that under a
Laurel Tree in the Garden lay the Treafure
fhe fought for, but that her Planet of good
Fortune did not reign till fuch a Day and
Hour, till which Time fhe mould defift from
iearching for it : The good Lady rewarded
him very gcneroufly with twenty Guineas for
this Difcovery : We cannot tell whether at
this Time our Hero was fufflciently initiated
in the Art, or whether the Lady miflook her
lucky Hour, but the ftricl: Regard we pay to
Truth obliges us to confefs, that the Lady
dug below the Roots of the Laurel Tree with-
out finding the hidden Treafure.
When he was further initiated in the Art,
he was confulted upon feveral important Mat-
ters, and generally gave great Satisfaction by
his fagacious Anfwers. In the mean Time
his worthy Parents forrowed for him, as one
that was no. more, not being able to get the
lead: Tidings of him, though they publickly
advertifed him, and fent Meffengers to enquire
for him in every Part, till at the Expiration
of a Year and half, our Hero having repeated
Accounts of the great Sorrow and Trouble his
Parents were in upon his Account, his Heart
B 3 melted
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melted with Tendernefs, and he repaired to
his Father's Houfe at Bickley in Devon/hire.
As he was greatly difguifed both in Habit and
Countenance, he was not at firfl known by
his Parents •, but when he difcovered himfelf,
Joy guhYd out in full Streams,, flopping the
Power of Speech •, but the warm Tears they
bedewed his Cheeks with, whilft they imprint-
ed them with their KifTes, performed the Of-
fice of the Tongue with more exprefilve Elo~
quence : But the good Heart and tender Pa-
rent will feel it much better than we can de-
fcribe it. The whole Neighbourhood, parti-
cularly the two Parifhes of Cadley and Bickley,.
partook of this Joy ; and there was nothing
for fome Time but ringing of Bells, with
public Feaftings > and other Marks of feftive
CHAP;
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew.
CHAP. II.
Mr. Carew leaves his Father's HouJe r and is
admitted afecond Time into the Community of
the Gypfies - y a modeft Apology for fuch of
the Aclions of our Hero, as may feem to need
it \ a pathetic Addrefs to all Orders of Men
to imitate him ; feveral Stratagems put in'
Execution by him with great Succefs •, his
Refolution to render himfelf ufejul to Mankind \
his Obferuations on Mankind, &c.
R. CareVs Parents did every
Thing poflible to render Home
agreeable to him : Every Day
he was engaged in fome Party
of Pleafure or other, and all his
Friends drove who mould moft entertain him,,
fo that there feemed nothing wanting to his
Happinefs. But the uncommon Pleafure he
had enjoyed in the Community he had left, the
Freedom of their Government, the Simplicity
and Sincerity of their Manners, the frequent
Change of their Habitation, the perpetual
Mirth
1 6 An Apology for the Life of
Mirth and good Humour that reigned amongft
them, and perhaps fome fecret Prefages of
that high Honour which he has fince arrived
at, all thefe made too deep an Imprefiion to
be effaced by any other Ideas : His Pleafures
therefore grew every Day more and more
taftelefs, and he relifhed none of thofe En-
tertainments which his Friends daily provided
for him.
For fome Time, thefe unfatisfied Longings
after the Community of the Gyp/ies, preyed
upon his Mind, his Heart being too good to
think of leaving his fond Parents again, with-
out Reluctance : Long did filial Piety and
his Inclinations ftruggle for the Victory ; at
length the laft prevailed, but not till his Health
had vifibly fuffered by thefe inward Com-
motions. One Day, therefore, without tak-
ing Leave of any of his Friends, he directs
his Steps towards Brick-Houfe, at Tiverton,
where he had firft entered into the Commiir
nity of the Gypfies ; and finding fome of them
there, he joined their Company, to the great
Satisfaction of them, as. well as of himfelf, they
rejoycing greatly at having regained one who
was likely to be fo ufeful a Member to their
Community.
We are now entering into the bufy Part of
our Hero's Life, where we fhall find him act-
ing in various Characters, and performing all
with Propriety, Dignity and Decorum.-— It
may, however, be neceifary to inform our
Reader,
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carcw. \y
Reader, that he mud not be fhocked if in
the Courfe of thefe Actions he fometimes finds
our Hero engaged in Affairs, which, perhaps*
in his Eye may not appear altogether commen-
dable j for the celebrated Writer of the Life
of Mr. Jones, who afllires us that he * (and
indeed feems to infinuate that. only he) " has
" been admitted behind the Scenes of the great
" Theatre of Nature," and profefTes his Book
" to be written for the Inftruction of Youth,.
" as well as thole of riper Years," after hav-
ing informed his Readers with one of the He-
roes of his Hiftory defrauding his Friend and
generous Benefactor of 500 Pounds* which he
knew was all he had in the World*, adds,.
" That though his Readers may look upon
" fuch a Man with the utmoft Abhorrence,
" yet he," (who knows better than, any of
them, being no lefs than Nature'j Privy CounfeU
lor,) " can cenfure the Action, without any
" abfolute Deteftation of the Perfon ; for tho'
" the Man is a Villain, it is Nature for all.
c< that and perhaps fhe may not have defigned
" him to act an ill Part in all her Dramas,
w fince it is often the fame Perfon who repre-
" fents the Villain and the Hero •, and that a
4 * fingle bad Act (however atrocious we fup-
" pofe, for a worie than the preceding one
" we
* Every Line inclofed between thefe Marks " " Is exaftly
in his own Words, without the leaft Diminution or Addition,
and may be found between Tage 76 and So of the 2d Volume
of that excellent Hiftory,
«i
1 8 An Apology for the Life of
we cannot well imagine) does not confti-
tute a Villain in Life." And here, as per-
haps it. has not as. yet come to the Knowledge
cf all our Readers,, we cannot but recommend
to them the Purchafe of that great Book of
Nature, the Hiftory oiT'om Jones, which the
gentle Reader may now buy for fo fmall a
Price as Twelve Shillings, though great Num-
bers, we allure thee, have purchafed it at one
Pound one Shilling, and thought it well worth
their Money, for indeed it i3 a mod -profitable
Book-, for whoever thou art, moft courteous
Reader, thou may'ft in the courfe of Life,,
have fome Opportunity or other (and I make
no doubt but thou wilt) of making, or at leaft
increafing thy Fortune, by betraying or de-
frauding thy Friend, robbing thy Mailer, or
fome other fuch like Action •, but an innate
Principle of Goodnefs and Honour may deter
thee from it ; in all fuch Cafes, therefore, thou
may'ft refer to this great Book 0/ Nature, and
thou wilt find that thou may'it do it, without
being the lefs honeft Man for it : " For the
" Paffions often force Men upon Parts, withn
" out confulting their Judgment, fo that the
" Man may condemn, what he himfelf acts ;
" and therefore the Man of Candour and of
" true Under ft anding, will cenfure fuch an Im-
" perfection, without Rage againft the guilty
" Party •, for though it is Villainy, it is Na-
"- ture for all that. 5 '
We
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 19
We mull confefs, however, thou wilt find
mo fuch Inftance of Nature in the whole Life
of our Hero -, nor can we find (though we have
made very diligent Enquiry about it) that he
followed the Dictates of Nature fo clofely in
his Childhood as Mr. Thomas J 'ones ■, in taking
what was none of his own ; neither fhall we
account for, on the fame Principles, fome of
had the Misfortune
to have his Grounds overflowed, and all his
Cattle drown'd. His Habit was now neat,
but ruftic •, his Air and Behaviour fimple and
inoffenfive ■, his Speech in the Kentiftj Dialect ;
his Countenance dejected •, his Tale pitiful,
nay wonderous pitiful •, a Wife and feven ten-
der helplefs Infants being Partakers of his Mif-
fortunes: In fhort, never did that excellent
Actor Mr. Garrick, perfonate any Character
more juft •, nor did he ever raife ftronger Emo-
otions of Pity in the Character of the unfortu-
nate good King Lear, than our Hero did under
this •, fo that if his former Stratagem anfwered
his "Wifties, this (till did more fo, he now get-
ting feldom lefs than a Guinea a Day.
Having raifed a very considerable Booty
by thefe two Stratagems, he made the beft of
his Way towards Stratton in Devonjbire, where
was foon to be held a general Affembly of the
Gyp/ies : Here he was received with great Ap-
plaufe on Account of the fuccefsful Strata-
gems he had executed, and had an honourable
Mark of Diftinction bellowed upon him, in
being feated near the King.
Though
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 25
Though our Hero, by Means of thefe Stra-
tagems, abounded in all the Pleafure he could
deiire> yet he began now to reflect within him-
ielf on that grand and noble Maxim of Life,
That we are not bom for outfelves only, but are
indebted to all Mankind, to be of as great Ufe and
Service to them as our Capacities and Abilities will
enable us to be : He therefore gave a hand-
Tome Gratuity to an expert and famous Rat*
catcher, (who affumed the Honour of being.
Rat-catcher to the . King, and produced a Pa-
tent tor the free Exercife of his Art) to be ini-
tiated into that, and the ftill more ufeful Se-
cret of curing Madnefs in Dop-s or Cattle.
Our Hero, by his dole Application, foon
attain'd io confiderable a Knowledge, in this
Profeflion, that he praclifed it with much
Succefs and Applaufe, to the great Advan-
tage of the Public in general, not confining
the good Effects of his Knowledgc.to his own
Community only, but extending them uni-
verfally to all Sorts of 'People, wherefoever
they were wanted-, for though we have before
obferved the. Mendicants are in a conftant State
of Hoftility with all other People, and Mr.'
Carew was as alert as any one in laying all
Manner of Schemes and Stratagems to. carry
off a Booty from them, yet he thought, as a
Member of the grand Society of Human-
Kind, he was obliged to do them all the Good
in his Power, when it was not oppofite to
the. Intereit of that particular Community of
C 3 : which.
26 An Apology for the Life of
which he was a Member : We cannot
here help obferving, That our Hero, ( in
what we have above related) feems to fur-
pafs the fo much extoli'd Mr. Thomas Jones ;
for though we have very diligently fearched
that Gentleman's Hiftory, we cannot find that
from the Age of fixteen he ever apply'd him-
felf to the learning of any Art or Science,
except that commendable and Praife-worthy
one of leaping his Horfe over deep Ditches
and many barr'd Gates, in which we think
his Horfe had an equal, if not a fuperior
Degree of Knowledge v/ith himfelf.
Mr. Carew's Invention being never at a
Lofs, he now formed a new Stratagem •, to-
execute which, he exchanged his Habit, Shirt
and all, for only an old Blanket •, Shoes and
Stockings he laid afide, becaule they did not
fuit his prefent Purpofe. Being thus ac-
coutred, or rather unaccoutred, he was now
no more than poor Mad Tom, " whom.
'** the foul Fiend has led through Fire and
" through Flame, through Ford and Whirl -
" pool, over Bog and Quagmire, that hath.
•* laid Knives under his Pillow, and Halters
cc in his Pew, fet Ratfbane by his Porridge r
•* made him proud at Heart,, to ride on a
U bay trotting Horfe over four-inched Brid-
" ges, to courfe his own Shadow for a Trai-
" tor •, who eats the fwimming Frog, the
" Toad, the Tadpole, the Wall Newt and
" the Water Newt j that in the Fury of his
" Heart*
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 27
u Heart, when the foul Fiend rages, fwallows
" the old Rat and the Ditch Dog, drinks
" the green Mantle off the Handing Pool :
" And Mice and Rats, and fach finall Geer 9
" Have been Torn'.? Food for /even long Tear.
cc O do, de, do, de, do, de ; blefs thee from
" Whirlwind, Star- blading, and taking : Do
" poor Tom ibme Charity, whom the foul
" Fiend vexes, there could 1 have him now,
" and there and here again, and there : Thro'
** the fharp Hawthorn blows the cold Wind,
" Tom's a-cold : Who gives any Thing to
" poor Tom. 9 ' * — ■ In this Character,
and with fuch-like Exprefiions, our Hero en-
tered the Houfes both of great and fmall,.
claiming Kindred to them, and committing
all Manner of frantic Actions fuch as beat-
ing himfelf, offering to eat Coals of Fire, run-
ning againd the Wall, and tearing to Pieces
whatever Garment was given him to cover
his
* Though the above excellent Defcription of this Character of
cur Hero is taken from that inimitable Mafter of Nature, Sh,ike-
fp a , who wrote about 130 Years before we were born, yet from
this prefent Time we expect ail Readers to regard it as pwely and
entirely our own, according to the Maxim laid down by that great
Author, the Hiftoriographer of the Life of Tom "Jones, who, in
Book (he 12th of that renowned Hirtory, informs his Readers in
thefe Words. " I fhall never fcruple to t~ke to myfelf any Paf-
*' fage which I fhall find in any antient Author to my Purpofe,
" without fetting down the Name of the Author from whence it
" was taken ; nay, I abfolutely claim a Property to all fuch Sen-
" timents, the Moment they are tranfcribed into my Writings, and
*' I expect all Readers henceforward to regard them as purely and
•* entirely my oivn+
2& An Apology for the Life of
his Nak'ednefs-, by which Means he raifed
very confiderable Contributions.
But thefe different Habits and Characters
were ftill of further Ufe to our Hero, for by
their Means he had a fairer Opportunity of
feeing the World, and knowing Mankind, than
moil of our Youth who make the Grand 'Tour;
for as he had none of thofe pretty Amufe-
ments and Raree-Shews, which fo much di-
vert our young Gentlemen Abroad, to engage
his Attention, it was wholly applied to the
Study of Mankind, their various Paffions and
Inclinations ; and he made the greater Im-
provement in this Study, as in many of his'
Characters they acted before him without Re-
ferve or Difguife. He faw in little and plain.
Houfes, Hofpitality, Charity, and Compaffion^
the Children of Frugality ♦, and found, under
gilded and fpacious Roofs, Littlenefs, Unchari-
tablenefs, and Inhumanity, the Offspring of Lux-
ury and Riot : He faw Servants wafle their
Mailer's Subftance, and that there was no great-.-
er nor more crafty Thief than the Domeflic
one ♦, and met with Mailer's who roared out
for Liberty Abroad, acting the arbitrary Ty-
rant in their own Houfes •, .he faw Ignorance
and PaJJion exercife the Rod of Juftice ; Op-
pr ejjion the Handmaid of. Power ; Self- Inter eft
outweighing Friend/hip and Honefty in the op-
pofite Scale ; Pride and Envy fpurning and
trampling on what was more worthy than,
themfelvss ; he faw the pure white Robes of
"Truth
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 29
'Truth fullied with the black Hue of Hypocrify
and Diffimulation ; he met ibmetimes too with
Riches, unattended by Pomp or Pride, but dif-
fufing themfelves in numberlefs unexhaufted
Streams, conducted by the Hands of two
lovely Servants, Goodnefs and Beneficence •, and
he faw Honefty, Integrity, and Greatnefs of
Mind, Inhabitants of the humble Cot of Po-
verty.
All thefe Obfervations afforded him no little
Pleafure, but he felt a much greater in the
j Indulgence of the Emotions of filial Piety,
paying his Parents frequent Vifits, unknown
to them, in diffent Difguifcs -, at which Time
the Tendernefs he faw them exprefs for him
in their Enquiries after him (it being their
conftant Cuftom fo to do of all Travellers)
always melted him into real Tears.
/:-;x.
CHAP.
3°
An Apology for the Life of
CHAP. III.
Mr. Carew's Voyage to Newfoundland,/^^
Account of that Ifland, and the great Cod--
Fifhery there ; his Return to England •, good
Effects of his Voyage, and fome Profit pro-
pofed to the Reader from it,
T has been remarked that Curio—
$ fity-i or the Defire of Knowledge,,
is that which moft diftingujfhes
. Man from the Brute, and the
lUEmfi ■* greater the Mind is, the more in-
fatiable is; that Paffion : We may,, without
Flattery, fay, no Man had a more boundlefs
one, than our Hero ; for not fatisfied with
the Obfervations he had made in England and
Wales, which we are well affured were many
more than are ufually made by Gentlemen be-
fore they travel into Foreign Parts) he now
refolved to fee other Countries and Manners.
He was the more inclined to this, as he ima-
gined it would enable him to be of greater
Service to the Community of which he was a
Member
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 31
Member, by rendering him capable of exe-
cuting fome of his Stratagems with much
greater Succefs. He communicated this De-
fign to his Schoolfellow Efcott, one of thofe
who commenced a Gypfy with him, (for nei-
ther of the four ever wholly quitted that Com-
munity.) Efcott very readily agreed to ac-
company him in his Travels, and there being
a Ship ready to fail for Newfoundland* lying
at Dartmouth, where they then wen. , they
agreed to embark on board her, being called
the Man/ail, commanded by Captain Holdf-
worth. Nothing remarkable happened in
their Paflage which relates to our Hero : We
mall therefore pafs it by, and land him fafe
in Newfoundland.
This large Ifland was difcovered by Se-
1 baftian Cabot, who was fent to America by
Henry VII. King of England, in the Year
1497, to make Difcoveries. It is of a trian-
gular Figure as big as Ireland* of about 300
Leagues in Circuit, feparated from Canada, or
I New France on the Continent to the North,
I and from New Scotland to the South, by a
Channel of much the fame Breadth as that be-
tween Dover and Calais. It lies between 46
and 50 Degrees of North Latitude. 'Tis not
above 1800 Miles diftant from the Land's-
End of England. It has many commodious
Bays along the Coaft, fome of them run-
ning into the Land towards one another 20
Leagues. The Climate is very hot in Sum-
mer,
3 2 An Apology for the Life of
mer, and cold in Winter, the Snow lying up-
on the Ground four or five Months in the
Year : The Soil is very barren, bearing little
or no Corn, being full of Mountains, and im-
practicable Forefts : Its Meadows are like
Heath, and covered with a Sort of Mofs in-
Head of Grafs.
Our Hero, neverthelefs, did not fpend his
Time ufelefs, or even without Entertainment
in this uncomfortable Country •, for an active
and inquifitive Mind will find more Ufe and
Entertainment amongft barren Rocks and
Mountains, than the indolent Perfon can
amongft all the Magnificence and Beauties of
Verf ailles : He therefore vifited Torbay, Kit-
tawitty, Carboneer, Brigas Bay, Bay of Bulls ;
Petty Harbour, Cape Broil, Bonavift, and all
the other Settlements, both Englijh and French,
accurately remarking their Situation and An-
chorage, and making himfelf fully acquaint-
ed with the Names, Circumftances, and Cha-
racters of all the Inhabitants of any Note : He
likewife vifited the great Bank of Newfound-
land, fo much talked of, which is a kind of
Mountain of Sand, lying under the Sea, about
450 Miles in Length, and in fome Places
150 in Breadth, lying on the Eaft Side of the
Ifland : The Sea that runs over it, when it
is Flood, is 200 Fathoms deep on all Sides,
fo that at that Time the largeft Ships may-
venture upon it without Fear of ftriking, (ex •
ccpt at a Place called the Virgins) but at Ebb
it
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 33
It is dry in fome Places : He likewife vifited
the other lefTer Banks, viz. Vert Bank, about
240 Miles long, and 120 Miles over, and the
Banquero Bank, lying in the Shape of a Shoe,
about the bignefs of the other : But the great-
eft Entertainment, and what feemed mod
worthy his Obfcrvation, was, the great Cod-
Fifhery which is carried on about the Great
and other Banks near the Coaft -, for which
Purpofe, during his Stay there, he faw feveral
Hundred Ships come in from divers Parts,
both of America and Europe, fo that he had
an Opportunity of gaining fome Knowledge
of a confiderable Part of the World by his
Enquiries, he miffing no Opportunity of con-
verfing with the Sailors of different Countries :
He was told, feveral of thefe Ships carried
away thirty or thirty-five Thoufand Fifh.
a- piece -, and though this yearly Confumption
has been made for two Centuries paft, yet the
fame Plenty of Fifh continues, without any
Diminution. *
D He
* Almort every one has an Opportunity of obferving the prodi-
gious Number of Eggs or Spawn in fome Sorts of Fifhes ; but
what can the n iked Eyedifcern in Companion of what M. Leewcn-
lirck difcovered by the Affiltance of his excellent Microfcopes ?
This Gentleman examining the Spawn of a Cod Fifh, took one of
tin. Hairs of his Head, which through the Glafs appeared to hi
In Inch broad, and placing; it near the Ar.hr.alculs, contained in
the Spawn, lie found that at leart tixry of them would lie within
its Diameter. This being fuppofed, and rhtir Eodies allowed to
be, as they are, fpherical, M. Lee-A >tfiide, * computed that 216000
of fhem are equal to a Globe whofe Axis does not exceed a Tingle
Hair** Breadth. M Fait lound 342144. Eggs in the hard Roe of
a
34 An Apology for the Life of
He obferved tfrat there are two Sorts of
fait Cod, the one called Green or White, the
other Dried, or Cured •, but they are both the
fame Fifh, only differently prepared. The
beft, largeft, and fatteft Cod, are thofe taken
on the South Side of the Great Bank ; and the
beft Seafon is from the Beginning of February
to the End of April, for then the Cod, which
during the Winter had retired to the deeper!:
Parts of the Sea, return to the Bank, and grow
very fat. Thofe caught from March to June
keep well enough •, which cannot be faid of
thofe taken in July, Auguft, and September.
An experienced Filherman, though he only
takes one Fifh at a Time, will catch three
Hundred and fifty, or four Hundred in a
Day, but not often fo many, for it is very fa-
tiguing Work, both on Account of the Weight
of the Fifh, and the Cold that reigns about
the Bank. When the Heads of the Fifh are
cut off, their Bellies opened, and the Guts
taken out, the Salter (on whofe Ability and
Care the Succefs of the Voyage chiefly de-
pends) ranges them in the bottom of the Vef-
fel, and having made a Layer thereof a Fa-
thom or two fquare, he covers it with Salt ;
over
a Carp eighteen Inches long; but M. Leeivcnkoeck only found
211629 Eggs in one of thofe Fifties. What is moft to our Pur-
* pofe, however, the lalt mentioned curious Enquirer into the Se-
crets of Nature, tells us, that a Cod contains 9,34.4.000 Eggs.
Who can help ftanding amazed at this prodigious Fertility, un-
doubtedly defined by Providence to prefcrve the Species from be-
ing entirely destroyed by any Accidents or Enemies whatfoever
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 35
over this he lays another, and covers it as be-
fore -, and thus difpofes all the Fifh of one
Day, taking Care never to mix the Fifh of
different Days together. When the Cod have
thus laid to drain for three or four Days, they
are moved into another Part of the Veffel,
and faked a fecond Time ; and this is all the
Preparation thefe green Fifh undergo.
The principal Fifhery for Cod intended to
be dried, is along the Southern Coafl of New-
foundland, where there are feveral commodious
Ports to carry the Fifh a-fhore •, and though
the Fifh are fmaller here than at the Bank, on
that Account they are the fitter to keep, and
the Salt penetrates them the better. As Cod
are only to be dried in the Sun, the' ^European
Veflels are obliged to put to Sea in March or
April, in order to have the Benefit of the Sum-
mer for drying. Some Veffels indeed are fent
in June and July, but thofe only purchafe Fifh
already prepared by the Englijh fettled in New-
foundland, giving them Meal, Brandy, Bif-
cuit, Pulfe, Linen, &c. in Exchange.
When the Ships arrive in the Spring, and
have fixed upon a Station, fome of the Crew
build a Stage or Scaffold on 'Shore, whilft the
reft are fifhing, and as faft as they catch their
Fifh, they land them, open them, and fait
them on moveable Benches -, but the main
Salting is performed on the Scaffold. As foon
as the Fifh have taken Salt, they wafh them,
and then lay them in Piles to drain. When
D 2 drained,
36 . An Apology for the Life of
drained, they range them on Hurdles, Head-
to Tail •, and whilft they lie thus, they turn
them four Times every four and twenty
Hours. As they begin to dry, they lay them
in Heaps, of ten or twelve a-piece, and con-
tinue to enlarge the Heaps every Day, till they
are double their firft Bulk. At length they
join two of thefe Heaps together, and turn
them every Day as before. Laftly, they fait
them over again, beginning with thofe that
had been faked firft, and then lay them in
large Piles as big as Hay-Stacks. Thus they
remain till they are carried a Ship- board, where
they are laid on Branches of Trees, difpofed
for that Purpofe at the Bottom of the VefTel,
with Mats all round, to prevent their contract-
ing any Moifture. Befides the Fifh itfelf,
there are other Commodities obtained from it,
viz. the Tripes and Tongues, which are falted
at the fame Time with the Fifh, and put up
in Barrels ; the Roes, or Eggs, which being
falted and barrelled up, are of Ufe to caft into
the Sea, to draw Fifh together, particularly
Pilchards ; and the Oil, which is drawn from
the Livers, is ufed in drefling of Leather.
The fifning Seafbn being over, and our
Hero having made all the Obfervations that
he thought might be ufeful to him, returned
again in the Manfail to Dartmouth^ from
whence he had firft failed, bringing with him
a furprifing fierce and large Dog, which he
had enticed to follow him, and made as gentle
as
Mr, Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 37
as a Lamb by an Art which is peculiar to
himfelf. Our Hero was received with great
Joy by his Fellow Gypjies, and they were loud
in his Praifes, when they underftood he had
undertaken this Voyage to enable him to de-
ceive their Enemies with the greater Succefs.
He accordingly, in a few Days, went out
on a Cruize in the Character of a Ship-wreck'd
Seaman, loft in a VefTel homeward-bound
from Newfoundland^ fometimes belonging to
Pool) fometimes to Dartmouth, at other Times
to other Ports, and under fuch or fuch Com-
mander, according as the News Papers gave
Account of fuch melancholy Accidents.
If the Booty he got before under this Cha-
racter was confiderable, it was much more fo
now, for being able to give a very exact Ac-
count of Newfoundland, the Settlements, Har-
bours, Fifhery, and Inhabitants thereof, he ap-
plied with great Confidence to Mailers of
VefTels, and Gentlemen well acquainted with
thofe Parts •, fo that thofe whom before his
Prudence would not permit him to apply to,
now became his greateft Benefactors, as the
perfect Account he gave of the Country en-
gaged them to give Credit to all he afferted,
and made them very liberal in his Favour.
Think it no Difgrace, gentle Reader, if we
imagine thou may'ft here draw fome Inftru-
ctions from the Example of our Hero : Re-
member the Bee draws Honey from the moft
bitter, as well as from the fweeteft Flowers > 9
D 3 and
'38 An Apology for the Life of
and here thou may'ft fee, of what great Ef-
ficacy, Induftry, and Knowledge, is in every
ProfefTion, and that thy Succefs in Life will
be generally in Proportion to thy Attain-
ments in thefe ; therefore, of whatever Pro-
fefTion thou art, fit not down content with a
moderate or common Share of Knowledge in
it, but each Day make fome further Progrefs v
till thou reacheft the Summit of the Hill ; for
he who but flops in the middle, is in great
Danger of running back again what he has
already pafled over : Therefore let us advife
thee, like our Hero* to think no Trouble
too great to be perfect in thy Profefiion, and
then thou may'ft aflure thyfelf of the like
Succefs.
CHAP.
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. ^
G H A P. IV.
Mr. Carew accidentally falls in Love, with Mifs
G y, 0/Newcaftle; what Kind of Love
it was *, a Comparifon between it and Mr. .
Thomas Jones 's ; he declares his Paffion to
Mifs G y and fucceeds by the Ajfiftanee
of a late will-known eloquent Advocate;
fome Account of this Gentleman ; he per-
fuades Mifs G y to leave her Father's
Houfe^ and to go on board Captain L n's
Vefjel : They land at Dartmouth, from
whence they proceed to Bath, where their.
Nuptials are celebrated with a great, deal of
Splendor and Gaiety.
T was about this Time that our
Hero became fenfible of the
Power of Love,, we mean of
that Sort, which has more of
the Mind than the Body, and
is tender, delicate,, and conftant 3j the Objecl.of
which remains conftantly fixed in the Mind,
like the Arrow in the wounded Deer, and
that
40 An Apology for the Life of
that will not admit of any Partner with it. It
was in the Town of Newcajlle, fo famous for
its Coal Works (which our Hero vifited out
of Curiofity, appearing there undifguifed, and
making a very genteel Appearance) that he
became enamour'd with the Daughter of Mr.
G y, an eminent Apothecary and Surgeon
there : This young Lady had Charms per-
haps equal to any of her Sex •, and we might
in that Stile, which one who entitles himfelf^fl
Author of the Firft Rate, calls the Sublime,
fay, " Here was Whitenefs which no Lillies,
44 Ivory, nor Alabafter could match. The
" fineft Cambric might be fuppofed from
" Envy to cover that Bofom, which was
" much whiter than itfelf," * and other
Things of the fame Kind, but we muft con-
fefs we always feel a cold Horror moot thro'
our Limbs, at the reading of this puerile Su-
blime, (and we make no Doubt but many
other Readers do the fame) as it greatly tends
Infandum renovare Dolorem, to make our Hearts
ache, by putting us in Mind of what our Pof-
tcriors have fuffered for it at School. We
lhall therefore content ourfelves with faying
this young Lady had Charms fufficient to cap-
tivate the Heart of any Man, not unfufcepti-
ble of Love -, and they made fo deep an Im-
preffion upon our Hero that they wholly ef-
faced every Object, which before had created
any
* See Hiftory of Tm Jonei, i Vol. Page x$3.
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 4r
any Defires in him, and never permitted any-
other to raife them afterwards :, for wonderful
to tell ! we have, after above thirty Years En-
joyment, feen him lament her occafional Ab-
sence almoft with Tears, and talk of her with
all the Fondnefs of one who has been in Love
but three Days ; fo that had the incompara-
ble * Molly Seagrim ftarted up before him in
her
* In Page a8f., of the fit ft Volume of the Hiftory of Tern Jones,
wrote purely to racommend Goodnefs and Innocence, the Youth of
both Sexes may read as follows :
*' Mr. Jones- (being deeply in Love with Mifs Sophia JViftern)
i* retired from Company into the Fields, and coming into a moit
" delicious Grove , in a Scene fo fweetly accommodated to Love,
u he meditated on his dear Sophia.*' While his wanton Fancy
roved unbounded over all her Beauties, and his lively Imagination
painted the charming Maid in various ravifning Forms, his warm
Heart melted with Tendernefs, and at length throwing himfelf on
the Ground, by the Side of a gentle murmuring Brook, he broke
forth into the following Ejaculation.
1 O Sophia, would Heaven give thee to my Arms, how Weft
' would be my Condition ? Curft be that Fortune which fets a Di-
* ftance between us. Was 1 butpoffeded of thee, one only Suit of
* Rags thy whole Eftate, is there a Man on Earth whom I would
' envy ! How contemptible would the brighteft Cir.cajfian Beauty,
' dreft in all the Jewels of the Indies, appear to my Eyes ! But why
' do I mention another Woman ? Couid 1 think my Eyes capable cf
' looking at any other with Tendernefs, thefe Hand* fhould tear
1 them from my Head. No, my Sophia, if cruel Fortune feparates
' us for ever, my Soul fhall doat on thee alone. The chafteft Con-
1 flancy will I ever preferve to thy Image. Though I fhould never
' have Poffeffion of thy charming Ferfon, ftill fhalt thou alone have
' Poffeffion of my Thoughts, my Love, my Soul. Oh ! my fond
« Heart is fo wrapt in that tender Bofom, that the brighteft Beau-
* ties would for me have no Charms, nor would a Hermit be colder,
« in their Embraces. Sophia, Sophia alone (hall be mine. What
' Raptures are in that Name ! I will engrave it on every Tree*''
At thefe Words he ftarted up, and beheld not his Sophia— ~
no, nor a Circaj/ian Maid richly and elegantly attired for the Grand
Signior's Seraglio. No, without a Gown, in a Shift that was
fomewhat of the coarfeft, and none of the cleaneft, bedewed like-
wife with fome odoriferous Effluvia, the Produce of the Day's.
Labour,.
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her dirty and fweaty Shift, had the famous
Mrs. Waters * laid in the fame Houfe with
him, or had the lafcivious Lady Bellafton, f
with her (linking Breath, tempted him with
the largefl Rewards to be her Stallion, we are
perfuaded he could have rejected either of
thefe Temptations with Scorn and Indigna-
tion ; for his Love was fo delicate, that he
thought any Thing unbecoming of it, was as
fhameful in the Abfence of the beloved ObjecT:,
as if it was committed before her Eyes ; and
he was a little too much above the Brute, (at
the fame Time his Affections were flrongly
engaged
Labour, with a Pitchfork in her Hand, Mofty Seagrim approached.
Our Hero had his Penknife in his "Hand, which he dad drawn for
the before-mentioned Purpofe of carving on the Bark j when the
Girl coming near him, cry'd out with a Smile, * You don't in-
* tend to kill me, 'Squire, 1 hope.* * Why mould you think I
* would kill you, anfwered Jones.'' Nay, replied (he, after your.
' cruel Ufage of me, when I faw you laft, killing me would, per-
* haps, be too great Kindnefs for me to expecl.'
Here enfued a Parly, which, as I do not think myfelf obliged
to relate, I (hall omit. It is fufficient that it lafted a full Quarter
of an Hour, at the Conclufion of which they retired into the
Chicked Part cf the Grove.
* This was a L?»dy who had run away from her Hufband, Capt.
Waters, with a profligate young Erifign, who afterwards attempted
to rob her ; but Jones accidentally coming by, refcued her and con-
dueled her to an Inn ; and though he was (till as much as ever in
Love' with his dear Sophia, yet he thought proper to accept of
the Favour of Part of Mrs.' Waters'* Bed, which (he generoufly
offered him in Return for the Valour he had (hewn in her Refcue.
See the 7th Chapter of the zd Volume, and the ift of the 3d of
the Hiftory of "Tom Jones. ,
T This was a fhamefully amorous old Lady, whom Mr. Jones
was fo complaifant to, as to become her Stallion, notwithftand-
ing her Age and ltinking Breath. Sec the laft Chapter of the
3d Volume, and the 2d and 3d Chapters of the 4th Volume of the
Hiftory of lom Jones,
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 43
engaged upon a lovely Object) * u to think
" any Woman better than none." We flatter
ourfelves, that the fondeft Admirers of Tom
Jones, will not fcruple to give the Laurel to
our Hero in this Place, for it is well known to
all the Readers of the incomparable Hiftory
of Mr. Jones, that he eafily and without Re-
luctance gave way to all thefe Temptations,
when he was molt deeply enamour'd of the
adoreable Mil's Sophia Weft em. But to return :
Our Hero tried all Love's foft Perfuafions
with his Fair one in an honourable Way ; and
as his Perfbn was very engaging, and his Ap-
pearance genteel, he did not find her greatly
averfe to his Propofals. As he was aware that
his being of the Community of the Gyp/ies
might prejudice her againft him without Exa-
mination, he pafTed with her for the Mate of
a Collier's Veffel, in which he was fupported
by Captain L n of Dartmouth, an old Ac-
quaintance of our Hero's, who then com-
manded a VefTel lying at Newcaftle, and ac-
knowledged him for his Mate. Thefe AfTer-
tions fatisfied the young Lady very well, and
fhe at length confented to exchange the tender
Care and Love of a Parent for that of a Huf-
band. The Reader perhaps may be furprized
that fhe did not make any further Enquiries
concern-
* This is the Reafon given for Mr. Jones's retiring into the
thickeft Part of the Grove with Molly Siagrim, vix. becaufe
he probably thought one Woman better than none.— ———Sec
Page 290.
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concerning him •, it is therefore necefiary we
fliould inform him, that our Hero had en-
gaged on his Side a very eloquent and per-
fuafive Advocate or Counfellor, (for we know
not which Denomination mod properly be-
longs to him) one who though ftill beardlefs,
exifted as foon as the firfb Woman was created,
and has had ever fince, (till within this laft
Century) very great Practice in the Bufinefs of
uniting both Sexes for Life •, but of late Years
a -neighbouring Counfellor, named Self- Inter eft ,
has by under-hand Dealings, falfe Insinuations,
and mean Suggestions, taken away the greateft
Part of his Bufinefs, fo that he is feldom re-
tained on either Side. Our Hero, however,
engaged him in his Service, and he pleaded fo
ftrongly for him with the young Lady, that
he removed all her Objections, and filenced
all her Scruples, and at laft perfuaded her to
leave her Home, and venture on board Capt.
L n's VeiTel with her Dover ; for though
this Counfellor, according to a very good Pi-
cture of him, drawn by a famous Mafter,
has more of the wanton roguifh Smiles of a
Boy in his Countenance, than the Formality,
Wifdom and Gravity of thofe Counfellors,
which thou haft perhaps feen in Weftminfter-
Hall •, and never wore one of thofe ponderous
Perukes which are fo efTential to the Know-
ledge, Wifdom, and Eloquece of thofe Gen-
tlemen -, yet we are allured none of them ever
equalled him in perfuafive Arguments, remov-
ing
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 45
ing of Difficulties, and filencing of Doubts, for
he indeed differed fomething in Practice from
moil of the Counfellors we ever heard of ; for
as thefe are very apt to puzzle and perplex their
Clients by their Anlwers, and make intricate
what was plain before, on the contrary, the
Gentleman we are fpeaking of, had a wonder-
ful Faculty of making the greatefl Difficulties
plain and eajy 9 and always anfwered every Ob-
jection and Scruple to the entire Satisfaction of
his Client.
The Lover and his Fair one being on board,
they foon hoifted Sail, and the very Winds
being willing to favour thefe two happy Lo-
vers, they had an exceeding quick PafTage to
Dartmouth^ where they landed. Our Hero
being now no longer able to conceal his being
a Member of the Community of the Gypftes y
after fome previous Introductions, declared it
to the young Lady, who was not a little fur-
priz'd and troubled at it ; but the Counfellor
we have already fpoken of, being near at
Hand, foon compos' d her Mind, by fuggeft-
ing to her the worthy Family her Lover was
fprung from -, that the Community of the Gyp-
fies was more happy and lefs difrepu table than
fhe imagined ; that the Per/on of her Lover
was quite amiable, and that he had Good Na-
ture and Love enough to make her happy in
any Condition.
As
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As thefe Suggeftions entirely fatisfied her, the
Lovers in a few Days fet out for Bath, where
they lawfully folemnized their Nuptials, with
great Gaiety and Splendor, and were thofe two
Perfons whom the old Standers at Bath muft
needs remember to have made fuch an Eclat
about thirty Years ago, though no Body at
that Time could conjecture who they were y
which was the Occafion of much Speculation
and many falfe Surmifes.
We cannot conclude this Chapter, but with
the deferved Praifes of our Hero, from whofe
Mouth we have had repeated AfTurances, that
during their Voyage to Dartmouth, and their
Journey from thence to Bath, not the leaft
Indignity was offered to the Innocence or Mo-
dejly of his dear Mifs Gray.
C H A P.
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 47
G H A P. V.
Mr Carew and his Bride leave Bath ; a Di-
greffion in Honour of the Inventor of the Game
f E O •, their Appearance at Briftol ;
their Departure from thence, and Vifit to an
Uncle of Mr. Carew' s in Hampfhire •, the
Offers made him by his Uncle to quit the Com-
munity of the Gypfies \ his Departure from
his Uncle* s ; appears in different Characters \
pays afeccnd Vifit to Bath *, the different Re-
ception he met with there from what he had
before: His Adventures with the Duke of
Bolton, Sir William Courtenay, Mr. Port-
man, Col. Strangways, and many others.
U R Lovers began to be at
length weary of the fame re-
peated Rounds of Pleafures at
Bath •, for at that Time the Wit
of Man had not reached fo high
as the Invention of that moft charming, enter-
taining, never cloying Diver/ion called E O,
which feems referved amongft the Secrets of
E 2 Fate
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Fate to do Honour to the prefent Age -, for,
upon the niceft Scrutiny, we are quite convin-
ced it is entirely new, and cannot find the leaft
Traces of its being borrowed from any Na-
tion under the Sun •, for though we have with
great Fains and Labour enquired into all the
Games and Diver/ions of the Antients, though
we have follow'd the untutor'd Indians through
all their Revels, and though we have accurate-
ly examined into the dull Pleafures of the un-
couth Hottentots^ yet in all thefe we find either
fome Marks of Ingenuity to exercife and re-
frefli the Mind, or fomething of Labour to in-
vigorate the Body : We therefore could not
help interrupting our Hiftory, to do Honour to
this truly original Game.
Our Lovers having left Bath, vifited next
the City of Brijlol, where they ftay'd fome
Time, and caufed more Speculation there, than
they had before done at Bath, and did as much
Damage to that City, as the famous Lucullus
did at Rome, on his Return from his victorious
Expeditions ; for we have fome Reafon to
think they firft introduced the Love of Drefs
and Gaiety amongfl thofe plain and frugal Ci-
tizens : After fome Stay here, they made a
Tour round Somerfet and Berfet into Hamp-
flrire, where they paid a Vifit to an Uncle of
our Hero's, living then at Porchejler, near Gof-
port, who was a Clergyman of diftinguifhed
Merit and Character : Here they were re-
ceived with great Politenefs and Hoipkalky,
and
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 49
and abode a confiderable Time : His Uncle
took this Opportunity 1 of making Ufe of every
Argument to perfuade him to quit the Com-
munity of the Gypfies •, but our Hero was fo
thoroughly fixed in his Principles, that even
that Argument which oftentimes convinces Pa-
triots in a few Hours, that all they /aid and,
did before, was wrong, that Kings have a di-
vine Right to grind the Faces of their Sub-
jects, and that Power which lays its Iron
Hands on Nabal's goodly Vineyard, and fays,
this is mine, for fo I will, is preferable to hea-
venly Liberty, which fays to every Man, pof-
fefs what is thine own, reap what thou hail
/own, gather what thou haft planted, eat, drink,
and lie down fecure : Even this powerful Ar-
gument had no Effect upon our Hero -, for
though his Uncle made him very lucrative
Offers for the prefent, and future Promifes of
making him Heir to all his Poffefilons, yet re-
membering his Engagements with the Gypfics,
he rejected them all, and reflecting now that
he had long Hv'd ufelefs to that Community,
he began to prepare for his Departure from his
Uncle's, iri order to make foine Excurfions on
the Enemy ; and to do this with more Effect,
he bethought* himfelf of a new Stratagem : He
therefore equips himfelf in a long loofe black
Gown,' puts on a Band, a large white Peruke,
and a "broad brimm'd Hat: His whole Deport-
ment was agreeable to his Drefs ; his Pace was
folcnin ^and flow, his Countenance thoughtful
E 3 and
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and grave, his Eyes turn'd on the Ground,
but now and then raifed in feeming Ejacula-
tions to Heaven , in every Look and Action
he betray'd his Want, but at the fame Time
feemed overwhelmed with that Shame which
modeft Merit feels, when its obliged to folli-
cit the cold Hand of Charity : This Behaviour
excited the Curiofity of many Gentlemen,
Clery, &c. to enquire into the Circumftances
of his Misfortunes •, but it was with Difficulty
they could engage him to relate them, it being
with much feeming Reluctance that he ac-
quainted them with his having exercifed for
many Years the facred Office of a Clergyman
at Abberufiuth^ a Parifh in Wales* but that the
Government changing, he had preferred quit-,
ting his Benefice (though he had a Wife and
feveral fmall Children) to taking an Oath con-
trary to his Principles and Confcience* This
Relation he accompanied with frequent Sighs,,
deep Marks of Admiration of the Ways of
Providence* and warm Expreflions of his firm
Truft and Reliance. in its Goodnefs and Faith-
fulnefs* with high Encomiums on the inward
Satisfaction of a good Confcience : When he
difcourfed with any Clergyman, or other Per-,
fon of Literature, he would now and then
introduce fome Latin and Greek Sentences,
that were applicable to what he was talking
of, which gave his Hearers a high Opinion of
his Learning : All this, and his thoro' Know-
ledge of thofe Perfons whom it was proper to
apply
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 51
apply to, made this Stratagem fucceed even
beyond his own Expectations. But now hear-
ing of a VefTcl bound to Philadelphia, on board
of which were many Quakers, being caft away
on the Coaft of Ireland, he laid afide his Gown,
CafTock, and Band, cloaths himlelf in a plain
Suit, pulls the Button from his Hat, and flaps
it on every Side : His Countenance was now
demure, his Language unadorned with any
Flowers of Speech, and the Words You and
Sir he feemed to hold in Abomination -, his
Hat was moved to none, for though under
Misfortunes, he would not think of bowing,
the Knee to Baal
With thefe Qualifications he addrefled him-
felf to Perfons ol the Denomination of Qua-
kers with great Succefs ( for indeed it were to-
be wijhed that all other Sects would imitate them
in their Readinefs to relieve thei^ Brethren,)
and hearing that there was to be a great Meet-
ing of them from all Parts, at a Place called
c thcrncombe, in Bevo?ifhire, he makes the befb
of his Way there, and with a demure Look,
and modeft AfTurance, enters into the AiTe'm-
bly, where no iking his Cafe known, and fatis-
fying them by his Behaviour, of his being one
of their Sect, they made a very confiderable
Contribution for his Relief.
So active was the Mind of our Hero that he
was never more happy than when engaged in
fome Adventure or other •, therefore, wnen he
had no Opportunity of putting any great
Strata-
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Stratagem in Execution, would amufe himfelf
with thofe which did not require fo great a
Share of Art and Ingenuity : Whenever he
heard of any melancholy Accident by Fire, he
immediately repaired to the Place where it
happened, and there remarking very accurate-
ly the Spot, enquiring into the Caufe of it, and
getting an exacl: Information of the Trades,
Characters, Families, and Circumjlances of the
unhappy Sufferers, he immediately affumed the
Perfon and Name of one of them, and burn-
ing fome Part of his Coat or Hat, as an occu-
lar Demonjlration of his narrow Efcape, he
makes the beft of his Way to Places at fome
Diftance, and there pafTes for one who had .
been burnt out •, and, to gain the greater Cre- ,
dit, fhewed a Paper figned with the Names of
feveral Gentlemen, in the Neighbourhood of
the Place where the Fire happened, recom-
mending him as an honed unhappy Sufferer ;
by which he got confiderable Gains : Under
this Character he had once the Boldnefs to ad-
drefs Juflice Hull of Exmouth in Devon, the
Terror and profeffed Enemy of every Order of
the Gypfies ; however, our Hero fo artfully
managed, though he went through a ftricl Exa-
mination that he at laft convinced his Worfhip
that he was an honeft Miller, whofe Houfe,
Mill, and whole Subftance had been confumed
by Fire, occafioned by the Negligence of an
Apprentice Boy, and was accordingly relieved
as iiich by the Juflice : .With fo wonderful
Facility
Mr. Btmpfylde-Moore Carew. 53
Facility did he afllime every Character, and
metamorphize himfelf into every Shape, that
he often deceived thofe who were the mod
acquainted with him, and were the mod po-
fitive of his not being able to impofe upon
them. Coming one Day to 'Squire Pcrtmarfs
at Brinfon, near Blandford, in the Character of
a Ratcatcher, with a Hair Cap on his Head,
a Buff Girdle about his Waite, and a tame
Rat in a little Box by his Side, he boldiy
marched up to the Houfe in this Difguife,
though his Perfon was well known to the Fa-
mily, and meeting in the Court with Mr.
Portman, the Rev. Mr. Bryant, and feveral
other Gentlemen, whom he well knew, but did
not fufpecT: he fhould be known by them, he
accofted them as a Rat-catcher, afking, If
their Honours had any Rats to kill ? Do you
underftand your Bufinefs well? replies Mr.
Penman : Yes, and pleafe your Honour, I
have followed it many Years, and have been
employed in his Majefty's Yards and Ships :
Well, go in and get ibmething to eat, and af-
ter Dinner we will try your Abilities.
Our Hero was accordingly placed at the fe-
cond Table to Dinner, and very handfomely
entertained ♦, after which he was called into a
great Parlour, among a large Company of
Gentlemen and Ladies. Well, honed Rat-
catcher, fays Mr. Portman, can you lay any
Scheme to kill the Rats without hurting my
Dogs ? Yes, yes, replies Mr. Carew % I mall
lay
54
who were fo) and acquainted them with the
Favours he had received from his Grace the
Duke of Bolton : The Gentlemen having fuch.
ocular Demonflration of the Duke's Liberality,,
treated him with great Complaifance and Re-
fpecl,. and relieved him very generoufly not
prefuming to offer any fmall Alms to one
whom the Duke of Bolton had thought fo
worthy
Mr. Bampfylde-Moorc Carew. 6$
worthy of Notice. In the fame Manner, and
with the iame Succefs, he vifited Lord Arun-
dle, Sir Edward Bouverie, and many other Gen-
tlemen in the Counties of Wilts, Dorfet, and
Somtrfet : Coming into Devoiifloire, his native
County, he vifited all his Friends and mofb
intimate Acquaintance, and was relieved by
them, not one of them difcovcring this unfor-
tunate Supercargo to be Mr . Bampfylde-Moore
Carew. Being one Morning near the Seat of
his great Friend, Sir William Courtenay, he
was refolved to pay him three Vifits that Day :
He goes therefore to a Houfe frequented by
his Order, and there pulls off his fine Cloaths,
and puts on a parcel of Rags : In this Drefs
he moves towards Sir William's •, there, with
a piteous Moan, a difmal Countenance, and
deplorable Tale, he got half a Crown of that
Gentleman as a Man who had met with Mif-
fortunes at Sea : At Noon he put on a Lea-
ther Apron, a Coat which feemed fcorched
by the Fire, and with a- dejected Countenance
applies again,, and was relieved as an unfortu-
nate Shoemaker, who had been burnt out of
his Houfe and all he had : In the Afternoon
he goes again in his trimm'd Cloaths, and de-
firing Admittance to Sir William, with a mo-
deft Grace and fubmiftive Eloquence, he re-
peats his Misfortunes as a Supercargo of a
Veflfel which had been caft away, and his whole
Effects loft; at the fame Time mentioning
the Kindnefs he had received from his Grace
the
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the Duke of Bolton. Sir William feeing his
genteel Appearance and Behaviour, treated
him with that Refpect which the truly Great
will always pay to thofe who fupplicate their
Amftance, and generoufly relieved him, pre-
ferring him with a Guinea at his Departure.
There happened to be at that Time a great
Number of the neighbouring Gentlemen* and
Clergy at Dinner with Sir William? not one
of whom difcovered who this Supercargo
was, except the Rev. Mr. Ricbards y who
did not make it known till he was gone ;
upon which Sir Willia?n difpatched a Servant
after him, to defire him to come back : When
he entered the Room again, Sir William, and
the reft of the Company, were very merry with
him, and he was defired to fit down, and give
them an Account by what Stratagem he had
got all his Finery, and what Succefs he had
with it, which he did •, after which he afk'd
Sir William, If he had not heft owed half a
Crown that Morning on a Beggar, and about
Noon relieved a poor unfortunate Shoemaker ?
I remember, reply'd Sir William, that Ibeftow'd
fuch an Alms on a poor ragged naked Wretch :
Well, fays Mr. Carew. that poor ragged naked:
Wretch was no other than the Supercargo now
before you. Sir William fcarcely crediting this,
Mr. Carew withdrew and putting on the fame
Rags, comes again with the fame piteous
Moan, the fame difmal Countenance, and the
fame deplorable Tale as he had done in the-
Mora-
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Morning, which fully convinced Sir William
that he was the fame Man, and occafion'd no
little Diverfion to the Company-, he was in-
troduced again, and feated amongft them in
his Rags -, Sir William being one of the few
who pay a greater Regard to the Man than
the Drefs, can difcern and fupport Merit un-
der Rags, and defpife Poverty of Soul and
Worthleflheis under Embroidery : But not-
withstanding the Succefs of this Stratagem,
our Hero has always look'd upon it as one
of the mofl unfortunate of his whole Life ;
for after he had been at Sir William's, as above-
mentioned, coming to Stoke Gabriel near Tot-
nefs, on a Sunday, and having done that, which
difcovered the Nakednefs of Noah, he went to
the Rev. Mr. OJhorn, the Minifter of the Pa-
rim, and rcquefted the Thankfgiving of the
Church for a wonderful Prefervation of him-
felf and Ship's Crew in the imminent Danger
of a violent Tempeft of Thuncler and Light-
ening, which deftroyed the Veffel they were
aboard of: Though Mr, Ojborn knew Mr.
Carew very well, yet he had no Sufpicion of
its being him in Difguife, therefore readily
granted his Requeft •, and not only fo, but re-
commending him to his Parifhoners, a hand-
fome Collection was made for him by the Con-
gregation, which he had Generofity enough to
diftribute afterwards amongft the Poor of the
Parifh, referving but a very fmall Part to
himfelf : Though this was bringing Good out
of
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of Evil, yet he Hill fpeaks of this Action (af-
ter above thirty Years Elapfe fince the Com-
mirTion) with the greateft Regret and Com-
punction of Mind ; for he is fenfible, that tho*
he can deceive Man, he cannot deceive God,
whofe Eye penetrates into every Place, and
marks all our Actions ; and is a Being too
Reverend and awful to be jefted with.
As Ambition of excelling in his ProfefTion,
is the ruling Paflion in our Hero's Breaft, no-
thing affords him greater Pleafure than his be-
ing able to deceive thofe who are moil confi-
dent of their Penetration. Having fpent fome
Days in Hunting with the late Colonel Strang-
ways at Melbury, in Dorfet, the Converfatiort
happening one Day at Dinner to turn on Mr.
Careitfs Ingenuity and ftrange Metamorpho-
fes, and the above being related, the Colonel
feem'd furpriz'd that Sir William Courtenay,
who was fo well acquainted with our Hero,
fhould be deceived by him, afTerting That he
thought it impofiible for Mr. Carew to deceive
him under any Difguife, as he had fo tho-
roughly obferved every Feature and Line in,
his Countenance -, our Hero modeftly replied,
it might be fo, and fome other Subject being
ftarted, the Matter dropp'd. The next Morn-
ing early, Mr. Carew being call'd upon to go
out with the Hounds, defired to be excufed,
as he had been very much out of Order, and
had not flept the whole Night, therefore would
try to take a Morning's Nap : The Colonel
being
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carcw. 6$
4being inform'd of this,approv'd of his Refolu-
tion, and went to the Field without him •, foon
after Mr. Carew comes down Stairs, faying he
could not deep, therefore would try what a
little Walk would do : He then flightly en-
quired which Way the Colonel generally re-
turned ? Having got all the Information he
defired in this Refpect, he prefently marches
forth, and making the bell of his Way to a
Houfe frequented by his Community, he ex-
. changed his Cloaths for a poor ragged Habir,
.and his Legs for a Pair of Crutches, making
a Counterfeit Wound * in his Thigh, and dif-
guifmg his Countenance by a venerable Pity
moving grey Beard, and fome other Altera-
.tions, he fets forward to meet the Colonel,
which he accordingly did in the Town of
Ever/hot : His lamentable Moans began al-
moil as foon as the Colonel was in Sight ; his
Countenance exprefs'd nothing but agonizing
Pain, and Heart-felt Sorrow; his ghaflly
Wound was expofed in the fulleft Light to the
Colonel's Eye, and the Tears trickling down
his Silver Beard. As the Colonel's Heart was
.not made of that flinty Stuff which can un-
mov'd hear the Wailings, and fee the Miferies
of a Fellow Creature, he prefently flings this
miferable Object Half a Crown, who receives
it with exuberant Gratitude, and then with
great Submiilion tells this kind Stranger, Thai
G U
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70 An Apology for the Life >cf
he was informed a very charitable Gentleman
lived in that Neighbourhood^ called Colonel
Strangways, and that if he would direct him the
tiearejl Way to his Seat, it would be a very great
Kindnefs to him : The Colonel accordingly,,
with a greal deal of good Nature and Compaf-
fion for the miferable Creature, directed him
the fhorteft Way to his own Houfe : The
poor old Creature takes his Leave with a great
many Bleflings upon his Honour, and hops
away as fail as his Crutches would carry him,
making the beft of his Way to the Place he
had taken them up at, where he quickly finds
his Legs again, heals the Wound without any
Plaifler, lays afide his Beard without the Help
of a Barber, and putting on his own Cloaths
with as much Expedition as poffible, makes
the beft of his Way to the Colonel's, where he
arrived, greatly refrefhed with his Morning's
Walk, before the Colonel returned from Hunt-
ing ; who coming in foon after, was very glad
to find Mr. Carew up, and pretty well : When
they were fat down to Dinner, Mr. Carew en-
quired what Sport they had had, and if the Col.
had not met a very miferable Object of a Beg-
gar ? Aye, replies the Colonel, a very mifera-
ble Object indeed ; I gave him Haifa Crown;
lie look'd mod piteoufly, and had a very bad
Wound on his Thigh. Did you not direct
him here ? Yes, reply'd the Colonel, I did ;
and he got here before you too, replies Mr.
Carew. What, has the poor Wretch been
here ?
Mr. Bampfylcfe-Moore Carew. y\
Here ? Yes, yes, he has, and is now at Table
with your Honour. This occafioned a great-
deal of Mirth to the Company ; but the Co-
lonel would not be perfuaded of the Truth of
what Mr. Carew afTerted, till he flipp'd out
and hop'd in again upon his Crutches^
Think not, gentle Reader, thefe Deceptions
and Dijguifes incredible -, for if thou wilt look
into this great Theatre of the- World, thou-
may'ft. fee every Day far greater ; thou may'ft
fee bitter Hatred wear the cordial Smiles of
Friendfhip ; lafcivious- Wantonnejs put on the
fevere Brow of Modefty •, Corruption the An-
gel Face of Heaven-born Innocence-, thou
may'ft fee Cowardice concealed under terrible
Looks, and Faljhood drefs'd in the Robes of
Truth ; Fraud borrowing the Looks of her
greateft Enemy Honefty, and Opprejfwn balan-
cing the Scales of Juflice,
Q % C H A K
J z An Apology, for the Life of
CHAP. VI..
The Death of the KING of the Mendi-
cants, with his lafi gracious Speech to his
Subjects..
T was about this Time the good
old King of the Mendicants, *
named Claufe Patch, well known
in, the City of London, and moft.
Parts of England finifhed a Life
of true Glory, being fpent in promoting the
Welfare of his People. A little before his.
Death finding the Decays of Nature increafe
every Day, and his final Diffolution approach,.
he called, together all his Children, to the
Number of eighteen, and fummoned as many
of his Subje&s as were within any convenient
Diflance ; being willing that the laft Spark of
his Life fhould go out in the Service of his
People ; This Summons was obey'd with,
heavy
* Under this Title we comprehend the Community of the
Cyf>fes r as well - as every other QifcvGbMtn4icatits t vulgariy call'd
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 73 j
Heavy Hearts by his loving Subjects* and at
the Day and Place appointed a great Number
were arTembled together.
The venerable old King was brought in a
high Chair, and placed in the Midft of them,
his Children {landing next him, and his Sub-
jects behind them. Reader, if thou haft
ever feen that famous Picture of Seneca, *
bleeding to Death in the Bath, with his Friends
and Diiciples (landing round him, then may'ft
thou form fome Idea of this AJlembly. : Such*
was the lively Grief, fuch the profound Fenera-
tion, fuch the folemn Attention, that appeared
in every Countenance : But we can give thee
no adequate Idea of that inward Joy which the
good old King felt at feeing thefe unfeigned
Marks of Love in his Subjects, which he con-
fldered as fo many 'Tejiimonies of his own Vir-
tues ; for certain it is, that when Kings are the
Fathers of their People, their Subjects will have
for them more than the filial Love and Venera-
tion of Sons. The Mind of Man cannot con-
ceive any Thing fo auguft, and the Happinefs
of GOD can only equal' a King beloved by
his Subjects : Could Kings but tafte this Plea-
fure at their firft mounting the Throne, in-
ftead of drinking of the intoxicating Cup of
Power, we mould fee them confider their Sub-
jects as Children, and themfelves the Fathers to
G 3 . nourim^
• A Pi&ure in the Pofleflion of the Earl of Exeter, at his Seat
near Stamford in Lintolnflire,
74 dn Apology for the Life of
nourifh, inftrudt, and provide for them •, as
a Flock, and themfelves the Shepherds to bring
them to pleafant Paftures, refrefhing Streams,,
and lecure Folds*
For fome Time the King of the Mendicants
fat contemplating theie Emotions of his Sub-
jects, then bending forward, he thus addreffed
them.
Children and Frifnds,
R rather may I call you all my Chil-
dren, as I regard you all with a pa*
ternal Love, I have taken you from
your daily Employments, that you
may all eat and drink with me before I die.
I am not Courtier enough yet, however, to
make my Favours a Lofs to my Friends -, but
before you depart, the Books fhall be examin'd,
and every one of you fhall receive from my
privy Purfe the fame Sum that you made by
your Bufinefs this Day of the laft Week : Let
not this honeft Act of Generofity difpleafe my;
Heirs, it is the laft Wafte I fhall make of their
Stores •, the Reft of what 1 die pofTefs'd is.
their' s of Right,, but my Council, though di-
rected to them only, fhall be a public Good to
all. The good Succefs, my dear Children,,
with which it has pleafed Heaven to blefs my
Induftry in this our Calling, has given me
Power of beftowing one Hundred Pounds on
each of you, a fmall Fortune, but improvea-
ble - 9 and of molt Ufe, as it is a Proof that
every
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 75
every one of you may gain as much as the
whole, if your own Idlenefs or Vice prevent
not : Mark by what Means ! Our Communi-
ty, like People of all other Profeflions, live
upon the Neeeffities, the Pafiions,, or the Weak-
nefTes of their Fellow Creatures. The two .
great Paflions of the Human Breaft are Vani-
ty and Pity •, both thefe have great Power in
Men's Actions, but the firft the greater far,
and he who can attract thefe the moft fuccefs-
fully, will gain the largeft Fortune.
There was a Time v/hen Rules for doing,
this were of more Worth to me than Gold ;
but now I am grown, old T my Strength and
Senfes fail me, and I am paft being an Object
of Companion. A real Scene of Affliction
moves few Hearts to Pity •, dilTembled Wrctch-
ednefs is what moft reaches the Human-Mind,,
and I am paft diffembling. Take therefore
among you the Maxims I have laid down for
my own Guide, and ufe them with as much
Succefs as I have done.
Be not lefs Friends becaufe you are Brothers,,
er of the fame Profefiion ♦, the Lawyers herd
together in their Inns, the Doctors in their
College, the Mercers on Ludgaie-Hill^ and the
old Cloaths-men in Monmouth-Strcet : What
one has not among thefe, another has ; and
among you, the Heart of him who is not:
moved by one lamentable Object,, will proba-
bly be fo by another - y and that Charity which
was half awakened by the firft, will relieve a.
fecond
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fecond or a third, remember this, and always .
People a whole Street with Objedts fkilled in
Scenes of different Diftrefs, placed at proper
Diftances : The Tale that moves not one
Heart, may furprize the next ; the obdurate
Paffer by of the firft, muft be made of no Hu-
man Matter, if it feels no Part of the Diftrefs
that twenty different Tales have reaped to-
gether-, and be afiured, that where it is touched -
with a Kindred Misfortune,, it will beftow.
Rememberthat where ones gives out of Pity
to you, fifty give outof Kindnefs to themfelves,,
to rid them of your troublefome Application \
and for one that' gives out of real Companion,,
five Hundred do it our of Oftentation. On?
thefe Principles,, trouble People moft who are
moil bufy,, and afk Relief where many fee it
given, and you'll fucceed in your Attempt,
Remember that the Streets were made for Peo-
ple to walk, and not to converfe in ; keep up*
their ancient Ufe,- and whenever you fee two
or three gathered together, be you amongft
them, and let them not hear the Sound of their
own Voices, till they have bought off the
Noife of your's. When Self-love is thus fa-
tisfied, remember focial Virtue is the next Du-
ty, and tell- your- next Friend where he may-
go and obtain the fame Relief by the fame
Means
Trouble not yourfelves about' the Nobility,
Profperity has made them vain and infenfible •,
they cannot pity what they can never feel.
The
Mr. Bampfyfde-Moore Carew. yj
' The Talkers in the Street are to be tolerated
pa different Conditions, and at different Prices ;
if they are Tradefmen, their Converfation will
foon end, and may be well paid for by a
Halfpenny * if an Inferior clings to the Skirts
of a Superior, he will give Two-pence, rather
than be pull'd off ; and when you are happy-
enough to meet a Lover and his Miftreis, ne-
ver part with them under Six-pence,, for you
may be fure they will never part with one
another.
So much regards Communities of Men \
but when you hunt fingle, the great Game of
all is to be played. However you ramble in
the Day, befure to have fbme one Street near
your Home, where your chief Refidence is,
and all your idle Time is fpent. Here learn
the Hiftory of every Family, and whatever has
been the latefl Calamity of that, provide a Bro-
ther or a Sifter that may pretend the fame.
If the Mailer of one Houfe has loft a Son, let
your elcleft Brother attack his Companion on
that tender Side and tell him that he has loft
the fweeteft, hopefulleft, and dutifulleft Child
that was his only Comfort ! What mould the
Anfwer be,, but aye r poor Fellow I know how
to pity thee in that, and a Shilling will be in as
much hafte to flow out of his Pocket as the
firft Tear from his Eye.
Is the Mafter of a fecond Houfe Tick, way-
lay his Wife from Morning to Night, and tell
her you will pray Morning, Noon, and Night.
for
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for his Recovery. If he dies, Grief is the
reigning Pamon for the firft Fortnight, let him
have been what he would •, Grief leads natu-
rally to Companion, fo let your Sifter thruft
a Pillow under her Coats, and tell her ihe is *
poor difconfolate Widow left with feven frnsdl
Children, and that ihe loft the beft Hufband
in the World ; and you may fhare eonfidera-
ble Gains A
Whatever People feem to want, give it
them largely in your Addrefs to them, call the
Beau fweet Gentleman, blefs even- his Coat or
Peruke, and tell him they are happy Ladies
where he's going. If you meet with a School-
boy Captain, fuch as our Streets are full of,
call him noble General \ and if the Mifer cart
be any way got to ftrip rrimfeif of a Farthing,,
it will be by the Name of charitable Sir.
Some People fhew you in their Looks the
whole Thoughts of therr Heart,, and give you
a fine Notice how to fucceed with them ; if
you meet a forrowful Countenance with a red
Coat, befure the Wearer is a difbanded Offi-
cer, let a Female always attack him, and tell-
him fhe's the Widow of a poor Marine, who
had ferved twelve Years, and then broke his
Heart? becaufe he was turn'd out without a
Penny: If you fee a plain Man hang down*
his Head as he comes out of fome Nobleman's
Gate, tell him^ good worthy Sir, I beg your
Far don, but I am a poor ruitfd Tradefman thaU
make a handfome Woman melancholy, the
having a bad Hufband, or the having no Huf-
iband at all ; if the firft of thefe is the Cafe,
one of the former Crimes will touch her to the
-Quick, and loofen the String of her Purfe ; if
•the other, let a fecond diftrefs'd Object tell her
flie was to have been married well, but that
Jier Lover died a Week before : One Way or
other the tender Heart of the Female will be
^melted, and the Reward will be handfome.
If you meet a homely but drefs'd up Lady*
pray for her lovely Face, and beg a Penny 5
and if you fee a Mark of Delicacy by the draw-
ing up of the Nofe, fend fome Body to fhew
her a fore Leg., a fcald Head, or a Rupture.
If you are happy enough to fall in with. a ten-
der Hufband leading his big Wife to Church,
fend fome Companion that has but one Arm,
or has two Thumbs, to tell her of fome mon-
ilrous Child you have brought forth, and the
.good Man will pay you to be gone ; if he
gives (lightly, it is but following, getting be-
fore the Lady, and talking louder, and you
may depend upon his fearching his Pockets to
better Purpofe a fecond Time. Many more
Things there are I have. to fpeak of, but my
feeble
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feeble Tongue will not hold out tofpeak them,
profit by thefe, they will be found fufficient,
and if they prove to you, my Children, what
they have been thefe eighteen Years to me, I
fhall not repine at my DilTolution.
Here he paus'd for fome Time, being almotft
fpent \ then recovering his Spirits, he thus be-
gan again. As I find the Lamp of Life is
not quite extinguished, J mail employ the little
that remains in faying a few Words of my pub-
lic Condudl, as your King : I call Heaven to
witnefs that I have lov'd you all with a Pater-
Mai Love : Thefe now feeble Limbs and broken
Spirits have been worn out in providing for
your Welfare, and often have thefe now dim
Eyes watch'd, whilft your's hzve^Jlept, with a
Father's Care for your Safely. I call you all
to witnefs that I have kept an impartial Regifter
of your Actions, and no Merit has pafs'd un-
noticed : I have with a mod exact Hand di-
vided to every Man his due Portion of our
common Stock, and have had no worthlefs Fa-
vourite, nor ufelefs Officers, to eat the Honey of
your Labour. And for all thefe I have had
xny Reward, in feeing the Happinefs, and hav-
ing the Love of all my Subjects. I depart
therefore in Peace, to reft with my Fathers :
It remains only that I give you my laft Ad-
vice, which is, that in choofing my Succejfor,
you pay no partial Regard to my Family, but
let him only who is moil worthy, rule over
•you.
He
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 81
He faid no more, but leaning back in his
Chair, expired without a Sigh.
Never was there a Scene of more real Di-
ftrefs, or more unfeigned Grief, than appeared
now amongft his Children and Subjects. No-
thing was heard but Sighs and Exclamations of
their Lofs. When the flrft Tranfports of their
Grief were over, they fent the forrowful News
to all the Houfes that were frequented by their
Community in every Part of the Kingdom ; at
the fame Time fummoning them to repair to
the City of London by a certain Day, in order
to the Election of a new King.
H
CHAP*
.82 An Apology for the Life of
CHAP. VII.
A Rhapfody on Publick Liberty, very proper
to i?e read by all who vote for Members of
Parliament. The Manner of electing a new
King of the Mendicants : Mr. Carew is
elected to that high Honour.
E F O R E the Day appointed for
the Election, a vaft Concourfe of
Mendicants flock 5 d from all Parts
of the Kingdom to the City of
London -, for every Member of the
Community has a Right to vote in the Choice
of their King, as they think it inconfiftent
with their natural Liberty which every Man is
born Heir to, to deny any one the Privilege of
making his own Choice in a Matter of fo great
Importance to him. Here, Reader, as thou
wilt be apt to judge from what thou haft feen,
thou already expe&eft a Scene of Riot and Be-
bauchery ; to fee the Candidates fervilely cring-
ing, meanly fuing, and bafely bribing •, the
Electors depriving themfeives of Senfe and
Reafo7t 9
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 8g
Reafon, and felling more than Efati did for a
Mefs of Pottage ; for what is Birthright ?
What is Inheritance, when put in the Scales
againft that choicefl of Blefimgs, Public Li-
bert ? O Liberty \ thou Enlivner of Life,
thou Solace of our Toils, thou Patron of Arts,
thou Encourager of Indudry, thou Spring of
Opulence, thou Something more than Life be-
yond the Reach of Fancy to defcribe, all hail !
It is thou that beamed the Sun-Jhine in the Pa-
triot's Bread ; it is thou that fweetened the
tfoil of the labouring Mechanic ; thou dod
infpire the Plough- man with his jocund Mirth,
and thou tuned the merry Milk-maids Song ;
thou cand make the Dejart fmile, and the bar-
ren Rock to fing for Joy : By thy facred Pro-
tection the poored Peafant lies fecure under
the Shadow of his defencelefs Cot, whild Op-
prejjion at a Didance gnafhes with her Teeth,
but dares not fhew her Iron Rod ; and Power,
like the raging Billows, dafhes its. Bounds with
Indignation, but cannot overpals them. But
where thou art not, how chang'd the Scene !
how tadelels Life! how irkfome Labour ! how
languid Induftry ! Where are the beauteous
Rofe, the gaudy Tulip, the fweet-fcented Jef-
famine ? Where the purple Grape, the lufcious
Peach, the glowing Nectarine ? Wherefore
fmile not the Vallies with their beauteous Ver-
dure, and fing for Joy with their golden Har-
vefts ? All, all are withered by the fcorching
Sun of lawlefs Power ! Where thou art not,
H 2 what
84 An Apology for the Life of
what Place fo facred as to be fecure ? Or who
can fay, this is my own ? This is the Language
only of the Place where thou delighted to
dwell -, but as foon as thou fpreadeft thy Wings
to fome more pleafing Clime, Power walks
Abroad with haughty Strides, and tramples
upon the Weak ; whilft Opprejfion, with its
heavy Hand, bows down the unwilling Neck
to the Yoke. O my Country ! alas ! my
Country ! Thou waft once the chofen Seat of
Liberty, her Footfteps appeared in thy Streets,,
thy Palaces, thy public Affemblies ; fhe ex-
ulted in thee \ her Voice, the Voice of Joy and
Gladnef, was heard throughout the Land -,
with more than a Mother's Love fhe held forth
her feven-iold Shield to protect the meaneft
of her Sons, whilft Juftice, fupported by the
Laws, rode triumphant by her Side with awful
Majefty, and look'd into Fear and 'Trembling
every Difturber of the public Quiet. O thou,
whom my Soul loveth, wherefore do I now
feek thy Footfteps in vain ? Wherefore dolt
thou fit dejected, and hideft thy Face all the
Day long. — — Canft thou ajk the Reafon of
my Grief ? See, fee my generous and hardy
Sons are become foolifh, indolent, effeminate,
thoughtlefs j behold, how with their own
Hands they have loaded me with Shackles ?
Alas ! alas ! haft thou not feen them take the
Rod from my beloved Sifter Juflice, and give
it to the Sons of Blood and Rapine ? Yet a lit-
tle while I mourn over my loft and degenerate
Sons*
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 8 5
Sons, and then with hafty Flight fix my Habi-
tation in fome more happy Clime.
Though the Community of the Gypfies at
other Times give themfelves up to Mirth and
Jollity with perhaps too much Licence, yet no-
thing is reckon'd more infamous and fhameful
amongft them, than to appear intoxicated du-
ring the Time of an Election •, and it very
rarely happens that any of them are lb, for they
reckon it a Choice of fo much Importance, that
they cannot exert in it too much Judgment*
Prudence, and Wifdom, therefore endeavour to
have all their Faculties flrong, lively, pene-
trating, and clear at that Time. Their Me-
thod of Election is different from that of moft
other People, tho' perhaps it is the beft con-
trived of any, and attended with the feweft In-
conveniences. We have already obferved, that
none but thofe who have been long Members
of the Community, are well acquainted with
the Inftitutions of it, and have figaaliaed them-
felves by fome remarkable Action, are per-
mitted to offer themfelves Candidates. Thefe
are all obliged, ten Days before the Election *
to fix up in fome Place of their public Refort,
an Account of thofe Actions, upon the Merit
of which they found their Pretentions of becom-
ing Candidates -, to which they muft add their
Sentiments on Liberty, and the Office and Duties
of a King: They muft like wife, during theie
ten Days, appear every Day at the Place of
Election, that their Electors may have a a
H 3 Oppor-
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Opportunity of forming fome Judgment from
the Lineaments and Prognojlics of the Counte-
nance. A few Days before the Election, a lit-
tle white Ball, and as many black ones, as with
the white one, will equal the Number of Can-
didates, are given to each Elector.
When the Day of Election is come, as many-
Boxes are placed as there are Candidates, with
the Name of the particular Candidate wrote oa
the Box, which is appropriated to him : Thefe
Boxes are quite clofed, except a little Opening
at the Top, which is every Night during the
Election lock'd up under the Keys and Seals
of each of the Candidates, and of fix of the
moil venerable old Men in the Community r
It is in the little Opening at the Top of thefe
Boxes, that the Elector puts in the little Balk
we have juft now mentioned ; at the fame Time
he puts his white Ball into the Box of the Can~
didate whom he chufes to be his King* he puts.
a black Ball into the Boxes of all the other Can-
didates ; and when they have all fo done, the
Boxes are broke open, and the Balls counted
in the Preftnce of all the Candidates, and as:
many of the Electors as chufe it, by the old
Men above-mentioned, and he who has the
greateft Number of white Balls, is always duly
chofen By this Means no prefiding Officer has
it in his Power to make one more than two 9 ,
which fometimes happens in the Elections
amongft other Communities, who do not ufe
this Form. There are other innumerable Ad-
vantages
Mr. BampFylde-Moore Carew. Sj
vantages attending this Manner of Election,,
and it is likely to preferve public Liberty the
longeit ; for firft, as the Candidates are obliged
to fix up publickly an Account of thofe Ac-
tions,, upon the Merit of which they become
Candidates, it deters any but thofe who are
truly worthy, from offering themfelves ; and as
the Sentiments which each of them gives up-
on public Liberty, and the Office and Duty of a
King, is immediately entered in their public
Regijler, it (lands as a perpetual Witnefs againft,
and a Check upon that Candidate who is chofen r .
to deter him from a Change of Sentiments and
Principles •, for though in fome Countries this
has been known to have little Effect, and Men
have on a fudden, without any Alteration in-
the Nature of Things, fhamelefsly efpoufed
thofe Principles and Sentiments which they had r
vehemently all their Lives before oppofed ; yet
in this Community (where there is fo high a
Senfe of Honour and Shame kept up) it muft
needs be one of the moft binding Obligations,
Secondly, by this Method of Ballotting, or
giving their Votes by Balls, the Elector's
Choice is more free and unbiafs'd ; for as none
but himfelf can know the Candidate he gives
his white Ball to, there can be no Influence
of Fear, Intefeft, Ties of Blood, or any other
Caufe to oblige him to give his Vote contrary
to his Judgment ; even Bribes (if they were
known amongfl thefe People) would lofe their
Effect under this Method of Voting, becaufe
few
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few Candidates would chufe to bribe, when
they could have no Security, or Knowledge
whether the bribed Elector might not put a
black Ball inftead of a white one, into his
Box.
Our Hero was now one of the Candidates,
and exhibited to the Electors fo long a Lift of
bold and ingenious Stratagems which he had
executed, and made fo graceful and majdlic an
Appearance in his Ferfon, that he had a con-
fiderable Majority of white Balls in his Box - 9
(tho' there were ten Candidates for the fame
Honour) upon which he was declared duly
elected, and hail'd by the whole Affembly,
King of the Mendicants : The public Regifter
of their Actions being immediately committed
to his Care, and Homage done him by all the
AfTembly •, the whole concluded with great
Feafling and R ejoicing, and the following Odj
fling by the Electors :
CAST your Nabs * and Cares away,,
This is Maunder' s Holiday :
In the World, lock out, and fee,
Where's fb happy a King as + He ?
II.
* Hats ot Caps.
•f Pointing to their new made King.
Mr, BampFylde-Moore Carew. 89
II.
At the Crowning of our King,.
Thus we ever dance and fing.
Where's the Nation lives fo free,
And fo merrily* as we ?
III.
Be it Peace, or be it War,
Here at Liberty we are :
Hang all Harmenbecks * we cry,
We die Cuffin Queres f defy.
IV.
We enjoy our Eafe and Reft,
To the Field we are not preft :
And when the Taxes are increas'd*
We are not a Penny cefs'd*
Nor will any go to Law,
With a Maunder || for a Straw,
All which Happinefs he brags,
Is only owing to his Rags.
* Conftab.'es.
•\ A Juftice of Peace or a Churl.
|] A Heggar.
CHAP.
9°
An Apology for the Life of
G H A P. VIII.
Mr. CarewV Behaviour after his Election ; his
bold Adventure at Fleet, near Portland ; the
Character he appeared in at Briflol ; his
unfortunate Meeting with Juftice Lethbridge ;
Imprifonment x and Banifhment to America.
HOUGH Mr. Carew was now
privileg'd by the Dignity of
his Office from going out on any
Cruize, and was provided with
every Thing neceflary, by the
joint Contributions of the Community, yet he
did not give himfelf up to that flow Poifon
of the Mind, Indolence,, which, though its
Operations are imperceptible, is more hurtful
and fatal than any of the quicker* Paffions \ for
we often fee great Virtues break through the
Cloud of other Vices, but Indolence is a {land-
ing corrupted Pool, which always remains in
the fame State, unfit for every Purpofe. Our
Hero, therefore, notwithstanding the particu-
lar Privilege of his Office* was as active in his
Stra-
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 9*
Stratagems as ever, and ready to encounter
•any Difficulties which feem'd to promife Suc-
cess, of which the following is an Inflance :
Happening to be in the Parilh of Fleet, near
Portland-Race, in DorfetJJrire, he heard in the
Evening of a Ship in imminent Danger of
being cafl away, fhe having been driven on
Tome Shoals : Early in the Morning, before
.it was well light, he pulls off his Cloaths,
-which he flung into a deep Pit, and then, un-
feen by any one, fwims to the Veflel which
was now parted afunder , he found only one
of the Crew alive, who was' hanging by his
Hands on the Side of the VefTel, the reft being
.either warned over-board, or drown'd in at-
tempting to fwim on Shore. Never was there
a more piteous Object than this poor Wretch,
hanging between Life and Death : Mr. Careia
immediately offered him his Afnflance to get
on Shore, at the fame Time enquiring the
Name of the VefTel and her Mailer, what Car-
go on board, whence me came, and whither
bound ? The poor Wretch replied, She belonged
to Briflol, Captain Griffin, Mafter, came from
Hamburgh, and bound to Briflol with Ham-
burgh Goods, and had f even Men and a Boy on
.board, at the fame Time our Hero was pref-
fing him to let go his Hold, and commit him-
Telf to his Care, and he would endeavour to
fwirh with him to Shore, but when Danger is fo
imminent, and Death flands before our Eyes,
it is no ealy Matter to be perfuaded to quit the
weak,eft
9"2 An Apology for the Life of
^weakeft Stay : Thus this poor Wretch hefita-
ted fo long before he would quit his Hold of
the VefTel, that a large Sea broke upon the
Wreck, and overwhelmed him in the great
Deep. Mr. Carew was in no little Danger, but
being an excellent Swimmer, he with great Dif-
ficulty got to Shore, tho' not without Hurt, the
Sea throwing him with great Violence on the
.Beach, whereby one of his Arms was wounded.
By this Time a great Number of Spectators
"were gathered on the Strand, who rejoiced to
to fee Mr. Carew come to the Shore alive, fup^
pofing him to be one of the poor Wretches
'belonging to the Ship -, Naked, fpent with Fa-
tigue^ and wounded, he raifed a feeling Pity in
.all the Spectators ; for fo ftrongly is this ten-
tier Paffion connected with our Frame by the
^beneficent Author of Nature, to promote the
.mutual Affiftance of each other -, that no fooner
doth the Eye fee a deplorable Object, but the
Heart feels it, and as quickly forces the Hand,
to relieve it \ fo that thofe whom the hove of
Money (for we think that the greater!; Oppofite
to Pity) has rcnder'd unfeeling of another's
Woes, are faid to have no Hearts, or Hearts of
■Stone ; as we naturally conclude no one can be
void of that foft, and God-like Paffion, Pity^
but either one who by fome Caufe or other
happened to be made up without a Heart, or
one in whom the continual Droppings of Self-
love or Avarice have quite changed the Na-
ture of it s which, by the moil ikilful Ana-
tomifts
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 93
tomifts, is allowed, in its natural State, to be
fi e fly-> f°f*i anc ^ tender ; but has been found,
without Exception, upon Infpection into the
Bodies of feveral Money Lovers, to be nothing
but a callous ftony Subjlance •, from which the
Cbymifls, by the molt intenfe Fires, have been
able to extract nothing but a Caput Mortuum y
or an earthy, dry, ufelefs Powder.
Amongft the Spectators of Mr. Carew, was
the Floufe keeper of Madam Mo bun, in the
Parifh of Fleet, who (with great Pleafure do
we mention it) had a Heart made of the f oft eft
Subjlance % for fhe immediately, agreeable to
the beneficent Precepts of the Gofpel, pull'd off
her own Cloak to give to him who had none - 9
and, like the good Samaritan, giving him a
Handkerchief to bind up his Wound, bid him
follow her, and led him to her MiiTrefs's Houie
where me feated him before a good Fire, gave
him two large Glaffes ©f Brandy with Loaf
Sugar in it, then bringing him a Shirt and
other Apparel, goes up Stairs and acquaints
her Lady, in the mod moving Manner, with
the whole Affair. Here could we hope our
Work would loft to future Ages, we would im-
mortalize this good Woman. Her Miflreis
was fo affected with her Relation, that ilie im-
mediately ordered a Bed to be warmed very
hot, for the poor Wretch to be put into, and
taken great Care of ; which was accordingly
foon done, and Mr. Carew lay very quiet for
three or four Flours ♦, then awaking, he feemed
I to
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to be very much difturbed in Mind ; his Talk
was incoherent, his Groans moving, and he
tofTed from one Side of the Bed to the other,
but feemed to find Eafe in none : The good
People feeing him fo uneafy in Bed, brought
him a good Suit of Cloaths, and he got up :
Being told the Bodies of fome of his Ship
Mates were flung up by the Sea on the Shore,
he feemed greatly affected, and the Tears
dropp'd from his Eyes. Having received
From Juftice Farwell (who happened to be
there ill of the Gout) a Guinea, and a Pafs for
Brificl^ and confiderable Contributions from
the great Number of People who flocked to
fee him, to the Amount of nine or ten Pounds,
he exprefTed an Inclination of making the beft
of his Way to Brifiol-, and the good Juftice
Farwell lent him his own Horfe to ride as far
as Dorchefter, and the Parfon of the Parifh fent
his Man to mew him the Way.
Mr. Carew would have been gladly excufed
From going through Dorchefte;\ as he had ap*
pearcd there but four or five Days before in the
Character of a broken Miller ^ and had thereby
raifed a Contribution of the Mayor and Cor-
poration of that Place ; but as it lay in the di-
rect Road to Bri/tol, and he was attended by a
Guide, he could not poflibly avoid it : As foon
as they came there, his Guide prefented the
Pafs in Behalf of Mr. Carew to the Mayor,
who thereupon ordered the Town-Hall Bell to
be rung, and affcmbled the Heads of the Cor-
poration.
Mr, Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 9*5
poration. Though he had been fo lately with
them, yet, being now in a quite different Drefs,
and his Pafs (which they knew to be figned by
Juftice Farwell) and the Guide teftifying he
was an unfortunate Ship-wreck'd Seaman,
efcaped from the moft imminent Danger -, they
had no Notion of his being the broken Miller
who had been with them a few Days before ;
they therefore treated him with great Huma-
nity, and relieved him very generouily. After
this the Guide took his Leave of him with a
great many good Wifhes for his fafe Arrival at
Briftcl -, but Mr. Carew, inftead of purfuing
his Way thither, fleers his Courfe towards De-
vonfhire,zn& raifed Contributions in the Way T
as a Ship, wreck'd Seaman r on Col. Brown of
Frampton, 'Squire Trenchard, and 'Squire Ful-
ford of Tollar, Col. Broadrip, Col. Mitchell
and 'Squire Richards, of Long Britty, and fe-
veral other Gentlemen.
It was not long after this, that being in the
City of Bristol, he put in Execution a very
bold and ingenious Stratagem. Calling to
Mind one Aaron Cock, a Trader of confidera-
ble Worth and Note at St. John's in New-
foundland, whom he refembled both in Perfon
and Speech, he was refolved to be the Son of
Mr. Aaron Cock for fome Time : He therefore
goes upon the Tolfey, and other Places of pub-
lic Refort for the Merchants in Briftol, and
there modeflly acquaints them with his Name
and Misfortunes : That he was born, and lived.
U all
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all his Life, at St. John's in Newfoundland - y
that he was bound for England, in the "Nicho-
las, Capt. Newman ( which Veffel fpringing a
Leak, they were obliged to quit her, and were
taken up by an Irifhman, Patric Pore, and by
him carried into W ate r ford, /r0?w whence he had
got Paffage, a;:d landed at King Road •, that
his Bufwefs in England was to buy Provifions
and Fiflnng Craft, and to fee his Relations, who
lived in the Parijh of Cockingtcn, near Tor-
bay, where his Father was born : The Captains
Elton, Calloway, Mafters, Thomas, Turner, and
feveral other Newfoundland Traders, (many of
whom perfonally knew his pretended Father
and Mather) afk'd him many Queftions con-
cerning the Family, their ufual Place of rim-
ing, &c. particularly, If he remembered how the
Quarrel happened at his Father's, (when he was
but a Boy) which was of fo unhappy Confe*
quence to Governor Collins ? Mr. Carew very
readily replied, That though he was then very
young, he remembered that the Governor, the
Parfon and his Wife, Madam Short, Madam
Bengy, Madam Brown, and feveral other Wo-
men of St. JohnV being met together , and feaft-
ing at his Father's, a warm difpute happened
among the Men (in the Heat of Liquor) con-
cerning the Vertue of Women, the Governor ob-
fiinately averring (being unmarrfd himfelf ) that
there was not one honeft Woman in all New-
foundland : What think you then of my Wife ?
fays the Parfon, Nay, the fame I do of all other
Worn en ,
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 97
Wo?nen, all Whores alike, anfwer'd the Governor,
roughly. Hereupon the Women, not able to en-
dure this grofs Afperfion upon their Honour, with
one Accord attacked the Governor, who being
overpowered by their Fury, could not defend his
Face from being disfigured by their Nails, nor his
Gl oaths from being torn off his Back ; and, whaP
was much worfe, the Parfon's Wife thinking her-
felf moft injured, cut the Hcimftring of his Leg
with a Knife which rendered him a Cripple his
whole Life after.
This circumftantial Account, which was in
every Point exactly as the Affair happen'd, and
many other Queftions concerning the Family*
which the Captains afk'd him, and he as rea-
dily anfwered, (having got very particular In*
formation concerning them when he was m
Newfoundland) fully convinced the Captains
that he muff really be the Son of their good old
Friend Mr. Aaron Cock •, they therefore not
only very generoufly relieved him* but offered
to lend him any moderate Sum, to be paid
again in Newfoundland 'the next fiftiing Seafon ;
but Mr. Carew had too high a Senfe of Honour
to abufe their Generofity lb far ; he therefore
excufed himfelf from accepting their Offer, by
faying, He could be fumiftid with as much as he
fhould have Occafion for, by Merchant Pemm of
Exeter. They then took him with them to the
Guildhall, recommending him to the Benevo-
lence of the Mayor and Corporation, teftifying
he was a Man of a reputable Family in New-
I 3 foundland.
9 8 An Apology for the Life cf
foundland. Here a very handfome Collection
was made for him, and the Circumftances of
his Misfortune becoming public, many other
Gentlemen and Ladies gave him that Afliftance
according to their Abilities, which is always
due to unfortunate Strangers. Three Days did
the Captains detain him by their Civilities in
Briftol, mewing him all the Curiofities and
Pleafures of that Place, to divert his Melan-
choly. He then fets out for Cocking ton, (where
his Relations liv'd) and Bridgewater being in his
Road, he had a Letter from one of the Briftol
Captains, to Captain Drake in that Place. As
foon as he came to Bridgwater, he went directly
to the Mayor's Houfe, and knocking at the
Door, it was opened to him by Madam May-
orefs, to whom he related his Misfortunes ;
and the good Lady pitying him as an unfortu-
nate Stranger fo far diftant from his Home,
^ave him Half a Crown, and engaged her
Daughter, a Child, to give him a Shilling.
We cannot pafs by this amiable Lady, without
paying her the due Tribute of Praife •, for Ten-
der nefs and Companion ought to be the peculiar
Ornament of every Female Br e aft ; and it were
to be wifh'd that every Parent would betimes
(like this good Lady) inftill into their Children
a tender Senfe of Humanity, and Feeling of ano-
ther's Woe : They would by this Means teach
them the Enjoyment of the moft God-like and
pleafing of all Pleafures, that of relieving the
DiftreJJ'ed ; and would extinguifh that fordid,
felfijb,
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 99
felfifb Spirit, which is the Blot of Humanity.
The good Lady, not content with what me
had already done, uiher'd him into a Room,,
where her Hufband, an aged Gentleman, was
writing ; to whom fhe related Mr. Cock's Mif-
fortunes in as moving a Manner as fhe was able :
The old Gentleman laid afide his Spectacles,
and afk'd him feveral Queftions, then dif-
patch'd his Servant into the Town, who foon
returned with two Newfoundland Captains, one
of whom happened to be Captain Drake, to
whom our Hero had a Letter of Recommenda-
tion given him by one of the Briftol Captains ;
and the other Captain Morris, whofe Bufinefs
having lately call'd him to Briftol, he had there
been informed by the Captains of the Circum-
ftances of Mr. Cock*, Misfortunes ; and he re-
peating the fame now to the Mayor, Captain
Morris confirmed his Relation, told them how
he had been treated at Briftol, and made him a
Prefent of a Guinea and a Great Coat, (it be-
ing then very rainy Weather 5) Captain Drake
likewifc gave him a Guinea, for both thefe Gen-
tlemen perfectly well knew Mr. Aaron's Father
and Mother \ the Mayor likewife made him a
Prefent, and entertained him very hofpitably
in' his Houfe. In the fame Character he vifited
Sir Ha/well frent, and feveral other Gentle-
men, raifing confiderable Contributions. •
This Activity and Ingenuity of their new
King, v/as highly agreeable to the Community
of the Mendicants, and his Applaufes refound-
ed
ico An Apology for the Life of
ed at all their Meetings : But as Fortune de-
lights to change the Scene, and of a Hidden to
deprefs thofe me hath moft favour'd, we come
now to relate the Misfortunes of our Hero, (tho'
we know not whether we fnould call them by
that Name or not) as they gave him a larger
Field of Action, and greater Opportunities of
exercifing the more manly Virtues Courage and
Intrepedity in Dangers.
Going one Day to pay a Vifit to Mr. Robert
Inckdon, at Barnftaple in Devon, (in an ill
Hour, which his Knowledge could not forefee)
knocking at the Door foftly, it was open'd to
him by his Clerk, who accofted him with the
common Salutations of How do you do Mr. Ca-
rew? Where have you been ? He readily reply'd 7 ,
'That he had been making a Vifit to ''Squire Bai-
fetV, and in his Return had called to pay his
Refpecls to Mr. Incledon ( the Clerk very ci-
villy afk'd him to walk in,, but no fooner was
he enter'd, than the Door was fhut upon him
by Juftice Lethbridge, (a very bitter Enemy to
the whole Community of Mendicants) who had
conceaPd himfelf behind it, and Mr. Carew was
made a Prifoner. So fudden are the Vicifjitudes
of Life f and Misfortunes fpring as it were out
of the Earth. Thus fudden and unexpected, fell
the mighty Csefar,. the Mafter of the World -,
and juft fo r offrighted Priam look'd, when the
Shade of Hedtor drew his Curtains y .and told him
that his Troy was taken.-
The
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 101
The Reader will undoubtedly be at a Lofs
to comprehend why he was thus feized upon
contrary to the Laws of Hofpitality •, it is
therefore our Bufinefs to inform him, that he
had the Misfortune fome Time before this, in
the Shape of a poor lame Cripple, to frighten
either the Juftice or his Horfe on Pilton Bridge •,
but which of the two it was, cannot be affirm-
ed with any great Certainty : However, the
Juftice vow'd a dire Revenge, and now exulted
greatly at having got him in his Power *, Fame
had no fooner founded with her hundred prat-
ling Tongues, that our Hero was in Captivity,
but the Juftice's Houfe was crouded with ln-
terceftbrs for him -, however Juftice Lethbridge
was deaf to all, and even to the Entreaties of
Beauty, feveral very pretty Ladies being like-
wife Advocates for him : Whether it v/as that
the Juftice was pad that Age, when Love flioots
his Darts with moil Succefs •, or whether his
Heart was always made of that unmalleable Stuff
which is quite unavailable by Love, or by his
Coufin German, Pity ; we cannot well deter-
mine.
Among the reft who came to fee him, were
fome Captains of Collier Veffels, whom the
Juftice efpying, and probably taking fome Dif-
guft to their Countenances, demanded who
they were, and immediately difcharging the
Guard which had been before placed over Mr.
Carew, charged the Captains with the Care of
him, though they affirmed their Veffels were to
fail
102 An Apology for the Life of
fail with the next Tide ; however, the Juftice
paying as little Regard to their Allegations, as
he had done before to the Petitioners for Mr.
Carew, they found they had no other Hope but
from that good-natur'd Dame, Patience : She*
good Woman, is always ready to render our
Misfortunes lefs, and was, in all his Adven-
tures, a great Friend to our Hero.
At length a Warrant v/as made out for con-
veying him to Exeter, and lodging him in one
of the fecureft Places in that City -, but as it
was now too late to fet forward on their Jour-
ney that Night, they were ordered to a Pub-
lic-Houfe in Barn/table-, and the Juftice re-
membering the old Proverb/^/? bind, f aft find,
would fain have lock'd the Door of the Room
where Mr. Carew was, and taken the Key with
him ; but the honeft Landlord offering to
become Security for his Appearance in the
Morning, the Juftice was at laft perfuaded to
be content without the Office of Coaler. Mr.
Carew, notwithftanding his Situation, was not
caft down, but bravely oppofed his ill Fortune
with his Courage, and palled the Night chear-
fully with the Captains, who were his Guard.
The next Day he was conducted to Exeter,,
without any Thing remarkable happening on
the Road : Here he was fecurely lodged for
more than two Months, and then brought up
to the Quarter Seftions held at the Caftle, when
Juftice Beavis was Chairman -, but that awful
Appearance
1
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 103
The Judges all met, a terrible Show !
did not ftrike any Terror into his Breaft; tho'
loaded with Chains, he preferved his ufual
Firmnefs of Mind, and faluted the Court with
a noble Aflurance. Being afk'd by the Chair-
man what Parts of the World he had been in, he
anfwered, Denmark: Sweden, Mufcovy % France,
Spain, Portugal, Newfoundland, Ireland, Wales,
and lbme Part of Scotland: The Chairman
then told him, He muft proceed to a hotter Coun-
try ; he enquired in what Climate, and being
told Merryland, he with great Compofure made
a critical Obfervation on the Pronunciation of
that Word, implying, that he apprehended it
ought to be pronounced Maryland, and added,
it would fave him five Pounds for his Paffage,
as he was very defirous of feeing that Country ;
but, notwithstanding, with great Refolution,
defired to know by what Law they adted, as he
was not accufed of any Crime : However,
Sentence of Banifoment was pafTed upon him
for Ctvcn Years •, but his Fate was not fingular,
for he had the Comfort of having Fellow Com-
panions enough in his Sufferings, as out of 35
Prifoners, 32 were ordered into the like Banim-
ment. Whether, at that Period of Time,
Mankind were more profligate than ufual ; or,
whether there was a more than ordinary Demand
for Men in his Majeftys Colonies, cannot by us
be determined.
Mr. Carew was not, as is mod commonly
the Cafe, delated by his Friends in Adverntv,
for
1 04 An Apology for the Life of
for he was vifited during the Time of his Im-
priibnment, by many Gentlemen, who were
exceeding liberal to him ; and no fooner did
the News of his Captivity reach the Ears of his
•Subjects, than they flock'd to him from all
Parts, adminiiter'd to his Neceflities in Prifon,
and daily vifited him till his Departure. This,
and the Thoughts of the many new Scenes and
Adventures which he was likely to encounter
with, whereby he might have an Opportunity
of making his Name as famous in America, as
it was already in Europe, often fill'd his Mind
with too pleafing Reflections, to regret his Fate,
though he could have lik'd to have perform'd
the Voyage under more agreeable Circumstan-
ces •, but, whenever the Thought of being
cruelly feparated from his beloved Wife and
Daughter glanc'd on his Mind, the Hujband
and Father unmann'd the Hero, and melted
him into Tendernefs and Fear *, the Reflection
too of the Damage his Subjects might fuftain
by his Abfence, and the Diforder the whole
Community would be put in by it, fill'd him
with many Difquietudes. Thus between pleaf-
ing Ideas, and Heart-felt Pangs, did he pafs
his Time, till the Day arrived that he was to be
conducted on board the Juliana, Capt. Froade,
Commander : But how, gentle Reader, fhall I
defcribe the Ceremony of Parting, the laft
Farewells of that dreadful Day, unlefs I had
the abundant Wit of the ingenious Author of
Tom Jones, who can, whenever he pleafes, en-
tertain
Mr. Bampfylde-Moora Carew. 105
tertaia his Readers with a Chapter upon No-
thing \ had I been blefs'd with the fertile Ima-
gination of this Gentleman, I could here have
entertained the courteous Reader with half a
Score Pages at leaf!:, in defcribing the Tears,
the Embraces, the Adieus and Farewells of this
forrowful Parting.
Leaving the Reader therefore to fuppofe all
thefe fine Things, behold the Sails already
fpread, and the Veflel cutting the Waves, but,
as if Fate had oppofed itfelr to the Baniflment
of our Hero, the Winds foon proved contrary,
and they were obliged to flay more than a Fort-
night in Falmouth Harbour for a fair Wind,
and thence were eleven Weeks in their PalTage
to Maryland,
K
C II A P.
io6 An Apology for the Life of
CHAP. IX,
Mr. Carew arrives in Maryland, a particular
Defcription of that Country ; an Account of
the Manner of flowing, cultivating and dry-
ing Tobacco ; a Defcription of that remarkable
Animal in Maryland the flying Squirrel •, the
furprizing Manner of the Fifloing Hawks
catching Fiflh, and their Encounters with the
bald Eagle -, the Sociablenefs and good Nature
cf the Rock Bird -, Mr. Carew is upon the
point cf being fold for a Slave, but whilfl they
are bargaining for him, makes his Efcape into
the Woods.
HEM Place they touch'd at was
Hampton, between Cape Charles and
Cape Henry, where the Captain went
afhore and got a Pilot •, and after
about two Days Stay here, the Pilot brought
the VefTel down Miles's River, and call An-
chor in Talbot County •, when the Captain
ordered a Gun to to be fired as a Signal for
the Planters to come down, and then went
afhore ; he foon after fent on Board a Hogf-
head of Rum, and ordered all the Men Pri-
foners to be clofe fhaved againfl the next
Morn-
Mr, Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 107
Morning, and the Women to have their belt
Head DrefTes put on, which occafioned no lit-
tle Hurry on board ; for between the trim*
ming of Beards, and putting on of Caps, all
Hands were fully employ'd In the Morning
the Captain ordered public Notice to be given
of a Day of Sale, and the Prifoners, who were
pretty near a Hundred, were all order'd upon
Deck, where a large Bowl of Punch was made,
and the Planters flock'd on board ; their firft
Enquiry was for Letters and News from Old
England^ what Paffage he had, how their
Friends did, and the like. The Captain in-
formed them of War being declared againft
Spain, and that it was expected it would ibon
be declared againft France ; that he had been
eleven Weeks and four Days in his PaiTage.
Their next Enquiry was, if the Captain had
brought them good Store of Joiners, Carpen *
ters, Blackfmiths, Weavers, and Taylors -, up-
on which the Captain call'd out one Griffy, a
Taylor, who had lived at Chumleigh, in the
County of Devon, and was obliged to take a
Voyage to Maryland, for making too free with
his Neighbours Sheep ; two Planters, who were
Parfon Nichols and Mr. Relies, afk'd him, If
he was found Wind and Limb, and told him, It
weald be worfe for him, if he told them an Un-
truth •, and at laft purchafed him of the Cap-
tain. The poor Taylor cry'd and bellow'd
like a Bell Weather, curfing his Wife who had
betray 'd him : Mr. Carew, like a brave Maiu
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to whom every Soil is his own Country, afhamed
of his Cowardice, gave the Taylor to the Devil ;
and as he knew he could not do without them
lent his Shears, Prefimg-Iron, Thimble and
Needle, to bear him Company : Wherefore all
thefe [Failings, fays cur Hero, have we net a fine
glorious Country before us? pointing to the Shore ;
and indeed in this he was very right, for Mory-
land not only affords every Thing which pre-
ferves and confirms Health, but alfo all Things
that are charming. The Beauty of the Pro-
fpect, the Fragrancy of the Fields and Gardens,
the Brightnefs of the Sky, and Serenity of the
Air, affects the ravifh'd Senfes -, the Country
being a large Plain, and the Hills in it fo eafy
of Afcent, and of fuch a moderate Height,
that they feem rather an artificial Ornament to
it, than one of the Accidents of Nature. The
Abundance of Rivers and Brooks is no little
Help to the Fertility of the Soil.
The Winter in Maryland does not continue
above three or four Months, December, Janu-
ary, February, and M.anh, of which thirty or
forty Days only are bad Weather. The Frofts
are fevere, but attended with a clear Sky, and
don't laff. long. The Rains are frequent and
refrefhing ; and the Heats of the Summer,
which are rnoft violent in June, July, and Au-
guft, are much mitigated by them -, and the
freih Breezes that are common in this Country,
contribute much to render the Heat tolerable
to
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 109
to new Comers, and hardly fenfible to the Inha-
bitants.
Moil Sorts of Fruits here grow wild, and
without cultivating, and they have fuch Plenty
of Peaches, that they give them to their Hogs ;
their Flowers likewife are as line as any in the
World.
Tobacco is the Handing Commodity of the
Country, and is fo beneficial to the Planter, and
fo natural to the Soil, that all other Improve-
ments give Place to that. Indeed they could
turn their Hands to nothing that would em-
ploy fo many Slaves and Servants, and require
fo little Stock to manage it, or take up fuch
a large Tract of Land -, for the fame Ground
that is planted every Year with Tobacco, would
produce, if Corn was fown there, more than
all the Plantations in America could confume.
This Plant is fo common in England, that we
need not defcribe it : It grows much like a
Dock ; and whereas in our Gardens it mufl be
managed with as much Care as the choicer!
Fruit or Flower, in Maryland they leave -it ex-
pofed to all the Injuries of the Weather, which
is very favourable to it. The Tobacco of this
Plantation was not at firfb fo good as 'tis now,
that of Brqfil had once the greateft Reputation
over all Europe 5 but now Maryland and Vir-
ginia has the beft Price in all Markets. It is
not known how the Indians cured theirs ; they
now have it all from the Englijh : 'Tis faid
they ufed to let it run to Seed, only fucker-
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ing the Leaves, to keep the Sprouts from
growing up and ftarving them. When it was
ripe, they pull'd them off, cured them in the
Sun, and laid them up for Ufe. The Mary-
land Planters fow the Tobacco Seeds in Beds, as
the Gardeners in England do Colwort Seeds ;
they leave them there a Month, taking Care all
that Time to have them well weeded, When
the Plants are about the Breadth of one's Hand,
they are removed in the firft rainy Weather,
and tranfplanted into what they call Tobacco-
Hills. In a Month's Time the Plants will be
a Foot high, and they top them, and then prune
off all the bottom Leaves, leaving only feveri
or eight on the Stalk, that they may be better
fed by the Top; and thefe Leaves, in fix
Weeks Time, will be at their full Growth.
The Planters prune off the Suckers, and clear
them of the Horn-Worm twice a Week,
which is called Worming and Suckering \ and
this laft Work lafts three Weeks or a Month ;
by which Time, the J eaf from green begins to
turn'brownifh, and to fpot and thicken, which
is a Sign of its ripening. As faff, as the Plants
ripen, you muft cut them down, leave them
in the Field for half a Dav, then heap th( m up
let them lie and ftveat a Night, and the next
Day carry them to the Tobacco-Houf , where
every Plant is hang'd one by another (by a
Peg which is drove into the Stalk of each
Plant) at a convenient Diftance, for about a
Month or five Weeks ; at the End of which
Time,
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 1 1 1
Time, they drike or take them down in moift
Weather, when the Leaf gives, or elfe it will
crumble to Dud •, after which, they are laid
upon Sticks, and covered up clofe in the To-
bacco- Houie for a Week or a Fortnight to
fweat •, and then opening the Bulk in a wet
Day, the Servants flrip them and fort them, the
top Leaves being the bed, and the bottom the
word Tobacco The lad Work is to pack it
in Hogfheads, or bundle it up, which is alfo
done in a wet Seafon •, for in the curing To-
bacco, wet Seafons are as neccffcry as dry, to
make the Leaf pliant, which would otherwiie
be brittle and break.
Befides Lions, Leopards, Elks, Bears, and
other Animals which are met with in Mary-
land, there are two peculiar to the Country
which deferve to be defcribed, viz. the Fhinz
Squirrel, and the Opaffum.
The Flying Squirrel has a fkfhy Subdance,
which it extends in its fkipping from one Tree
to another, like Wings, and by the Help of
thefe he will fly, or rather fkip thirty or forty
Yards at a Time, from Tree to Tree.
The Opajfum has a Head like a Dog, and a
Tail like a Rat ; 'tis about the Bignefs of a
Cat, and the falfe Belly in which the Female
carries her Young, is thus defcribed by one
that faw it : 'Tis like a loofc Skin quite over
the Belly, which never dicks to the Flefh, but
may be looked into at all Times, after they
have been concerned in Procreation. In the
hinder
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hinder Part of it is an Overture big enough for
a fmall Hand to pafs ; and thither the young
ones, after they are full haired, and ftrong
enough to run about, fly when any Danger ap-
pears, or when they go to reft or fuck, and con-
tinue to do fo till they have learned to live
without their Dam. The ftrangeft Part of
this Defcription is, that the young ones are
bred in this falfe Belly, without ever having
been in the true one. They are formed at the
Teat, and grow there for feveral Weeks toge-
ther, till they are in perfect Shape, and have
Strength, Sight, and Hair : They then drop
off, and reft in this falfe Belly, going in and
out at Pleafure. They are to be feen faftened
to a Teat from the Bignefs of a Fly, till they
become as large as a Moufe. Neither is it
any Hurt to the old one to open the Bag and
look in upon her Young.
There were no Rats nor Mice in Maryland
when the Englifh firft landed ♦, but they foon
multiplied fo from the Engli/b Shipping, that
once there was like to have been a Sort of Rat*
Plague among the Planters.
There is no Country more remarkable for
the Variety of Birds in it, than Maryland ->
where the Woods and Groves in the Spring,
Summer, Autumn, and almoft all the Year,
are rendered as delightful by the Mufic of the
feathered Choirs, as by the Coolenefs of their
Shades, or the Fragrancy of their Flowers.
Among thefe the Rock-Birds are the moil
divert-
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 113
diverting-, they love Society fo well, that
whenever they fee Mankind, they will perch
upon a Twig near the Perfon, and fing the
fweeteft Airs in the World. The next is the
Humming Bird, who revels among the Flow-
ers, and licks off the Dew and Honey from the
Leaves : 'Tis not half fo large as an Englifl)
Wren, and its Colour is a ihining Mixture of
Scarlet, Green, and Gold.
As tor Fifh, there is fuch a prodigious Plenty
of them, that it is hardly credible to an Euro-
pan. Many of thefe Fiihes will leap into Ca-
noes and Boats, as the EngliJJj or Indians crofs
a River.
The Manner of the Fifhing-Hawks here
preying upon Fifh, is very diverting and re-
markable. The Sport is to be feen every Sum-
mer in the Morning, and fometimes all Day
long. Thefe Hawks are wonderful eager af-
ter their Game, when the Fifh. firft come in
the Spring. In the dead of the Winter they
fifh further off at Sea, or remain among the un-
inhabited Iflands upon the Sea Coaft. They
have often been feen to catch Fifh out of the
Water and as they were flying away with their
Quarry, the bald Eagles have taken it from
them again. The Fifhing-FIawk will hover
over the Water and reit upon the Wing fome
Minutes together, then from a vaft Height
dart down directly into the Water, plunge into
it for the Space of half a Minute, and at laft
bring up a Fifh with him fo big, that he can
hardly
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hardly carry it. When he is on the Wing,
he fhakes himfelf fo itrongly, that the Water
comes off of him like a Mill, and then he flies
to the Woods with his Prey, unlefs the bald
Eagle intercepts him, and takes it away from
him. This Bird as foon as he perceives the
Fifhing-Hawk with the Game in his Mouth,
purfues him, and flrives to get above him in
the Air, which if he can do, the Hawk lets his
Fifh drop, and the Eagle leaves him to take up
his Prey, which he moots after with fuch fur-
prizing Swiftnefs, that he catches it in the Air
before it falls to the Ground. Thefe Fifhing-
Hawks, when the Seafons are extraordinary
plentiful, will catch a Fifh, and loiter about
with it in the Air, on Purpofe to have a Chace
with the Eagle for it -> and if the Eagle does
not come, he'll make a daring Noife, as if it
were to defy him. This Sport has been fre-
quently feen, and by the Defcription of it,
muft certainly be extreamly pleaiant to the
Spectators.
But to return : When all the beft Tradef-
men were bought up, a Planter came to Mr.
Carew, and afk'd him what Trade he was of :
Mr. Carezv, to fatisfy him of his Ufefulnefs,
tola him he was a Rat-catcher, a Mendicant,
and a Dog-Merchant ? What the D — / 'Trades
are thole ? replies the Planter, in Aftonifhment,
for I have never before heard of them. Upon
which tne Captain, thinking he mould lofe the
Sale of him, takes the Planter a little afide,
and
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 115
and tells him, He did but jeJL being a Man of
Humour, for that he was a great Scholar, and
was only fent over en Account of having difo-
bliged fome Gentlemen •, that he had nd Inden-
ture zvith him, but he floculd have him for fe~
ven Tears, and that he would make an excellent
School Matter : However, no iurchale was
made of him. The next Day <-he Captain
afk'd him to go on Shore with him to fee the
Country, but indeed with a View of getting a
Purchafe for him among the i lanl _rs. As
they were walking, feveral People caine up to
Mr. Carew, and afk'd him what Countryman
he was, i£c. At length they went to a T avern,
where one Mr. David Huxter, who was for-
merly of Lyme in Dorfet, and Mr. Hambleton,
a Scotchman, feemed to have an Inclination to
buy him between them : Soon after came in
one Mr. Afhcraft, who put in for him too, and
then the Bowl of Punch went round merily.
In the Midft of their Mirth, Mr. Carew, who
had given no Confent to the Bargain they were
making for him, thought it no Breach of Ho-
nour or good Manners to take an Opportunity
of Hipping away, without taking any Leave of
them ; and taking with him about a Pint of
Brandy, and fome Bifcuit Cakes, which, by
good Luck, he chanced to lay his Hands on,
he immediately betook himfelf to the Woods,
as the only Place of Security for him.
CHAP,
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. G H A P. X.
Mr. Carew congratulates himfelf on his Efcape,
and flatters himfelf that he fhallfind Means to
regain his native Country •, but is foon ftopp'd
en his Journey, by an unforefeen Difficulty :
Fie is feizd upon and carried Prifoner to
New Town •, He there meets unexpetledly with
, Friends : They refolve to pttrchafe his Free-
dom -, but he refufes their Offer, and defires to
be delivered up to Captain Froade, from whom
he had made his Efcape. The cruel Treatment
he meets with from the Captain, and the
Method taken to prevent his efcaping again.
P. Carew having found he had
eluded their Search, congratula-
ted himfelf on his happy Efcape
and Deliverance •, for he now
made no Doubt of getting to Old
England again, notwithftanding the Difficulties
which lay in his Way -, as he knew his Courage
was equal to every banger-, but we are too of-
ten apt, as the Proverb fays, To reckon without
cur Hoft, and are oftentimes neareft Danger
when we think ourfclves moft fecure ; and fo
it happened to our Hero at this Time, for,
amidfl
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 117
amidft his joyful Reflections, he did not know
that none were allowed to travel there, unlefs
where known, without proper Pafles, of which
we need not tell the Reader he was not pro-
vided-, and there is moreover a Reward of
5/. for any one who apprehends a Runa-
way : It therefore happened that one Morning
early, going through a narrow Path, he was
met by four Timber Men going to Work ; he
would fain have efcaped their Obfervation, but
they foon hail'd him, and demanded where he
was going, and where his Pafs was ? Thefe
were Queftions which he would willingly have
been excufed from anfwering; however, as
his Wit was always ready, he immediately
told them he belonged to the Heft or Privateer,
(which he knew then lay upon the Coaft) and
that he was going on fome Buiinefs for the
Captain to Charles County ; but, as he could
produce no Pafs, this would not fatisfy them,
fo they feized upon him, and conducted him to
one Colonel Brown, a Juftice of the Peace,
in Anne Arundel County. — But here moft gen-
tle Reader, that thou may'ft not form wrong
Ideas of this Juftice, and (as too often is the
Cafe) judge of what thou haft not feen from
what thou haft feen, it will be neceffary to
inform thee, that he was not filch a one as
Hudibras defcribes :
An old dull Sot, who told the Cl^rk
For many Tears at Bridewell -Dock,
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At Weftminfter and Hicks'j Hall,
And Hickius Doccius play J d in all.
Where in all Governments and Times,
He had been both Friend and Foe to Crimes^
And us'd two equal Ways of gaining
By hindering Juftice, or maintaining.
Neither was he fuch a one as that excellent Ar-
tift Mr. Hogarth has depicted, in his Picture
of A Modern Midnight Converfation •, nor fuch
a one as the Author of Jcfeph Andrews has,
above all others, fo inimitably drawn to the
Life ; nor yet was he fuch a one as thou haft of-
ten ken at a Quarter-Scfjions, with a large Wig,
a heavy unmeaning Countenance, and a four
Afpecl, who gravely nods over a Caufe, and
then paries a Decijion on what he does not un-
derftand -, and no Wonder, when he, perhaps,
never faw, much lefs ever read, the Laws of
his Country. But of Juftice Brown, I can af-
fure the Reader, he could not only read, but
upon Occafion write a Mittimus, without the
AiUfbnce of his Clerk •, he was thoroughly
acquainted with the general Duties of his
Office, and the particular Laws of Maryland j
his Countenance was an awful Majefty, tem-
pered with a humane Sweetnefs, ever unwilling
to punifh, yet always afraid of offending Juf-
tice ; and if, at any Time, Necejfity obliged
him to ufe the Rod, he did it with fo much
Humanity and Companion, as plainly indicated
the Duties of his Offiee forced, rather than
the
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 119
the Cruelty or Haughtincfs of his Temper
prompted him to it •, and whilft the unhappy
Criminal fuffered a corporal Pumjhment, he
did all that lay in his Power, to the End that it
might have a due Effecl, by endeavouring to
amend the Mind with falutary Advice : If the
Exigencies of the State required Taxes to be
levied upon the Subject, he nevrr, by his Au-
thority or Office, excuild himfelf from bearing
his full Proportion, nor would he meanly fub-
mit to fee any of his Fellow Juflices do fo.
It was before fuch a Juftice, Mr. Carew had
the good Fortune to be carried •, they found
him in his Court- Yard, iuft mounting his Horfe
to go out ; he very civily enquired their Bufi-
nefs -, the Timber Men told him they had got
a Runaway •, the Juftice then enquired of Mr.
Carew, who he was •, he replied, he was a Sea-
faring Man, belonging to the Heeler Privateer
of Bojlcn, Captain Anderfon, and that as they
could not agree, he had left the Ship. The
Juftice told him he was forry it mould hap-
pen fo ; but he was obliged, by the Duty of
his Office, and the Laws of his Country, to
flop all PafTengers who could not produce Paf-
fes ; and that therefore, tho' unwillingly, he
mould be obliged to commit him ; he then
entertained him very plentifully with Victuals
and Drink, and in the mean Time made his
Commitment for New Town Gaol. Mr. Ca-
rew finding his Commitment made, told the
Timber Men, " That as they had got their
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The We>-
rowance replied, " I will not bid you go, nei-
'} ther will I bid you flay, but you may ufe
" your own Difcretion." The Indians finding
their Werowance ftaid on board longer than
they expected, crowded down to the Water- fide
to look after him, fearing the Englijh had killed
him, and they were notfatisried, 'till he fhewed
himfelf to them, to appeafe them. The Na-
tives, who fled from St. Clement's Ifle, when
they law the Englijh came as Friends, returned
to their Habitations •, and the Governor
not thinking it advifeable to fettle lb high
up the River, in the Infancy of that Colo-
ny, fent his Pinnaces down the River, and
went with Captain Fleet to a River on the
North fide of Patowmeck> within four or five
Leagues of its Mouth, which is called St.
George's River. He went up four Leagues in
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his Long-Boat, and came to the Town of Yoa-
niaco, from whence the Indians of that Neigh-
bourhood are called Yoamacoes. The Gover-
nor landed, and treated with the Werowance
there, acquainting him with the Occation of
his Coming •, to which the Indian laid little,
but inviting him to his Houfe, entertained him
very kindly, and gave him his own bed to lie
on. The next Day he fhewed him the Coun-
try, and the Governor determining to make the
firft Settlement there, ordered his Ship and
Pinnaces to come thither to him. To make
his Entry the more fafe and peaceable, he pre-
iented the Werowance and Wifos, or principal
Men of the Town,' with fome Englijh Cloth,
Axes, Houghs and Knives, which they accept-
ed very kindly, and freely confented that he and
his Company mould dwell in one Part of their
Town, referving the other for themfelves.
Thofe Indians who inhabited that Part which
was afligned the Englijh , readily abandoned
their Houfes to them ; and Mr. Calvert imme-
diately fet hands to work, to plant Corn.
The Natives agreed further, to leave the whole
Town to the Englijh , as loon as their Harveft
was in ♦, which they did accordingly, and both
Englijh and Indians promifed to live friendly
together. If any Injury was done on either
Part, the Nation offending was to make Satis-
faction. Thus, on the 27th of March^ 1634,
the Governor took Pofieffion of the Town,
and named it St. Mary's.
There
Mr\ Bam pfykle- Moore Carew. 1 3 1
There happened an Event which very much
facilitated this Treaty with the Indians. The
Safquebanocks, a warlike People, dwelling be-
tween Chefcapcak Bay and Delawar Bay, were
wont to make Incurfions on their Neighbours,
partly for Dominion, and partly for Booty, of
which the Women were moft defired by them..
The Toamacoes fearing thefe Safquehanocks> had,
a Year before the EngliJJj arrived, refolved to
defert their Habitations, and remove higher
into the Country ; many of them were actu-
ally gone, and the reft preparing to follow
them. The Ship and Pinnaces arriving at the
Town, the Indians were amazed and terrified
at the Sight of them, efpecially at hearing
their Cannon thunder, when they came to an
Anchor.
The firft Thing that Mr. Galvert did, was-
to fix a Court of Guard, and erect a Store-
Houfe ; and he had not been there many Days,
before Sir John Harvey, Governor of Virginia^
came thither to vifit him, as didfeveral Indian
Werowances, and many other Indians^ from fe-
veral Parts of the Continent : Among others,
came the King of Patitxent, and being carried
aboard the Ship then at Anchor in the River,
was placed between the Governor of Virginia
and the Governor of Maryland, at an Enter-
tainment made for him and others. A Pa-
tuxent Indian coming aboard, and feeing his
King thus fe'ated, ftarted back, thinking he
was iurprized ; he would have fain leaped over-
M 2 board,,
I 3 i ■ fir the Lift of
board, and could not be perfuaded to enter the
Cabin, till the Werowance himielf came and
fatisfied him he was in no Danger. This King
had formerly been taken Prifoner by the Eng-
lijh of Virginia. After the Store-Houfe was
finifhed, and the Ship unladen, Mr. Cahert
ordered the Colours to be brought afhore,
which was done with great Solemnity, the
Gentlemen and their Servants attending in
Arms ; feveral Vollies were fired a Ship-board
and afhore, as alfo the Cannon, at which the
Natives were (truck with Admiration, fuch at
leaft as had hot heard the firing of Pieces of
Ordnance before^ to whom it could not but
be dreadful.
The Kings of Patux.ent and Toamaco were
prefent at this Ceremony, with many other In-
dians of Toamaco ; and the Werowance of Pa-
tuxent took that Occafion to advife the Indians
of Toamaco to be careful to keep the League
they had made with the Englijh. He flaid in
Town feveral Days, and was full of his Indian
Compliments : When he went away, he made
this Speech to the Governor \ " I love the
" Englijh fo well, that if they fhould go about
cc to kill mc, if I had lb much Breath as to
" fpeak, I would command my People not
" to revenge my Death ; for I know they
" would not do fuch a Thing, except it was
" through my own Fault".
This Infant Colooy fupplied themfeives with
Ltdian Corn at Barbadoes, which at their firft
Arrival
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 133
Arrival they began to ufe, to lave their Engltfh
Store of Meal and Oat- meal. The Indian Wo-
men perceiving their Servants did not know
how to drefs it, made their bread for them,
and taught them to do it themfelves. There
was Indian Corn enough in the Country, and
thefe new Adventurers foon after Ihipped off
10,000 Bufhels for New- England, to purchafe
Salt Fi(h and other Provifions. While the In-
dians and Engliflj lived at St. Mary's together,
the Natives went every Day to hunt with the
new Comers for Deer and Turkies, which
when they had caught, they gave to the Englijh
or fold for Knives, Beads, and fuch like Trifles.
They alio brought them good Store of Fifli,
and behaved themfelves very kindly, iuffering
their Women and Children to come among
them, which was a certain Sign of their Con-
fidence in them.
Mod of the Indians ftill follow the Religion.
and Cuftoms of their Anceftors ; and are not
become either more pious or more polite by
the Company of the EngUjh,
As to their Religion, they have ail of thenr
fome dark Notion of GOD-, and fome of
them brighter ones, if a Perfon may be be-
lieved, who had this Confeflion from the Mouth
of an Indian, " That they believed GOD was
" univerfally beneficent -, that his Dwelling
"' was in Heaven above, and the Influences of
d this Trial,
they are Coucaroufes, or Men of Quality in
their Nations •,. and the Indians fay they do it
to take away from Youth all childifh Impref-
fions, and that ftrong Partiality to Perfons
and Things, which is contracted before Rea-
fcn comes to take Place.
The Indian Priefts, to command the Refpect
©f the People, make themfelves look as ugly
and as terrible as they can : The Conjurors al-
ways fhare with them in their Deceit, and they
gain by it : The Indians confult both of them
before they go on any Enterprize : There are
no PrieftcfTes or Witches among them. They
erect Altars on every remarkable Occafion, and
have:
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 13*7-
have Temples built like their common Cabins,
in which their Idol (hinds, and the Corpie of
their Kings and Rulers are prelerved.
They have no Sort of Literature among
them; and their Way of communicating
Things from one to another, is by Hierogly-
phicks. They make their Accounts by Units,
Tens, Hundreds, &c. as the Englijh do ; but
they reckon their Years by Cohonks or Win-
ters, and divide every Year into five Seafons,
the budding Time, the Earing of the Corn,
the Summer, the Harveft, and the Winter.
Their Months they count by Moons. They
divide the Day into three Parts, the Rife,
Power, and Lowering of the Sun; and keep
their Accounts by Knots on a String, or Notches
on a Stick ; of which Captain Smith relates a
pleafant Story : That when the Prfncefs Poca-
honta came for England^ aCoucaroufe, or Lord
of her own Nation, attended her; his Name
was Uttamaccomack ; and the King Pcwhatan y
Pocahontas Father commanded him, when he
arrived in England^ to count the People and
give him an Account of their Number. Lfr-
tamaccomack) when he came afhore, got a Stick
intending to count them by Notches ; but he
foon found that his Arithmetick would be to
no Purpofe, and threw away his Stick. -At
bis Return, the King afked him, How many
People there were ? And he replied, . cc Count
U the Stars in the Sky, the Leaves upon
" the Trees, and. the.. Sand upon the Sea
" Shore,.
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" Shore, and you will know how many ;
" for fuch is the Number of the People in
" England."
They efteem the Marriage Vow as the moft
facred of all Engagements, and abhor Di-
vorces : Adultery is the moft unpardonable
of Crimes amongft them.
Their Maidens are very chafte •, and -if any
one of them happens to have a Child before
Marriage, her Fortune is fpoiled. They are
very fprightly and good-humour'd, and the
Women generally handfome. Their Manner
of handling Infants is very rough : As foon as
the Child is born, they plunge it over Head
and Ears in cold Water, and then bind it naked
to a Board, making a Hole in the proper Place
for Evacuation. Between the Child and the
Board, they put fome Cotton Wool, or Fur,
and let it lie in this Pofture till the Bones begin
to harden, the Joints to knit, and the Limbs to
grow ftrong : Then they loofen it from the
Board, and let it crawl about where it pleafes.
From this Cuftom 'tis faid the Indians derive
the Cleannefs and Exactnefs of their Limbs,
which are the moft perfect in the World.
Some of them are of agigantick Stature, live
to a great Age, and are ftronger than others ;
but there is never a crooked, bandy-legg'd, or
iil-mapen Indian to be ken. Some Nations o£
them are very tall and large limb'd, but others
are (hort and fmall : Their Complexion is a
Chefnut- Brown and Tawny. ' They paint
themfelves
Mr. BampFylde- Moore Carew. 1 39
themfelves with a Pecone-Root, which flains.
them of a reddifli Colour. They are clear
when they are yo.mg, greafing and funning
makes their Skin turn hard and black. Their
Hair, for the rtlofl I art, is Coal black, fo are
their Eyes : They wear their Hair cut after
feveral whimficai Moder, the I enbns of Note
always keeping a long Lock behind : The
Women wear it very IoS g» h trjgtng it at their
Backs, or twilled up with ? ; : ds 5 and all the
better Sort adorn their Heads with a Kind of
Coronet. The Men have no Beards, and to
prevent their having any, life cert iin Devxes,
which they will not communicate to the Eng-
T'.eir Cloa'hs are a Mantle girt clofe in the
Middle, and underlie ith a Piece of Cloth tied
round their Wafte, and reaching down to the
Middle of the Thigr) : The common Sort
only tie a Piece of Cloth or Skin round the
Middle. As for the ir Food, they boil, broil,
or road all the Meat they e.it : Homony is their
(landing Di'h, and cbnfifts of Jvdian Corn
foaked, broken in a Mortar, and boiled in
Water over a gentje Fire for ten or twelve
Hours together. They draw and pluck their
Fowl, fkin and paunch their Quadrupeds ; but
drefs their Fifh with their Scales on, with-
out gutting" 1 : They leave the Scales, Entrails
and Bones, till they eat the Fifh, when they
throw the Offals away. Their Food is chiefly
Beavers, Turtle, feveral Species of Snakes,
Broth
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Broth made of Deer's Humbles, Peafe, h
fcV. They have no iet Meals j they eat whew
they are hungry, and drink nothing but Wa-
ter. Their Bread is made of Indian Corn, wild
Oats, or the Seed of the Sun-flower : They eat
it alone, and not with Meat.
They travel always on Foot, with a Gun or
Bow. They live upon the Game they kill,
and lie under a Tree, upon a little high Grafs.
The Englifh prohibit them keeping of Cows,
Sheep, or Hogs, left they mould ileal their
Neighbours,
When they come to Rivers, they prefently
patch up a Canoe of Birch Bark, crofsover in
it, and leave it on the River's Bank, if they
think they mail not want it -, otherwise they
carry it along with them.
Their Way of receiving Strangers is by the
Pipe or Calumet of Peace. Of this Pere Hen-
nepin has given a large Account in hisVoyages,
and the Pipe is as follows : They fill a Pipe or
Tobacco, larger and bigger than any common
Pipe, light it, and then the chief of them takes
a Whirr", gives it to the Stranger, and if he
fmoaks or ir, 'tis Peace : If not War: If
Peace, the Pipe is handed all round the Com-
pany.
The Difeafes of the Indians are very
few, and eafy to b^ cured : They, for the
moft Part, arife from exceiiive Heats and
Colds, which they get off by fweating. As
for Aches, and fettled. Pains in the Joints or
LimbSj
Mr. Bampfyidc-Moore Carew. 141
Limbs, they ufe Cauftics and Scarifying,
Their Priefts are their Phyficians, and from
their Childhood are taught the Nature and U&
of Simples, in which their Knowledge is ex-
cellent ; but they will not communicate it, pre-
tending 'tis a Gift of God's : And by this My-
ftery they make it the more valuable.
Their Riches confifl in Furs, Peak, Roe-
noke and Pearl. Their Peak and Roenoke
are made of Shells •, the Peak an Englijh Bu-
glafs •, the Roenoke is a Piece of Cockle drilled
through like a Bead. Before the Englifo came
among them, the Peak and Roenoke were all
their Treaiure ; but now they fet a Value on
their Furr and Pearl, and are greedy of keep-
ing Quantities together. The Pearl is good,
and formerly was not fo rare as 'tis at this
Time.
They had no Iron Tools before the Er.glifo
brought them over : Their Knives were fhar-
pened Reeds or Shells, their Axes (harp Stones.
They rubbed Fire, by turning the End of a
hard Piece of Wood upon the Side of one that
is foft and dry, which at lail would burn.
They fell'd great Trees by burning them down
at the Root, having Ways of keeping the Fire
from afcending. They hollowed them with a
gentle Fire and fcraped the Trunk clean : and
this made their Canoes, of which ibine were
30 Feet long. They are very good Handicrafts-
men, and what they do is generally neat end
convenient.
N Their
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Their Kingdoms defcendcd to the next Heir
Male or Female; and they were very exact in
preferving the Succefiion in the right Line. If
as it often happened, one great Prince iiibjected
the other, thofe Conquefls commonly were loft
at his Death, and the Nations returned again
to the Obedience of their natural Princes. They
have no written Laws, neither can they have
any, having no Letters. Their Lands are in
common and their Werovoances^ or Judges,
are all Lord-Chancellors, deciding Caufes and
inflidting Punifhments according as they think
fit. Thefe Wercwances, and the Coucaroufes,
are their Terms to diilinguiih their Men of
Quality, the former are their War Captains,
and the latter fuch as have pail the Tryal of
Hufkanawing. Their Priefts and Conjurors
have great Authority among them. They
have Servants whom they call Black-Boys, and
are very exact in requiring the Refpecl that is
due to their feveral Qualities.
Mod of the Indians live on the Eaflern
Shore, where they have two or three little
Towns : ibme of them come over to the other
Side in Winter- time to hunt for Deer, being
generally employed by the Englijh. They take
Delight in nothing elfe, and 'tis very rare that
any of them will embrace the Chriftian Way of
Living and Worfhip. There are not above
*:oo fighting Indians in all the Province ; the
Cauie of their dimin: filing proceeded not trom
Wars with the EngliJJo % for they have had none
2 with
Mr. Bampiyide- Moore Carew.
with them worth fpeakingof; but from their
perpetual Diicords and Wars among them-
f elves. The female Sex has alio fwept awaj
a great many.
One Thing is obfervable in them, tho' they
are a People very timorous, and cowardly in
Fight-, yet when taken Prifoners and con-
demned, they will die like Heroes, braying
the moft exquifite Tortures that can be invent-
ed, and finging all the Time they are upon
the Rack.
We find federal of the Indians doing Actions
which would do Honour to the greater!: Heroes
of Antiquity : Thus Capt. Smith, who was one
of the firft Adventurers in planting the Colony
of Virginia, being taken Prifoner, while he was
making Difcoveries by King Oppecamcanough,
he not only fpared Mr. Smith's Life, but car-
ried him to his Town and feafted him ; and af-
terwards prefented him to Powhatan, the chief
King of the Savages, who would have behead-
ed him, had he not been faved by the Inter -
ceiTion and Generofity of his Daughter Poca-
honta^ who when Mr. Smith's Head was on
the Block, and me could not prevail with her
Father to give him his Life, put her own Head
upon his, and ventured receiving of the Blow
to fave him, tho' ihe was then fcarce thirteen
Years of Age.
Some Time after Sir Thomas Bale fent
Captain Argall, to Powtomack to buy Corn,
where he met with Pocahonta. He invited
N 2 her
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her to come aboard his Ship, which with fbrtie
iinall Difficulty fhe confented to, being be-
trayed by the King of Pqftancy, Brother to the
King of Potowmack, with whom Hie then
refided.
Argall having got her into his Cuftody,
detained her, and carried her to James Town,
intending to oblige her Father King Powha-
tan to come to what Terms he pleafed, for
the Deliverance of his Daughter. Tho' the
King loved her tenderly, yet he would not do
any 'Thing for her Sake which he thought was
not for his own and his Nation's Intereit; nor
would he be prevailed upon to conclude a
firm Treaty of Peace, 'till he heard his Daugh-
ter, who turned Chriftian, and was chriilened
Rebecca, was married to Mr. Rolfe, an En-
glifh Gentleman, her Uncle giving her in
Marriage in the Church.
Powhatan approved of the Marriage, took
it for a fincere Token of Friendfhip, and was
fo pleafed with it, that he concluded a League
with the Englijh in the Year 1613.
Some Time after Sir Thomas Dale going for
England, took Mr. Rolfe, and his Wife Poca-
honta with him, and arrived at Plymouth.
Captain Smith hearing the Lady who had
been fo kind to him was arrived in England,
and being engaged at that Time in a Voyage
to New-England, which hindered his waiting
on her himfelf, petitioned Queen Anne, Conforc
to King James, on her Behalf, fetting forth the
Civi*
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 145
Civilities he had received from her, and the
Obligations me had laid upon the Englijh, by
the Services Ihe had done them with her Father.
The Queen received this Petition graciouf-
ly, and before Captain Smith embarked for
New-England Mr. Rolfe came with his Wife
from Plymouth to London. The Smoke of the
City offending her, he took Lodgings for her
at Brentford^ and thither Captain Smith went
with feveral Friends to wait on her.
Pocahonta was told all along that Captain
Smith was dead, to excufe his not coming to
Virginia again-, from which he had been diver-
ted, by fettling a Colony in New- England*
Wherefore, when this Lady fawhim, thinking
the Englijh had injured her in telling her a Fal-
fity, which (lie had ill- deferved from them, me
was fo angry, that fhe would not deign to fpeak
to him; but at lad, with much Perfwafion and
Attendance, was reconciled, and talked freely
to him : She then put him in Mind of the Ob-
ligations Hie had laid upon him, and reproach'd
him for forgetting her with an Air fo lively,
and Words fo fenlible, that one might have
feen Nature abhors nothing more than Ingra-
titude ; a Vice which even the very Savages
deteft.
She was carried to Court by the Lady Dela-
ware % and entertained by Ladies of the firft"
Quality, towards whom fhe behaved herielf
with fo much Grace and Majefty, that fhe con-
firmed the bright Character Captain Smith had
given of her, The whole Court was charmed
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with the Decency and Grandeur of her De-
portment fo much, that the poor Gentleman,
her Hufband, was threatened to be called to an
Account for marrying a Princefs royal without
the King's Confent; though in that, King
James mowed a very notable Piece of King-
Craft, for there was no Likelihood that Mr.
Rfilfei by marrying Pocahanta, could any Way
endanger the Peace of his Dominions, or th^t
his Alliance with the King of Wicccmoco could
concern the King of Great Britain: Indeed
we are t _*d, that upon a fair and full Repre-
fentation of the Matter, the King was plea-
fed to be Satisfied.
The Lady Pocahonta having been enter-
tained with all Manner of Refpect in England*
was taken ill at Gravefend, where fhe lay in
©rder to embark for Virginia : She died there
with all the Signs of a fincere Chriflian, and
true Penitent.
She had one Son by Mr. Rolfe, whofe Pofle-
rity are at this Day in good Repute in Virgi-
nia ^ and inherit Lands by Defcent from her.
The Language of the Indians is lofty, but
narrow •, the A ccent and E mphafis of lb me of
their Words are great and fweet, as Oclorcckcn
Rancocas, Qri&on* Shakameron* Pcquejfm, all
N T ame> of Places, and as fonorous as any in
Attica \ then for Swcetnefs they have their
Anna Mother, Ifjimus Brother, Nelap Sin, and
Ufaue Oret very good, Pone Bread, Morridge
Walk a burying Place, Scow a Woman, Salop
a M h, Pappos a Child. CHAP.
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 147
CHAP. XII.
Mr. Carew notwithftanding the great Difficul-
ties and Dangers which he is told by his
Friends, he muft expetl to meet with in his
Journey, refolves to undertake it : He takes
Leave of his Friends, and fets out : The Ter-
rors in which he paffes the fir ft Night, being
fur rounded by wild Beafts : The Method he
makes life of to fecure himfelf from them :
His Manner of travelling afterwards ', is in
great Danger ; fees fome Indians at a Di-
stance, who likewife difcover him, and come
towards him : Their Manner of accofting
him: Their King joins them, who fpeaks to
him in Englifh : A Defer iption of his Drefs :
He conducls Mr. Carew to their Wigwams,
and. performs a very kind Office to him with
his own Hands : He brings him into his own
Wigwam, and orders Refrefhments to be fet
before him : The Queen and a young Prince
come in : He is prefented to the Wifos, and
received with great Civility •, grews in high
Fftecm with them: His Converfation with
King Lillycrait.
TH E Captains acquaint :d Mr. Carew
that the unfriendly Indian, were not the
only Enemies he had to fear, for he mtift c? -
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pe£l to encounter with great Dangers and Dif-
ficulties, as Rattle-Snakes, Horn-Snakes,
black Snakes, Lions, Leopards, Bears, Wolves
and wild Cats. However this did not difliear-
ten our Hero, for he was refolved to attempt
regaining his Liberty, let the Confequence be
what it would. The Captains then gave him
a Pocket Compafs to fleer by, a Steel and Tin-
der-Box, a Bag of Cakes, a Cheefe and fome
Rum, telling him, he muft leave the three-
notch'd Road a little way off, and fleer to his
left Hand ♦, (in Maryland they diflinguifh the
Roads by Letters or Notches cut on the Trees)
that he muft travel by Night, and lie concealed
in the Day, for forty Miles ; and then he would
come to a Part of the Country quite uninha-
bited, from thence he would enter the Indians
Country. They likewife told him, that all the
wild Bcafts were afraid of Fire, fo that his beft.
Defence would be to ftrike a Light and kin-
dle fome Sticks, whenever he was apprehen-
five of being attacked by any of them.
Our Hero having received thefe and fome
other neceffary Inftruclions, and havingreturn-
ed his generous Benefactors many Thanks for
their Kindnefs, bidding them farewel with.
Tears, fet out on his dangerous Journey about
three o' Clock in the Afternoon. He had not
travelled far, before he began to refle6l on his
melancholy Condition : Alone, unarm'd, un-
acquainted w th the .Vay, galled with a heavy.
Yoke, ex^oied every Moment to the moft im-
minent
Mr. B am pfylde- Moore Carew. 149
11 lient Dangers, and a dark tempeftuous Night
reaching with all its Horrors, increafed his
Terror*, his Ears were now afifaulted with the
diimal Yells and Cryings of wild Beads of dif-
ferent Sorts, but remembring the Inflructions
he had received from the Captains, he foon
(truck Fire and kindled fome Sticks, and was
obliged the whole Night to fwing a Firebrand
round his Head ; the Sight of which kept the
wild Beafls from coming near •, for though
they often came and looked upon him, yet they
foon turned Tail again, feeing the Fire. How-
ever, it was with great Joy he law Day-light
appear, at firft Dawn of which he was quite
freed from thefe troublefome Guefls: He had
now nothing to do but to feek for the thickeft
Tree he could find, and climbing up into it he
took fome Refrefhment of Sleep, which he had
great need of, having travelled hard all Night.
He afterwards eat fparingly of his Cheefe and
Bifcuit, fearing they might not lad till he could
get a frefh Supply, and then took a pretty large
Dram of Rum, with which, finding his Spi-
rits much refre (bed, and Night coming on, he
began his Journey again, travelling in the fame
Manner as the preceding Night, with a Fire-
brand whirling round his Head. In this Man-
ner, travelling by Night and concealing hirn-
felf by Day, he went on for four Days, when
he reached the blue Mountains, where he
thought himfelf out of any Danger of Pur-
fuit, or being flopped for want of a Pais.
He
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He now travelled by Day, meeting with great
Multitudes of Buffaloes, black Bears, Deer,
Wolves, and wild Turkies, the latter being fo
large as to weigh 30 or 40 Pounds : None of
thefe Creatures offered to attack him ; but
walking one Day on the Side of a fmall Rivu-
let, almoft loft in Thought, he was fuddenly
alarmed by fomething he heard plunging in
the Water, and turning his Head on the Side
from whence the Noife came, he was flruck
with the Sight of a great white Bear, who
being like wife difturbed, raifed herfelf imme-
diately , : and made towards him. Our Hero
now thought there was no Efcape •, however,
with great Prefence of Mind, he flepped afide
to a Furze Bum, and finking Light with all
the Halle he could, fet it on Fire 5 at the
Sight of which the Bear, who was now with-
in a very fmall Diftance from him, turned
about, and went away roaring hideouQy.
Some Time after this, he was comically
alarmed by an inoffenlive Animal : As he was
walking along a Deer Track, he chanced to
efpy a very fine Tortoife-fhell Box, as he ima-
gined, though he could not conceive how it
could be dropped there •, and thinking he
might make good Advantage of it among the
Indians, claps it into his Pocket : He had not
gone far, before he heard a luffing Noife, which
feemed to be very near •, he immediately
thought it- to be fome venomous Snake, and
endeavoured to avoid, it, by going out of the
Path
Mr* Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 151
Path he was in •, but (till the Noife Teemed to
purfue hitn : At laft looking down, he fees
a little ugly black Head peeping out of his
Pocket, which he found came out of what he
had picked up for a Box •, he with much ado
flips his Fingers into his Pocket, takes out
his fuppofed Box, and ;iings it to the Ground,
when the Creature opening the upper from
the under Shell, n: arched away : This was,
as he afterwards found, no other than a Land
Tortoife.
He found his Journey very often obftructed
by Rivers and Rivulets, which he was obliged
either to wade through, or fwim over. At
length, after many Days tirefome Travel, be-
ing grievoufly galled by his Yoke or Collar,
he difcovered fever I Tn cits of the Indians ;
Never did more different Paflions agitate the
Bread of any Man, than did the Bread of our
Hero at this Time : On the one Side, he was
overjoyed at the Sight of the Track of any
Human Creature, thinking he fhouid now get
rid of his heavy Collar, as well- as get fome
Refrefhmcnt of Provifions, his own having
been exhaufted for almofl two Days pail \ but
he had not pleafed himfelf long with thefe Re-
flections, before the Idea of the barbarous and
unfriendly Indians ftruck into his Mind, for he
was quite uncertain whether the Footileps he
difcovered might lead him to the good and
friendly Indians ', or to thofe barbarous and in-
human Wretches : He now reprefented him-
felf
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felf as fet upon by thefe, againft whom he hari
no Arms to defend himfelf, cruelly tormented,
and at laft flain as a Victim in fome of their
^bloody Sacrifices. It was about the Evening
when he difcovered thefe Footfteps, and pafled
the whole Night in this tormenting Sufpence :
Very early in the Morning, he diicovered five
Indians at a Diflance •, his Fear reprefented
them in the moft frightful Colours ; they
feemed of a gigantick Stature, and he thought
he could perceive their Faces to be flat and
broad, which was the Characteriftick or Mark
of the unfriendly Indians. This ftruck him
with unufual Dread, and he now gave himfelf
over for loft, as he faw they had efpied him,
and were making towards him : They coming
nearer, he perceived them to be cloathed in
Deer Skins, their Hair to be exceeding long,
hanging down a great Way over their Shoul-
ders ; and, to his inexpreffible Joy, diftin-
guifhed they had Guns in their Hands, which
was a fure Sign to him they were the friendly
Indians. This raifed his Spirits, and he ap-
proached them in afuppliant Manner, making
Signs that he craved their Afliftance. The In-
dians accofted him with clapping their Hands
on their Head, and crying IluJJo a me Top y
which in their Language figniries Good-mor-
row ; then taking hold of his Collar, they re-
peated to one another, in broken Engli/h, A
Runnaway ! ARunnaway ! Prefently after came
up two more Indians, one cf whom was aPer-
lbn
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 153
fon of a fine majeflick Prefence, whofe Drefs
was by far more magnificent than any of the
others, his Habit being a mod beautiful Pan-
ther's Skin, laced with Fur-, his Hair was
adorned with a great Variety of fine Feathers,
and his Face painted of a great many Colours,
By tbefe Marks of Diftinction, Mr. C
fuppofed him to be their King or Prince, and
indeed fuch he was; he fpoke very good Englijh,
and accofted him as the others had done be-
fore *, he then had him brought to a Wigwam^
which is the Name they give their Houfes,
which are no more than Stakes drove into the
Ground, covered over with Deer or other Skins.
Here obferving that our Hero was grievouily
hurt by his Collar, this good King immedi-
ately fet himfelf about freeing him from it;
but as he had no proper Tools for the Pur-
pofe, he was at a great Lois how to execute it ;
but at laft, taking the Steel of Mr. Carew's
Tinder- Box, he jagged it into a Kind of a
Saw, with which he cut off his Collar, but not
without much Labour, his Majefty fweating
heartily at the Work. He then carried him
into his own Wigwam, which appeared hand-
fomely fu mimed •, here he ordered fome In-
dian Bread, and other Refreshments to be fet
before Mr. Carew, who eat very heartily. Du-
ring this, the Prince acquainted him that his
Name was George Lilly craft, that his Father
was one of tfaofe Kings> who were in England
in the Reign of Queen An?ie \ and then fhew-
O ed
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ed him fome fine laced Cloaths, which he faid
were made a Prefent of to him by the laft
King George of England, (meaning his late
Majefty King George the Firfl :) He exprefied
a great ArTe&ion for his Brother King of Eng-
land^ as he called him, and for the Englifh
Nation in general. Soon after came in the
Queen, dreffed in a fhort Jacket, leading in
her Hand a young Prince, who both repeated
the Word Runaway once or twice.
Next Day the King prefented him to the
Wiibs, or chief Men of the Town, who re-
ceived him with a great deal of Civility, and
Tokens of high Efteem : He eat every Day at
the King's Table, and had a Lodging alTigned
him in his Wigwam, and grew every Day more
and more in Efteem among them, being con-
futed in all Matters of Difficulty. " Thus
" Hidden are the Scenes of Life fhifted and
" changed, but a brave Man will never de-
" ipair under the fevereft Misfortunes •," for
our Hero, who but a few Weeks before was
treated like a Beaft of Burthen, heavily loaded,
cruelly whipped, coarfely fed, and all by the
Infolence and Inhumanity of his own Country-
men, is now feated, in a ftrange Country, with
Kings and Princes, and coniulted by a whole
Nation.
King Lilly craft, who was a Man of very
good natural Stnk, ufed to difcourfe with, and
alk Mr. Carew many Queftions of the Cuftoms
and Manners of his Brother Kings of Eng-
land:
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 155
land : Being told one Day, that the King of
England never ftirred abroad without being
furrounded with a great Number of armed
Men, whom he paid for defending him, and
fighting for him, he very fimply afked,
" Who he was afraid of? or, whether he
which is navigable 800
Miles
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Miles above the Falls. We have obferved that
each Front of the Street was to be two Miles
from River to River, as it was at firft. laid out,
but one cannot fuppofe it is finifhed in that
Manner. 'The Streets that run againfLthe
Schuylkill are three Quarters of a Mile in
Length i the Houfes are ftately, the "Wharfs
and Warehoufes numerous and convenient.
This City fiourifried fo much at firft, that there
were near 100 Houfes, great and fmall, in it in
lefs than a Year's Time, and it has fince made an
anfwerable Progrefs, the Number of Houfes at
this Time being above 2000, and generally
fpeaking better Edifices than in the Cities of
England* a few excepted, and thofe only in a
few Streets All the Houfes have large Or-
chards and Gardens belonging to them ; the
Land on which the City Hands is high and
firm, and the Convenience of Cover, Docks,
and Springs, have very much contributed to
the Commerce of this Place, where many rich
Merchants now refde, fome of whom are fo
wealthy that they keep their Coaches, Ships
may ride here in fix or feven Fathom Water,
with a very good Anchorage ; the Land about
it is a dry wholefomc Level. All Owners of
1000 Acres and upwards have their Houfes in
the two Fronts facing the Rivers, and in the
High-Jlreet) running from the Middle of one
Front to the middle of the other. Every Own-
er of 1000 A. res had about an Acre in Front,
and the fmall Purchafers about half an Acre in
the
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 16$
the back Streets.-, by which Means the leaft
had Room enough for a Houfe, Garden, and
fmall Orchard. High-ftreet is ioo Feet broad,
fo is Broad-fir eet, which is in the Middle of the
City running from North to South. In .the
Centre is a Square of 10 Acres, for the State-
Houfe, Market-Houfe and School- Houfe, as
before hinted. The Names of the Streets here
denote the feveral Sorts of Timber that are
common in Penjylvania, as Mulberry -fir eet,
Sajfafras-ftreet) Chefnut-ftreet^ Walnut -fir eet>
Beach -fir eet, Ajh-ftreet, Vine-ftrcet, Cedar-Street^
There are alfo King- fir ect y Brcod-ftrcet, High-
fireet. The Court-Houfe is built of Brick,
and under it is a Prifon-, feveral Houfes on the
Key are worth 4 and 5000/. and 13 Ships
have been on the Stocks at a Time -, fome
Hundreds have been built there. The Cellars
or Ware-Houfes on the Key are made over
the River three Stories high. Here are two
Fairs in a Year, and two Markets a Week. It
fends two Members to the Affembly.
The Inhabitants being at firft moft Quakers,
and fo they continue •, it was fome Time before
there was a Church built after the Manner of
England ; but as foon as one was built it was
called Chrijl Church. It had, in a few Years,
a very numerous Congregation, and King Wil-
liam ordered an Allowance of $ol. a Year to
the Minifler; which, with voluntary Contri-
butions made a very handfome Provifion for
him. There arc above twelve hundred of the
P Inha-
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Inhabitants that are of this Congregation, who
have for fome Years had the Benefit of an Or-
gan ; and though it looked and founded ftrange
to the Quakers at firft, yet they are now lb far
reconciled to it, as to bear with their Neigh-
bours having it without grumbling. Here
are befides this feveral Meeting- Houfes ', (as for
the Quakers who are properly the Church, as
by Law eftablifhed, being the Originals) the
Preftyterians, the Baptifis, and aSpanif/j Church.
According to the Plan, there is, in each
Quarter of the City, a Square of eight Acres,
intended for the fame Ufes as was Moorfields in
London, Walks and Exercifes for the Citizens.
The great Dock is formed by an Inlet of the
River Delaware, at the fouth Corner of the
Front of the Wharfs, and has a Bridge over it
at the Entrance -, feveral Creeks run into the
City out of the two Rivers, and there's no
City in Holland that is fo naturally accommo-
dated with fine and commodious Canals as this
might very eafily be. The Key is beautiful,
above 200 Feet fquare, to which a Ship of 500
Tons may lay her Broadfide; and as thefe fur-
prizing Advantages have already rendered it
one of the beft trading Towns in the Britijh
Empire out of Europe, (bin all Probability, it
will continue to encreafe in Commerce, Riches
and Buildings, till for Number and Magnifi-
cence it will have no Equal in America-, where
the French have not, nor are likely to have,
any Thing like it. Here are alfo almoft all
Sorts
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 167
Sorts of Trades and Mechanicks, as well as
Merchants and Planters. Here the AfTem-
blies and Courts of Judicature are held, and
the Bufinefs of the Province is chiefly ma-
naged, as in all Capitals. Here is a Print-
ing-Houfe, and a Gazette weekly publifhed.
In a Word, here are all Things necefTary for
an Englifoman% Profit and Pleafure.
Mr. Carew walking through the High-ftreet,
had a Mind to refrelli himfelf with a Nip of
Punch •, the firft Publick Houfe he chanced
to fall upon, was kept by an Irifhman, and
afking him if he fold Punch ? " Yes, my dear
" Hoiiey, replied the Man". Arrah, fays
Mr. Carew, are you my Countryman, dear
Joy? quite in the Iriffo Brogue. " Yes,
" replies the Man, what do you belong to
iC one of our VefTels ?" No, I belonged to
Captain Dubois of Dublin, who was taken
off the Capes, and carried into the Havan-
nal\ " Arrah, deir Joy, I know Captain
" Dubois very well, replies the Irifhman \
<{ Come in, come in." Accordingly, in
goes Mr. Carew ; and the Irijhnan was
lo well -pleafed with his Countryman,
(for giving a very particular Account of
many Piaces in Ireland, and counterfeiting
the Brogue extreamly well, he did not fufpect
him to be any other) that he entertained him
very well, and they paiTed the Day very mer-
rily together.
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1 63 An Apology for the Life of
The next Morning his Hoft takes him out to
fee the City : Mr. Carew did not content him-
(eff with idly gazing, (as mod of our modern
Travellers do) but diligently enquired the
Names of the principal Merchants and Places,
and informed himielf of all thofe Circum-
ftances which could be of any Service to him.
At length, feeing a very fine Houfe, he en-
quired whole it was-, and being told the Pro-
prietor Perm's, who was juft come from Eng-
land with his Brother-in-Law, Captain ¥rame %
he takes his Leave of his Hoft, telling him,
" He had a little Bufmefs to tranlafl, and"
** would be at Home prefently, for that he
" fhould be able to find the Way back, with-
M out his (raying for him.'* Having thus
got rid of the lrijhman* he claps his Right
Hand into his Coat, as if he had loft the Ufe
of it •, and then going up to the Proprietor's,
knocks at the Door, which was opened to
him by a Negro, with a Silver Collar about
his Neck : He enquired if the Proprietor
lived there, and if he was at Home ? Being
told he was, " Pray tell him (fays he) that
"- a poor Man dciires the Favour of fpeaking
w with him." The Negro then bid him come
into the Court : Soon after, out came the
Proprietor very plainly dreffed, and his Bro-
ther, Captain Frame, in his Regimentals :
The Proprietor came up to him, enquiring
who he was, and what he wanted with him ;
he replied, " he was a poor unfortunate Man,
" who
Mr. B am pfylde- Moore Carew. 169
" who craved his Honour's charitable Af-
" fi (lance ; that his Name was John Haw-
" kins of the City of Exeter, and belonged to
" Captain Davis's Ship of the fame Place,
" who was taken near the Capes'* Captain
Frame feeing him a lufty tall Fellow, pre-
fently cries out, " Revenge ! Revenge ! my
" brave Boy, you mall go along with me and
" fight the Dogs." Mr. Carew replied with
a Sigh, that " he mould be glad to do that,
'f but that it was his Misfortune, by the Se-
cc verities and Hardfhips he fuffered in Pri-
" fon, to have loft the Ufe of his Right Arm
" by the dead Palfy." This moved their
Companion fo much, that each of them gave
him a Guinea, the Proprietor telling him he
would take care to fend him Home with Cap-
tain Read, who would fail very foon •, then
afking if he had been at the Governor's, and he
replying in the Negative, the Proprietor told
him, without taking Leave of any of his good
Friends there. From hence he goes into
Buckingham County, where he enquired out
one George Boon, a Juftice of the Peace in that
County, who formerly lived at Bradrimch^ in
Devoriy his Father being a Weaver there. Here
he went by his own Name, telling him, ct he
" had been taken Prifoner, and carried into
* die Havannab) where he had lain many
" Months,"
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Care w. 171
u Months." The Jaftic-e having known his
Father very well, entertained him generoufly,
fhewed him the Country, and gave him three
Guineas at his Departure, to help to pay his
Paflage.
From hence he went to Burlington^ the firft
Town in Weil New-Jcrfey, which contains
about 250 Families, and has an anfwerable
Number of Acres laid out for Plantations.
The Houfes are well built, and almoft all
of Brick. The Market affords Plenty of all
Sorts of Provifions, which are as good here
as any where in America.
From thence to Perth-Amboy, fo called in
Honour to the Duke of Perth. 'Tis at the
Mouth of the River Raritan^ which runs into
Sandy hook-Bay, and able to contain 500 Ships.
The Plan of this City was laid out very regu-
larly and fpacioufly. The Plot of Ground was
divided into 150 Shares for Purchaiers to build
upon. Four Acres were prefer ved for a Mar-
ket-Place, and three for publick Wharfage ;
very uieful Things, if there had been Inhabi-
tants, Trade, and Shipping. The Town be-
ing thus artfully and commodioufly laid out,
fome Scots began building, efpecially a Houfe
for a Governor, which was then as little wanted
as a Wharf or Market. The whole Plan of the
City confuts of 1070 Acres, and there are two
good Roads from it to PiJ cat away and Wood-
bridge. Ships in one Tide can come up to the
Port, and be at the Merchant's Doors, though
of
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of 300 Tons Burthen \ but the Perth City has
not above 2 or 300 Men, Women, and Chil-
dren in it.
From thence over a Ferry, into a Town
called Trent Town, in St at en IJland ; and from
thence over Brunfwick Ferry \ to Eaft Jerfey,
where he found out one Mr. Matthews, a Mil-
ler, who formerly lived at White churchy near
Lyme in Dorfet ; and making Uie of his old
Story of having been taken, was received by
Mr. Matthews with great Hofpitality ; he kept
him three Days in his Houfe, and would have
entertained him ftill longer. At his Departure
he gave him a Guinea, with feveral Letters of
Recommendation, and fent Letters by him to
his Friends in England, fending his Servant
with him as far as Elizabeth Town, which is
three Miles within a Creek, oppofite to the
Weft End of St at en Jfland. Plere the fir ft Eng-
lifh Settlement was made, and if any Place in
the Jerfeys may be laid to have thrived, it is
this ; for notwithftanding the Endeavours of
the Proprietors to make a Capital of Perth, by
calling it a City, Elizabeth Town has near fix
Times the Number of Inhabitants, containing
above 250 Families, and 40,000 Acres of
Land cart out. Here the Proprietors have a
Plantation, which goes by the Name of their
Farm. The Government oi the Province is
here managed, Courts are kept, Aflemblies
held, and the greateft Part of the Trade of
the Colony carried on. Here he met with
one
Air. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 175
one Mr. Nicholas, a CormJJrman, who gave
him a Ten Shilling Bill, and recommended
him to one Mr. Anderfon in Long Ifiand, fome-
time called Najfau Ifland, flretching from
Fairfield County r , in a fine Spot cf Ground,
t,o Miles in Length, and 12 in Breadth,
Here he changed his Religion, and turned
Prefiyterian, mod of the Inhabitants being
of that Denomination, travelling quite through
the Ifland ; and then crofTed over a Ferry in-
to Block Ifland, from whence there are great
Quantities of Timber tranfported to Bofion.
Soon after, croffing another Ferry, he came
into Nezv-2*ork, which is a very fine City.
There are now about 1100 Houfes, and near
7000 Inhabitants in it. The Houfes are well
built, the meaneft of them faid to be worth
100 /.which cannot be faid of any City in Eng-
land. The great Church here was built in the Year
1695, and is a very handfome Edifice. Here
are alfo a Dutch Church, ^.French Church, and
a Lutheran Church. The Inhabitants of Dutch
Extraction make a very confiderable Part of
the Town •, but moil of them fpeaking Eng-
V[h, one may fuppofe they go pretty much to
the great Church, efpecially all thofe that are,
or hope to be in Offices. Here he was fur-
prized at the Sight of a great Number of Gib-
bets, with Blacks hanging upon them ; but,
on enquiring, he found the Negroes had, not
long before entered into a Confpiracy of burn-
ing the whole City - } but the Plot being timely
difco-
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difcovered, great Numbers were executed, and
hung up to terrify the others. His firft Care
here was to enquire the Names, Ci re um fiances,
Family, and Country of the principal Inha-
bitants of the City : Among the reft he en-
quired out Captain Lufh, who was formerly one
out Char mouth, by Lyme in Dorfeifhire, to
whom he had a recommendatory Letter from
Mr. Matthews of Eaft Jerfey : He was re-
ceived very hofpitably by Captain Lufh, who
likewife gave him two Shirts, and informed
him there was no Ship ready to fail for England
there, but that he would find one at New Lon-
don. Having found there was one Mr. Lucas,
formerly of Taunton, in Somerfetfhire, in New
Tork, and judging he was a Brother to Mr.
Lucas, of Bampton, in Devon, whom he k new
very well, he goes boldly to his Houfe, which
was in the Fifh Shambles, and knocking at the
Door, it was opened to him by a Negro : He
enquired if Mr. Lucas was at Home •, and be-
fore the Negro could give him an Anfwer, out
came Mr. Lucas with a little Boy, and en-
quired what he wanted •, he replied, he was an
Englifloman, born in Devon/hire, who had the
Misfortune to be can: away in a Ship behind
Long JJland, and hearing his Name was Lu-
cas, had made bold to apply to him for his
AfTiflance, as he was very well acquainted
with his Brother, Mr. Lucas of Bampton.
Mr Lucas afked him, if he could tell whom
.his Brother married ? He replied, Mrs. Mary
Triftram :
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 175
Tri/lram. Do you know Hunt/ham ? Yes, re-
plied he, and Mr. Beer, who firft courted
Mrs. Triflram. And how many Children has
my Brother ? To this likewife Mr. Carew an-
fwered very exactly ; and Mr. Lucas being
convinced by this of his being no Impoftor,
bid nifty come in, telling him, " He expected
iC his youngeft Brother there in three Weeks
** Time." He was entertained here very ge-
neroufly, and at his Departure Mr. Lucas
gave him two Guineas.
From thence he goes through Seabroke and
Scaford to New London, which is fituated on a
River called the Thames. The firft Branch of
which River goes by the Name of Glafs-River,
the next Branch by that of Ruffel's Delight,
the third by that of Indian River. There is a
fmall River which falls into the Sea at Man-
chefter. The Trade of Ship-building flou-
rifiies here. Here he enquired if there were
none of the Name of Davey in that City •, and
being afked why, he replied, They were
near Heirs to a fine Eftate near Credit on in
Devon, formerly belonging to Sir John Davey.
He was then fhown to two ancient Sifters of
Sir John Davey, whole Sons were Timber-
Men : They afked a great many Queftions
about the Family •, and he told them Sir John
Davey was dead, and his eldeft Son alfo, who
had left two Sens ; that the youngeft Bro-
ther, Humphry Davey, was then living at
Creedy Houfe, and the little Boys fo me where
sibout
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about Exeter. They then gave him two Let*
ters to deliver to Mr. Humphry Davey ; after
which, each gave him- a Guinea, with Re-
commendations, to one Juftice ■ Miller 9 and
Captain Rogers, who was bound for England*
Juftice Miller received him very kindly, and
lent his Servant with him to Captain Rogers,
with whom he agreed to take the Run to
England for ten Guineas, ten Gallons of Rum,
ten Pounds of Sugar, ten Founds of To*
bacco, and ten Pipes.
C H A Pi
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carcw. 177
C II A P. XIV.
Mr. Carew embarks at New-London on board
Captain Rogers, for England •, provides*
with great Prudence, againft Accidents : "The
bold Refolution of an honeft Indian ; Mr.
Carew arrives at Briftol, and proceeds to
Exeter, where he meets with the Owner of
the Vcffel in which he had been carried to
America.
W?K&$K$Ok APTALN Rogers having ta-
AJH( SmlSQC ken in his Loading* which con-
w C w flfted of Rice ' Tobacco > and
W~3£ 5Mf8 ^P e ^ taves > ^ et ^ w ^ tn a ^ r
WWW0 Wind from New-London, and
" AA " run to Lundy in a Month and
three Days : Nothing happened material on
their Voyage, and the Sailors pafled their
Time very jovially, having lb favourable a
Gale ; but our Hero, who knew that Fortune,
like a common Jilt, often puts on the fatreft
Smiles when fhe is about to difcard you,
thought it prudent to provide againft her flip-
per y Tricks as much as lay in his Power :
Q He
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He therefore pricked his Arms and Bread
with a Needle, and then rubbed it with Bay-
Sait and Gunpowder, which made it appear
like the Small Pox coming cut ; in the Night
Time he groaned very diimally, till at length
the Captain called to him, to know the
Reafon of his groaning lb in his Sleep.
" Alas ! Sir, replied he, I have been dream-
" ing my poor Wife was dead, and that fhe
vC died in the Small Pox." — " Be of good Cheer
vC Man, lays the Captain \ Dreams are but
<4 Fables, and, for your Comfort, I*believe we
". mall quickly make Land." However they
,dicl not do this fo foon as the Captain expected,
for towards the next Evening the Wind
springing up a frefh Gale, the Captain order-
ed to (land out to Sea again : During all the
Day Mr. Carew did not ftir out of his Ham-
nv>ck, pretending to be very ill. Towards
the Morning the Wind was fomewhat laid,
aad they flood in before it ♦, but it being very
hazy Weather, the Captain ordered a good
Look-out, ciying, " My brave Boys, take
'* care we don't iall foul of lome Ship, for
4C we are now in the Channel." The Men re-
plied, " All is well." Nov/ the Cocks be-
gan to crow on board, and Sol took his laft
Embrace of Thetis, to begin his daily Stage ;
for, indeed, already had his Equipage waited
near an Hour for him. Reader, if thou art ac-
quainted with the inimitable Hiftory of Tom
Jones, thou may eft perhaps know what we ?nean
by
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. iyg
by this ; hit left thoujhouldeft not, we dunk it not
improper to inform thee, that we mean no more
than we might have told thee in three Words,
That it was broad Day -light. The Captain
called out* " How goes the Glafs, my brave
« Boys?"— "Eight Glafies arc juft run, replied
" the Men.— "Thenlook out (harp for Land."
Soon after the Cabin-Boy hollows out, Land I
Land] The Captain runs nimbly to lee if it
was fo, faying, I am afraid we are embayed.
No, replies the Mate, I will be bound for
it, it is Lundy I/land. The Captain run up
immediately to the Mai n - top -m aft Head to
look out for other Lands to the Right and
Left, and found it to be indeed Lundy I/land:
Upon which feveral Sailors ran up the Rig-
ging ; and, amongft the reft, Mr. Carew
creeps out with nothing but a Blanket upon
his Shoulders, and makes an Attempt to run
up the Rigging 5 which the Captain feeing,
haftily cries out, " Where is old John going ?
jovial before, {truck with a dreadful Panick ;
but our Hero, fecure of the Favour and Pro-
tection of the Goddefs Prudence, was quite
eafy at Heart. So courteous Reader, if thou
wilt follow our Ad-vice, thou Jhould'ft always in
thy Profperiiy, when the Waters of Life are
fnooth and calm, endeavour to provide for what
may happen hereafter, as thou canfi not tell how
foon the Winds may rife, and change thy Halcyon
Calm into a troubled Sea ; and then if thou baft
not before moored thyfelf with the Anchor of
Prudence, what can prevent thee from finking
like a Stone in the mighty Waters? And now
they perceived the Man of War's Boat ma-
king towards them •, upon which, Mr. Carew
grew ficker and ficker : The Captain ordered
the Ropes to be flung cut for the Man of
War's Boat, and the Stanchions and red Ropes
to be got ready for the Lieutenant, as though
they had been to receive fome good Vifiter
on board : Such are the polifhed Arts of the
World-, for we think we may venture to
fay, both the Captain and Crew, at the
Time they were making theie Preparations to
receive the Lieutenant, had rather have feen
him gone to the Bottom of the Sea, than
come on board their VefTel. At length the
Man of War's Boat came along-fide the Ship :
Q.3 Mr.
1 8 2 An Apology for the Life of
Mr. Carew goes down into the Steerage, with
his Belly full of hot Water, and the Lieute-
nant fleps on board : " Sir, you are welcome
" on board," fays the Captain ; or rather,
that little Part of the Captain called the
Tongue •, for the Heart, Mind, and every
other Particle of the Captain, wifhed him to
the D — 1 at the fame Time. The Lieute-
nant enquired, from whence they came, and
what PafTage ? The Captain replied, from
Bofton y in a Month and four Days -, and then
afked him to walk aft, and take a Dram of
Paim ; but before he did fo, the Lieutenant
afked, cc How many Hands there were on
" board ?" Fhe Captain anfwered, " He had
" only fifteen, for Men were very fcarce."
" Of what Burthen is your Ship ? — " Two
hundred and fifty Tons." I mull have your
M Hands, Sir, fays the Lieutenant, Come in
•• Barge-Crew, and do your Duty." No
fconer was the Word fpokeh, than the Crew
leapt upon Deck, and the Lieutenant ordered
ail the Ship's Company aft, faying, He
wanted to talk with them. He then ac-
cofted them with an oratorial Harangue :
" Gentlemen Sailors, laid he, I make no
" Doubt but you are willing to enter volun-
" tarily, and not as prefled Men •, if you go
*' like brave Men, freely, when you come round
" to Plymouth and Port [mouth, and go on
" board your refpective Ships, you will have
" your Bounty- Money, and Liberty to go
" on
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 183
" on Shore and kifs your Landladies/* Tho'
this Oration was pronounced with as much
Self-applaufe as Cicero felt, when, by the Force
of his Eloquence, he made Cafar, the Mailer
of the World, to tremble •, or, as the vehe-
ment DemoftheneS) when he ufed to thunder
againft King Philip -, yet we are not quite
certain whether it was the Power of his Elo-
quence alone, that perluaded the Men to enter
voluntarily ; or, whether being feated between
the two Rocks of Scylla and Charibdis, it was
indifferent to them which they dafhed upon :
However this was, all but one of the Men en-
tered (though with fad Hearts) without being
preffed -, which, we make no Doubt, the Lieu-
tenant attributed to the Eloquence of his Ora-
tion. Here, Reader, if thou haft any
Father, Son, Brother, Friend, or Relation
belonging to the Sea, thou wilt drop a
Tear of Indignation 5 that in the Land of
Liberty, Jnflicc, and IVifdcm, no more hu-
mane or equitable Method can be thought
of to mann our Fleets, than to drag un-
happy Men like the Ox to the Slaughter,
juit at that Moment, when, after a tedi-
ous Abfence, they hail the Sight of their
native Land, and already ftretch out their
Arms to embrace their long abfent and
long wifhed for Friends : Perhaps, Reader,
thou haft experienced the Heart-felt Pang,
when after counting the Years, Months,
Days,
1 84 An Apology for the Life of
Days, and even Hours of Abfence of fome
beloved Friend, jufl when the long expected
Hour was come, when thou hadft perhaps
prepared the Banquet to welcome him, and
already thought him within thy Arms, at
that Hour to have him unwillingly and cru-
elly forced away to fome diftant Shore, per-
haps never to fee him more. But let us
throw a Veil, thicker than Night itfelf,
over this barbarous Cnftom, and return to
our Story.
The Lieutenant obferving a flout Fellow in
a Frock and Troufers, who did not come aft
with the other Men, afked the Captain,
Who he was ? The Captain replied, He was
an Indian, and a brave Sailor, and called to
him by his Name. " Wat ye want wit me,
( ' replied the Indian, me won't comee demme,"
Upon which the Lieutenant fent fome of the
Barge-Crew to bring him forwards, which
the brave Indian perceiving, caught hold of
a Handfpike, and put himfelf in a Pofture of
Defence, crying out to the Barge-Crew, who
came up towards him, " Demme, ye meddle
" wit mee, mee dafhee your Brains out." The
Crew rinding him relblute, did not think
proper to attack him •, upon which the Lieu-
tenant afked him, " If he would ferve King
" George?" — " Dem King George, mee know
" no King George, mee be. an Indian, mee have
l f a King in my own Country, whom mee
" lovee
Mr. Bampfylde-Moorc Carew. 185
" lovee and fightee for, bccaufe he be de very
" good King." At which the Lieutenant
and Captain fell a laughing, and left him.
" Are thefe all your Men, fays the Lieu-
" tenant ?" — " Yes, replied the Captain, ex-
" cept one old Man, who dreamed the other
" Night that his Wife died in the Small-
" Pox j and was fo much frighted that the
" Small-Pox is come out upon him." The
Captain then ordered the Bills to be made for
what was due to the Men, and afked the Lieu-
tenant, in the mean while, to walk down and
tafte his Rum, accordingly down comes the
Lieutenant humming a Tune ; Mr. Carew
hearing this prepared himfelf, and taking an
Opportunity of putting his Finger down his
Throat, di (charges his Stomach juft under the
Lieutenant's Feet, crying out in a mod lament-
able Tone at the fame Time, O, my Head !
O, my Back I " What, cries the Lieutenant
" very haftily, Is this the Fellow who has the
" Small-Pox ?" — " No, no, replies he, I have
" had the Small-Pox many Years ago, and have
cl been with Sir Charles Wager, and Sir George
"Walton up the Baltick\ and do for God's
" Sake, take me on board your Ship, noble
as an un-
fortunate Reman Cathclick, and received a Gui-
nea, lay that Night at Sandy Gate, and be-
haved as a Roman Catholick, under the Name
of JVilliam Paffmore.
1'he next Day, at Moll Uptons in Newton-
B'(fh:l\ he met with one of the Sifters of that
Order of Mendicants commonly called Coufin
Betties, and he having an Inclination to pay a
Vifit to Sir Thomas Carets, at Hackum, foon
made an Agreement with the Coufin Betty, to
exchange Habits ior that Day. The Barber
was then calTd in to make his Beard as fmooth
as his Art and Razor could make it, and his
Hair
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carevv. 197
Hair was drefTed up with Ribbons^, thus me-'
tamorphofed, our Hero fets out, having a lit-
tle Wand in his Hand, and a little Dog under
his Arm •, being come to Sir Thomas Caretv's,
he nifties into the Houfe without Ceremony,
demanding his Rent in an imperious Tone >
none of the Men-Servants being in the Way,
the Women ran one one Way, and one ano-
ther ; but he taking no Notice of this Confu-
fion, continued to act the mad Woman, beat-
ing his Head againft the Wall,kifling his Dog,
and demanding his Rent : At lafl comes one
of the Women- Servants, faying, cc Lady you
" are welcome to your Rent," and gave him
Half a Crown ; but he was not to be got rid
of fo eafy, for now he fell a raving again, and
demanded fome Merry-go -down •, upon which
they brought him fome Ale, which he having
drank, took his Leave, thanking them with
a very low Curtefie. From hence he conti-
nues his Progrefs to Parfon Sandford's of
Stoke in Tinney, where having entered the
Houfe with as little Ceremony as before, he
not only demanded his Rent as ufual, but a
Gown of fome of his Coufins •, neither would
he take his Leave till he had got a Shilling
for Rent, a good Gown, and fome Pinners.
He next calls upon Parfon Richards, at Cocmbe,
in Timuy, vhere he got a Shilling and a new
Shift. Having thus fucceeded in this new
Adventure, he returns to his Quarters at
Mother Upton's, in Newton-BuJhell y where he
divided
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divided the Profits of the Day with Irs good
Coufin Bett)\ and pafTed the Night very mer-
rily with her.
The next Day he reitored his borrowed Ac-
coutrements to the Coufin Betty, and calling-
for a Pen and Ink, wrote a Petition in the
Character of a poor unfortunate Soap-boiler,
whole Houfe was ict on Fire by the C. relefs-
nefs of an Apprentice, in the Parifh of Monk-
fther y not forgetting to fign it with the Names
of feveral neighbouring Gentlemen: With
this fictitious Petition he goes to Juftice Tay-
Z^r's, at Denbry, where be was handlbmely re-
lieved : From hence he goes to Juftice Neal\
and finding, upon Enquiry, the Juftice him-
felf was at Home, did not venture to deliver
his Petition, but begged as an unfortunate
Man, and was relieved with a Cup of Cyder,
and fome Bread and Cheefe. At Darlington
he a/Turned the Character of a Ratcatcher,
and fold a Receipt to a Gentleman's Steward
for a Crown j and under this Character he
travels forward to Plymouth, Plere, hearing
there was to be a great Cockmatch, he lays
afide his Rat-catcher's Habit,- and puts on
that of a Gentleman, and not the Habit only,
(as too many do, but tfie Manners and Be-
haviour Pike a iic) fo that going to the Cock-
Match, he betted fcvtral Wagers with Sir
Coventry Carew, and his own Brother Mr.
Henry Carew, the Minifter of SaltaJJ^ which
he had the good Fortune to win, and left the
Cock-
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 199
Cock- Pit undifcovered by any one. u Thus
M great is the Power of Drefs," that it tranf-
forms and metamorphofes the Beggar into a
Gentleman, and the Cinder -Wench into a fine
Lady \ therefore let not the little Great (I
mean thofe who have nothing to recommend
them but their Equipage) pride themfelves as
though they had fomething fitperior in them,
to the poor IVntch they fpurn from them
with fo much Contempt •, for let me tell them,
if we are apt to pay them Refpetf, they are
folely indebted for it to the Mercer and Taylor,
for ftrip them of their gaudy Plumes, and we
ihall not be able to diftinguilh them from the
lowed Order of Mumpers. This puts us in
Mind of a remarkable Adventure of our He-
ro's Life, which he always tells with a great
deal of Pleafure.
One Day as he was begging in the Town of
Maiden Bradley from Door to Door, as a fhip-
wreck'd Seaman, he faw on the other Side of
the Street a mendicant Brother Sailor in a Ha-
bit as forlorn as his own, a begging for God's
Sake, juft like himfeif, who feeing Mr, Carew
eroded over the Way and came up to him,
and in the canting Language afked him
where he lay laft Night, what Road he was
going, and feverai other Queitions ; then
v hcther he would brulh into the hoozing-
ken and be his Thrums, i. e. po into the
Alehoufe and fpend Ins Threepence with him :
To this lie contented, and away they go ;
where.
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where, in the Series of their Converfation,
they aik each other various Queftions con-
cerning the Country, the charitable and un-
charitable Families, the moderate and fevere
Juftices, the good and queer Corporations,
7. e. thole that would and would not fuffer
begging in their Territories. This new Ac-
quaintance of Mr. Carew's afked him if he had
been at Sir Ed-ivard Seymour's ? He anfwered
Tes 9 and had received his Alms ; the Stran-
ger therefore, not having been there, leaves
him at the Alehoufe, and goes thither him-
felf, where having received the fame Alms
that his new Companion had, he returns to
him again.
The next Day they beg the Town, one on
one Side the Street, and the other on the other,
each on his own ieparate Story and Account :
They then proceeded to the Houfes of fe-
veral Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood, both
on one Story, \\ Ivch was that of the Stranger 9
among many others they came to Lord Wey-
nwuttfi) where it was agreed that Mr. Carew
fhould be Spokelman ; upon their coming up
to the Houfe the Servants bid them be gone,
unlefs they could give a very good Account
of themfelves, and the Countries in which they
pretended to have been, for fhould Lord Wey-
mouth come and detect them in any Falfhood,
he would Horfewhip them without Mercy,
which was the Treatment all thofe whom he
found to be Counterfeits met with from him,
and
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 201
and he had detected great Numbers of them,
having been abroad himiclf : Our Travellers,
however, were not in the lead daunted hereat,
Mr. Carew being confcious to himfelf that he
could give a fatisfactory Account of 'Newfound-
land^ and the other confidently affirming, that
he had been at Rome, France, Spain t Portugal %
Italy, &c. and could give as good a Defcrip-
tion of thofe Countries as his Lordfhip himfelf
Therefore up they go to the Kitchen -Door, and
Mr. Carew broke the Ice, telling the deplora-
ble Story of their Misfortune in his ufual la-
mentable Tone : The Houfekeeper at firft
turned a deaf Ear to their Supplication and In*
treaty ; but Mr. Carew, at the In (ligation of
his Companion, redoubled his Importunity,
kneeled on one Knee, and made Ufe of all the
Methods of exciting Charity, of which he was
capable ; fo that at length the Houfekeeper
gave them the greateft Fart of a cold Shoulder
of Mutton, half a fine Wheaten Loaf, and a
Shilling, but did it with great Hafte and Fear,
left my Lord mould fee her, and be angry
thereat ; of the Butler they got a Copper of
good Ale, and then both exprefTing their
Thankfulnefs departed : Having got at fome
Diflance from theHoufe, there arofe a Difpute
who mould carry the Victuals, both being loth
to incumber themfeives with it, as having nei-
ther Wife nor Child near to give it to : Mr,
Carew was for throwing it into the Hedge, but:
the othrr urged that it was both a Sin and a.
S Shame
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Shame to wafte good Victuals in that Manner ;
to they both agreed to go to the Green Man*
about a Mile from my Lord's, and there ex-
change it for Liquor. At this Alehouie they
tarried fome Time, and fhack'd the Argot, i. e,
fhared the Money which they had that Day
gotten •, then, alter a parting Glafs, each went
his feparate Way.
The Reader cannot but be furprized, when
we allure him that this Mendicant Companion
cf his was no lefs a Peribn than my Lord
Ifs'ey — th himfeif, who being defirous of found-
ing the Tempers and Difpofitions of the Gen-
tlemen and other Inhabitants of his Neighbour-
hood, put himfeif into a Habit fo valtly be-
neath his Birth and Fortune, in order to ob-
tain that Difcovcry ; nor was this the fir it
Time that this great Nobleman has metamor-
phofed himfeif into the defpicable Shape and
Character of a Beggar, as feveral of that
Neighbourhood can teftify •, but when he went
abroad into the World in this Difguife, he took
cfpecial Care to conceal it even from his own
Family, one Servant only, in whofe Secrecy
he greatly confided, being entrufted there-
with -, and this was his Valet de Chambre,
who ufed to drels, fhave, and perform other
iuch Offices relating to his Lordmip's Perfon.
Mr. Carew and his nuble Companion having
thus parted from each other, he took his Way
into the Woodlands, towards Frcom •, and the
difguifed Lord, by a private Way through his
Park
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 103
Park and Gardens, returned to his own Houfe,
and there diverting himfelf of his Rags, put
on his embroidered Apparel, and reafiumed the
Dignity and State to which both his Birth and
Fortune entitled him. u I am informed, laid
" his Lordfhip, that two Sailors have been at
" my Floufe •," and enquiring which Way they
went, he ordered two Men and Horfes to go
after them, with a ftricr. Charge to bring them
back to his Houfe, for he heard they were
Impoftors, and if he found them fuch, he
would treat them accordingly : The Servants
obey his Commands without the leaft Sufpi-
cion of the Intricacy of this Affair, and foon
came up with Mr. Cn^ew, whom they forcibly
bring back to my Lord : My Lord accofts
him in a very rough, (tern Manner, afks where
the other Fellow was, and told him he mould
be made to find him. Mr. Ccrcw in the mean
Time flood Thunder-ftruck, expecting no-
thing lefs than Commitment to Prifon ; but,
upon Examination, made out his Story as
well as he could.
After having thus terrified and threatened
him for a confiderabie Time, away goes his
Lordfhip, and divefling himfelf of his Habit
and Character of a Nobleman, again puts on
his Rags, and is by his trufty Valet de Cham-
bre ufhered into the Room where his Brother
Beggar ftood fweating with Fear ; they confer
Notes together, whifpering to each other what
to fay, in order tha* their Accounts might
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agree when examined apart, as in Effect they
were : The Steward took Mr. Carew afide in-
to a private Chamber, and there pretending
that the other Fellow's Relation contradicting
his, proved them to be both Counterfeits, a
Prifon mud be the Portion of both ; and in-
deed nothing was omitted that might ftrike
Mr. Carew with the greater! Terror and Con-
fufion. By this Time my Lord having thrown
off his Rag?, and put on his line Apparel,
Mr. Carew was again brought into his Pre-
fence to receive his final Sentence ; when my
Lord having fufficiently diverted himfelf with
the Fear and Confternation of his Brother
Mumper, difcovered himfelf to him.
We might have mentioned before, that
while my Lord and Mr. Carew travelled toge-
ther, they afked each other whence they came,
and what their Names were : Mr. Carew inge-
nuoufly confeffed his, but my Lord difguhed
both his Name and Country ; fo that having
accidentally met with a Mendicant of the
greater!: Note in all England^ his Lord (hip
thought fit to treat him in the Manner afore-
faid, which he would not have done to evcy
common Vagrant \ however, to fatisfy him-
felf that this was the famous and true Bamp-
fylde-Moore Carew, (for many Impofbors had
nfurped his Name) he fends for Captain At-
kins, a Gentleman of his Acquaintance in the
Neighbourhood, who went to School with Mr.
Carew at 'Tiverton : This Gentleman was very
glad
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 205
glad to fee his old Schoolfellow, and aflured
his Lordfhip 'twas really Mr. Bavipfeld-Mccre
Carew : Upon which his Lordfhip very nobly
entertained him at his Houie for the Space or
three Days, and gave him an excellent good
Suit of Cloaths, and ten Guineas •, but remem-
bering the Trouble they had, and die Lofs they
were at to difpofe of the Shoulder of Mutton
and Bread which his Houfekeeper had given
them, as likewise the Refolution Mr. C-rew
had once taken to throw it away, he called to
his Houfekeeper, and ftrictly charged her never
to give away a Morfel of Victuals more, but
beftow the Alms in Money only, as rightly
judging that to be more acceptable, and fervice-
abkto Beggars than the bed of Provifion, the
greatefl Part of which they either wafte, give
away, or exchange for an inconfiderable Quan-
tity of Drink, as my Lord and Mr. Carew
had done. His LordOiip took Mr. Carew to
Warminfter Horfe- Race, and there recommend-
ed him to many honourable Gentlemen, who
was very liberal to him. He feveral Times
after made bold to call upon his Lordfhip lit
his Rounds, and at every Vifit received a Gui-
nea, and an hearty Welcome at the Houfe :
My Lord would frequently make himfelf
merry with the PafTage, and jocofely fay,
" That he was more expert in the Science of
" Mumping, than even Mr. Carew himfelf."
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CHAP. XVI.
Mr. Carew appears in a new Char after : Lays
a Stratagem to deceive Dr. Glanfield, of St.
GermainV, an inveterate Enemy to the Com-
munity of Mendicants, and fucceeds : Makes
himfelf regarded as a Tat tern of Conjugal
AfFeclion : Plays a merry Frank with Mr.
Grimes, a Scotchman, and gains the Repu-
tation of laying a Spirit, and afterwards ap-
pears in the Character of a dreadful Gboft.
K)O0«()3p^R. Carew having fleered his
Mji kX Courfe from Plymouth to Brat-
q M H icn C! ove ?b\ meets there with
Q-^f «r5 Coleman in the Habit of a
Q&^&O&ji Tin ^ er ' wnicr * Character he
like wife foon afTumes : Here
they were met by an Excifeman, who knew
them, but promifed not to difcover them ;
and hearing that one Madam Beere of
BrideJIow, was to be buried that Night, and her
Pall fupported by feveral Clergymen, among
whom Mr. Carezv's Brother was to be one,
away go the two Tinkers to Bridejlow % where,
at the Red Lion r they found the Clergymen
fitting by the Kitchen Fire : The Tinkers,
without taking any Notice of the Clergymen,
fet
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 720
fet down their Budgets, and called for a Quart
of Ale : — They had not fat long, before the
Clergymen afked them, " What Countrymen
" they were W — They replied, with great
Compofure, "North Countrymen." — " From
" what Part, Tinkers?" — " Abington, near
" Oxford" This produced a great many
Quefticns about Ablngton, Oxford, &c. all
which Mr. Carew and his Companion readily
anf.vered. The Clergymen then began to jeft
about their Profeflion, which the Tinkers re-
fenting, told them, they could mend Kettles
better than they could Sermons ; and Coleman
offered to lay either of them a Guinea they
could not iky the Lord's Prayer in Greek back-
wards. Thefe Taunts and Jeers produced no
little Strife ; and the Comedy might perhaps
have ended tragically, had not the Excifeman,
who met them at Clwelly, come in juft at this
Time, who accofting them by their Name?,
all Animofities immediately fubfided, and Mr.
Carew* % Brother embraced him,, faying, " My
" dear Frater, are you turned Tinker?" — " Ay,
" ay, replied he, do you mind your Com-
" mon-Prayer,. and 1*11 mind my Budget."
The Glafs then went round very chearfully, fo
that they did not think of going before the
Morning \ when his Brother would have had
him arid Coleman gone aiong with them ; but
they told him, M They mufb ftand by their
" Budgets, and flay in their Quarters :" how-
ever prom i fed to fee him in Tai'iJtGck the next
Day -, which they fet out with an Intent to
do,
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do, but miffed their Way, and crofifed over the
Water to Lord Edgcumbe's. Here they met
with fome Brother Tinkers, one of whom
told them, " He had been at Lord Edg-
" cumbe's, where there was a great Company
" of Gentlemen, amongft whom he heard
" there was Sir Coventry Carew, 'Squire El-
" Hot, of Port Elliot * and 'Squire Moyle, of
" Beek 9 in the Parifh of St. Germain's." Up-
on which Mr. Carew immediately reiblved to
go there in propria Perfina, but was at a Lofs
for Cloaths, and would have had Coleman gone
back to Plymouth to get fome ; but he refil-
ling, he was obliged to fet forward in no higher
a Character than that of a Tinker, which he
ibon found too mean to gain him Admittance,
©r a favourable Ear from the Servants j he
therefore returns back to Coleman, who now
immediately fets out for Plymouth to get fome
Cloaths he had there : Returning very foon,
and Mr. Carew being now equipped, lets out
again for Lord Edgcumbc's, and in this new
Habit, having gained fo far upon one of the
Servants as to get him to deliver a little Note
to Sir Coventry Carew, he was prefently intro-
duced amongft all the Gentlemen, to whom he
created a great deal of Mirth •, and telling
them, with other Adventures, how he had juft
before deceived his own Brother in a Tinker's
Habit, one of the Gentlemen proffered to lay
a Wager he could not fling Dr. Glanfield, of
St. Germain's : Mr. Carew hefitated a little
upon
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 209
upon this, as the Doctor was very fevere to all
Mendicants, and the Gentlemen telling him,
they would be his Bail if he was taken up \ he
replied, " It was very kind ; but in the mean
tc Time that he got their Bail, he muft lie in
Cc Prifon" However, as the Love of Fame was
always uppermoft in his Soul, he accepted of
the Wager, refolving to attempt it, however
hazardous it might be : Accordingly it was
agreed on, and he was to come the next Day
to 'Squire Elliot's at Port Elliot, where moft
of the Company were then to be, to inform
them ot his Succefs 5 then he took his Leave,
having firft received very liberally from all the
Gentlemen •, and returning to Coleman, divi-
ded the Profits of the Expedition, telling
him at the fame Time the Adventure he was
going upon, which Coleman refufed to join in,
lb they parted Company. Away goes Mr.
Carew to Hufingford, in the Parifh of St. Ger-
main's, where he put on a great Fur Cap,
and afllimes the Character of a Rat-catcher,
not forgetting to rub his Face well with Flour,
to give him a pale Complexion ; being thus
accoutred, he fets out for the Doctor's Houfe,
as foon as he came into the Courr-Yard, he
fets up a mod violent Coughing, which in-
terrupting every Word, he was near half an
Hour bringing out in a very feeble Tone,
** Have you any Work for the Rat-catcher ?"
One of the Servants told him, " They had
" not, for they employed one Brown"
However,
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However, he ftill kept on coughing and fpit-
ting, as though he would bring up his Lungs,
Entrails, Heart and Liver : At laft out comes
the Doctor, which made him carry his Cough
to a higher Key. The Doctor obferving him
to look fo pale, and {training fo violently with
his Cough, faid to him, " Thou a Rat-catcher,
cc Man ! thou art more fit for thy Grave •, go
Fort-
night, being treated in the kindeft Manner
pollible, and at his Departure my Lord made
him a handfome Prcfent, and gave him a
very good Suit of Cloaths, with a recommen-
datory Letter to young Mr. Bay.
Here
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Here he was received with great Civility, as
well upon the Account of Lord St. Leiger-s
Letter as being an old Schoolfellow of Mr.
Day's Father-, the Converfation happening to
fall upon Dogs, Mr. Bay told him, " he
the honefl Sailor,, they enquired, If he
knew any Thing of Accompts ? promifing
if he did, to get him a Place in the Cuftoms. In
the Morning, after a good hearty Rreakfaft,
they fet forwards fox-Tor- Abbey, and being ar-
rived in Tor Town, they demanded the Confta-
ble's Aflift ance, who was with the utmofl Re-
luctance prevailed upon to accompany them in
making this Search, 'Squire Gary being a Gen-
tleman ib univerfally beloved by the whole Pa-
nm, (to whom he always behaved as a Father)
that
Mr.'Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 243
that every one was very backward in doing any
Thing to give him the leaf! Uneafmefs : Did
Gentlemen of large Eftates in the Country but'
once tafte the exalted Pleafure of making a
whole Neighbourhood happy, and confider
how much honed Induftry they might Support,
how much Mifery they might alleviate, and
how many daily BlcOings they might have
poured forth upon their Heads, from Hearts
overflowing with Love, ReSpect, and Grati-
tude, almoft to Adoration ; we Should not So
often fee them leave their noble Country Man-
sions, to repair to Noife and Folly •, nor ex-
change the Heart, enlivening Pleafure of mak-
ing Numbers happy, for the beguiling Smiles
and unmeaning ProSeiTions of a Prime Mini-
fter : Neither Ihould we hear fuch frequent
Complaints of the Behaviour of their poof*
Neighbours, for Goodncfs and Beneficence are
fuch irrefiftible Ties, that few have Hearts bad .
enough to attempt breaking through them.
Being come to the Houfe, they all dis-
mounted, and the Collector defired the Sailor
to hold his Horfe, but he replied, " He would .
" go round the Garden, and meet them on
" the other Side of the Ploufe, to prevent any
" Thing being conveyed away, and that it
" would be proper ■■ he mould be prefent to
" fhew the particular Place in which every
ct Thing was depoSited." This appeared
quite right to the Collector •, he therefore con-
tented himielf with fattening his Horfe to the
Garde xx
244 dn Apology for the Life of
Garden- Pails, and proceeds with the reft of
the Officers in great Form to fearch the Dog-
Kennel, the Coal-Houfe,Dove-Houfe, Stables,
and all other fufpicious Places, expecting every
Minute to fee the informing Sailor, who by this
Time was nearly got back to Newton-Bufhel,
having turned his Horfe's Head that Way as
foon as be got out of Sight of the Collector ;
he flopped at the Bid!, where they had been
the preceding Night, and drank a Bottle of
Wine; then ordered a handfome Dinner to be
got ready for his Company, whom he faid he
had left behind, becaufe his Bufineis called him
with urgent Hade to Exeter, claps Spurs to his
Horfe, and did not flop till he reached that
City, where he put up at the Oxford lr\n, then
kept by Mr.. Buckftone, to whom both himfelf
and Friends were well known : Ke acquainted
Mr. Buckftone that he was now reformed, and
lived at home with his Friends, and fpent the
Night very jovially, calling for the befl of
every Thing •, in the Morning he defired Mr.
Buckftone to do him the Favour of lending him
a Couple of Guineas, till he could receive fome
of a Merchant in the City, upon whom he had
r, Bill,, for the Merchant was gone out of Town :
As Mr. Buckftone had a Mare in his Cuflody
worth ten or twelve Pound?, he made no Scru-
ple of doing it •, and ioon after Mr. Carew
thought proper to change his Quarters, with-
out bidding che Landlord good- by, leaving
die Mare to difcharge his Reckoning, and the
Loan
Mr. B'ampfylde-Moore Carew. 245
Loan he had borrowed : Fie repaired immedi-
ately to a Houfe of ufual Reibrt for his Com-
munity, where he pulls off the fine Cloaths
the Collector had lent him, and rigs himfelf in
a Jacket and Trowfers •, then letting cut for
Topfoam, about three Miles from the City of
Exeter, he there again executes the lame Stra-
tagem upon Mr. Carter and the other Officers
there, informing them of great Concealments
at Sir Copplejlon Bampfyldeh Hcufe at Pclti&ora,
for which they rewarded him with a goxl Treat
and a Couple of Guineas. The Exeter Offi-
cers (whom, as we have before faid, he kit
without any Ceremony at 'Squire Cory's) hav-
ing fearched all the Out-houfes, and even the
Dwelling- Houfe very narrowly, without find-
ing any prohibited Goods, began to fufpect
the Sailor had outwitted them, therefore re-
turned in a great Hurry to Newton-Bufoel, all
their Mirth being turned into Vexation, and
their great Expectations vanifhed into Smoak.
Soon after they had difmounted from their
Horfes, the Landlord brought in the Dinner,
which he faid their Companion had ordered to
be got ready for them ; but though it was a
very elegant one, (the Landlord having ex-
erted all his Abilities about it) yet they found
abundance of Fault with it; for it is common.
with moil People, when they are chagrin'd
with one Thing, to find Fault with every
Thing •, however, as it was too late to reach
iter that Night, they were obliged to take up
their
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their Quarters there -, but inftead of the Jol-
lity and good Humour that reigned among
them the Night before, there now fucceeded a
fullen Silence, only interrupted now and then
by fome Exclamations of Revenge, and Ex-
preftions of Diflike of every Thing that was
brought them : When they came into Exeter
the next Day, they had Intelligence brought
them of the Mare, which was fafe enough at
the Oxford Inn ; but they were obliged to
difburie the Money Mr. Carew had made her
his Surety for.
From Topjham Mr. Carew proceeded to Ex-
mouth, where he likewife fucceeded, and from
thence to 'Squire Stucky's, a Juflice of the
Peace at Brandfcomhe, about four Miles from
Sidmouth, and being introduced, acquaints his
Worfhip with what Difcoveries he could make;
the Juflice thereupon immediately difpatches
a MeiTenger for Mr. Duke an Officer in Sid-
mouth ', in the mean Time entertains him very
handfomely, and prelTes him to accept of two
Guineas, as a fmall Token of Kindnefs, often
Ihaking him by the Hand, and faying, " He
>
he could not utter his forrowful Tale, being
unacquainted with the Language of the Coun-
try ; but his mute Silence, his dejected Coun-
tenance, a fudden Tear that now and then
flowed down his Check, accompanied with a
noble AiV of Diftrefs, all pleaded for him
with
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with a more perfuafive Eloquence, than per-
haps the fofteft Language could have done,
and raifed him confiderable Gains -, and in-
deed Benevolence can never be better exerted
than towards unfortunate Strangers, for no
Diftrefs can be fo forlorn as that of a Man
in NecefTity in a Foreign Country -, he has no
Friends to apply to, no Laws to fhelter him
under, no Means of providing for his Subfift-
tence, and therefore can have no Refource
but in thofe benevolent Minds who look upon
the whole world as their Brethren. We have
already mentioned Mr. Carew's being on
board the Yarmouth, up the Baltick, it will not
be therefore improper here to relate the Oc-
caiion of that Voyage, which was as follows :
He and his beloved Friend Coleman being at
Plymouth, and appearing to be able-bodied
Men, fome Officers who chanced to fee them
there, thought them extremely fit to ferve his
Majefly, therefore obliged them to go on
board the Dunkirk Man of War ; but they
not liking of this, Ccleman prick'd himfelf
upon the Wrift, between his Fingers and
other Joints, and enfiaming it with Gunpow-
der, every one thought it to be the Itch ; he
.^as therefore carried afhore, and put into
the Hofpital, from whence he foon made his
Efcape ; Mr. Carew tried the fame Stratagem
but too late, for the Lively and Succefs Men
of War now arriving from Ireland with im-
prefs'd Men, they were all of them carried
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immediately (together with the imprefs'd Meri
lying at Plymouth) to the grand Fleet, then
lying at • Spithead ; they were firft put on
board the Bredau, Admiral Hofier, to choofe
whom he Mk'd of them ; and their Names
being call'd over, the Irijhmen were all refu fed,
which Mr, Carew feeing, declared himfelf in
the lrifh Brogue to be a poor Irifh Weaver,
and difabled in one Arm ; whereupon he was
alfo refilled : The Irifh among whom he was
now rank'd, were carried from Ship to Ship,
and none would accept of them, which made
them all expect to be difcharged, but they
were difappointed in their Hopes, for they
were put on board the Yarmouth, Captain
O'Brien, being one of the Squadron deftin'd
for the Baltick ; Mr. Carew rinding Captain.
O'Brien refufed no IrijJomen, when he came
to be examined changed his Note, and de-^
elares himfelf to be an Englifloman, but crip-
pled in one Arm ; however, the Captain ac-
cepted of him, and putting a Sword in his.
Hand, makes him ftand Centry at the Bittsy
which eafy Poll he liked very well, and dur-
ing all the Time he was on Board, every one^
thought him really difabled in his Arm.
The Fleet failing from Spithead with a fair
Wind, anchored iafe at Copenhagen, and the
King of Denmark came on board Sir Charles:
Wcgcr\ the Moment he let his Foot on
bc^d, bath che J?iag Ships w^re covered.
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Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 255
tvith an infinite Number of Colours of every*
Hue, which waving in the Wind, made a
moft gallant Siizht; upon his Departure, the
Colours were all taken down in ari Inilant,
and every Ship fired 18 or 20 Guns. Sailing
from Copenhagen, they anchored next ia
Elfon Nape, in Szveden ; from hence failed to-
Revel, in a Line of Battle, in form of a
Rainbow, and anchored there-, the lick Men:
were carried afhore to Argan Ifland, which
Mr. Carezv obferving, and burning with Love
to revifit his Native Country, counterfeited'
Sicknefs, and was accordingly carried alhore
to this Ifland, which lies near Revel, belong-
ing to the Mufccvites, from whence Boats,
come every Day to fetchWood : He prevail-
ed upon an En%lifmnan. who was a Boatfwain;
of one of the Czarina's Men of War, to give
him a Paftage, ia his Boat from that Iiland
to Revel Town-, when he came there, the
Boatfwain ufed great Endeavours to perfuade-
him to enter into the Czarina's Service, but
it was all in vain, being refolved to return
to his beloved Country-, the Boatfwain there-
fore having entertained him a Day and a
Night at his Houfe, gave him at his Depar-
ture a Piece of Money, and engaged feveral
Englijhmen of his Acquaintance to do the
fame-, he likewife fiirnilhed him with a Bag.
oi Provifions, a Bottle of excellent Brandy,
a Tinder- Box, and a few Lines wrote in that
Country Lr.n^uage, which was to (how to
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thofe he met, to inform himfelf of the Road
he was to go •, and then conducted him out
of Town : He that Night took up his Lodg-
ing in the Woods, and by the Help of his
Tinder-Box, made a large Fire all round him,
to fecure himfelf from any Vifits from the
wild Beafts, then broiled a Piece of Fleih,
drank a Dram, and refted very quietly till
Morning, it being the Middle of Summer.
The whole Country here is wild, full of vaft
Woods, and large uninhabited Defarts, the
Towns and Villages lying very thin. In the
Morning, finding his Way out of the Wpods,
he fpies a lonely Hutt, to which he made up,
and making Signs of Hunger and Thirft,
they gave him fome Rufk-Bread and Ca-
bereta, or Goat's Flefh to eat, and fome
Goat's Milk to drink, which is the ufual
Fare amongft thofe People, who are moft of
them Lutherans by Religion, and lead very
fober Lives : Of lome of them he got fmall
Bits of Money, which they call Campekes,
and are of Silver, fomething larger than a
Barley Corn, being of a Penny Value ; he
likewife frequently got Drams of excellent
Brandy amongft them, and his Shoes being
worn out by travelling, they gave him a Pair
of wooden ones, which fat very auk ward
upon his Englijh Feet : After fix or {even
Days Travel through this wild Country, he
comes to Riga* a large Town and famous Sea
Port*
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 257
Port : Here he met with many Engli/h Mer-
chants and Commanders of VefTels, who
were very Kind to him •, he tarried two Days
in Riga, to reft and refrefh hirnfelf; during
which the Englijh Merchants and Command-
ers provided Lodging and other .Accommo-
dations for him, collecting upwards ot fifty
Shillings for him : Having expreffed his ut-
moft Gratitude towards his good Benefactors,
he again purlued his Journey, fubfifting bim-
felf fometimes on the Charity of the Inhabi-
tants of the Country, and at other Times
milking the Cows that he found upon the
Mountains, or in the Woods : The next
Place of Note he arrived at was the City of
Dantzick, the Metropolis of Poland-, here he
found a great Number of Englijh Merchants,
who traded to Erijlol and Exeter, and had ma-
ny Correfpondmts living in thtffe Places,
• feveral of whom Mr. C*re and unfufpecting Danger, he was
accofted by Merchant D — jy, accompanied
with feveral Captains of VeiTels, in fome fuch
Words as thefe, " Ha! Mr. Carew^ you are
,c come in a right Time, as you came Home
" for your own Pleafure, you mall now go
" over for mine." They then laid Hands
on him, who found it in vain to refill:, as
he was over-powered by Numbers; he there-
fore defired to be carried before fome Ma-
gistrate; but this was not hearkened to, for
they forced him aboard a Boat without the
Pretence or Authority of any Officer of Juf-
tice, not fo much as furTering him to take
Leave of his Wife, or acquaint her with his
Misfortune, tho' he begg'd the Favour almoft
with Tears : The Boat carried him on board
the Philleroy^ Capt. Simmons bound for Ame-
rica with Convicts, which then lay off Pow-
4erhap Caftle, waiting only for a fair Wind.
Her',
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 267
Here, had my Pen Gall enough, I would
put a Bloc of eternal Infamy on that Citizen
of Liberty, who ufurped fo much Power
over a Fellow-Denizon, and thoie who fuf-
fercd a Brother of Liberty, however unde-
ferving, to be dragged to Slavery by the
lawlefs Hand of Power, without the Man-
date of fovereign Juftice. Foolifh Wretch!
doft thou not know that thou ought'ft to
be more careful of keeping allufurping Power
within its Bounds, than thou would'ft the ra-
ging Sea ready to overflow and overwhelm thy
All; for thou who haft once confented to fee
Power opprefs a Fellow- Heir of glorious Li-
berty, how can'ft thou complain if its all-grafp-
ing Iron Hand fhould feize upon thyfelf, or
whatever thou hold'ft mod dear ? Then
would'ft thou too late, bewail that thou had'ft
ever fufrered Power wantonly to let its Foot
on the Neck of Liberty.
But to return, Mr. Carew was no fooner
put on board, than he was ftriclly icarched,
and then taken between Decks, where he
was ironed down with the Convicts : There
was at the fame Time, a violent Fever ra-
ging among them, and Mr. Carezv, by being
chained with them Night and Day, wa> fooc
infected, and taken very ill; however, he
had not the Liberty of fending to his Wife
nor any of his Friends, though they lay three
Weeks in the Road for a fair Wind. In the
mean Time his Wife not hearing any Thing
frc rti
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from him, and uncertain of what was- be-
come of him, or whether he was alive or dead
abandoned her fell" ro all the Excefs of Grief y
for he had been always a kind and affectio-
nate Hufband to her -, me therefore fought
him up and down at all the Houfes of his
uTual Reforv, but all in vain, for no News
could frie gain of her beloved Hufband.
The Wind coming fair, they hoiiled Sail,
and foon bid Adieu to the Englifh Coafts.
We need not defcribe what pafled in Mr.
C'-reivs Breaft at this Time : Anger and
Grief prevailed by Turns: Sometimes Re-
fentment, for being thus treated, fired his
Bofom, and he vowed Revenue : At other
Times, the i noughts of his being thus un-
expectedly fepnrated from his Country and
Friends, and doomed to an ignominious Sla-
very, filled ham with Sadnefs,. and melancholy
Reflections : However he had the Pleafure,
before it: was long, of knowing he was not
entirely deferted ; for Captain Simmons the
Commander of the Pbilkroy^.a, humane, com-
panionate Man, came down to him between
- Decks .foon after they were under Sail, and
. bid him be of good Cheer, for he mould
want for nothing-, and though he had fr.rict
Orders from Merchant D y never to let
him return, yet he would be a Friend to him,,
and provide for him in the beft Manner he
could. Mr. Carew returned his Thanks to this
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 269
generous and unexpected Benefactor in as hand
fome a Manner as he was able.
Soon after this, lie had Liberty allowed him
of coming upon Deck, where the Captain en*
tered into Conversation with him, and jocofe-
ly aik'd, " if he thought he fliould be at
M Home before him ?" He generoufly re-
plied, u he thought he fhouid, at lead he
" would endeavour to be fo ;" which the
Captain took all in good Part.
Thus did Mr. Carew fpend his Time, in
as agreeable a Manner as could be expected
under his prefent Circum fiances-, but alas!
all our Happinefs is too fleeting, and we
fcarcely tafte the Pleafure, before it is ra-
vifhed from us : And thus it happened to our
Hero •, for they had fcarcely been under Sail
five Weeks, before the good Captain Sim-
mons was taken ill, which encreafed every Day
with too many fatal Symptoms ; till at lalt
Death, who has no Regard to the good and
virtuous, ft ruck the deadly Blow: But the
Approaches of the grilly Tyrant were not fo
dreadful to this good Man, as the Thoughts
of the Diftrefs it would occafion to his Wife
and Family, whom he continually cry'd out
upon, during his whole Illnefs. Mr. Carew
bewailed the Lofs of his generous Benefactor,
with more than outward Sorrow. Every
Thing in the Veftel was now in Confufion,
by the Death of the Captain : At length
the Mate, one Harrifon of Ncwcajtle, took
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Charge of the Veffel, and the Captain's Ef-
fects, but had not long enjoyed his new Ho-
nours, before he was taken dangeroufly ill,
fo that the Veffel was obliged to be left to
the Care of the common Sailors, and was fe-
veral Times in great Danger of being loft.-
At laft, after fixtden Weeks PafTag e, in the
Grey of the Morning, they made Cape Charles,
and then bore away for Cape Henry : At
Hampton they took in a Pilot, the VefTel ha-
ving feveral Times before run upon the Sands,
and was not got off again without great
Difficulty : the Pilot brought them to Kent
Ifland, where they fired a Gun ; and Harrifon,
who was now recovered, wentafhore at Anna-
polis, and made a Bargain with one Mr. Delany,
of that Place, for Mr. Carew, as an expert Gar-
dener. He was then fent for on Shore, and
Mr. Belany afk'd him, " If he underftood
" Gardening ?" Being willing to get out of
Harrifon' 's Hands, he replied in the Affirma-
tive ; but Mr. Delany afking, "If he could
" mow ?" and he anfwering in the Negative,
Then you are no Gardener, replied Mr. Delany,.
and fo refufed to buy him. Then one HiLorcp,
who had been tran {ported about three Ye; rs be-
fore, from Exeter, for Horfe- ileal ing, and had
married a Currier's Widow m Annapolis, had a
Mind to purchafehim, but they could not agree
upon the Price ; whereupon he was put on
board again, and they fail'd for Miles' 's River-
Here they fired a Gun, and the Captain wens
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Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 271
on Shore : In the mean Time the Men Pri •
loners were ordered to be clofe fhaved, and
the Women to have clean Caps on : This was
fcarcely done before an Overfeer belonging
to one Mr. Bennet, in IVay River, and feveral
Planters, came off to buy : The Prisoners
were all ordered upon Deck, and Mr, Carew
among them : Some of the Planters knew
him again, and cry'd out, " Is not this the
" Man Captain Froade brought over, and put
" a Pot-Hook upon r" " Yes, reply \1 Harrifin
" the very fame:" At which they were much
furpriz'd, making Account he had been either
killed by the wild Beafts, or drowned in fome
River; " Ay, ay, replied Ho.rrifcn, with a
great Oath, I'll take Care he ftrall not bt at
Home before me." By this Time feveral of
the Prifoners were fold, the Bowl went mer-
rily round, and many of the Planters gave
Mr. Carew a Glafs, but none chofe to buy
him.
During this, Mr. Carew obferving a great
many Canoes and Boats lying along-fide the
VefTel, thought it not impofTible to make
himfelf Matter of one of them, and by that
Means reach the Shore, where he thought he
might conceal himfelf, till he found an Op-
portunity of getting off: Though this was a
very hazardous Attempt, and if he was un-
fuccefsful would expofe him to a great deal
of hard Ufage, and probably put it out of
his Power or ever regaining his Liberty, yet
he
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he was refolved to venture. He recollected
the common Maxim, That Fortune favours the
Bold j and therefore took an Opportunity juft
as it grew dark, of (lipping nimbly down the
Ship's Side into one ol the Canoes, with
which he paddled with as much Silence and
Expedition as poflible, towards the Shore ;
but he had not gone far, before the Noife
he made gave the Alarm, that one of the
Prifoners was efcaped : Iiarrifon immediately
called out ro enquire which of them, and
where Cr.rcw was •, and being told that he
was gone off, fwore, "He had rather have
loll Half the Prifoners than him." All Hands
were then called upon to purfue ; the Captain
and Planters left their Bowl •, the River was
foon covered with Canoes, and every thing
was in Coniufion. Mr. Carew was within
Hearing of this, but by plying his Canoe well,
had the good Fortune to get to Shore before
any of them: he immediately betook himfelfto
the Woods as foon as he landed, and climbed
up into a great Tree-, where he had noc
been many Minutes, before he heard the Cap-
tain, Sailors, and Planters, all in Purfuit of
him : 'Hie Captain fretted and ftormed, the
Sailors damned their Bloods, and the Planters
endeavoured to pacify every thing, by telling
the Captain, tc Not to fear, for they would
tc have him in the Morning, as it was im-
" poflible for him to get off." He heard all
this, though not unmoved, yet without tak-
ing
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 273
mo: Notice of it : At lad, finding their Search
fruitleis, the Captain, Sailors and Planters
returned, the Planters ftill alluring the Cap-
tain, " They would have him in the Morn-
tag."
As foon as they were gone, he began to
reflect upon his prefent Situation, which in-
deed was melanchcly enough, lor he had no
Provifions, was befet on every Side, quite
un capable of judging what to undertake, or
which Courfe to fleer ; however, he at Lift
relblved to retire further into the Woods,
which he accordingly did, and got up into
another Tree : Here he fat all the fucceeding
Day, without a Morfel of Food ; but was
diverted with a great Multitude of Squirrels
he faw fkiping from Tree to Tree ; and had
he had a Gun, could have fhot Hundreds of
Pigeons, there was fo great a Plenty of
Mem. The next Day, towards Night, Plun-
ger became too powerful, and he was almoit
Ipent for want of Food: In this Neceflity He
knew not what to do •, at lad, happening to
efpy a Planter's Houfe at fome Diftance, he
was relblved to venture down in the Night,
thinking he might chance to find Food of
fome Sort or other in or about the Houfe:
dble to this Refolution, he came down.
the Free, in the Middle of the Night, and
into the Planter's Yard, to his great
joy found there a Parcel of milking Cows
perm'd in, which he foon milked into the
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Crown of his Hat, making a moft delicious
Feaft, and then retired to the Woods again,
climbing up into a Tree, where he paflfed the
Day much more eafy than he had the pre-
ceding one. Having found out this Me-
thod of iubfifling, he proceeded forwards in
the fame Manner, concealing himfelf in a
Tree in the Day time, and travelling all the
Night, milking the Cows as often as he had
Opportunity, and fleering his Courfe, as
near as he could guefs, towards Duck's Creek.
On the fifth Night he heard the Voices of
feveral People near him, in the Woods, upon
which he flepped on one Side, and concealed
himfelf behind a Tree, till they mould pafs
by •, when they came near enough to diftin-
guifh their Words, he heard them fay, c * We
" will make the befl of our way to Duck's
" Creek, and there we fhall certainly have
" him." He judged that thefe were fome in
Purfuit of him, therefore thought himfelf very
happy in having fo narrowly cfcaped them.
Upon the eighth Day he being upon a
Tree, difcovered a lone Houfe, near the
Skirts of the Woods, and faw all the Family
(as he fuppofed) going out to hoe Tobacco,
and the Dog following them: This was a
joyful Sight to him, for he had not the two
preceding Nights met with any Cows, and
confequently had been without Food. As
foon, 'therefore, as he faw the Family were
out of Sight, he came dewn from the Tree,
and
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and ventured into the Houfe, where he found
not only to iatisfy his Hunger, but what
might be deemed Luxury in his present Con-
dition, for there was jolly Cake, Powell a
Sort of Indian Corn Bread, and good Omani,
which is Kidney Beans grinded with Indian
Corn lifted, then put into a great Pot to boil,
and eat with MolafTes. * Seeing fo many
Dainties he did not hefitate long, but Hun-
ger prefling, fare down and eat the Omani
with as much Compofure as if he had been
invited thereto by the Owner of it; and
knowing that Hunger and Neceflity are bound
ty no Laws of Honour, he took the Liberty
of borrowing the jolly Cake, Powell, and a
Leg of fine Pork, then haftens back to the
Tree with his Booty. What the People
thought when they returned at Night with
good Appetites, and found their dainty Oma-
ni, their jolly Cake, and their Pork all va-
nished, we know not, but fuppofe they were
not a little furprized.
Being thus flocked with Provisions he made
the belt of his way to Ogle Toivn that Night,
and fo to Old Town. In the Dawn of the
Morning, of the eleventh Day, he came in
Sight of Duck's Creek, but being afraid he
might fall into the Hands of his Purfuers,
he flrikes a great Way into the Woods to-
wards Tuck Hoe, where flaying all the Day
in a Tree, he came back again in the middle
of the Night to Duck's Creek ; as foon as he
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came here he runs to the Water-fide, to fee
for a Canoe, but found them all chained :
He immediately fet himfelf about breaking ,
the Chain, but found it too ftrong, and all
his Endeavours to break it in vain. Never
was Man more thunderftruck, than he was
now, jufb, at the Time when he expected to
be out of Danger to meet with fo unforefeen
and unfurmcuntable an Obftacle: He knew
there was no Way of efcaping but by parTing
the River Delaware, but could think of no
Method of effecting it. Several Hours did
he pais in this Agitation of Mind, fometimes
he had a Mind to try his Strength in fwim-
rrjing, but the River being fo wide he thought
he mould not reach the Shore •, at laft re-
ftefting what one of his Anceftors had done
in fwi mining a Hone over 'Teignmouth Bar,
and feeing fome Horfes grazing thereabout,
lie refolvcd to attempt palling the Delaware
in that Manner, for let the worft happen,
he thought Death preferable to Slavery : Be-
ing thus refolved, he foon catches one of
the Horfes, and making a Sort of a Bridle of
his Handkerchief, brings the Horfe to the
Water-fide -, he walked for fome Time on the
Banks, looking for a proper Place to enter
the Horfe, at laft efpying a little Stream,
which run into the great River Delaware, he
fell down on his Knees, and prayed very ear-
neftly to God to aflift him in the dangerous
Attempt, that he might once more fee his
dear
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 277
dear Wife and Country 5 then (tripping him-
felf, and tying his Frock and Troulers about
his Shoulders, mounted the Horfe •, and put-
ing him forward a, little, the Horie loft his
Footing, and the Water came up to Mr.
Carew's Middle, who kept his Legs as clofe
as poftible to the Horfe, and in this Manner
he launched out into the great River Dela-
ware : The Horfe fnorted and neighed to
his Companions, but made to the cppofite
Shore with all the Strength he could, Mr Ctt-
rezv did not imagine the Horfe would be able
to reach it, but purpofed to five himfelf
by fwimming when the Horfe failed, for
the River was three Miles over •, however,
contrary to his Expectations, the Horfe reach-
ed the Shore, but finding no Place to land,
it being a fandy Mud, was obliged to fwim
him fome Time along the Shore, till he
came to a little Creek, which the Horfe
fwimming into, foon got fare Footing, to
the greac Joy of Mr. Carew. Our He-
ro then difmounting fell upon his Knees,
faying, G my heavenly God, I thank thee for
preferring me in fo great Danger, in bringing me
fife ever the River Delaware ; then turning to
the Horfe, kifled him, telling him, He tnuft
now turn Quaker as well as himfelf, and fo let
him go into the Woods.
His Cloaths were not very wet, however,
he ftaid on the Banks fome Time to dry them
in the Morning Sun, then went up into the
A a 3 Country :
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Country ; The firft Houfe he came to was a
Miller's whofe Wife came out, and afked
whence he came ? He told her he had been Pri-
foner fometime m the Havannab, from whence
he had been releafed by an Exchange of Prifon -
cr?, and was now going Home. The good
"Woman pitied him much, and told him he
looked very melancholy : but the Hufband
coming in, faid,He believed he was an Irijb-
man : This he denied, averring he was of the
Weft of England^ fo they gave him a Piece of
that Country Money, and a Mug of Rum,
which he drinking greedily, being very thiri-
r.y, it threw him into a violent Fever, that he
wasoblig'd to flop at a neighbouring PI oufe,
where he lay hck for three or four Days.
From hence he goes to Nezvcaftle, where he
roifed Contributions from feveral Gentle-
men, as he had done before, but not under
the fame Name. From hence to Caftile, Bran-
dywine Ferry, Chefter, and Derby, where he
got Relief from the fame Miller, where Mr.
Whitfield was, when he was there before, and
lodg'd at the fame Houfe, but took Care to
difguiie himfelf fo as not to be known : PIcre
he got a Pafs from the Juftice, as a fick Man
bound to Bofton. From hence proceeds to
Philadelphia, to Buck's County, and over a
Ferry into the New Jerfies, and away to Bur-.
ilngtcn, and Amloyne, fo to c I'rcnt T'cwn m
Staten Ifland -, hence to Brunfivick, where he
got Relief from Mr. Matthews, the Miller,
who
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 279
who treated him To hofpitably the firft Time
he was there, but who did not know him
again now. From hence he proceeded to
Elizabeth T'own. Long JJland, and New-York •,
and from thence to New London^ where he
chane'd to fee the Captain who had taken him
Home before, but he avoided him. From
New-London he proceeds to Groten, w*ierc
he got a Twenty Shilling Bill from one Mr.
Goyf, and feveral Half Crown Bills from other
People. He then enquired his Way to Rhode-
I/land^ and his Landlord where he quarter'd
went with him about two Miles of the Way
when they chane'd to fall into the Company
offome Drovers, who were driving a Num-
ber of Bullocks for the Ufe offome Privateers
who lay at Rhode I/land, he therefore join'd
them, and after about nine or ten Miles travel-
ling, they came to a Ferry, where they ft opt at
a Public k-houie tor fome lime, till the Bul-
locks were taken over, but neither the Ta-
vern-Man nor Drovers would fuifer him to
pay any thing, they pitying his unfortunate
Condition ; palling over this Ferry they came
to Rhode- Jjuind.
Rhode Ijiand, by the Natives called Aquet-
net 9 near thz Narragontfet Bay 3 is 14 or 15
Miles long, and 4 or 5 Miles broad. It was
firft inhabited by the Enghjh in the Year 1639.
Thpfe that withdrew to thUIfl ad were fuch
as efpoufed the Covenant of Grace, and were
under Periecution from thole that lidtd with
the
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the Covenant of Works. There's a very con-
fiderable Trade driven from Rhode- Ijiand to
the Sugar Colonies for Butter and Cheefe,
(a fure Sign of the Fruitfulnefs and Beauty of
the Place) Horfes, Sheep, Beef, Pork, Tal-
low, and Timber, by which the Traders have
been enriched. 'Tis defervedly called the Pa-
radife of New-England, for the Fruitfulnefs
of the Soil, and the Temperature of the Cli-
mate, which, tho J it be not above fixty five
Miles from Bofton, is a Coat warmer in Win-
ter, and being furrounded by the Ocean, is
not fo much affect >d in Summer with the hot
Land Breezes as the Towns on the Conti-
nent are. They live in great Amity with
their Neighbours, and tho' every Man does
what he thinks right in his own Eyes, it is
rare that any notorious Crimes are committed
by them, which may be attributed, in fome
Meafure, ro their great Veneration for the
Holy Scriptures, which they all read, from
the lead to the greatefl, though they have
neither Minilters or Magiflrates to recom-
mend it to them.
Here Mr. Carezv found many of his old
Acquaintance, particularly one Mr. Perkins,
a Stay maker, and Mr. Gidley and his Mo-
ther, who kept feveral- Negroes for diftilling
ol Rum, and Mn n :uthcott Lzngwcrtby, a
Pewterer, all * itives of Exeter, and one Mr.
Martin of li i n in T-evon-, they v/ere all
very glad to fee him, ue telling them, that
he
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 281
he ifd* taken ly the Spaniards, and cfc aped from
Prifcu. They treated him with great Kind-
nefs, and gave him Letters and Monies to
carry to their Friends in England.
From hence he goes thro' Pifcataway and
Marblehead to B oft on the Capital of Nezv Rug-
land, and the biggelt City in America, except
two or three on the SpaniJJj Continent. 'Tis
pleafantly ieated on a Peninfula, about four
Miles in Compais, at the Bottom of a fine
Bay, the Maffachufeis, guarded from the
Roughnefs of the Ocean by feveral Rocks ap-
pearing above Water, and by above a Dozen
Iflands, many of which are inhabited -, and
one, called Nettle's Ifland, within this few
Years was efteemed worth 2 or 300 /. a Year
to the Owner, Colonel Shrimpton. There is
but one common and fafe PafTage into the
Bay, and not very broad, there being hardly
Room for three Ships to come in abreaft ;
but being once in, there is Room for the
Anchorage of 500 Sail. The moft remark-
able of thefe Iflands is called Caftle Ifland,
from the Caftle there built : It ftands about
a League from the Town, upon the main
Channel leading to it, and is ib conveniently
fituated, that no Ship of Burthen can ap-
proach the Town without the Hazard of be-
ing torn in Pieces by its Cannon. It is now
called Fort William, being mounted with 100
Pieces of Ordnance, 200 more, which were
given to the Province by Queen Anne, are
placed
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placed on a Platform near Highwater Mark,
fo as take a Ship Fore and Aft, before fhe
can bring her Broad fides to bear againft the
Caftle. Some of thefe Cannon are 42 Pound-
ers •, five hundred able M'n are exempted
from all military Duty in Times of War, to
be ready to attend the Service of the Caftle
at an Hour's Warning, upon any Signal of
the Approach of an Enemy, which there
feems to be no great Danger of at B oft on;
where in 24 Hours Time, 10^000 effective
Men well armed, might be ready for their
Defence. To prevent al : poffible Surprize,
there is a Light-houfe built on a Rock, ap-
pearing above Water, about a League from
the Town ; which in Time of War, makes
a Signal to the Caftle, and the Caftle to
the Town, by hoifting and lowering the
Union Flag fo many Times as there are
Ships approaching ; which, if they exceed a
certain Number, the Caftle fires three Guns
to alarm the Town of Bofton \ and the Go-
vernor, if Need be, orders a Beacon to be
fix'd, which alarms all the adjacent Country;
fo that unlefs an Enemy can be fuppofcd to
fail by fo many Iflands and Rocks in a Fog,
the Town of Bofton^ muft have fix or more
Hours to prepare for their Reception : Bdt
fuppofing they might pafs the Caftle, there
are two Bitteries at the North and South End
cf the Town, which command the whole
Bay, and makes it impoMible for an Enemy's
Ship
Mr. Bam pfylde- Moore Carew. 283
Ship of Burthen to ride there in Safety,
while the Merchantmen and fmall Craft may
retire up into Charles River, out of Reach of
the Cannon.
It is equally impoflible. for any Ship to be
run away with out of this Harbour by a Pi-
rate 5 for the Caftle fullers no Ships outward-
bound to pais, without a Permit from the
Governor, which is not granted without a
Clearing at the Cuftom-Houie, and the ufu-
al Notice of Sailing by looiening the Fore-
top fail.
1 he Bay of By! on is fpacious enough to
contain in a Manner the Royal Navy of Eug-
land. The Mails of Ships here at the pro-
per Seafon oi the Year, make a Kind of a
Wood of Trees, like that which we fee upon
the River Thames,, about H J 'cptivg and Lime-
heuje, which may be eaiily imagined, when
we confider that by the Computation given
in by the Collectors of his Ma jerry's Light
Ho.ufe, it appeared that there was twenty-
tour thoufand Tons of Shipping cleared an-
nually.
There is a large Pier at the Bottom of the
Biy 1800 or 2000 Feet long, with a Row of
Ware-houfes on the North Side. '1 he Pier
runs fo iar into the Bay, that Ships of the
great: it Burthen may unload without the
J lelp of Boats and Lighters. The chief
Street of the Town conies down to the Head
of the Pier j at the upper b id of it is the
Town-
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Town-houfe or Exchange, a fine Building,
containing, befides the Walk for Merchants,
the Council chamber, the Houfe of Commons
and .a fpacious Room for the Courts of Ju-
flice. The Exchange is furrounded with
Bookfellers Shops, which have a good Trade.
There are five Printing Houfes, at one of
which the Bofton Gazette is printed, and
comes out twice a Week. The PreiTes here
are generally full of Work, which is in a
great Meafure owing to the Colleges and
Schools for ufeful Lear ning in Nezv- England;
whereas at New-Tcrk there is but one little
Bookfeller's Shop, and none at all in Virginia^
Maryland, Carolina, Barbadoes, and the Sugar-
1 Hands.
The Town of Bofton lies in the Form of a
Half- Moon, round the Harbour, and con-
Ming of between 3 and 4000 Houfes muff,
make an agreeable Profpect, the furrounding
Shore being high, the Streets long, and the
Buildings beautiful. The' Goodnefs of the
Pavement may compare with moft in London j
to gallop a Horfe on it is 3 s. \d. Forfeit.
It is computed the Number of Inhabitants
is no: lefs than 24,000, which is one third
more than • the Computation of the City of
Ey.eter, and confeqtfently Bofton is one third
bigger than that City, which is pretty near '
the Matter.
There are ten Churches in Bofton, which are, -
Old Church, North Church, South Church,
New
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore- Carew. 285
New Church, New North Church, New
South Church, the Church of England
Church, the French Church, the Baptift Meet-
ing, the Quakers Meeting.
The Converfation in this Town is as polite
as in moft of the Cities and Towns of Eng-
land \ many of their Merchants have traded
in Eur ope 1 and thofe that flay at Home hav-
ing the Advantage of Society with Travellers ;
fo that a Gentleman from London would think
himfelf at Home at Boflon, when he obferves
the Number of People, their Furniture, their
Tables, their Drefs and Converfation, which
perhaps is as fplendid and fhowy, as that
of the moft confiderable Tradefmen in Lon-
don. Upon the whole, Boflon is the mod
flourifhing Town for Trade and Commerce
in the Engli/h America. Near 600 Sail of
Ships have been laden here in a Year for
Europe, and the Britijh Plantations. Here
the Governor commonly refides, the General
Court and AiTembly meet, the Courts of Ju-
dicature fit, and the Affairs of the whole Pro-
vince are tranfadted.
The Streets are broad and regular; fome
of the richeft Merchants have very {lately
well-built convenient Houfes. The Ground
on which the Town Hands is wonderful high,
and very good Water is found all over it.
There are feveral Wharfs built, which jet
into the Harbour ; one of which is eight
hundred Feet in Length, where large Ships
Bb with
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with great Eafe may lade and unlade. On
one Side are Ware-houfes almoft the whole
Length of the Wharf, where the Merchants
irow their Goods •, and more than fifty Ships
may lade and unlade there at the fame Time.
Coming into the City Mr. Carew was fur-
prized at the Grandeur of it -, and fee-
ing a green Hill at the End of the great
Street, much like Glaftonbiiry- < Tor)\ he goes
up it, and had a moft beautiful Profpedr. of
the City from the Top of it, where was
placed the Mall of a Ship, with Pullies to
draw up a lighted Barrel of Tar to alarm the
the Country, in Cafe of an Invafion. Going
down the Hill again, he met two Drums, a
Serjeant, and feveral Soldiers and Marines,
who were, by beat of Drum, proclaiming,
that all the Taverns and Shopkeepers might
fafely credit the Soldiers and Marines to a.
certain Value. Some of the Soldiers prefent-
ly knew him, and accofting him, pe-rfuaded
him to go along with them to one Mother
Paffmore's, a Houfe of Rendezvous, where
they were very merry together; while they were
drinking, in came Captain Sharp, who com-
manded them, and was an old Friend of
our Hero's : " What Mr. Garew ! cries the
M Captain in a Surprize, who could think of
ng along,
all of a fudden he fell down, and counterfeit-
ed all the Diftortions of the mod violent Fits
in fuch a terrible Manner, that Mr. Morice
was greatly affected with the Poor Creature's
Condition, ordering his Servants to get down
and affift her, flaying himfelf till fhe was
brought a little to herfelf, then gave her a
Piece of Money, and order' d one of his Ser-
vants to fhow her to his Houfe, that fhe might
have fome Refrefhment there •, but Mr. Carew
having obtained what he defir'd flung off the
old Woman, and difcovers himfelf to Mr.
Morice and the reft of the Company, wifhing
them all a Good-Morrow ; upon which Mr,
Morice own'd he had fairly loft his Wager.
Mr. Carew fome time after this fteer'd his
Courfe for Oxford, where he vifited Mr. Tre-
by, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Cooke, and feveral Col-
legians his particular Friends, of whom he got
a Trencher-Cap, and having ftaid in Oxford
as long as was agreeable to his Inclinations,
he
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he fet out for Abingdon, and from thence to
Marlborough, having put on a pair of white
Stockings, a grey Waiftcoat, and the Trench-
er-Cap ; being thus equipp'd, he acted as an
Oxford Scholar, difordered in his Mind, by
which Difguife he deceiv'd the Minifters of
Marlborough and Market- Lavington, Dr. Squire,
and his Brother the Archdeacon of Bath, Mrs.
Grove of Wincaunton, the Rev. Mr. Birt, at
Sutton, at which Places he was much pitied,
and handfomely reliev'd : He then fleers for
Somerton and goes to the Rev. Mr. Dickerfon
there; but this Mafk would not avail him
here, for the Parfon difcovered him through
it ; but he defired him to keep it fccret till
he was gone out of the Town, which he ac-
cordingly did ; He therefore went boldly to
the Rev. Mr. Keat 9 and pretended to be a
Scholar of Baliol College, which Mr. Keat
believing, and pitying his Condition, gene-
roufly gave him a Crown. The next Day he
goes to Bridgwater in the fame Habit, and
from thence to Sir Charles Tynte's at Hafwell 9
going into the Court he was met by the Rev.
Mr. Sanford, who immediately knew him,
and accofted him with how do you do, Friend
Carew ? Soon after which out came Sir Charles,
who accofted him in the fame Manner ,
and Mr. Sanford and he made themfelves
very merry at the Character he had aflumed :
Well, fays Six Charles, we will make you drink,
but unlefs you can deceive my Befs (fo he
was
Mr, Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 295
was pleas'd to call his Lady) you fhall have
nothing of me \ but whatever me gives I'll
double it : He was then order'd into the Hall,
and exchang'd his Cap for a Hat with one of
the Servants : After waiting fome Time, Lady
Tynte came down •, it will be proper toobferve
that this Lady, tho' of a very charitable Dif-
pofition to her poor Neighbours, having been
often deceived by Mendicants, and finding
few of them deferving of her Charity, had
reiblved to relieve no unknown Object of
Charity however plaufible their Tale; but
our Hero, depending upon his Art, was not
afraid to accept of Sir Charles's Challenge :
From the Servants Hall he watch'd a pro-
per Opportunity of accofting the Lady, and
ihe pafs'd and repafs'd feveral Times before
he could ipeak to her ; at lad, feeing her
{landing in the Hal!, talking with Sir Charles
he came behind her, and acceded her with
God blefs you, mod glorious Lady : The
Lady turning about, afk'd him pretty hafti-
ly, From whence he came ? I am a poor
unfortunate Man, replied he, who was taken
by two French Privateers, coming from Bof-
i and carry'd into Boulogn y where we were
t i Day and Night to enter into the French
ice, but refufed to do it. And how got
y from thence ? afk'd the Lady. We took
•pportunity of breaking out of the Pri-
ic and feized upon a Fifhing-Boat in the
Hai jour, with which we got fafe to Lyming-
ton t
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ton, being in all 25 of us, where we fold our
Boat. What do you heg for then ? If you
fold your Boat you muft have Money. Se-
veral of us were fick, reply'd he, which was
very expenfive. But what Countryman are
you? I am an Old England Man, pleafe you
my Lady, but I marry'd my Wife in Wales,
From what Part ? fays my Lady, who was a
Native of Wales herfelf. I marry'd, replied
he, one Betty Larkey, who liv'd with Sir John
Morgan, and afterwards with Parfon Griffy,
at Swanfey. Ay, did you marry Betty Larkey ?
How many Children have you by her? Only
one Daughter, reply'd he. In the mean time
Sir Charles and the Parfon were ready to burft
with containing their Laughter, to fee how
he m-anag'd my Lady to bring her to ; for
his AfTertion of having marry'd Betty Larkey,
who was a Country-Woman of my Lady's,
and formerly known to her, was a Loadftone,
which prefently drew my Lady's Hand to
her Purfe, and then turning to Sir Charles
afk'd, If he had any fmall Money about him ?
I have none, reply'd Sir Charles, pretty blunt-
ly, being fcarce able to contain himfelf from
burfting out into Laughter; fo me went up
Stairs, and coming down again, gave him
two half Crowns, and afk'd him to eat and
drink, going out herfelf to call the Butler :
In the mean Time Sir Charles ftepp 1 d nimbly
into the Servants Hall, and fetch J d the Ox-
ford Cap, which he put on Mr. Carew's Head;
my
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 297
my Lady and the Butler came in immediately
after, and Ihe feeing the Cap upon his Head,
cries out, God blefs me, what did you bring
that from France? it isjuft like one of our
Oxford Scholar's Caps. Ay, fo it is indeed
my Lady, reply'd Sir Charles, why don't you
know who it is ? It is Mr. BampfyLle- Moore
Carew. Ay, ay, this is your doing, Sir Charles,
faid the Lady, and went away fomcthing
difgufted at the Trick which had been put
upon her. Sir Charles was as good as his
Word, in doubling the Money my Lady-
gave, and Parfon Sanford gave him hah' a
Crown.
Some Time after this, he call'd upon the
Mils Hawkers, of 'Then?, near Teovtl, who
treated him very hofpitabiy, and enquired
what News he heard, it being in the Time
of the late Rebellion, Whilft he was talk-
ing with them, he obferved a New Houfe,
almoft oppofite, and enquiring who liv'd there,
they told him one Parlbn Marks, a DifTent-
ing Teacher ; upon which, taking Leave of
the Ladies, he fleps over the way, and knocks
boldly at the Door, which was foon opened
by Parfon Marks himfelf : Sir, fays Mr. Ca-
rew, pulling off his Hat, and accofLing him
with a demure Countenance, I came two
Miles out of my Road on purpofe to wait
upon you -, I believe, Sir, you are acquainted
with my Brother, Mr. John Pike, of Tiverton,
Teacher of a duTenting Congregation in that
Cc place i
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Place ; and you have undoubtedly heard
fomething of his Brother Roger Pike, which
unfortunate Man I am, having been
taken Prifoner coming from Bofton in New-
England, by two French Privateers, and car-
ried into Bculogn, where we were cruelly
treated. Alack, alack, fays the Parfon, pray
walk in good Mr. Roger : I am indeed very
well acquainted with that worthy' Servant of
God your Brother, Mr. John Pike, and a
gracious Man he is : I have likewile heard
him mention his Brother Roger. He then
ordered fome Victuals and Drink to be
brought out for good Mr. Roger Pike: While
he was eating, he enquired, How he got from
Boulogn? He reply'd, that twenty-five of
them had broke Prifon, and feiz'd upon *i Vef-
iel in the Harbour, by which they had got
Gift to the Englijh Coaft. Well, Mr. Roger,
lays the Paripn, what News did you hear in
Frame? It is reported there, replies he, that
the Rebels are very powerful in Scotland, and
that great Numbers are got over to them fafe
from France. Stop a little, cries the Parfon
Mr. Roger, and running up Stairs, foon after
comes, down with a Letter in his Hand,
which he read to Mr. Pike, wherein it was
faid, the Rebels were wonderfully powerful.
Then making his Head very forrowfully,
cried, indeed Mr. Pike I can't be at Eafe,
for they fay they will make us Examples on
Account of the 30th of January. Never fear
them,
Mr. Bampfy lde- Moore Carew. 299.
them, Sir, faid Mr. Carezv^ we fnali be a
Match for them in Devonfljire and Cornwall.
I am afraid not, cries the Parfon, making his
Head again, I have had no Reft for thinking
of them for feveral Nights paft. After fome
further Difcourfe he fetch'd Mr. Pike a good
Holland- fhirt, and clap'd half a Guinea into
his Hand, entreating him to take a Bed with
him that Night, for that he mould be hear-
tily welcome; but he defir'd to be excus'd,
and took his Leave with many Thanks, re-
turning to the Mifs Hawkers again. Well,.
Mr. Carew, cry the Ladies, you have had
a long Conference with the Parfon. Ay,,
ay, replies he, and to good Purpofe too, for
this Shirt and half Guinea are the Fruits of it,
and then told them in what Manner he had
deceiv'd the Parfon, which made them laugh
very heartily; they then gave Him a Crown,.
a;:d promised to keep Mr. Pike's Secrets for.
a Day or two.
A few Days after the Parfon going over to
fee the L -.dies, they afVd him, if a poor Sea-
man had been at his Houfe ? " Yes, repii-
" ed the Parlbn, it was one Roger Pike whole
" Broth t has a Congregation in Tiverton,
" and whom I am very well acquainted with. 55
" And did you give him any thing?"—
" Yes, I gave him a Shirt, and Haifa Gui-
1." — ■' And we gave him a Crown,
" laid the Ladies, not as being Roger Pike,
" but as Mr. Bampfylde-ftloore Carew. 9 ' At
which.
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which the Parfon was in a very great Hurry,
and would fcarce be convinced but that it
was old Roger Pike. Thus had Mr. Carew
the happy Art of fuiting his Eloquence to
every Temper and every Circumftance, for
his being Brother to the good Mr. Pike of
Tiverton, was as powerful a Loadftone to at-
tract Parfon Marks, as his marrying Betty
Larkey had been to Lady Tynte. From hence
he goes to Parfon White's at Coker, where he
found Juftice Proftor; here he pafs'd for an
unfortunate Sailor, who had been can: away
coming from the Baltick, and was now tra-
velling to his native Place, Tintagel in Com-
wall-, Parfon White, afk'd who was Minifter
there ; he replied one Atkins was Curate, and
that there was no other there at that Time.
The Juftice afk'd him but few Queftions,
but tcld him he ought to have a Pafs, and
afk'd where he landed; and he replying at
Dover. " Had you no Pafs then from the
" Mayor there?" — " We had one, laid he,
" very readily, but fome of our Company
" being fick, and myfelf, healthy, I let them
*' have the Pafs, and came forwards by my-
* c felf, they not being able to travel fo fad."
M Why then fays the Juftice, you are liable
" to be taken up as a Vagrant for begging
M without a Pais, however we will relieve
" you, and if you call upon Gentlemen only,
J 1 theywillfcarcelymoleftyou ." Hereturn'd
them
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 501
them a great many Thanks for this Civility,
and then went to a Tanner's hard by, where
he changed his Story, and pafs'd for a Bank-
rupt Tanner ; here he was like wife reliev'd, as
he touch'd upon the right String, for had he
pafs'd here for an unfortunate Sailor, proba-
bly his Eloquence would have had no Effect.
From hence he goes to the Parfon of Eaft-
Chinnock, whom he told, that he belonged to
a Man of War, in which his Brother was
Lieutenant. It being then about Dinner
Time,, the Parfon afk'd him if he could eat
Sea Provifions, fuch as Pork and Peafe, which
he accepting, they fate down to Dinner, and
had a great deal of Difconrfe about the Lieu-
tenant. Next he goes to Madam Philip's of
Mont acute, where happen'd to be Parfon Bower
of Martock, who afk'd him, if he knew one
B amfifylde- Moore- Carew ? Sir, replies he, I am
one of Tintagel in Cornwall, and know the
Carews there very well, and have heard of
the Wanderer you fpeak of, who I'm told
is a great Dog-ftealer, but know not what
is become of him ; for fome fay he is hang'd,
and others that he is drowned. God forbid
lie mould be hang'd, cries the Parfon, upon
Account of his Family; and after fome other
Queftions, he was reliev'd with Six-pence.
Leaving Montacute, he goes forward to Yeo-
vil, having appointed to meet his Wife and
Daughter at the Sign of the Boot in Sherborne,
And from Teovil to 'Squire Hdliarh at Lew-
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ifham, who treated him very handfomely,
and would have had him ftaid there all Night,
but he excus'd himfelf, being impatient to
fee his Wife and Daughter.
As foon as he came to Sherborne, he goes
to his ufual Quarters, the Sign of the Boot,
where heenquir'd for his Wife and Daughter ;
but how was he thunder- ftruck when he was
told they were in Hold ax. Webb's the Bailiff:
He enquir'd for what Reafon, and was in-
fornid that four Officers had been walking
all thro' the Town to take up all Strangers,
fuch as Chimney- Sweepers, Tinkers, Ped-
lars, and the like. What could our Hero
now do, he revolv'd it over and over in his
Mind, and at length determined to go to
Webb's, reiblving either to free his Wife and
Daughter, or elfe to fhare their Fate ; when he
came there he afk'd to fee the Prifoners, and
demanded upon what Account they had ap-
prehended his Wife, as fhe had neither ftolen
nor begg'd in the Town •, this occafioned
high Words, and ended in Blows: Long did
our Hero maintain an unequal Fight with
great Valour, at length being, overpowered
with Numbers he fell, but not till his Affail-
arits had felt the Force of his Arm. He was
kept in fafe Cuftody that Night, and the next
Morning taken with the reft of the Prifoners
before Thomas Medlycott, Efq-, at Mdborne-
Port ; here they were all examined, and all
maintained their Profeffions to be extremely
ufeful:
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ufeful : The Chimney- Sweeper alledged, he
preferved Houfcs from taking Fire, where-
by he faved whole Towns, and confequently
was an ufeful Member to his Country •, the
Tinker harangu'd on the Ufefulnefs of Ket-
tles, Brafs-Pans, Frying-Pans, iSc. and of
Confequence what Ufe he was of to the
Publick ; and our Hero declared he was the
famous Mr. B awpfy Lie- Moor e-Carew, and had
ferved his King and Country both by Sea
and Land.
The Juftice thought proper to fend thefe
ufeful Men to their refpe&ive Pariihes, at
the Publick Charge; accordingly Mr. Ca-
rew ^ his Wife, and Daughter, were ordered
to be conducted to Bickleigh in Devon/hire. The
Sherborne People waited on them to Teovil,
where they were delivered to the Care of the
chief Magiftrate. The next Day Horfes be-
ing provided, they fet out for Thomas Proc-
tor's, Efq; at Coker, but he refufing to flgn
the Pafs, they proceeded, without its being
fign'd, to Axminfter, where the Magiftrate
refilled to receive them, on Account of the
Pafs not being figned •, upon which they
would have left Mr. Carew, but he infifted
upon being attended to the End of his Jour-
ney j they therefore adjourned to Mr. Tuck-
er's, about two Miles from Axmirfier, who
afle'd him if he had a Mind to have his At-
tendants difmifs'd, or chofe to have their
Company to Bickleigh j and he replying, that
he
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he did not chufe to have them difmifs'd,
Mr. Tucker fign'd the Warrant, and our
Hero, with his Wife and Daughter, rode
very triumphantly into Bickleigh ; where, as
foon as- they arriv'd, the Bells were let on
ringing, and great Joy fpread through all the
Place.
C H A P.
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CHAP. XXI
Mr. Carew V Curiofity prompts him to go and
meet the Rebels at Edinburgh •, on his Way
thither entertains the famous Mr. Thomas
Jones*, his Vindication of hi mfelf and Sub-
je,Js from the malicious Afperfions of that
Gentleman •, he quits the Rebels , and arrives
at the City of Brifbol r, appears in different
> Characters there ; fets out on a Tour through
Europe, but is taken ill in France and ob-
liged to return -, his Adventure with the Bifhof
of Bath and Wells, and Appearance in fe~
veral new Characlers.
R. Carew remained fome Time at
Bickleigh, but frefh News arriving
every Day of the Progrefs of the
S?&^$ Rebels, that infatiable Curiofity
which had always actuated his Bread prompt-
ed him to go and fee the Army of the Re-
bels-, he therefore taking his Leave of his
Wife and Daughter, though they entreated
him with Tears not to go to the North, made
the beft of his Way towards Edinburgh.
It
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It was on his Journey to this Place, that
being feafting one Night with feveral of his
Subjects, he receiv'd and hofpitably entertain'd
the famous Mr. Thomas J 'ones , tho' a natural
Enemy to their Community ; for he was of
Opinion, that Beneficence and Hofpitality
ought to reach out our Hands to an Enemy in
Diftrefs, when it does not immediately injure
or interfere with the public Good of that par-
ticular Community to which we belong -, and
when the contrary, can only ferve to mew the
Savagenefs of the. human Heart ; and at this
Time Mr. Jones was in what might be well
called, a fad Plight, having loft his Way in a
very dark and tempeftuous Night ;
Su.h a Night in wh'c h the cuh drcar wiuld couch^
The Liort and the bcih-pinchedWoMkeep their furr dry,
Mr. Ctfrwtherefore receiv'd him and his Com-
panions under Cover, entertained them very
hofpitably, ancLat their Departure fent one of
his Subjects to conduct them to Coventry*
which was fix Miles diftant, left they mould
again miftake the Road : After fuch a Beha-
viour, (though he claims no Merit from it, as
his own Honour required it of him) he cannot
but be furprized at the bafe Return Mr. Jones
or his Hiftographer has made to it,, in fcan-
daloufly afperfmg both himfelf and Subjects;
for notwkhftanding he feems to intend fome
Honour to Mr. Carezv, yet it is attended with
Jo-
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 307
fo many fhameful Circumftances and Con-
ditions, that he muft needs reject it with Scorn
and Indignation •, for though in fome other
Communities it may be honourable to enter
upon Honours through the Gate of Shame, yet
amongft the People of the Gypjics, Shame and
Honour are 'two fuch oppofite Principles, that
they can never join Hands, and kifs eaclv
other ; for they have no other Idea of Shame
than a Confcioufnefs of having acted unwor-
thy of themfelves-, nor no other Notion of
Honour 1 but the felf-Felt Applaufe arifing from
a worthy Action •, it is therefore accounted an
abfurd and unintelligible Paradox with them,
that Shame can ever be the Road which leads
to Honour : Mr. Carew therefore cannot fubmit
(for all the Honour Mr. Jones is plea fed to
give him) to be accounted the Author of that
illiterate Nonfenfe and barbarous language Mr
Jones or his Hi Monographer has been pleafed
to put in his Mouth, viz. " About a tou-
" fandor two toufand Years agc\ me cannot
" tell to a Year or two, there was a great Vo-
4C lution" He therefore takes this Opportu-
nity of acquainting that Gentleman, left Igno-
rance is his Error, That no one in the Com-
munity of the Gyjfies arifes to the great Ho-
nour of being their King, but whole Abilities
and Knowledge give him a juft Title to that
Preheminence; and who is perfectly well ac-
quainted with the Hiftory of the iirft Rife,
and the different Changes the Community hr.s
gone
30 8 An Apology for the Life of
gone through, as well as the State of it, at the
Time he enters upon his Office ♦, and they can-
not be ignorant of any Thing of this Sort after-
wards as thofe faithful Regifters kept by the
Kings themfelves, through a Jong Succefllon,
are then delivered to their Care. As to their
Language, that which is peculiar to themfelves
is very exprefllve, tho' hieroglyphical, con-
taining great Myfleries under it, which they
have continued down pure and uncorrupted
from their firft Founders, the Egyptians -, but
it is well known they fpeak the Er.glifh, as well
as other modern Languages, with great Fluen-
cy. As thefe are Matters of Fact which cannot
be contradicted, both the childifh ftupid Lan-
guage which Mr. Carew is made to make ufe
of, and the little Knowledge he is made to have
of the State of the Gypfies, muft be attributed
either to the Ingratitude of Mr. Jones, or the
Ignorance of his Hiftoriographer : But he can
bear thefe Reflections upon himfelf, however
unjuft, with much more Patience than the
fcandalous Afperfions thrown upon his Sub-
jects ; for it ought to be the higheft Pride of
every King to reign over a virtuous People:
All the Readers of the Hiftory of Mr. Thomas
Jones will, without mentioning it, know he
means that falfe, malicious, improbable Story
which the Writer has related of one of the Com-
munity of the Gypfies, fuffering Partridge, a
Friend of Mr. Jones's to lie with his Wile, for
the Sake of extorting Hufb- Money from him:
This
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore-Carew. 309
This Story is quite improbable, both from
the Condition Partridge was in, (who, poor
Wretch, was in too great a Fright to have
amorous Thoughts in his Pate) and likewife
from the Circumflances of Time and Place,
which were no Ways fuitable to fuch an
Adion •, but it is ftill more fo, if we confider
the Temper and Principles of the Gypftes >, for
Money holds but a very low Place in their
Efteem* and is made no private Ufe of, but
always brought into one common Stock, to
promote their Mirth and Gaiety; but Shame,
or a Confcioulhefs of acting unworthily, 13
look'd upon by them (which Mr. Jones him-.
fd^ acknowledges) as the mod grievous Pu-
niihment in the World ; the Gypfy therefore,
who, according to Mr. Jones., was guilty of
this infamous Crime, muft have acted viol; ntly
againft that common Principle which biafles
all Mankind, viz. That of choofing what
appears the greater! Good; for it was im-
poffible the Gypfy mould think the Hum-Mo-
ney he might gain was the greateft Good :
becaufe, he could not but know its Worth
to be but of little Value, and indeed to be
of no Ufe at all, unlefs brought into the
Publick Stock ; but fhame he knew was the
greateft Evil, and what he mull: fuffer himr
felf alone; now as the Good and Evil were
both alike prcfent, it is plain from this com-
mon Principle of Action that he could not
avoid choofing that which appear'd the great!!
D d Good
310 An Jpclegy for the Life of
Good, and confequently preferving the Ho-
nour of his Wife. Add to this, that it ap-
pears from the faithful Regifter which they
have kept of their Actions through a long
Courfe of Years, that it never entered into
the Mind of a Gypfy, that Gold, which had
in its Nature no Affinity with them, could
weigh with Honour, which makes lb princi-
pal a part of the Man. Thus much Mr.
Carew thought he was obliged to fay in De-
fence of himfelf and Subjects* We fhall now
jeturn to our Hiftory.
After fome Days travel Mr. Carezv arriv-
ed at the City of Edinburgh , which lies in a
Sort of a Valley, between two Hills, one of
which is called, Salifbury Crafgs\ the other
makes the Foundation of the Caftle. It is
flrongly walled, and adorned with publick
and private Buildingr. At the Extremity of
the Eaft End of the City, ftands the Palace
of Holy-Rood Houfe -, leaving which a little
to the left, you come thro' a populous Sub-
urb, to the Entrance, called, the Water -Port.
From hence, turning Wed, the Street goes
on in a ftrait Line, through the whole City
to the Caftle, which is above a Mile in
Length, and laid, by the Scots f to be the
largeft, and fineft Street, for Buildings, and
Number of Inhabitants, in Europe. From
the Palace- Door, which (lands on a Level
with the loweft of the plain Country, this
Street begins to afcend very gradually, being
no
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. 311
nowhere fteep •, but this Afcent being con-
tinued for fo long away, it is eafy to under-
stand, that the furtheft part muft neceffarily
be very high •, for the Caftle which (lands,
as it were, at the Extremity, Weft, as
the Palace does Eaft, makes, on all
Sides (that only excepted which joins it to
the City) a frightful and inacceflible Precipice.
The Caftle is lituated on a high Rock, and
ftrongly fortified with a great Number of.
Towers, fo that it is looked upon- as impregna-
ble. In the great Church they have a fet of
Bells, which are not rung out as in England,
(for that way of Ringing is not known in this
Country) but are played on by the Hand,
with Keys, like a Harpfichord, the Perlbn
playing having great Leather-Covers to his
Fifts, by which he is able to ftrike with the
more Force -, and, for the larger Bells, there
are Treddles, which he ftrikes with his Feet.
They play all Manner of Tunes very mufi-
cally ; and the Town gives a Man a yearly
Salary for playing upon them, from Half an
Hour after Eleven till half an Hour after
Twelve, every Day, Sundays and Holy-days
excepted. On the South-fide of this Church
is a Square of very fine Buildings, called the
Parliament -Clofe, the Weft and South-fides
of which are moftly taken up with the Pav-
liament-Houfe, the feveral Courts of Juftice,
the Council-chamber, the Exchequer, the
Publick Regifters, the Lawyers Library, the
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Pod Office, &c. The great Church makes
up the North-fide of the Square, and the
Eaft, and Part of the South-fide is built in-
to private Dwellings, very {lately, lofty, and
iirong, being feven Stories high, to the Front
of the Square, and the Hill they {land on
having a very deep Defcent, fome of them
are no lets then fourteen Stones high, back-
w ards. Hclyrcod-Houfe is a very handfome
Kuilding, rather convenient than large-, it was
ic rmerly a Royal Palace and an Abbey,
founded by King David the firfl, for the
Canons Regular of St. Aufiin^ who named it
HGlyrGcd-IIoufe, or the Houfe of the Holy
Crofs, which was burnt by Oliver Cro7nwel/ %
but nobly re-edified by King Charles the Se-
rond, and of which his Grace the Duke of
is hereditary Keeper ^ it is now al-
ii oft neglected. The Entrance from the
great outer Court, is adorned with Pillars of
hewn Stone, under a Cupola, in form of an
Imperial Crown, balluftraded on each Side
at the Top. The Forepart has two Wings,
on each Side of which are two Turrets : that
towards the North was built by King James V.
whole Name it bears in Letters of Gold, and
that towards the South (as well as all the reft)
by King Charles II. whereof Sir William
Bruce was Architect. The inner Court is
very {lately, all of Free-flone well hewed,
with a Colonade round it, from whence are
pntries into the feveral. Apartments j but
above
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 3 1 3
above all, the long Gallery is very remarka-
ble, being adorned with the Pictures of all
the Scots Kings, from Furgus I. done by maf-
terly Hands.
Here Mr. Care-zv met the Rebels, but hav-
ing no Mind to join them, he pretended to
be very fick and lame: however he accofted
them with, "God blefs you noble Gentlemen" \
And the Rebels moving on to Carli/le, he
hopp'd after them, and from thence to Man-
chefter, and here had a Sight of the Pretend-
er's Son, and other Commanders. He af-
terwards accompanied them to Derby, where
a Report was fpread that the Duke of Cumber-
land was coming to fight them, upon which,
their Courage failing, tho' the Pretender's
Son was for fighting, they retreated back to
CarliJIe, upon which he thought it Time to
leave them, and hopp'd homewards on his
Crutches, taking Care to change his Note to,
" God blefs King George, and the brave Duke
William r Coming into Briftcl, he accidentally
met one Mr. P — an Apothecary, who had
formerly known him at St. Mary Ottery in.
Devon ; Mr. P — was very glad to fee him,
and took him to the Tavern, were he treated
him very handfomely, and then fent for his
Wife, Sifter-, and other Friends to come and
fee him : They were all highly pleas'd to fee
a Man they had heard fo much Talk of; and
after fpending fome Hours very merrily with
him, they told him, they would have him
D d 3 try
514 >dn apology for the Life of
try his Fortune in that City, but to take Care
of the Mint. Accordingly he goes away to
a Place of Rendezvous of the Brothers of
the Mendicant Order, in Temple-ftreet, and
there equips himfelfin a very good Suit of
Cloaths, then goes upon the Exchange, as the
Super-cargo of a Ship, call'd the Dragon,
which had been burnt by Lightning off the
Lizard point: By this Story he railed a very
handfome Contribution of the Merchants and
Captains of Veffds, it being v/ell known
that fuch a Ship, had been burnt in the Man-
ner he defcribed. He then returned to his
Friend Mr. P ,.the Apothecary, and knock-
ing at the Door, afked, If he was at home ;
upon which Mr. P comes forth, and not
knowing him again in his Supercargo's Drefs,
made him a very low Bow, and defired him
to walk in. Mr. Carew aiVd, if he had
any fine Salve, for that he had met with an
Accident, and burnt his Elbow, upon which
Mr. P , runs behind his Counter, and
reaches down a Pot of Salve, defiring with a
great deal of Complaifance the Favour of
looking at his Elbow; he then difcovered
himfelf, which occafioned no little Diverfion
to Mr. P — and. his Family, who made him
very welcome.
Going back to his Quarters, he lays afide
his Finery, and drelles himfelf more meanly,
like a labouring Mechanick; and then going
out into the Streets, a£\s the Madman, talk-
ing
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew. jr£
ing in a raving Manner, about Mr. Whitfield
and Mr. Wejley, as though he was diforder'd
in his Mind by their Preaching; calling in
a furious Manner, every Step, upon
the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and Mary
Magdalen, and acting every part of a Man
religioufly mad : Sometimes walking with his
Eyes fixed upon the Ground, and then, of a
fudden, breaking out into fome paffionate
Expreffions about Religion : This Behaviour
greatly excited the Curiofity and Companion
of the People, fome of whom talked to him,
but he anfwered every Thing they laid, in a
wild and incoherent Manner -, and as Com-
panion is generally the Forerunner of Chari-
ty, he was relieved by mofl of them.
The next Morning he appeared in a Morn-
ing Gown, ftill acting the Madman, and car-
ried it fo far now, as to addrefs himfelf to all
the Polls in the Street, as if they were Saints,
lifting up his Hands and Eyes in a fervent
tho' dirt racted Manner to Heaven, and made
Ufe of fo many extravagant Geftures, that
he aftonifhed the whole City. Going through
Caftle-ftreet, he met the Rev. Mr.5 — e, a
Minifter in that Place, whom he accofted
with his Arms thrown round him, and infill-
ed, in a raving Manner, he fhould tell him,
who was the Father of the Morning Star ?
Which frightned the Parfon, fo much 5 that
he took to his Heels and run for it, he run-
ning after him, till he took Shelter in a Houfc.
Having
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Having well recruited his Pocket by this
Stratagem, he left the City next Day, and tra-
velled towards Bath, acting all the way, the
Madman till he came to Bath-, as ibon as he
came there he enquired for Dr. Coney's, and
being directed to his Houfe, found two Bro-
ther Mendicants at the Door 5 after they had
waited fome Time, the Servant brought out
each of them a Half- penny, for which his
Brother Mendicants were very thankful, but
Mr. Carezv gave his Half-penny to one of
them, then knocking at the Door, and the
Maid coming out again, " Tell your Mailer,
ff the Skin, and
ftrew on it a little powdered Arfenick, which makes it look angrily
or ill favouredly, as if it was a real Sore.
any
3 1 8 y$z apology for the Life of
any Penfion, or admitted into G&d^tf Hofpi-
tal: The Mayor, who was a very ioyal Per-
fon, thought one who had been wounded in
his Majefty's Service, deferved his Favour,
he therefore relieved him, and gave him Li-
berty to afk Relief through the Town, and
at the Fair, which was to be held the next
Day -, Mr. Carew made ufe of this, to his
no little Advantage, for taking Care to ex-
pofe hisghaftly Wound to all Paffers by, and
making a mod lamentable Moan, he was
looked upon by every one as a moil deplora-
ble Object, and raifed very confiderable Con-
tributions : He paffed through feveral other
Towns in the fame Character, and with great
Succefs. Being in the Road between Chichef-
ter and Arundel, he bethought himfelf of pay-
ing a Vifit to Lady Darby, (who lived in that
Neighbourhood, and was a Lady of a moft
charitable Difpofition) who had feveral Re-
lations living in the Neighbourhood of Oak-
hampton, with whom Mr. Carew^ was ac-
quainted ; he therefore laid afide his military
Drefs and Wound, ftiaved his Beard very
fmooth, puts on a long Dowde, and inftead
of the poor difabled Soldier, is now a decre-
pid old Woman, whofe Houfe had been
confumed by Fire at Zell, near Oakhampton,
in Devon : Lady Darby, hearing this, afked a
great many Queftions about the Gentlemen
in that Neighbourhood, to all of which the
old
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. 319
old Woman gave fatisfaclory Anfwers, and
at laft mentioned her knowing his Honour
Sir 'Thomas A^Mand, who was a near Relarion
of Lady Darby* s- 9 there happened at that
Time ro be in the Houfe Mr. Hu j h Ackland^
Brother ro S'r Thomas, who upon this came out
and queftioned the old Woman, afkir.g, who
was the Parfbn of Zel 1 ? Ard many other
Queftious , all which fhe anfwered lb fatis-
facloriiy, as proved (he was no Jmpoflor;
upon which Mr. Ackland gave her half a Gui-
nea, n t diftingui thing Mr Bampfylde-Moon
;:, in the old Woman, though he was
perfectly well acquainted with him: The
good Lady Darby likewife gave the poor
unfortunate old Woman a Couple of Gui-
. He next call'd at the Duke of Norfolk's
in the fame Habit arc! Story, only changing
his Religion, and becoming a Roman Catho-
lick ; his Grace was not at Home, but hav-
ing applied to the Steward, he queftioned
her very particularly, what Gentlemen of
their Religion lived in Devon/hire, and fhe
giving a particular A cconnt of thofe, and by
farther catechizing, he finding fhe was ^no
Heretick, relieved her with a Guinea, and re-
commended her to call upon fome other Gen-
tlemen of their Perfuafion in that Neighbour-
hood. Coming near the Town of Rye m
Sttfex, (where upon Account of their extra-
ordinary Merit, the two Brothers L — b 9 are
perpetual
20 An Apolagyfor the Life of
perpetual Mayors) he met two of his Men-
dicant Subjects, who acquainted him, there
was no entering Rye, but with extream Ha-
zard to his Peribn, upon Account of the Se-
verity which Mr. Mayor exercifed towards all
of their Community ; Mr. Carew's Wife
hearing this, entreated him in the mo ft ten-
der Manner, not to venture into the Town;
but as his great Heart always lwell'd when
any Thing hazardous prefented, and as he
was willing to fhew his Subjects by Example,
that nothing was too difficult for Indujlry and
Ingenuity to overcome, he was refolyed to en-
ter Rye : He therefore laid afide his Woman's
Habit, and putting on a tattjer'd Coat, began
his Entrance into Rye with a very flow, fee-
ble, and tottering Pace, which was ftopp'd
every Minute by the moft violent Fits of
Coughing,, whilft every Limb fhook with
ah univeiiaj Palfy, his Countenance appear-
ing rather to be the Property of fome one
among the Dead, than to belong to any liv-
ing Body: In this Manner he creep'd along to
the Mayor's Houfe, and in a moil lamentable
Moan begg'd fome Relief; Mr. Mayor feeing
fo deplorable a Figure, faid, he was indeed a
real Object of Pity, and therefore gave him a
Shilling, and Liberty to go thro' the Town ;
which he did with no little Profit, and with
great Applaufe from the Mendicants, when
they heard of his Succefs.
Steerirg
Mr. Bam pfylde-Moore Care w 321
Steering from hence to Dungenejs, he found
a Veflel ready to fail for Boulogne \ on board of
which he embarked, and landed fafe at Bou-
logne^ which he found fo rhrong'd with En^lifh
Soldiers, (it being foon after the reducing of
the Army; that had he not known to the con-
trary, he fhould have thought himfelf in fome
Town in England •, fome of the Soldiers
knowing him, cry'd out, Here's Mr. Bamp-
fylde-Moore Carew ; upon which they took
him along with them to their Quarters, and
they palled the Day very merrily: The Sol-
diers exprefs'd great Difcontent at their being
difcharged, fwearing, they would never come
to England any more ; faying, If they had net
come over there, they fhould have been either
flarv'd or hang'd: He enquired how they
liv'd in France ; they replied, Never better in
their Lives. From Boulogne he fets out for
Calais ; where he likewife found a great Mul-
titude of Englifh Soldiers, and more were
daily coming in ; whilft he was here, the Duke
of Richmond arrived in his Way to Paris, who
feeing fo many Englifj Soldiers, afked fome of
them, Why they came there ? To which they
reply'd, 1 'hey fhould have either been flarv'd or
hang'd if they had ftaid in England. Mr.
Carew intended to have paid his Refpects to
his Grace, but had no Opportunity : Soon
after Mr. Carew being taken ill, was oblig'd
to defift from his intended Defign of making
a Tour thro ? France, Germany, &:c. He there-
E e fore
322 An Apology for the Life of
fore teok a Paflage in the Packet Boat from
Calais, and landed at Dover \ from thence
went to Folk/lone, where he got a Pafs and
Relief from the Mayor under the Name of
John Moore, a Native of St. Res, in Cornwall,
who had been caft away on the Coafr. of France,
in a VefTel coming from Ireland. Having
bore this Character as long as it fuited his In-
clinations, he metamorphoies himfelf again,
and appears in a quite different Shape : He
now wore a full hancfome Tie Wigg, but a
little chang'd by Age ; a good Beaver Hat,
but fomewhat rufty ; a fine broad Cloth Coat,
but not quite of the neweft Fafhion, and not
a little faded in its Colour. He was now a
Gentleman of an ancient Family, and good
Eftate, but reduced by a Train of uncommon
Misfortunes : His venerable Looks, his de-
jected Countenance, the vifible Struggles be-
tween his Shame of afking, and his Neceflity
which forced him to it, all operated to move
the Pity of thofe he apply'd to, which was ge-
nerally mown by handlbme Contributions ♦,
for few could think of offering Mites to a
Gentleman of fo antient a Family, and who
had formerly lived fo well •, and indeed how
much foever we may envy the Great in their
Profperity, we are as ready to relieve them in
their Misfortunes •, lb that notwithstanding all
tnat fome great Authors have afTerted, " Com-
" paffion and Feeling of another's Woe, feem
cc to have the ftrongeit Root of any of the
Paflions
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carew 323
tc Paffions in the Human Heart •, for though
M we are, perhaps, apt to look upon our Su-
" periors with form thing of a contrary Nature,
" yet it (cems plainly to arife from no other
" Caufe, but their nor (landing in Need of
tc our Com pa (lion ; for the Moment they do
" fo, this Paffion exerts itfelf with a redoubled
" Force upon anObject, which before it had been
" prevented from exerting its kindly Influences
" upon : As to thole who deviate from this ge-
" neral Rule, we have already accounted for
" them, by fuppofing either Nature ina Hurry
" made them up without a Heart, or fome
" accidental Caufe has chang'd it into
" Stone."
Mr. Carew now, in Conjunction with five or
fix of his Subjects, aflum'd a new Character :
Being all drafted in ratter' d Habits, with
Chains about their Middle, they appeared as
unfortunate Sailors, who had been taken and
made Slaves of by the Sallee Rovers *, in Con-
firmation of this, they fhow'd the TurkiJ/j
Arms mark'd on their Bodies by a hot Iron •,
and as an Intlance of their barbarous Cruelty
they expofed the Mouth of one of the Com-
pany to all Bcliolders, wherein appeared no
more than the Stump of a Tongue,* which
E e 2 had
* XIiis is performed t y turhrfig the Tip of the Tongue into the
1 I . r , and wi-h a Utile Stic!: n iking it bleed, which much re-
fembles a Stump of the Tongue j and here, in Imi:ation of an Author
if the firft Rate, we Cannot help recording a Bull of one of thefe
, who pretendtd to be deaf and dumb j but being afk'd h.iftilv,
H019
324 dn Apology for the Life of
had been cut out by the barbarous Sallee-Ro-
vers : Nothing could be more fhocking than
the Account they gave of the Cruelty of thofe
People, and the intolerable Hard/hips they
had undergone ; and as there is a great Pro-
penfity in every Nation to think all other People
barbarous but themfehcs, thefe Relations of
unheard of Cruelties were fvvallowed with a
greedy Belief by all who heard them ; and they
rais'd very confiderable Contributions amongft
their Auditors.
Here it will not be improper to mention one
Chara&er ; which, though Mr. Carew never
appear'd in himfelt, has been u fed by fome of
his Subjects, and we make no Doubt has afto-
nifh'd all who ever beheld fo fad an Object :
We mean that of an unfortunate Sailor, burnt
by Lightening on the Coaft of Guinea. It is
almoll impoflible to conceive a more difmal
Spectacle than this poor Wretch made j he was
always led by fome of his Brother Sailors, who
pleaded his Caufe, and told his moving Story ;
for the poor Wretch himlelf could only utter
O—O ! in the moil difmal Tone that ever was
heard ;
How long be bad been dumb, anfwered unawares. But tbree Weeks;
which we think is a better Bull . and more likely to promote Laughter
in our Readers, than any of the following ones of the ingenious
Mr. Fitxpatrick, which are recorded in a great Author, -viz. " Up-
." pon my Shoul, tries be (being in Purfuit of bis Wife) I have beea
" near catching her already in two or three Places, if I had not found
" her gone juft as I came up with her : If ihe be in the Houfe, do
" carry me up in the dark, and mow her to me j and if fhe be gone
" away before me, do tell me which Way I /hail go after her, to
" meet her and upon my Shcul I will make you the richeft poor
<« Woman in the Nation." tlijl. of Tom Jones, Vol. 3. />. 6.
Mr. Bampfyldc-Moore Carew 325
heard •, he bore no Refemblance of the Hu-
man Vifage, * for he had neither Eyes nor Nofe,
and a very fmall round Hole ferv'd him for a
Mouth ; the whole Skin of his Face, fuch as
it was, 'appeared burnt black; all which moved
the Companion of every one who had not a
Heart of Stone.
Mr. Carew happening to be in the City of
Wells in Somerfetfoire, on a Sunday, he was told
the Bifhop was to preach that Morning ; upon
which he (lips on a black Waiftcoat and Morn-
ing Gown, and runs out to meet the Bifhop, as
he was walking in Proceflion,addrefling him-
felf to his Lordfhip as a poor unhappy Man,
whofe Misfortunes had turn'd his Brain •, which,
the Bifhop hearing, gave him Half a Crown.
From Wells he fteer'd to Bridgwater, where he
did not appear in the Day Time, but wenc
only in the Evenings upon his Crutches as a
poor lame Man, not being known by any one,
till he difcovered himfelf. Hearing here that
young Lord Clifford, his fir ft Coufin, (who
was juft returned from his Travels Abroad)
was at his Seat at Callington, about four Miles
from Bridgwater, he refolved to pay him a
Vifit. In his Way thither liv'd one Parlon C— ,
who being one of thofe Nature made up in a
Hurry without a Heart, Mr. Carew had never
Ee 3 been
• This was performed by clapping a dead Man's Skin all over the
Face, and filling up the Cavities of the Nofe, Eyes, CSV. with Wooll
or foft Rags, which made the whole Face of a perfect LeYcJ; a frtfil]
Hole being made through theSkiji to draw iaB.W.h*
326 An Apology for the Life of
been able to obtain any Thingof him, even un-
der the moft moving Appearance of Diftrefs,
but a Cup of fmall Drink. Calling now in his
Way, he found the Parfon was gone to Lord
Clifford's and being faluted at the Door by a
fine black Spaniel, with almoft as much Cruf-
tinefs as he would have been, had her Matter
been at Home, he thought himfelf under no
ftronger Obligation of obferving the ftricl:
Laws of Honour, than the Parfon did of Hof-
pitality ; therefore he foon charmed the Crofs-
nefs of the Spaniel, and made him follow him
to Bridgwater •, for it is pretty remarkable,
" That the Art has been found of taming the
" moft favage and ill-natur'd Brutes, which is
*' generally attended with Succcfs •, but it re-
" quires a much higher Skill, and is but feldom
u iuccefsful, to folten the ill Nature and Inhu-
" manity of Man -, whether it is that the
" Brutes are more capable of receiving In-
" ftruction, or whether the ill Nature of Man
ct exceeds that of the Brutes •, we cannot well
n determine." Having fecur'd the Spaniel,
and pafs'd the Night merrily in Bridgwater,
he fet out again the next Morning for Lord
Clifford's, and in his Way calPd upon the Par-
fon.again, who very cruftily told him, He lad
left his Bog, and fuppofed fome of his Gang
hcdftolen hifn ♦, to which Mr. Carew very calmly
reply'd, What was he to bis Bog, cr what was
his Dog to him •, if he would make him drink,
it was well, for he was very dry : At laft with
the
Mr. Bampfylde- Moore Carevv 327
theUfe of much Rhetoric/he got a Cup of fmall
Drink •, then taking Leave of him, he goes
to the Red Lion in the fame Parifh, where he
{laid fome Time. In the mean Time down
runs the Parfon to my Lord Clifford' *s, to ac-
quaint him, Mr. Carew was in the Parifh, and
to advife him to take Care of his Dogs ; fo
that Mr. Carew coming down immediately
after, found one Servant with one Dog in his
Arms, and another with another ; here one
flood whittling, and another calling, and both
my Lord and his Brother were running about
to feek after their Favourites : Mr. Carew
afk'd my Lord, " What was the Meaning of
" this Hurry, and if his Dogs were Cripples,
gently making himfelf and other reftlefs Mo-
tions, which made the poor Mountebank won-
der what was befallen his Horfe ; but the Pain
increafing, the diforderly Behaviour of the
Steed increafed proportionably, who now be-
gun to kick, prance, (land an End, neigh, im-
moderately fhake himfelf, utterly difregardinp,
both his Bridle and Rider, and running a-tut
againft the Stalls of Oranges, Gingerbread,
Shoes, Gloves, Breeches, &c. which he over-
threw and trampled under Foot : This occa-
fioned a Scramble among the Boys for the
Eatables •, and there were lbme who were but
to unmerciful to the fcattered Goods of the
poor Shoemakers and Glovers, who enraged
by their feveral LofTes, began to curfe the
Doctor and his Rofinante, who was all this
while, in a very irregular Manner, capering,
roaring and dancing among the Oranges, Pan-
niers of Eggs, &c. &c. to the entire Ruin of
the Huckfters, who now begun to deal with
very heavy Blows both on the unfortunate Horfe
and his diftrefTed Matter. This happened to
be on a Fair-Day and therefore we may be fure
that this odd Spectacle and Adventure attracted
the Eyes and Attention of the whole Fair, who
were all in an Uproar, lbme Laughing, fome
Crying, (particularly the poor fufrering Pedlars)
fome Fighting, and others mod unmercifully
Curflng and Swearing : To make fliort of the
Story, the Doctor rode about the Fair without
F f cither
334 dn Jpology for the Life of
either Hat or Wig, at the Pleafure and Difcre-
tion of his Horfe, among the ruined and over-
turn^ Stalls, and the diflipated Mob, who
concluded both the Quack and his Steed to be
either. mad or bewitch'd. The Quack being
no longer able to keep his Seat, falls headlong
(Phaetcn-Wkt) in the mirey. Street ; the Horie
ran into a River, and. rolled himfelf over feve-
ral Times, to the entire C.onfufion and Ruin.
of the ineftimable Pills and Plaifters : The,
Doctor employed a Farrier, and -after fome
Time the Horle came to himfelf again. The
Reader may eafily judge what glorious Diver-
fion this was for the Apothecary and Mr. Ca~.
rew, who were Spectators of the whole
Scene. And he was. treated very handfome-
Jy upon the Account, not only by , the
Apothecary, but all others of the fame Pro-
ieifion in the Town, and feveral other Gen-
tlemen.
Upon Mr. Carew's Departure from Bruton
thegenerousCaptain befriended him with many :
Recommendatory Letters to his Friends and
Acquaintance that lay in his. Road, as he pre-
tended ; nay^indecd he was never out of it :
Thence he proceeded to Brijlcl, and all o-
ther Places where the Letters were directed,
and received ccnf.derable Pieces of Money.
from many on Account of thefe Letters,
which were moitly to Captains of Veffels,
*nd Gviulemen that, had been .at Sea, with
whom he ivVcihl. Times palled Mufter. very
s ■ \veif;.
Mr.' Bampfylde-Moore Carew 335
well ; it being by Defire of the Captain, as
was mentioned in the Letter, that they examined.
him. .
Sometimes he and his Wife, in Conjunction
with Coleman and his Wife, being all dreffed
very genteely, pafs'd for Gypfies of extraor-
dinary Knowledge and Reputation •, many a
poor credulous unfufpe&ing Perfon became
their Prey, and many a good Booty they got
in mod Parts of the Counties of Cornwall and
Devon. Once in particular himfelf, Coleman,
and their Spoufes, being in Buckfordjleigh near
Exeler.ont Collard, a wealthy but fimpte Shoe-
maker, comes to their Quarters, to confult them
in an intricate and ^important-Affair * he told
them, " That it was the Opinion of all the
" Country that his Grandmother had fome-
11 where concealed very large Sums of Money
" before her Death, and that himfelf, by ie-
" veral Dreams and Virions, was confirmed
Ci in the fame Opinion, and that he thought
" proper to advife with them upon the Affair,
M not doubting but they, by the Help of their
" profound Learning and Knowledge, for
" .which, they were fo famous thro' the Weil,
tc were capable of informing him in what par-
way, he thought this a proper Opportunity for
taking feme Revenge of the Mayor for the
nrny Indignities he had put on his Subjects :
Having therefore got Intelligence what Suits
ef Cloarhs the Mayor had, and underftanding
he had a good Sjauff-coloured Suit, he goes to
his
Mr, Bam pfyfde- Moore Carew. 339.
his HouCe, and informs the Mayorefs that he
was a Seaman under Misfortunes, had met with
the Mayor as he was going to Dinner with
Captain Callow ay y of Upway> and his Worfhip
had lent him to her, giving him Orders to re-
ceive his Snuff-coloured Suit ; which the good-
natured Gentlewoman hearing, without any
Scruple brought him the Coat, Waiftcoat and
Breeches.
Mr. Carew being in the City of Briftol at
a Time when tLere was a hot Pre is, wherein
they not only impreffed Seamen, but all able-
bodied Landmen that they Could any where
meet with, which made one By one Way and
another another, putting the City into a great
Rout and Confirmation ; among the Reft<,
knowing himfelfto have a Body of a dangerous
Bignefs, was willing to fecure himfelf as effec-
tually as he pofiibly could, greatly preferring
his own Eafe and Pleafure to the Interrft and
Honour of his King •, he therefore fets his Wife
and Landlady to Work, who with all Speed
and Cleanlinefs make a great Number of f'mali
Mutton- pies, Plumb- puddings, Ch'eefe-cakes,
and Cuftards, which Mr. Carew, in an ordi-
nary Female Habit, hawks about the City, cry-
ing Plumb-pudding, Plumb-pudding, Plumb-
pudding •, hot Plumb- pudding, piping-hot,
imuaking-hot, hot Plumb-pudding ; Plumb-
pudding, Plumb-pudding, eccho'd in every
Street and Corner, even in the Midft of the
eager Prefs-Gang, fome of whom fpent then-
Penny
340 An Apology for the Life of
Penny with this mafculine Pye Woman, and
feldom failed to ferenade her with many a com-
plimental Title of Bitch and Whore.
Thus did Mr. Carew keep himfelf out of the
Clutches of this dangerous Set of People, with
whom he feared to hold any Converfation in
his own Shape and Habit. Going once to the
Hot Wells, near that City, to vend this eatable
Merchandize, in his Woman's Apparel, he
met a lufty young Sailor, whom the Prefs pur-
fuded very clofely : To affift his Speed, he
pulled off his Jacket, and called to our Pud-
ding- Merchant to take it, hailing him by the
refpectful Title and Demomination of Mother:
He took it up, and fas foon as Opportunity
prefentedj over- haling it, found in the Pockets
a large Pair of Silver Buckles, between fix
and feven Shillings in Silver, and a very good
Handkerchief.
Coming by 'Squire Rhodes' 's Seat near Kingf-
hridge, in Devonfhire^ and knowing the 'Squire
had married a Dorfetfhire Lady, he thought
proper to become a Dorfetfhire Man, and one
of I.yme, (which was the Place of the Lady's
Nativity) and applies himfelf to the 'Squire
and his Lady, whom he met both together,
giving them to underftand, That he was loft in
a Veffel belonging to Lyme, Captain Courtenay,
Commander : The 'Squire and his Lady gave
him- Half a Crown each, for Country -fake,
and very well entertained him at the Houfe.
This was in the Morning.
Going
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew 341
Going from thence, he went to a Publick-
Houie called Maljlon-Crofs^ about a Quarter of
a Mile from the 'Squire's : He there fell in
Company with 'Squire Reynolds •, 'Squire Ford y
Dr. Rhodes, Brother to the 'Squire, and fevcral
other Gentlemen who were met there to make
merry after a Hunting- Match. In the After-
noon there was a prodigious Storm of Thun-
der, Lightening and Rain, which continued for
feveral Hours : In the Midft of this violent
Weather, he (being minded to clear his After-
noon's ExpencesJ (trips off all his Apparel,
excepting a white Night - Cap, Shoes and
Breeches, and goes to 'Squire Rhodes'*. No-
thing could look with a more deplorable A-
fpect than this naked Spectacle in fuch tempef-
tuous Weather : The Tenant with Pity re-
garding his wretched Appearance, fetched him
a Shirt (as he thought) to cover his Naked-
nefs ; but upon his end< avcuring to put it on,
it proved to be a Smock belonging to the good
Woman his Wife, which afforded fufficient
Diverfion to the 'Squire and his Lady, who
were looking out of the Window ; when call-
ing to him, and enquiring from whence he
came, he pretended to have been caft away at
Bigbury-Bay, in the immediate violent Tem-
ped, in a VefTel belonging to Poole : 'Squire
Rhodes ordered a Holland Shirt and a good
Suit of Broad-Cloth Cloaths to be given him,
as alfo a hearty refrefhing Dram •, and then
throwing him Half a Crown, difmifltd him,
not in the leaft fufpecling him to be the poor
Lyme
34 2 dn Apology for the Life cf \
Lyme Man, to whom himfelf and Lady were
fo liberal in the' Morning. Having got this
Contribution, he returns to the Publick-Houfe,
where the Gentlemen waited for him, f for they |
were the principal Occafion of this lad Adven-
ture J and being by him informed how he had I
fared, diverted themfelves exceedingly with I
the Stratagem -, and fhortly after meeting with
'Squire Rhodes, 'they difcovered the Imposition, j
and very heartily bantered him thereupon.
Some Time alter this, Bampfylde exercifing
his Profeflioiv at Modbury, (where 'Squire •
Rhodes'* Father lived) among other- Houfes ;
made his Application to 'Squire Legafficks's, \
where he by Chance was vi firing : Mr. Carew \
knock' d at the Kitchen Door, which being \
opened, he faw his old Friend the 'Squire, who |
was then alone, and in a carelefs Manner fwing-
ing His Cane about : As foon as' he began to .
tell his lamentable Tale, Mr. Rhodes faid,
" I was twice in one Day impofed on by that
" Rogue Bampfylde Carezv, of whole Gang
" you may very likely be •, furthermore, I do
" not live here, but am a Stranger :" Mean
Time in comes 'Squire Legajfick with a Bottle
of Wine in his Hand, giving Mr. Carew a
private Wink, to let him underftand he knew
him, and then very gravely enquired into the ]
Circumltances of his Misfortune, as alfo of the
Affairs and Inhabitants of Dartmouth, from
.whence he pretended to have failed fever al
Times : Of all which he gave a full and par-
ticular
Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew 343
particular Account •, whereupon Mr. Lcgaffuk
gave him half a Crown, and recommended him
as a real Object to Mr. Rhodes, who then made
him the fame Prefent \ upon which, Mr. Le-
gajp.ck burft out a laughing, and being afked the
Reafon thereof, he could not forbear telling him,
even in Mr. Carew's Prefence •, and Mr. Rhodes
finding himfelf thus a third Time impofed on,
with a great deal of good Nature made him-
felf merry therewith.
Here we (hall put an End, for the prefent, to
this true HiL'ory of our Hero, and, we hope,
the gentle Reader is convinced, that he has as
good, if not a better Claim to Fame and Im-
mortality, than moil of the prefent Heroes of
the Age. We acknowledge he has his Faults,
but every Body knows a perfect Character is
quite out of Fafhion, and that the prefent excel*
lent Writers of the Age, hold it a Solecifm and
Abfurdity to draw, even a fictitious Hero with-
out a Plenty of Faults: To draw after Nature
is the Criterion, that is, an equal Quantity of
Virtue and Vice ; or if the latter preponderates a
little, no Matter, fo theirHeroes do not fall with-
out Temptation, and feel fome Compunctions
of Repentance when their PaiTions are cooled ;
this is 'Perfection enough, for this is pure Na-
ture. Upon this Account, we acknowledge,
we have been at no little Pains in writing this
G g true
344 -An Apology for the Life ', &c.
true Hiftory, to throw a Veil over fome of the
Virtues of our Hero, left he fhould be found to
exceed the prefent Standard of Heroifm, and be
thought a Character out of Nature.
sis
( 345 )
As the Language of the Community of the
Gypfies is very expreffive, and different from
all others, we think we jhall do a Pleafure to
the Curious by annexing a Jhort Specimen of
it.
A BRAM, naked, without cloaths, or fcarcu
-^*- enough to cover the naked nefs. Ambidexter,
one that goes fnacks in gaming with both parties ; alfo
a lawyer that takes fees of a plantirT and defendant at
once. Jute?n, a church ; alfo married. Auiem
bawler, a preacher, or parfon, of any feci:. Jut em
cacklers, or autemprickears, diffenters of any deno-
mination. Jute m divers, church pickpockets ; but
often ufed for church-wardens, overfeers of the poor,
fides- men, and others, who have the management
of the poor's money. Back'd, dead. Balfom, Money.
Bandog, a bailiff or his follower ; a ferjeant or Lis
yeoman ; alfo a very fierce mafliff. Barker, a falef-
man's fervant that walks before the fhop, and cries
cloaks, coats or gowns ; what d'ye buy. Barnacle,
a good job, or a fnack eafily got. Barxaclss, th*
irons worn in goals by felons- Battler, an ox.
Baubec, an halfpenny. Beardfplitter, a whore- mafhr.
Beck, or Harmenbcck, a beadle. A ben, a. foolifh Fel-
low. Bene-Darkmans, good Night. Bwg-Awafl, get
you hence begone. Bingo-Mcrt, a female drunkard,
a (he brandy drinker. Black-box, a lawyer. Black-
Indies, Newcaftle from whence the coals are brought.
Black Spy, the devil. Blind-checks, the breech.
bloiuer, a miftrefs ; alfo a whore, bluffer, a hofr,
inn-keeper cr victualler. Bone, to apprehend, feize,
lake
( 34« )
take or aired, horde, a {hilling, bouncing cheat, a
bottle. bracket-face, ugly, homely, ill-favour'd.
buck's- face, a cuckold, bufe, a dog. bull's-eye? a
crown or five {billing piece, bung, a purfe, pocket
or fob. burr, a hanger on, or dependant, calk, a
clonk or gown, came/a, a {hirt or fhift. cank, dumb.
€armik$n, the plague, cap, to fwear. captain-quecrnals,
a fellow in poor cloaths, or fh.ibby, caravan, a good
round fum of money about a man. cafe, a. houfe,
{hop or ware-houfe. cajhr, a cloak, caw-handed,
awkard, not dexterous, ready or nimble, chanticlere,
a cock, chates the gallows, chatts, lice, chife, a
knife, file, or hw, clank, a filver tankard, coach-
wheel, as, a fore coach-wheel, half a crown ; a hind
coach-wheel, a crown or five milling piece, cobble-
colicr, a turkey, colquamn, a man's neck, commijfton^
a fliirt. comfortable Importance, a wife, cojlard,
the head, cews-baby, a calf, crackmans, hedges.
ireker, a ^r^ctcr four- pence, creppin the tail of any
thing. cu:un.bers, taylors. cuffin, a man. culp, a
kick or blow. cup-Jhot, drunk, dace, two-pence. dag 9
a gun damber, a rafcal. dancers, Hairs. darkmans y
night, dafo, a tavern-drawer, dawb, a bribe, a re-
ward for fecrct fervice. decus, a crown or five milling
piece, degen, a fword. dimber-mort, a pretty wench.
drumbelo, a dull heavy fellow, facer, a bumper
without lip-room, famblcs, rings, famms, hands.
fa finer, a warrant, ferret, a pawnbioker, or trades-
man that fells goods to young fpend thrifts upon truft
at exceflive rate^, and then hunts them without mercy
and often throws them into a gaol, where they periih,
for his debt, flag, a groat, flajh^ a perriwigg. flicker
a drinking glafs. flicking, to cut, cutting, as flick me
flme panam and caflfan ; cut me fome bread and
cheefe. flute, the recorder of London, or of any
other *own. flyers, {hoes, frpglanders, Dutchmen.
frummagamnd
( 347 )
frummagemm 9 d, choak'd, ftrangled cr hang'd. fur*
men, aldermen, gan, a mouth, ganns, the lips, goakrs
coach, a hurdle, gentry-cove, a gentleman, gage, a pot
or pipe. george, a half crown piece, gigger, a door*
glaziers, eyes, glim, a dark lanthorn. glimfenders*
hand irons, glim, fire, glimjlick, a candleftick. gran*
nam gold, old hoarded coin, green bag, a lawyer. grig*
a farthing, gropers, blind men. gutter-lane, the
throat., hab-nab, at a venture, unfight, unfeen, hit or
mifs. half-board, fix-pence, hams, breeches, hamlet*
a high conftable. hanktclo, a filly fellow, a mere cods-
head, h an sen- held er, jack in the box, the child in the
womb, or a health to it. barman, a conftable. har*
mans, the flocks, harmanbech, a beadle, hawk, a
fharper. hazle-geld, to beat any one with a rnzle
ftick or plant, hearing Cheats, ears, heaver, the
breaft. hell, the place where the taylors lay up their
cabbage, or remnants, which are fometimes very
large, hempen widow, one whofe hufband was hang'd.
henfigat, whofe commanders and officers are ab-
folutely fway'd by their wives, high tide, when the
pocket is full of money, hocus, difguifed in liquor,
drunk, hedmendods, fnailsin their {hells, hog grubber*
a clofe- filled, narrow- foul'd, fheaking fellow, hop
merchant, a dancing matter, hulver head, a filly foolifh
follow, hunt-box, a pulpit, hummer, a great lye, a
rapper, humptey dumptey, ale boil'd with brandy.
hums, perfons at church, hufiylour, a jobe, or guinea.
jack adams, a fool, jack-a- dandy, a little impertinent
infignificant fellow, jack in a box, a /harper, or
cheat, jack at a pinch, a poor hackney parfon.
jacobitcs, mam or collar fhirts. jarke, a feal. jet, a
lawyer, autem jet, a parfon. iron doublet, a prifon.
itchland, Scotland, jukrum, a licence, keffal, a horfe.
kclter, as, out cf kclter, out of forts, ken, a houfe.
a bob ken, or a bowman ken, a good or well furnifhed
houfe.
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houfe. kicks, breeches, kill devil, rum. kinchin, a
little child, kings piclures, money, lac'd Afutton,
a woman. lag, water alfo laft. lad a dudds, a buck of
cloaths. lamb -fain- men, the judges of the feveral
courts, lanfprefado, he that comes into company with
but two-pence in his pocket, a dark lanthorn, the
fervant or agent that receives the bribe at court.
libben, a private dwelling houfe. libbege, a bed. lifter,
a crutch, light-wans, the day or day break, line of
the old author, a dram of brandy, little Barbary,
Wapping. looped, ran awzy ; he loap'd up the dancers,
he whipt up the flairs, loge, a watch, loufe-trap, a
comb, low-tide, when there's no money in a man's
pocket, mannikin, a dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
maunders, beggars, maundring broth, fcolding. meggs,
guineas, melt, to fpend money. mill- clapper, a
woman's tongue, mijft, a contraction of co?nmiJfion,
fignifying a fhirt, fmock, or fheet. mifo-topper, a
coat or petticoat, moabites, ferjeant?, bailiffs and their
crew, moon-curfer, a link-boy. mower, a cow. muck,
money, wealth, mutton-monger, a lover of women.
a leg of mutton in a filk flocking, a woman's leg. nab,
a hat, cap, or head ; alfo a coxcomb, ne'er a face
but his own, not a penny in his pocket. nim-ginuner,
a doctor, furgeon^ or Apothecary, rubbing- cheat, the
gallows, nut-crackers a pillory, oak, a rich Man, of
good fubftance and credit, ogles, eyes, rum ogles,
fine, bright clear piercing eyes, one in ten, a parfon.
panam, bread, panter, a heart, pantler, a butler.
peeper, a looking Glafs. peter, a portmanteau, or
cloak- bag, peg trantums, as gone to peg trantums,
dead, pennance board a pillory, penthcufe nab, a very
broad brimm'd hat. perivAnkle, a peruke or perriwig.
philiflines, ferjeants, bailiffs, and their crew, porker,
a fword. property, a meere tool or implement, to
ferve a turn ; a cat's foot, auaile pipe, a Woman's
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tongue, queer bluffer, a fneaking, Sharping, cut-throat
Alehoufeman, or Inn-keeper, queer-cuflfin, a juftice
of peace ; alfo a churl, rabbit-fuckers, young fpend-
thrifts, taking goods on tick of pawnbrokers, or
tallymen, at excel?! ve rates, rattling cove a coachman
red ragi a tongue, your red rag will never lie ft ill
your Tongue will never be quiet, regraters, foreftal-
lers in markets, ribbin, money, romboyled, fought
after with a warrant, rotan, a coach or waggon, any
thing that runs upon wheels ; but principally a cart.
royflers, rude, roaring rogues, ruffin, the devil.
ruff?nam, the woods or bufhes. rumbeck, any juftice
of the peace. rumba, a prifon or goal, rumboozinr
wets, bunches of grapes, rum-clank, a large filver
tankard, rum-degen a filver hiked, o r inlaid fword :
rum-dropper, a Vint ner. fichoolbutter,^w n 'ipp'mg. fconce
to build a large fconce, to run deep upo - tick or truft.
fieedy, poor, money lefs, exhzufted. fetters y or fitting
dogs, they that draw in bubbles for old gamefters to
rook ; alfo a ferjeant's yeoman, bailiff's follower
or fecond ; alfo an excife officer. Jharpers tools, falfe
dice. Jhot, clapt orpox'd./W the tumbler, whipt
at the Cart's tail, fkin flint, a griping, (harping, clofe-
fifted fellow, fkipper, a barn, flat, a fheet. fate a
half crown ; alfo the fame as flat, fimear, a painter
or plaifterer. yW/rr, a no(e. fine! ling- cheat, a nofegay;
alfo an orchard or garden, fimiter, an arm. j mug a'
blackfmith ; alfo neat and fpruce, fnilcb, to ry e r
fee any body, the cul finiches, the man eyes or fees
you, finite, to wipe, or flap, fiout^ a hog(head,y^/f,
a pocket, fion of prattlement, a lawyer, foul- driver
a parfon. fiouth fie a mountain., geneva. Jbws-babv % a
pig. fipanijb money, fair words and compliments,
/panics, money, gold or filver. fieckt wiper, a co-
loured handkerchief . ffirituai flep broker, a parfon.
ffitfa a grocer, fiplitter of caufts 7 a lawyer, fauirijh %
foolilh.
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fooliffe. Jlamps, legs. Jlampers^ fhoes ; alfo Carriers
Jlick Jams, a pair of gloves. Stater, a great blow.
Jlrommel, ftraw, or hzlr.Jlrum, a perriwig. rumftrum
a long wig.Jtubbk it, hold your tongue. /#//■ #W c/^
good ftore of^brandy, or any agreeable liquor, fupouch,
an hoftefs or landlady. fwag, a fhop. rum fwag,
full of rich goods, tears of the tankard, drops of the
good liquor that fall befide. thrums, three-pence, tip
of the buttery, a goofe. tib, to give or lend. toge?nans,
a gown or cloak, top- diver, a lover of women, top-
ping cheat, the gallows. ■ topping cave, the hangman.
tout, to look out fharp, to be upon one's guard, track,
to go. tres wins, three-pence, trib, a prifon, trine,
to hang ; alfo tyburn, trooper, a half crown, trundlers
peafe, tumbler, a cart, turkey merchants, drivers of
turktys. to twig, to difengage, to funder, to fnap,
to break off. to twig the dareies, toknock off the irons. *
vampers, ftockings. velvet, a tongue, to tip the velvet,
to tongue a woman, vinegar, a cloak, wattles* ears.
whids, words, whipjlnre, Yorkfhire. whowball, a
milkmaid, whifker, a great lye. white wooll, filver.
wibble, fad drink, zuitcher, filver. witcher-bubber, a
filver bowl, womblety cropi, the indifpofition of a
drunkard, after a debauch in wine or other liquors.
wooden ruff", a Pillory, he wore the wooden ruff, he
flood in the pillory, word-pecker, one that plays with
words, a punftcr. yam, to eat heartily, to fluff luf-
tily. yarmouih capon, a red herring, yarum, milk, or
food made of milk, yelper, a town cryer alfo, one
fubjecT: to complain, or make pitiful lamentations
for trifling incidents. znees y froft, or frozen ; znecfy
weather, fro ft y weather.
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