PERKINS LIBRARY Duke University Kare Dooks * ^ // \ /),///////////* 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. * Tr.is vas done in the Fir it Iditicru 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. j$& A N M APOLOGY, @>r . **fr **> ****** * h>*-h>********************* 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 ■% An Apology for the Life of 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. 4 An Apology for the Life of 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. 6 An Apology for the Life of 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 / <8 An Apology for the Life tf 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 B a IO An Apology for the Life of 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 j 4 An Apology for the Life of 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,. 42 An Apology for the Life of ' 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. 44 An Apology for the Life of 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 46 An Apology for the Life of 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 48 An Apology for the Life cf 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 £0 An Apology for the Life of 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- 52 An Apology for the •Life of 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 66 An Apology for the Life of 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- Mr. Bampfylde-Moose Carew. 6j 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 6$ An Apology for the Life of 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 . * The Method of doing this will be related hereafter. 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 7 6 An Apology for the Life of 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 yS An Apology for the Life of 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 8o An Apology for the Life of 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- $6 An Apology for the Life of 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 3& An Apology for the Life of 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 94 An Apology for the Life of 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 g6 An Apology for the Life of 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 K 2 to 108 An Apology for the Life of 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- K 3 ign no An Apology for the Life of 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 ii2 An Apology for the Life of 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 H4 An Apology for the Life of 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, 1 1 6 An Apology for the Life of . 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, • L At 1 1 8 An Apology for the Life of 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 L 2 " Money 1 20 An Apology for the Life of 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 M his 130 An Apology for the Life of 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,. 138 uin Apology for the Life cf " 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 *4° Jfy Apology for the Life -of 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 142 An Apology for the Life of 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 144 An Apology for the Life of 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 N 3 with I.J.6 An Apology for the Life of 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? - I4& An Apology for the Life of 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 150 An Apology for the Life of 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 152 An Apology for the Life of 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 154 dn Apology for the Life of 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 j 64 Au Apology for the Life of 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- 1 66 An Apology for the Life of 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. P 2 The 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 172 An Apology for the Life cf 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- *74 dn Apology for the Life of 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 I y6 An Apology for the Life of 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 i y 3 An Apology for the Life of . 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 198 An Apology for the Life of 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. 200 An Apology for the Life of 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 202 An Jpologyfcr the Life of 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 S 2 agree 204 An Apology for the Life of 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." S3 CHAP. 206 'An Jpologyfor the Life of 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, 208 An Apology for the Life of 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, 2 ro An Apology for the Life of 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 234 An Apology fcr the Life of 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 246 An Apology for the Life of 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