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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew + King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the + Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that + Extraordinary Man + + +Author: Unknown + + + +Release Date: November 9, 2008 [eBook #27210] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF +BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1850’s Thomas Allman and Son +edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p2b.jpg"> +<img alt="Bampfylde Disguised with Children" src="images/p2s.jpg" +/> +</a></p> +<h1><span class="smcap">the surprising</span><br /> +ADVENTURES<br /> +<span class="smcap">of</span><br /> +BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW,<br /> +<span class="smcap">king of the beggars</span>;<br /> +<span class="smcap">containing</span><br /> +HIS LIFE,<br /> +A Dictionary of the Cant Language,<br /> +<span class="smcap">and many</span><br /> +ENTERTAINING PARTICULARS<br /> +<span class="smcap">of</span><br /> +THAT EXTRAORDINARY MAN.</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p3b.jpg"> +<img alt="Bampfylde Frightening the Bellman" src="images/p3s.jpg" +/> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br /> +THOMAS ALLMAN AND SON.<br /> +W. WALKER AND SON, OTLEY.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW.</h2> +<p>Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew was descended from the ancient +family of the Carews, son of the Reverend Mr. Theodore Carew, of +the parish of Brickley, near Tiverton, in the county of Devon; of +which parish he was many years a rector, very much esteemed while +living, and at his death universally lamented. Mr. Carew +was born in the month of July 1693; and never was there known a +more splendid attendance of ladies and gentlemen of the first +rank and quality at any baptism in the west of England, than at +his: the Hon. Hugh Bampfylde, Esq., who afterwards died of an +unfortunate fall from his horse, and the Hon. Major Moore, were +both his illustrious godfathers, both of whose names he bears; +who sometime contending who should be the president, doubtless +presaging the honour that should redound to them from the future +actions of our hero, the affair was determined by throwing up a +piece of money, <!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 6</span>which was won by Mr. Bampfylde; who +upon this account presented a large piece of plate, whereon was +engraved, in large letters,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW.</p> +<p>The reverend Mr. Carew had several other children, both sons +and daughters, besides Mr. Carew, all of whom he educated in a +tender and pious manner; and Mr. Carew was at the age of twelve +sent to Tiverton school, where he contracted an intimate +acquaintance with some young gentlemen of the first rank in +Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, and Dorsetshire.</p> +<p>The desire of the reader to be informed of the person of the +hero of whom they are reading is so natural, we should be guilty +of a great neglect, were we to omit satisfying our readers in +this respect, more particularly as we can, without making use of +a figure in rhetoric, (which is of very great service to many +authors,) called amplification; or, in plain English, enlarging, +present our readers with a very amiable picture.</p> +<p>The stature of our hero was tall and majestic, his limbs +strong and well-proportioned, his features regular, his +countenance open and ingenuous, bearing all those +characteristical marks which physiognomists assert denote an +honest and good-natured mind.</p> +<p>During the first four years of his continuance at Tiverton +school, his close application to, and delight in his studies, +gave his friends great hopes that he might one day make a good +figure in that honourable profession which his father became so +<!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>well, for many years, and for which he was designed.</p> +<p>He attained, for his age, a very considerable knowledge in the +Latin and Greek tongues; but soon a new exercise or +accomplishment engaged all his attention; this was that of +hunting, in which our hero soon made a surprising progress; for, +besides that agility of limb and courage requisite for leaping +over five-barred gates, &c., our hero, by indefatigable study +and application, added to it a remarkable cheering halloo to the +dogs, of very great service to the exercise, and which, we +believe, was peculiar to himself; and, besides this, found out a +secret, hitherto known but to himself, of enticing any dog +whatever to follow him.</p> +<p>The Tiverton scholars had at this time the command of a fine +cry of hounds, whereby Mr. Carew had frequent opportunity of +gratifying his inclinations in that diversion. It was then +that he entered into a very strict friendship and familiarity +with John Martin, Thomas Coleman, John Escott, and other young +gentlemen of the best rank and fortune.</p> +<p>The wise Spaniards have a proverb, Tell me who you are with, +and I will tell you what you are; and we ourselves say, Birds of +a feather flock together. It is generally allowed that +proverbs are built upon experience, and contain great truths; and +though at this time very young, he contracted no acquaintance, +and kept no company, but with young gentlemen of birth and +fortune, who were rather superior to himself than beneath +him.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>It happened that a farmer, living in a county adjacent to +Tiverton, who was a great sportsman, and used to hunt with the +Tiverton scholars, came and acquainted them of a fine deer, which +he had seen with a collar about his neck, in the fields about his +farm, which he supposed to be the favourite deer of some +gentleman not far off; this was very agreeable news to the +Tiverton scholars, who, with Mr. Carew, John Martin, Thomas +Coleman, and John Escott, at their head, went in a great body to +hunt it; this happened a short time before the harvest. The +chase was very hot, and lasted several hours, and they ran the +deer many miles, which did a great deal of damage to the fields +of corn that were then almost ripe. Upon the death of the +deer and examination of the collar, it was found to belong to +Colonel Nutcombe, of the parish of Clayhanger.</p> +<p>Those farmers and gentlemen that sustained the greatest damage +came to Tiverton, and complained heavily to Mr. Rayner, the +schoolmaster, of the havock made in their fields, which +occasioned strict enquiry to be made concerning the ringleaders, +who, proving to be our hero and his companions, they were so +severely threatened, that, for fear, they absented themselves +from school; and the next day, happening to go in the evening to +Brick-house, an alehouse, about half a mile from Tiverton, they +accidentally fell into company with a society of gipseys, who +were there feasting and carousing. This society consisted +of seventeen or eighteen persons of both sexes, who that day met +there with a full purpose of merriment and jollity; and after a +plentiful <!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 9</span>meal upon fowls, and other dainty +dishes, the flowing cups of October, and cider, went most +cheerfully round, and merry songs and country dances crowned the +jovial banquet; in short, so great an air of freedom, mirth, and +pleasure, appeared in this society, that our youngsters from that +time conceived a sudden inclination to enlist into their company; +which, when they communicated to the gipseys, they, considering +their appearance, behaviour, and education, regarded as only +spoke in jest; but as they tarried there all night in their +company, and continued in the same resolution the next morning, +they were at length induced to believe them to be serious, and +accordingly encouraged them, and admitted them into their number; +the requisite ceremonials being first gone through, and the +proper oaths administered.</p> +<p>The reader may perhaps be surprised at the mention of oaths +administered, and ceremonials used, at the entrance of these +young gentlemen; but his surprise will lessen when we inform him, +that these people are subject to a form of government and laws +peculiar to themselves, and though they have no written laws, by +which means they avoid all perplexity with lawyers, yet they pay +obedience to one who is styled their king; to which great honour +we shall hereafter see our hero arrive, having first proved +himself worthy of it, by a great number of necessary +achievements.</p> +<p>There are, perhaps, no people so completely happy as they are, +or enjoy so great a share of liberty. The king is elective +by the whole people, <!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 10</span>but none are allowed to stand as +candidates for that honour, but such as have been long in their +society, and perfectly studied the nature and institution of it; +they must likewise have given repeated proofs of their personal +wisdom, courage and capacity; this is the better known, as they +always keep a public record or register of all remarkable (either +good or bad) actions performed by any of the society; and they +can have no temptation to make choice of any but the most worthy, +as their king has no titles or lucrative employments to bestow, +which might influence or corrupt their judgment.</p> +<p>The only advantage the king enjoys is, that he is constantly +supplied with whatever is necessary for his maintenance, from the +contributions of his people; whilst he, in return, directs all +his care to the defending and protecting his people from their +enemies, in contriving and planning whatever is most likely to +promote their welfare and happiness, in seeing a due regard paid +to their laws, in registering their memorable actions, and making +a due report of all these things at their general assemblies; so +that, perhaps, at this time, it is amongst these people only that +the office of a king is the same as it was at its first +institution;—viz. a father and protector of his people.</p> +<p>The laws of these people are few and simple, but most exactly +and punctually observed; the fundamental of which is, that strong +love and mutual regard for each member in particular, and for the +whole community in general, which is inculcated into them from +their earliest infancy; <!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 11</span>so that this whole community is +connected by stronger bands of love and harmony, than oftentimes +subsist even in private families under other governments; this +naturally prevents all oppressions, fraud, and over-reachings of +one another, so common amongst other people, and totally +extinguishes that bitter passion of the mind (the source, +perhaps, of most of the other vices) envy; for it is a great and +certain truth, that Love worketh no evil.</p> +<p>Their general meetings at stated times, which all are obliged +to be present at, is a very strong cement of their love, and +indeed of all their other virtues; for, as the general register +of their actions, which we have before spoken of, is read at +these meetings, those who have deserved well of the community, +are honoured by some token or distinction in the sight of all the +rest; and those who have done any thing against their fundamental +laws, have some mark of ignominy put upon them; for they have no +high sense of pecuniary rewards, and they think the punishing of +the body of little service towards amending the mind. +Experience has shown them, that, by keeping up this nice sense of +honour and shame, they are always enabled to keep their community +in better order than the most severe corporeal punishments have +been able to effect in other governments.</p> +<p>But what has still more tended to preserve their happiness is, +that they know no other use of riches than the enjoyment of them; +but, as the word is liable to be misconstrued by many of our +readers, we think it necessary to inform them, we <!-- page +12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 12</span>do +not mean by it that sordid enjoyment which the miser feels when +he bolts up his money in a well-secured iron chest, or that +delicious pleasure he is sensible of when he counts over his +hoarded stores, and finds they are increased with a half-guinea, +or even a half-crown; nor do we mean that enjoyment which the +well-known Mr. K---, <a name="citation12"></a><a +href="#footnote12" class="citation">[12]</a> the man-eater, feels +when he draws out his money from his bags, to discount the good +bills of some honest but distressed tradesman at fifteen or +twenty per cent.</p> +<p>The people we are speaking of are happily ignorant of such +enjoyment of money, for they know no other use of it than that of +promoting mirth and good humour; for which end they generously +bring their gains into a common stock, whereby they whose gains +are small have an equal enjoyment with those whose profits are +larger, excepting only that a mark of ignominy is affixed on +those who do not contribute to the common stock proportionably to +their abilities, and the opportunities they have of gain; and +this is the source of their uninterrupted happiness; for by this +means they have no griping usurer to grind them, lordly possessor +to trample on them, nor any envyings to torment them; they have +no settled habitations, but, like the Scythians of old, remove +from place to place, as often as their conveniency or pleasure +<!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>requires it, which renders their life a perpetual scene +of the greatest variety.</p> +<p>By what we have said above, and much more that we could add, +of the happiness of these people, and of their peculiar +attachment to each other, we may account for what has been matter +of much surprise to the friends of our hero, viz., his strong +attachment, for the space of above forty years, to this +community, and his refusing the large offers that have been made +to quit their society.—But to return to our history.</p> +<p>Thus was Mr. Carew initiated into the mysteries of a society, +which, for antiquity, need give place to none, as is evident from +the name, as well as their origin, which they derive from the +Egyptians, one of the most ancient and learned people in the +world, and that they were persons of more than common learning, +who travelled to communicate their knowledge to mankind. +Whether the divine Homer himself might not have been of this +society, will admit of a doubt, as there is much uncertainty +about his birth and education, though nothing is more certain +than that he travelled from place to place.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew did not continue long in it before he was consulted +in important matters: particularly Madam Musgrove, of Monkton, +near Taunton, hearing of his fame, sent for him to consult in an +affair of difficulty. When he came, she informed him, that +she suspected a large quantity of money was buried somewhere +about her house, and if he would acquaint her with the particular +place, she would handsomely reward him.</p> +<p>Our hero consulted the secrets of his art upon <!-- page +14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>this +occasion, and after long toil and study informed the lady, that +under a laurel-tree in the garden lay the treasure she anxiously +sought for; but that her planet of good fortune did not reign +till such a day and hour, till which time she should desist from +searching for it; the good lady rewarded him very generously with +twenty guineas for his discovery. We cannot tell whether at +this time our hero was sufficiently initiated in the art, or +whether the lady mistook her lucky hour, but the strict regard we +pay to truth obliges us to confess, that the lady dug below the +roots of the laurel-tree without finding the hidden treasure.</p> +<p>When he was further initiated in the art, he was consulted +upon several important matters, and generally gave satisfaction +by his sagacious answers. In the meantime, his worthy +parents sorrowed for him as one that was no more, not being able +to get the least tidings of him, though they publicly advertised +him, and sent messengers after him in every direction; till, at +the expiration of a year and a half, our hero having repeated +accounts of the sorrow and trouble his parents were in upon his +account, his heart melted with tenderness, and he repaired to his +father’s house, at Brickley, in Devonshire. As he was +much disguised, both in habit and countenance, he was not at +first known by his parents; but when he discovered himself, joy +gushed out in full streams, stopping the power of speech; but the +warm tears they bedewed his cheeks with, whilst they imprinted +them with kisses, performed the office of the tongue with more +expressive eloquence; but the good heart and tender parent will +feel this much better than <!-- page 15--><a +name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>we can +describe. The whole neighbourhood, partook of this joy; and +there was nothing for some time but ringing of bells, with public +feasting, and other marks of festive joy.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew’s parents did every thing possible to render +home agreeable to him; every day he was engaged in some party of +pleasure or other, and all his friends strove who should +entertain him, so that there seemed nothing wanting to his +happiness. But the uncommon pleasure that he had enjoyed in +the community he had left, the freedom of their government, the +simplicity and sincerity of their manners, the frequent changes +of their habitation, the perpetual mirth and good humour that +reigned amongst them, and perhaps some secret presages of that +high honour which he has since arrived at; all these made too +deep an impression to be effaced by any other ideas; his pleasure +therefore grew every day more and more tasteless, and he relished +none of those entertainments which his friends daily provided for +him.</p> +<p>For some time these unsatisfied longings after the community +of gipseys preyed upon his mind, his heart being too good to +think of leaving his fond parents again, without +reluctance. Long did filial piety and his inclinations +struggle for the victory; at length the last prevailed, but not +till his health had visibly suffered by these inward +commotions. One day, therefore, without taking leave of any +of his friends, he directed his steps towards Brick-house, at +Tiverton, where he had at first entered into the community of the +gipseys; and finding some of them there, he joined their company, +to the great satisfaction of them, as well as <!-- page 16--><a +name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>of himself; +they rejoiced greatly at having regained one who was likely to be +so useful a member to their community.</p> +<p>We are now entering into the busy part of our hero’s +life, where we shall find him acting in various characters, and +performing all with propriety, dignity, and decorum.—We +shall, therefore, rather choose to account for some of the +actions of our hero, by desiring the reader to keep in mind the +principles of the government of the mendicants, which are, like +those of the Algerines, and other states of Barbary, in a +perpetual state of hostility with most other people; so that +whatsoever stratagems or deceits they can over-reach them by, are +not only allowed by their laws, but considered as commendable and +praise-worthy; and, as the Algerines are looked upon as a very +honest people by those who are in alliance with them, though they +plunder the rest of mankind; and as most other governments have +thought that they might very honestly attack any weak +neighbouring state, whenever it was convenient for them, and +murder forty or fifty thousand of the human species; we hope, to +the unprejudiced eye of reason, the government of the gipseys in +general, and our hero as a member of it, will not appear in so +disadvantageous a light, for exercising a few stratagems to +over-reach their enemies, especially when it is considered they +never, like other states, do any harm to the persons of their +enemies, and nothing considerable to their fortunes.</p> +<p>Our hero being again admitted at the first general assembly of +the gipseys, and having taken the proper oaths of allegiance to +the sovereign, was <!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 17</span>soon after sent out by him on a +cruise upon their enemies.</p> +<p>Our hero’s wit was now set to work, by what stratagems +he might best succeed. The first that occurred to his +thoughts was that of equipping himself with an old pair of +trowsers, enough of a jacket to cover his nakedness, stockings +such as nature gave, shoes (or rather the body of shoes, for +soles they had none) which had leaks enough to sink a first rate +man of war, and a woollen cap, so black that one might more +safely swear it had not been washed since Noah’s flood, +than any electors can that they receive no bribes. Being +thus attired, our hero changed his manners with his dress; he +forgot entirely his family, education, and politeness, and became +neither more nor less than an unfortunate shipwrecked seaman.</p> +<p>Here, if we may be allowed to compare great things with small, +we could wish that all orders of men were strict imitators of our +hero; we mean that they would put on the characteristics and +qualifications of their employment, at the same time they invest +themselves with the ensigns of it; that the divine, when he puts +on his sacred and venerable habit, would clothe himself with +piety, goodness, gentleness, long-suffering, charity, temperance, +contempt of filthy lucre, and other godlike qualifications of his +office; that the judge, at the time he puts on his ermined robes, +would put on righteousness and equity as an upper garment, with +an integrity of mind more white and spotless than the fairest +ermine; that the grave physician, when he puts on his large +perriwig, would put <!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 18</span>under it the knowledge of the human +frame, of the virtues and effects of his medicines, of the signs +and nature of diseases, with the most approved and experienced +forms of cure; that the mechanic, when he puts on his leather or +woollen apron, put on diligence, frugality, temperance, modesty, +and good nature; and that kings themselves, when the crown, which +is adorned with pearls and many precious stones, is put on their +heads, would put on at the same time the more inestimable gems of +all the precious virtues; that they would remember at times, they +were invested with the dalmatica at their coronation, only as an +emblem of the ornament of a good life and holy actions; that the +rod they received was the rod of virtue and equity, to encourage +and make much of the godly, and to terrify the wicked; to show +the way to those that go astray, and to offer the hand to those +that fall; to repress the proud, and to lift up the lowly; and +the sword they were girt with, was to protect the liberties of +their people, to defend and help widows and orphans, restore the +things which have gone to decay, maintain those which are +restored, and confirm things that are in good order.</p> +<p>As to our hero, he so fully put on the character of a +shipwrecked seaman, that in his first excursion he gained a very +considerable booty, having likewise ingeniously imitated the +passes and certificates that were necessary for him to travel +with unmolested.</p> +<p>After about a month’s travel, he accidentally, at +Kingsbridge, in Devonshire, met with Coleman, his late +school-fellow, one of those who entered <!-- page 19--><a +name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>with him into +the community, as before related, but had, after a year and a +half’s sojourn, left them and returned to his friends: +however, not finding that satisfaction among them as with the +gipseys, he had again joined that people—great was the joy, +therefore, of these two friends at their meeting, and they soon +agreed to travel together for some time; and accordingly +proceeded to Totness, from thence to the city of Exeter, where +they raised a contribution in one day amounting to several +pounds.</p> +<p>Having obtained all he could desire from this stratagem, his +fruitful invention soon hinted another. He now became the +plain honest country farmer, who, living in the Isle of Sheppy, +in Kent, had the misfortune to have his grounds overflowed, and +all his cattle drowned. His habit was now neat but rustic; +his air and behaviour simple and inoffensive; his speech in the +Kentish dialect; his countenance dejected; his tale +pitiful—wondrous pitiful; a wife and seven helpless infants +being partakers of his misfortunes; so that if his former +stratagem answered his wishes, this did still more so, he now +getting seldom less than a guinea a day.</p> +<p>Having raised a considerable booty by these two stratagems, he +made the best of his way towards Straton, in Devonshire, where +was soon to be held a general assembly of the gipseys: here he +was received with great applause, on account of the successful +stratagems he had executed, and he had an honourable mark of +distinction bestowed upon him, being seated near the king.</p> +<p>Though our hero, by means of these stratagems, abounded with +all the pleasures he could desire, <!-- page 20--><a +name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>yet he began +now to reflect with himself on that grand and noble maxim of +life, that we are not born for ourselves only, but indebted to +all mankind, to be of as great use and service to them, as our +capacities and abilities will enable us to be; he, therefore, +gave a handsome gratuity to a famous rat-catcher (who assumed the +honour of being rat-catcher to the king,) to be initiated into +that, and the still more useful secret of curing madness in dogs +or cattle.</p> +<p>Our hero, by his close application, soon attained so +considerable a knowledge in his profession, that he practised +with much success and applause, to the great advantage of the +public in general, not confining the good effects of his +knowledge to his own community only, but extending them +universally to all sorts of people, wheresoever they were wanted; +for though we have before observed that the mendicants are in a +constant state of hostility 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 opposite to the +interest of that particular community of which he was a +member.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew’s invention being never at a loss, he now +formed a new stratagem; to execute which, he exchanged his habit, +shirt, &c., for only an old blanket; shoes and stockings he +laid aside, because they did not suit his present purpose. +Being thus accoutred, or rather unaccoutred, he was now no more +than Poor Mad Tom, whom the foul fiend <!-- page 21--><a +name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 21</span>had led +through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, over +bog and quagmire, that hath laid knives under his pillow, and +halters in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge, made him proud +at heart to ride on a bay trotting horse over four-inch bridges, +to curse his own shadow for a traitor; who eats the swimming +frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water-newt; +that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, +swallows the old rat and ditch dog, drinks the green mantle off +the standing pool;</p> +<blockquote><p>And mice and rats, and such small gear,<br /> +Have been Tom’s food for seven long year.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>O do, de, do, de, do, de; bless thee from whirlwind, +star-blasting, and taking; do poor Tom some charity, whom the +foul fiend vexes; there could I have him now, and there, and +there again, and there; through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold +wind; Tom’s a-cold! who gives any thing to poor +Tom?—In this character, and with such like expressions, our +hero entered the house both of great and small, claiming kindred +to them, and committing all manner of frantic actions; such as +beating himself, offering to eat coals of fire, running against +the wall, and tearing to pieces those garments that were given +him to cover his nakedness; by which means he raised very +considerable contributions.</p> +<p>But these different habits and characters were still of +farther use to our hero, for by their means he had a better +opportunity of seeing the world, and knowing mankind, than most +of our youths <!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 22</span>who make the grand tour; for, as he +had none of those petty amusements and raree-shows, which so much +divert our young gentlemen abroad, to engage his attention, it +was wholly applied to the study of mankind, their various +passions and inclinations; and he made the greater improvement in +his study, as in many of his characters they acted before him +without reserve or disguise. He saw in little and plain +houses hospitality, charity and compassion, the children of +frugality; and found under gilded and spacious roofs, littleness, +uncharitableness and inhumanity, the offspring of luxury and +riot; he saw servants waste their master’s substance, and +that there were no greater nor more crafty thieves than domestic +ones; and met with masters who roared out for liberty abroad, +acting the arbitrary tyrants in their own houses:—he saw +ignorance and passion exercise the rod of justice; oppression, +the handmaid of power; self-interest outweighing friendship and +honesty in the opposite scale; pride and envy spurning and +trampling on what was more worthy than themselves;—he saw +the pure white robes of truth sullied with the black hue of +hypocrisy and dissimulation; he sometimes, too, met much riches +unattended by pomp and pride, but diffusing themselves in +numberless unexhausted streams, conducted by the hands of two +lovely servants, Goodness and Beneficence;—and he saw +honesty, integrity and goodness of mind, inhabitants of the +humble cot of poverty.</p> +<p>All these observations afforded him no little pleasure, but he +felt a much greater in the indulgence of the emotions of filial +piety, paying his parents frequent visits, unknown to them, in +different <!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 23</span>disguises; at which time, the +tenderness he saw them express in their inquiries after him (it +being their constant custom so to do of all travellers) always +melted him into real tears.</p> +<p>It has been remarked, that curiosity, or the desire of +knowledge, is that which most distinguishes man from the brute, +and the greater the mind is, the more insatiable is that passion: +we may, without flattery, say no man had a more boundless one +than our hero; for, not satisfied with the observations he had +made in England and Wales, (which we are well assured were many +more than are usually made by gentlemen before they travel into +foreign parts,) he now resolved to see other countries and +manners. He was the more inclined to this, as he imagined +it would enable him to be of greater service to the community of +which he was a member, by rendering him capable of executing some +of his stratagems with much greater success.</p> +<p>He communicated this design to his school-fellow, Escott, one +of those who joined the gipseys with him, (for neither of the +four wholly quitted the community). Escott very readily +agreed to accompany him in his travels, and there being a vessel +ready to sail for Newfoundland, tying at Dartmouth, where they +then were, they agreed to embark on board her. Nothing +remarkable happened in their passage which relates to our hero; +we shall therefore pass it by, and land him safe in +Newfoundland. Having remained there during the fishing +season, he acquired all the information he possibly could, and +which he thought might be useful to him, and returned in the same +vessel to Dartmouth, from whence he had at first sailed, <!-- +page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>bringing with him a surprising fierce and large dog, +which he had enticed to follow him, and made as gentle as a lamb, +by an art peculiar to himself. Our hero was received with +great joy by his fellow gipseys, and they were loud in his +praises, when they understood he had undertaken this voyage to +enable him to deceive his enemies with the greater success. +He accordingly, in a few days, went out on a cruise in the +character of a shipwrecked sailor, lost in a vessel homeward +bound from Newfoundland, sometimes belonging to Pool, sometimes +to Dartmouth, at other times to other ports, and under such or +such commander, according as the newspapers gave account of such +melancholy accidents.</p> +<p>If the booty he got before under this character was +considerable, it was much more so now, for being able to give an +exact account of Newfoundland, the settlements, harbours, +fishery, and the inhabitants thereof, he applied with great +confidence to masters of vessels, and gentlemen well acquainted +with those parts; so that those to whom before his prudence would +not let him apply, now became his greatest benefactors, as the +perfect account he gave of the country engaged them to give +credit to all he asserted, and made them very liberal in his +favour.</p> +<p>It was about this time our hero became sensible of the power +of love; we mean of that sort which has more of the mind than the +body, and is tender, delicate and constant; the object of which +remains constantly fixed in the mind, and will not admit of any +partner with it. It was in the town of Newcastle, so famous +for its coal-works, which <!-- page 25--><a +name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 25</span>our hero +visited out of curiosity, appearing there undisguised and making +a very genteel appearance, that he became enamoured with the +daughter of Mr. Gray, an eminent surgeon there. This young +lady had charms perhaps equal to any of her sex; and we might in +that style, which one, who calls himself an author of the first +rate, calls the sublime, say, “Here was whiteness, which no +lilies, ivory, nor alabaster could match. The finest +cambric might be supposed from envy to cover that bosom, which +was much whiter than itself;” but we must confess we always +feel a cold horror shoot through our limbs at the reading of this +puerile sublime, and we make no doubt but many other readers do +the same, as it greatly tends to make our hearts ache by putting +us in mind of what our posteriors have suffered for us at +school. We shall therefore content ourselves by saying, +this lady had charms sufficient to captivate the heart of any man +not unsusceptible of love; and they made so deep an impression +upon our hero, that they wholly effaced every object which before +had created any desire in him, and never permitted any other to +raise them afterwards; and, wonderful to tell, we have after +about thirty years enjoyment, seen him lament her occasional +absence almost with tears, and talk of her with all the fondness +of one who had been in love but three days. Our hero tried +all love’s soft persuasions with his fair one in an +honourable way; and, as his person was very engaging, and his +appearance genteel, he did not find her greatly averse to the +proposals. As he was aware that his being of the community +of the gipseys might prejudice her against him without <!-- page +26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>examination, he passed with her for the mate of a +collier’s vessel, in which he was supported by Captain +L---n of Dartmouth, an old acquaintance of our hero’s, who +then commanded a vessel lying at Newcastle, and acknowledged him +for his mate. These assertions satisfied the young lady +very well, and she at length consented to exchange the tender +care and love of a parent for that of a husband. The reader +may perhaps be surprised that she did not make any farther +inquiries about him; it is therefore necessary that we should +inform him, that our hero had engaged on his side a very eloquent +and persuasive advocate or counsellor, for we know not which +denomination most properly belongs to him; one, though still +beardless, existed as soon as the first woman was created, and +has had ever since, till within this last century, very great +practice in the business of uniting both sexes for life; but of +late years a neighbouring counsellor, named self-interest, has by +underhand dealings, false insinuations, and mean suggestions, +taken away the greatest part of his business, so that he is +seldom retained on either side. Our hero, however, engaged +him in his service, and he pleaded so strongly for him in the +young lady, that he removed all her objections, and silenced all +her scruples, and at last persuaded her to leave her home and +venture on board Captain L---n’s vessel with her lover; +for, though this counsellor, according to a very good picture of +him drawn by a famous master, has more of the wanton roguish +smiles of a boy in his countenance, than the formality, wisdom, +and gravity of those counsellors whom thou hast perhaps seen in +Westminster-hall; <!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 27</span>and never wore one of those ponderous +perukes which are so essential to the knowledge, wisdom, and +eloquence of those gentlemen; yet we are assured none of them +ever equalled him in persuasive arguments, removing of +difficulties, and silencing of doubts; for he indeed differs in +practice from most of the counsellors we ever heard of: for, as +these are apt to puzzle and perplex their clients by their +answers, and make intricate what was plain before, on the +contrary, the gentleman we are speaking of had a wonderful +faculty of making the greatest difficulties plain and easy, and +always answered every objection and scruple to the entire +satisfaction of his client.</p> +<p>The lover and his fair one being on board, they soon hoisted +sail, and the very winds being willing to favour these two happy +lovers, they had an exceeding quick passage to Dartmouth, where +they landed. Our hero being now no longer able to conceal +his being a member of the community of gipseys, after some +previous introduction, declared it to the young lady, who was not +a little surprised and troubled at it; but the counsellor we have +already spoken of being near at hand, soon composed her mind, by +suggesting to her the worthy family her lover was sprung from; +that the community of the gipseys was more happy, and less +disreputable than she imagined, that the person of her lover was +quite amiable, and that he had good nature, and love enough to +make her happy in any condition.</p> +<p>As these suggestions entirely satisfied her, the lovers in a +few days set out for Bath, where they lawfully solemnized their +nuptials with great gaiety <!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>and +splendour, and were those two persons whom many of the old +slanders at Bath remembered for many years after to have made +such an eclat, but nobody could, at the time, conjecture who they +were, which was the occasion of much speculation and many false +surmises.</p> +<p>We cannot conclude on this head, but with the deserved praises +of our hero, from whose mouth we have had repeated assurance, +that, during their voyage to Dartmouth, and their journey from +thence to Bath, not the least indignity was offered to the +innocence or modesty of his dear Miss Gray.</p> +<p>Our lovers began to be at length weary of the same repeated +rounds of pleasure at Bath, for at that time the wit of man had +not reached so high as the invention of that most charming, +entertaining, never-cloying diversion, called E, O, which seems +to have been reserved among the secrets of fate to do honour to +the present age; for upon the nicest scrutiny, we are quite +convinced it is entirely new, and cannot find the least traces of +its being borrowed from any nation under the sun; for, though we +have with great pains and labour inquired into all the games and +diversions of the ancients; though we have followed untutored +Indians through all their revels, and though we have accurately +examined into the dull pleasures of the uncouth Hottentots; yet +in all these we find either some marks of ingenuity to exercise +and refresh the mind, or something of labour to invigorate the +body;—we therefore could not avoid interrupting our +history, to do honour to this truly interesting and original +game.</p> +<p>Our lovers having left Bath, visited next the <!-- page +29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>city +of Bristol, where they stayed some time, and caused 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 expedition; we have some reason to +think they first introduced the love of dress among those plain +and frugal citizens. After some stay here, they made a tour +through Somerset and Dorset to Hampshire, where they paid a visit +to an uncle of our hero’s living then at Dorchester, near +Gosport, who was a clergyman of distinguished merit and +character; here they were received with great politeness and +hospitality, and abode a considerable time.</p> +<p>His uncle took this opportunity of making use of every +argument to persuade him to quit the community of the gipseys; +but our hero was so thoroughly fixed in his principles, that even +that argument which oftentimes convinces patriots in a few hours, +that all they said and did before was wrong, that kings have a +divine right to grind the faces of their subjects, and that power +which lays its iron hand on Nabal’s goodly vineyard, and +says, “This is mine, for so I will,” is preferable to +heavenly liberty, which says to every man, “Possess what is +thine own, reap what thou hast sown, gather what thou hast +planted, eat, drink, and lie down secure;” even this +powerful argument had no effect upon our hero; for, though his +uncle made him very lucrative offers for the present, and future +promises of making him heir of all his possessions, yet +remembering his engagements with the gipseys, he rejected them +all; and reflecting that he had long lived useless to that +community, <!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 30</span>he began to prepare for his departure +from his uncle’s, in order to make some incursions on the +enemy.</p> +<p>To do this with more effect, he bethought himself of a new +stratagem. He therefore equipped himself in a loose black +gown, puts on a band, a large white peruke, and a broad-brimmed +hat;—his whole deportment was agreeable to his +dress;—his pace was solemn and slow, his countenance +thoughtful and grave, his eyes turned on the ground—but now +and then raised in seeming ejaculations to heaven: in every look +and action he betrayed his want, but at the same time seemed +overwhelmed with that shame which modest merit feels, when it is +obliged to solicit the cold hand of charity; this behaviour +excited the curiosity of many gentlemen, clergy, &c., to +inquire into the circumstances of his misfortunes; but it was +with difficulty they could engage him to relate them, it being +with much seeming reluctance that he acquainted them with his +having exercised for many years the sacred office of a clergyman +at Aberistwith, a parish in Wales; but that the government +changing, he had preferred quitting his benefice, to taking an +oath contrary to his principles and conscience. This +relation he accompanied with frequent sighs, deep marks of +adoration of the ways of Providence, and warm expressions of his +firm trust and reliance in its goodness and faithfulness, with +high encomiums on the inward satisfaction of a good +conscience. When he discoursed with any clergyman, or other +person of literature, he would now and then introduce some Latin +or Greek sentences, that were applicable to what they were <!-- +page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>talking about, which gave his hearers a high opinion of +his learning; all this, and his thorough knowledge of those +persons whom it was proper to apply to, made this stratagem +succeed even beyond his own expectations. But now, hearing +of a vessel bound to Philadelphia, on board of which were many +Quakers, being cast away on the coast of Ireland, he laid aside +his gown, cassock, and band, clothes himself 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 seemed to hold +in abomination; his hat was moved to none, for, though under +misfortunes, he would not think of bowing the knee to Baal.</p> +<p>With these qualifications, he addressed himself to persons of +the denomination of Quakers with great success (for indeed it is +to be wished that all other sects would imitate them in their +readiness to relieve their brethren); and hearing that there was +to be a great meeting of them from all parts, at a place called +Thorncombe, in Devonshire, he makes the best of his way there; +and with a demure look and modest assurance enters the assembly, +where, making his case known, and satisfying them, by his +behaviour, of his being one of their sect, they made a very +considerable subscription for his relief.</p> +<p>So active was the mind of our hero, that he was never more +happy than when engaged in some adventure or other; therefore, +when he had no opportunity of putting any great stratagem in +execution, he would amuse himself with those which did not +require so great a share of art and ingenuity. <!-- page +32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>Whenever he heard of any melancholy accident by fire; he +immediately repaired to the place where it happened, and there, +remarking very accurately the spot, inquired into the cause of +it, and getting an exact information of the trades, characters, +families, and circumstances of the unhappy sufferers, he +immediately assumed the person and name of one of them; and +burning some part of his coat and hat, as an ocular demonstration +of his narrow escape, he made the best of his way to places at +some distance, and there passed for one who had been burnt out; +and to gain credit, showed a paper signed with the names of +several gentlemen in the neighbourhood of the place where the +fire happened, recommending him as an honest unhappy sufferer, by +which he got considerable sums.</p> +<p>Under this character, he had once the boldness to address +Justice Hall, of Exmouth, in Devon, the terror and professed +enemy of every order of the gipseys; however, our hero managed so +artfully, though he went through a strict examination, that he at +last convinced his worship that he was an honest miller, whose +house, mill, and whole substance had been consumed by fire, +occasioned by the negligence of an apprentice boy, and was +accordingly relieved by the justice.</p> +<p>Coming one day to Squire Portman’s, at Brinson, near +Blandford, in the character of a famous rat-catcher, with a hairy +cap upon his head, a buff girdle about his waist, and a tame rat +in a little box by his side, he boldly marched up to the house in +this disguise, though his person was well known by the family, +and meeting in the court with Mr. Portman, the Rev. Mr. Bryant, +and several other <!-- page 33--><a name="page33"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 33</span>gentlemen whom he well knew, but did +not suspect he should be known by them, he accosted them as a +rat-catcher, asking if their Honours had any rats to kill. +Do you understand your business well? replied Mr. Portman. +Yes, and please your honour; I have followed it many years, and +have been employed in his majesty’s yards and ships. +Well, go in and get something to eat; and after dinner we will +try your abilities.</p> +<p>Our hero was accordingly placed at the second table to dinner, +and very handsomely entertained; after which he was called into a +great parlour, among a large company of gentlemen and +ladies. Well, honest Mr. Rat-catcher, said Mr. Portman, can +you lay any schemes to kill the rats, without hurting my +dogs? Yes, boldly replied Mr. Carew, I shall lay it where +even cats can’t climb to reach it. And what +countryman are you, pray? A Devonshire man, please your +honour. What may be your name? Our hero now +perceiving, by the smiles and whispering of the gentlemen, that +he was known, replied very composedly, B, a, m, p, f, y, l, d, e, +M, o, o, r, e, C, a, r, e, w. This occasioned a good deal +of mirth; and Mr. Carew asking what scabby sheep had infected the +whole flock? was told, Parson Bryant was the man who had +discovered him, none of the other gentlemen knowing him under his +disguise: upon which, turning to the parson, he asked him if he +had forgotten good king Charles’s rules? Mr. +Pleydell, of St. Andrew’s, Milbourn, expressed a pleasure +at seeing the famous Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, saying he had +never seen him before. Yes, but <!-- page 34--><a +name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>you have, +replied he, and gave me a suit of clothes. Mr. Pleydell +testified some surprise at this, and desired to know when it +was. Mr. Carew asked him if he did not remember a poor +wretch met him one day at his stable-door with an old stocking +round his head instead of a cap, and a woman’s old ragged +mantle on his shoulders, no shirt on his back, nor stockings to +his legs, and scarce any shoes on his feet; and that he asked him +if he was mad? to which he replied No; but a poor unfortunate +man, cast away on the coast, and taken up, with eight others, by +a Frenchman, the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being all +drowned; and that Mr. Pleydell having asked what countryman he +was, gave him a guinea and a suit of clothes. Mr. Pleydell +said he well remembered such a poor object. Well, replied +our hero, that object was no other than the rat-catcher now +before you: at which all the company laughed very heartily. +Well, said Mr. Pleydell, I will bet a guinea I shall know you +again, come in what shape you will: the same said Mr. Seymour, of +Handford. Some of the company asserting to the contrary of +this, they desired our hero to try his ingenuity upon them, and +then to discover himself, to convince them of it.</p> +<p>This being agreed upon, and having received a handsome +contribution of this company, he took his leave; but Parson +Bryant followed him out, and acquainted him that the same +company, and many more, would be at Mr. Pleydell’s on such +a day, and advised him to make use of that opportunity to deceive +them all together; which our hero soon resolved to do. He +therefore revolved <!-- page 35--><a name="page35"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 35</span>in his mind what stratagem was most +likely to succeed: at length he fixed upon one, which he thought +could not fail answering his purpose.</p> +<p>When the day was come, the barber was called in to make his +face as smooth as his art could do, and a woman’s gown and +other female accoutrements of the largest size were provided for +him. Having jumped into his petticoats, pinned a large +dowde under his chin, and put a high-crowned hat on his head, he +made a figure so comical that even Hogarth’s humour can +scarcely parallel; yet our hero thought himself of something else +to render his disguise more impenetrable: he therefore borrowed a +little hump-backed child of a tinker, and two more of some others +of his community. There remained now only in what situation +to place the children, and it was quickly resolved to tie two to +his back, and to take the other in his arms.</p> +<p>Thus accoutred, and thus hung with helpless infants, he +marched forwards for Mr. Pleydell’s; coming up to the door, +he put his hand behind him, and pinched one of the children, +which set it a roaring; this gave the alarm to the dogs, so that +between their barking and the child’s crying, the whole +family was sufficiently disturbed. Out came the maid, +crying, Carry away the children, old woman, they disturb the +ladies. God bless their ladyships, I am the poor +unfortunate grandmother to these poor helpless infants, whose +dear mother and all they had was burnt at the dreadful fire at +Kirton, and hope the good ladies, for God’s sake, will +bestow something on the poor famishing starving infants. +This moving story was accompanied with tears; upon which, the +maid ran in to acquaint <!-- page 36--><a name="page36"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 36</span>the ladies with this melancholy tale, +while the good grandmother kept pinching one or other of the +children, that they might play their parts to greater perfection; +the maid soon returned with a half crown from the ladies, and +some good broth, which he went into the court-yard to eat, +(understanding the gentlemen were not in the house,) and got one +of the under-servants, whom he met, to give some to the children +on his back. He had not long been there, before the +gentlemen all came in together, who accosted him with, Where did +you come from, my good old woman? From Kirton, please your +honours, where the poor unfortunate mother of these helpless +babes was burnt to death by the flames, and all they had +consumed.</p> +<p>D---n you, said one of the gentlemen, (who is well known by +the name of Worthy Sir, and was particularly acquainted with Mr. +Carew,) there has been more money collected for Kirton than ever +Kirton was worth; however, he gave this good old grandmother a +shilling, the other gentlemen likewise relieved her, +commiserating her age, and her burden of so many helpless +infants; not one of them discovering our hero in the old woman, +who received their alms very thankfully, and pretended to go +away.</p> +<p>But the gentlemen were not got into the house before their +ears were saluted with a “tantivy, tantivy,” and +halloo to the dogs, upon which they turned about, supposing it to +be some brother sportsman, but seeing nobody, Worthy Sir swore +the old woman they had relieved was Carew; a servant therefore +was dispatched to bring her back; and she was brought into the +parlour among the <!-- page 37--><a name="page37"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 37</span>gentlemen, where, being examined, she +confessed herself to be the famous Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, +which made the gentlemen very merry, and they were now all +employed in untying the children from his back, and observing the +features and dress of this grandmother, which afforded them +sufficient entertainment. They afterwards rewarded our hero +for the mirth he procured them.</p> +<p>In the same manner he raised a contribution of Mr. Jones, of +Ashton near Bristol, twice in one day, who had maintained, with a +gentleman of his acquaintance, that he could not be so +deceived. In the morning, with a sooty face, leather apron, +a dejected countenance, and a woollen cap, he was generously +relieved as an unfortunate blacksmith, whose all had been +consumed by fire: in the afternoon he exchanged his logs for +crutches; his countenance was now pale and sickly, his gestures +very expressive of pain, his complaints lamentable, a poor +unfortunate tinner, disabled from maintaining himself, a wife, +and seven children, by the damps and hardships he had suffered in +the mines; and so well did he paint his distress, that the +disabled tinner was now as generously relieved as the unfortunate +blacksmith had been in the morning.</p> +<p>Being now near the city of Bath, where he had not long before +made so great a figure with his new married bride, he was +resolved to visit it in a very different shape and character; he +therefore tied up one of his legs behind him, and supplied its +place with a wooden one, and putting on a false beard, assumed +the character of a poor old cripple. In this disguise he +had an opportunity of entertaining <!-- page 38--><a +name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>himself with +the different receptions he met with from every order of men now, +from what he had done before in his fine rich clothes. The +rich, who before saluted him with their hats and compliments, now +spurned him out of their way; the gamesters overlooked him, +thinking he was no fish for their net; the chairmen, instead of +Please your honour, d---d him; and the pumpers, who attentively +marked his nod before, now denied him a glass of water. +Many of the clergy, those disciples of humility, looked upon him +with a supercilious brow; the ladies too, who had before strove +who should be his partner at the balls, could not bear the sight +of so shocking a creature: thus despised is poverty and rags, +though sometimes the veil of real merit; and thus caressed and +flattered is finery, though perhaps a covering for shame, poverty +of soul, and abandoned profligacy. One character alone +vouchsafed to look upon this contemptible object; the good man +looked upon him with an eye melting into tenderness and soft +compassion, while at the same time the hand which was stretched +out to relieve him, showed the heart felt all the pangs which it +supposed him to feel. But, notwithstanding the almost +general contempt, he raised very considerable contributions; for, +as some tossed him money out of pride, others to get rid of his +importunity, and a few, as above, out of a good heart, it +amounted to no small sum by the end of the season.</p> +<p>It is almost unnecessary to inform the reader, that these +successful stratagems gained him high applause and honour in the +company of the gipseys: he soon became the favourite of their +king, <!-- page 39--><a name="page39"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 39</span>who was very old and decrepid, and +had always some honourable mark of distinction assigned him at +their public assemblies. These honours and applauses were +so many fresh spurs to his ingenuity and industry; so certain it +is, that wherever those qualities are honoured, and publicly +rewarded, though but by an oaken garland, there industry will +outwork itself, and ingenuity will exceed the common bounds of +art. Our hero, therefore, was continually planning new +stratagems, and soon executed a very bold one on his grace the +Duke of Bolton. Coming to his seat near Basingstoke, in +Hampshire, he dressed himself in a sailor’s ragged habit, +and knocking at the gate, desired of the porter, with a composed +and assured countenance, admittance to the duke, or at least that +the porter would give his grace a paper which he held in his +hand; but, as he did not apply in a proper manner to this great +officer, (who we think may not improperly be styled the turnkey +of the gate) as he did not show him that passport which can open +every gate, pass by the surliest porter, and get admittance even +to kings, neither himself nor paper could gain any +entrance. However, he was not disheartened with this, but +waiting near the gate for some time, he at last saw a servant +come out, whom he followed, and, telling him that he was a very +unfortunate man, desired he would be so kind as to introduce him +where he might speak to his grace. As this servant had no +interest in locking up his master, for that belonged to the +porter only, he very readily complied with his request, as soon +as the porter was off his stand; which he accordingly did, +introducing him into <!-- page 40--><a name="page40"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 40</span>a hall, where the duke was to pass +through soon. He had not been long there before the duke +came in, upon which he clapped his knee to the ground, and very +graciously offered a paper to his hand for acceptance, which was +a petition, setting forth that the unfortunate petitioner, +Bampfylde Moore Carew, was supercargo of a large vessel that was +cast away coming from Sweden, in which were his whole effects, +and none of which he had been able to save. The duke seeing +the name of Bampfylde Moore Carew, and knowing those names to +belong to families of the greatest worth and note in the west of +England, inquired of what family he was, and how he became +entitled to those honourable names? He replied, they were +those of his godfathers, the Honourable Hugh Bampfylde, and the +Honourable Major Moore. The duke then asked him several +questions about his friends and relations, all of which he +answers very fully; and the duke expressing some surprise that he +should apply for relief in his misfortunes to any but his own +family, who were so well able to assist him, he replied, he had +disobliged them by some follies in his youth, and had not seen +them for some years, but was now returning to them. Many +more questions did the duke, and a lady who was present, ask him; +all of which he answered to their satisfaction.</p> +<p>As this was not a great while after his becoming a member of +the community of the gipseys, the duke had never heard that any +of the noble family of the Carews was become one of those people; +and was very glad to have it in his power to oblige any of that +family; he therefore treated <!-- page 41--><a +name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>him with +respect, and called a servant to conduct him into an inner room, +where the duke’s barber waited on him to shave him. +Presently after came in a footman, who brought in a good suit of +trimmed clothes, a fine Holland shirt, and all the other parts of +dress suitable to these. As soon as he had finished +dressing, he was introduced to the duke again, who complimented +him on his genteel appearance, and not without reason, as few did +more honour to dress. He was now desired to sit down by the +duke, with whom were many other persons of quality, who were all +greatly taken with his person and behaviour, and very much +condoled his misfortunes; so that a collection was soon made for +him to the amount of ten guineas. The duke, being engaged +to go out in the afternoon, desired him to stay there that night, +and gave orders that he should be handsomely entertained, leaving +his gentleman to keep him company; but Mr. Carew, probably not +liking his company so well as the duke’s, took an +opportunity, soon after the duke was gone, to set out unobserved +towards Basingstoke, where he immediately went into a house which +he knew was frequented by some of his community. The master +of the house, who saw him entering the door, cried out, +Here’s his Grace the Duke of Bolton coming in! upon which +there was no small hurry amongst the company. As soon as he +entered, he ordered the liquor to flow very plentifully at his +private cost; his brethren discovering who he was, were greatly +amazed at the appearance he made, so different from the usual +custom of their order; but when he had informed them fully of the +bold stratagem he had <!-- page 42--><a name="page42"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 42</span>executed, the whole place resounded +with applause, and every one acknowledged he was the most worthy +of succeeding their present good old and respected king.</p> +<p>As our hero’s thoughts were bent on making still greater +advantage of his stratagem, he did not stay long with his +brethren, but went to a reputable inn, where he lodged, and set +out the next morning for Salisbury; here he presented his +petition to the mayor, bishop, and other gentlemen of great note +and fortune, (applying to none but such who were so,) and +acquainted them with the favours he had received from his grace +the Duke of Bolton. The gentlemen, having such ocular +demonstration of the duke’s great liberality, treated him +with great complaisance and respect, and relieved him very +generously, not presuming to offer any small alms to one whom the +Duke of Bolton had thought so worthy of his notice. In the +same manner, and with the same success, he visited Lord Arundel, +Sir Edward Bouverie, and many other gentlemen in the counties of +Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset. Coming into Devonshire, his +native country, he visited all his friends and most intimate +acquaintance in that part, and was relieved by them, not one of +them discovering this unfortunate supercargo to be Mr. Bampfylde +Moore Carew. Being one morning near the seat of his friend +Sir William Courtney, he was resolved to pay him three visits +that day: he went therefore to a house frequented by his order, +and there pulled off his fine clothes, and put on a parcel of +rags; in this dress he moved towards Sir William’s: there, +with a piteous moan, a dismal countenance, <!-- page 43--><a +name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 43</span>and a +deplorable tale, he got half-a-crown of that gentleman, as a man +who had met with misfortunes at sea; at noon he put on a leather +apron, a coat which seemed scorched by the fire, with a dejected +countenance applied again, and was relieved as an unfortunate +shoemaker, who had been burned out of his house, and all he had; +in the afternoon he went again in his trimmed clothes, and +desiring admittance to Sir William, with a modest grace and +submissive eloquence he repeated his misfortunes as the +supercargo of a vessel which had been cast away, and his whole +effects lost, at the same time mentioning the kindness he had +received from his grace the Duke of Bolton. Sir William, +seeing his genteel appearance and behaviour, treated him with +that respect which the truly great will always pay to those who +supplicate their assistance, and generously relieved him, +presenting 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 +discovered who this supercargo was, except the Reverend Mr. +Richards, who did not make it known till he was gone; upon which +Sir William dispatched a servant after him, to desire him to come +back. When he entered the room again, Sir William and the +rest of the company were very merry with him, and he was desired +to sit down and give them an account by what stratagem he had got +all his finery, and what success he had with it, which he did; +after which he asked Sir William if he had not bestowed +half-a-crown that morning on a beggar, and at noon relieved a +poor unfortunate <!-- page 44--><a name="page44"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 44</span>shoemaker. I remember, replied +Sir William, that I bestowed such alms on a poor ragged +wretch. Well, said Mr. Carew, that ragged wretch was no +other than the supercargo now before you. Sir William +scarcely crediting this, Mr. Carew withdrew, and putting on the +same rags, came again with the same piteous moan, dismal +countenance, and deplorable tale, as he had done in the morning, +which fully convinced Sir William that he was the same man, and +occasioned much diversion in the company; he was however +introduced again, and seated among them in his rags; Sir William +being one of the few who pay a greater regard to the man than the +dress, can discern and support merit under rags, and despise +poverty of soul and worthlessness in embroidery; but, +notwithstanding the success of this stratagem, our hero always +looked upon it as one of the most unfortunate in his whole life; +for, after he had been at Sir William’s, as +above-mentioned, coming to Stoke Gabriel, near Totness, on a +Sunday, and having done that which discovered the nakedness of +Noah, he went to the Reverend Mr. Osburn, the minister of the +parish, and requested the thanksgivings of the church for the +wonderful preservation of himself, and the whole ship’s +crew, in the imminent danger of a violent tempest of thunder and +lightning, which destroyed the vessel they were aboard of. +Though Mr. Osburn knew him very well, yet he had no suspicion of +its being him in disguise, therefore readily granted his request; +and not only so, but recommending him to his parishioners, a +handsome collection was made for him by the congregation, which +he had generosity <!-- page 45--><a name="page45"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 45</span>enough to distribute among the poor +of the parish, reserving but a small part to himself. +Though this was bringing good out of evil, he still speaks of it +(after above thirty years lapse since the commission) with the +greatest regret and compunction of mind; for he is sensible, that +though he can deceive man, he cannot deceive God, whose eyes +penetrate into every place, and mark all our actions, and who is +a Being too awful to be jested with.</p> +<p>It was about this time the good old king of the mendicants, +named Clause Patch, well known in the city of London, and most +parts of England, finished a life of true glory, being spent in +promoting the welfare of his people. A little before his +death, finding the decays of nature increase every day, and his +final dissolution approach, he called together all his children, +to the number of eighteen, and summoned as many of his subjects +as were within a convenient distance, being willing that the last +spark of his life should go out in the service of his people; +this summons was obeyed with heavy hearts by his loving subjects, +and, at the day and place appointed, a great number assembled +together.</p> +<p>The venerable old king was brought in a high chair, and placed +in the midst of them, his children standing next to him, and his +subjects behind them. Reader, if thou hast ever seen that +famous picture of Seneca bleeding to death in the bath, with his +friends and disciples standing round him, then mayest thou form +some idea of this assembly: such was the lively grief, such the +profound veneration, such the solemn attention that appeared in +every countenance; but we can give <!-- page 46--><a +name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 46</span>thee no +adequate idea of the inward joy which the good old king felt at +his seeing such unfeigned marks of love in his subjects, which he +considered as so many testimonies of his own virtues; for, +certain it is that, when kings are fathers of their people, their +subjects will have for them more than the filial love or +veneration of sons. The mind of man cannot conceive any +thing so august, as that of a king beloved by his subjects. +Could kings but taste this pleasure at their first mounting the +throne, instead of drinking of the intoxicating cup of power, we +should see them considering their subjects as children, and +themselves the fathers, to nourish, instruct, and provide for +them as a flock, and themselves the shepherds to bring them to +pleasant pastures, refreshing streams, and secure folds; for some +time the king of the mendicants sat contemplating these emotions +of his subjects, then bending forward, thus addressed +them:—</p> +<p>“Children and friends, or rather may I call you all my +children, as I regard you all with a parental 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 an honest loss to my friends; but, +before you depart, the book shall be examined, and every one of +you shall receive from my privy purse, the same sum that you made +by your business this day of the last week. Let not this +honest act of generosity displease my heirs; it is the last waste +I shall make of their stores: the rest of what I die possessed of +is theirs by right, but my counsel, though <!-- page 47--><a +name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 47</span>directed to +them only, shall be of public good to all. The good +success, my dear children, with which it has pleased heaven to +bless my industry in this our calling, has given me the power of +bestowing one hundred pounds on each of you, a small, but +improvable fortune, and of most use, as it is a proof that every +one of you may gain as much as the whole, if your own idleness or +vice prevent it not;—mark by what means! Our +community, like people of other professions, live upon the +necessities, the passions, or the weaknesses of their +fellow-creatures. The two great passions of the human +breast are vanity and pity; both these have great power in +men’s actions, but the first the greater far; and he who +can attract these the most successfully, will gain the largest +fortune.</p> +<p>“There was a time when rules for doing this were of more +worth to me than gold; but now I am grown old, my strength and +senses fail me, and I am past being an object of +compassion. A real scene of affliction moves few hearts to +pity: dissembled wretchedness is what most reaches the human +mind, and I am past dissembling. Take therefore among you, +the maxims I have laid down for my own guide, and use them with +as much success as I have done.</p> +<p>“Be not less friends because you are brothers, or of the +same profession: the lawyers herd together in their inns, the +doctors in their college, the mercers on Ludgate-hill, and the +old clothes-men in Monmouth-street: what one has not among these +another has; and among you the heart of him who is not moved by +one lamentable <!-- page 48--><a name="page48"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 48</span>object, will probably be so by +another; and that charity which was half awakened by the first, +will relieve a second, or a third. Remember this, and +always people a whole street with objects skilled in scenes of +different distress, placed at proper distances: the tale that +moves not one heart, may surprise the next,—the obdurate +passer-by of the first must be made of no human matter if he +feels no part of the distress that twenty different tales have +heaped together; and be assured, that where it is touched with a +kindred misfortune, it will bestow.</p> +<p>“Remember, that where one gives out of pity to you, +fifty give out of kindness to themselves, to rid them of your +troublesome application; and for one that gives out of real +compassion, five hundred do it out of ostentation. On these +principles, trouble people most who are most busy, and ask relief +where many see it given, and you’ll succeed in your +attempt. Remember that the streets were made for people to +walk, and not to converse in: keep up their ancient use; and +whenever you see two or three gathered together, be you amongst +them, and let them not hear the sound of their own voices till +they have bought off the noise of yours. When self-love is +thus satisfied, remember social virtue is the next duty, and tell +your next friend where he may go and obtain the same relief, by +the same means.</p> +<p>“Trouble not yourselves about the nobility: prosperity +has made them vain and insensible: they cannot pity what they +cannot feel.</p> +<p>“The talkers in the street are to be tolerated on +different conditions, and at different prices; if <!-- page +49--><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 49</span>they +are tradesmen, their conversation will soon end, and may be well +paid for by a halfpenny: if an inferior clings to the skirt of a +superior, he will give twopence rather than be pulled off; and +when you are happy enough to meet a lover and his mistress, never +part with them under sixpence, for you may be sure they will +never part from one another.</p> +<p>“So much regards communities of men; but when you hunt +single, the great game of all is to be played. However much +you ramble in the day, be sure to have some street near your +home, where your chief residence is, and all your idle time is +spent, for the night. Here learn the history of every +family, and whatever has been the latest calamity; of that +provide a brother or a sister that may pretend the same. If +the master of one house has lost a son, let your eldest brother +attack his compassion on that tender side, and tell him he has +lost the sweetest, hopefullest, and dutifullest child, that was +his only comfort: what would the answer be, but, aye, poor +fellow! I know how to pity thee in that; and a shilling be in as +much haste to fly out of his pocket as the first tear from his +eye.</p> +<p>“Is the master of a second house sick? waylay his wife +from morning till night, and tell her you will pray, morning, +noon, and night for his recovery. If he dies, grief is the +reigning passion for the first fortnight, let him have been what +he would: grief leads naturally to compassion, so let your sister +thrust a pillow under her coats, tell her she is a poor +disconsolate widow, left with <!-- page 50--><a +name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 50</span>seven small +children, and that she lost the best husband in the world; and +you may share considerable gains.</p> +<p>“Whatever people seem to want, give it them largely in +your address to them: call the beau Sweet Gentleman, bless even +his coat or perriwig, and tell him they are happy ladies where he +is going. If you meet with a schoolboy-captain, such as our +streets are full of, call him Noble General; and if the miser can +be any way got to strip himself of a farthing, it will be by the +name of Charitable Sir.</p> +<p>“Some people show you in their looks the whole thoughts +of their heart, and give you a fine notice how to succeed with +them: if you meet a sorrowful countenance with a red coat, be +sure the wearer is a disbanded officer: let a female always +attack him, and tell him she is the widow of a poor marine, who +had served twelve years, and then broke his heart because he was +turned out without a penny; if you see a plain man hang down his +head as he comes out of some nobleman’s gate, say to him, +Good worthy sir, I beg your pardon, but I am a poor ruined +tradesman, that once was in a good business, but the great people +would not pay me. And if you see a pretty woman with a +dejected look, send your sister that is at hand, to complain to +her of a bad husband, that gets drunk and beats her; that runs to +whores, and has spent all her substance: there are but two things +that can make a handsome woman melancholy: the having a bad +husband, or the having no husband at all; if the first of these +is the case, one of the former crimes will touch her to the <!-- +page 51--><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +51</span>quick, and loosen the strings of her purse; in the +other, let a second distressed object tell her she was to have +been married well, but that her lover died a week before; one way +or other the tender heart of the female will be melted, and the +reward will be handsome. If you meet a homely, but +dressed-up lady, pray for her lovely face, and beg a penny; if +you see a mark of delicacy by the drawing up of the nose, send +somebody to show her a sore leg, a scalded head, or a +rupture. If you are happy enough to fall in with a tender +husband leading his big wife to church, send companions that have +but one arm, or two thumbs, or tell her of some monstrous child +you have brought forth, and the good man will pay you to be gone, +if he gives slightly, it is but following, getting before the +lady, and talking louder, and you may depend upon his searching +his pocket to better purpose a second time. There are many +more things of which I have to speak, but my feeble tongue will +not hold out. Profit by these: they will be found +sufficient, and if they prove to you, my children, what they have +been to me these eighteen years, I shall not repine at my +dissolution.”</p> +<p>Here he paused for some time, being almost spent: then, +recovering his voice and spirits, he thus began again: “As +I find the lamp of life is not quite extinguished, I shall employ +the little that remains in saying a few words of my public +conduct as your king. I call heaven to witness, that I have +loved you all with a paternal love: these now feeble limbs and +broken spirits have been worn out in providing for your welfare, +and <!-- page 52--><a name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +52</span>often have these dim eyes watched while you have slept, +with a father’s care for your safety. I call you all +to witness that I have kept an impartial register of your +actions, and no merit has passed unnoticed. I have, with a +most exact hand, divided to every man his due portion of our +common stock, and have had no worthless favourite nor useless +officer to eat the honey of your labour. And for all these +I have had my reward, in seeing the happiness, and having the +love of all my subjects. I depart, therefore, in peace, to +rest from my labours; it remains only that I give you my last +advice, which is, that in choosing my successor, you pay no +partial regard to my family, but let him only that is most worthy +rule over you.” He said no more, but, leaning back in +his chair, died without a sigh.</p> +<p>Never was there a scene of more real distress, or more +unfeigned grief, than now appeared among his children and +subjects. Nothing was heard but sighs and exclamations for +their loss. When the first transports of their grief were +over, they sent the sorrowful news to all the houses that were +frequented by their community in every part of the kingdom; at +the same time summoning them to repair to the city of London on a +certain day, in order to proceed to the election of a new +king.</p> +<p>Before the day appointed for the election a vast concourse of +mendicants flocked 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 inconsistent with that +of natural liberty, which every <!-- page 53--><a +name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 53</span>man is born +heir to, to deny any one the privilege of making his own choice +in a matter of so great importance.</p> +<p>Here, reader, as thou wilt be apt to judge from what thou hast +seen, thou already expectest a scene of riot and debauchery; to +see the candidates servilely cringing, meanly suing, and basely +bribing the electors, depriving themselves of sense and reason, +and selling more than Esau did for a mess of pottage; for, what +is birthright, what is inheritance, when put in the scale against +that choicest blessing, public liberty! O, Liberty! thou +enlivener of life, thou solace of toils, thou patron of virtue, +thou encourager of industry, thou spring of justice, thou +something more than life, beyond the reach of fancy to describe, +all hail! It is thou that beamest the sunshine in the +patriot’s breast; it is thou that sweetenest the toil of +the labouring mechanic! thou dost inspire the ploughman with his +jocund mirth, and thou tunest the merry milk-maid’s song; +thou canst make the desert smile, and the barren rock to sing for +joy; by thy sacred protection the poorest peasant lies secure +under the shadow of his defenceless cot, whilst oppression at a +distance gnashes with her teeth, but dares not show her iron rod; +and power, like the raging billows, dashes its bounds with +indignation, but dares not overpass them. But where thou +art not, how changed the scene! how tasteless, how irksome +labour! how languid industry! Where are the beauteous rose, +the gaudy tulip, the sweet-scented jessamine? where the purple +grape, the luscious peach, the glowing nectarine? wherefore smile +not the valleys with their beauteous verdure, <!-- page 54--><a +name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>nor sing for +joy with their golden harvest? All are withered by the +scorching sun of lawless power! Where thou art not, what +place so sacred as to be secure? or who can say, this is my +own! This is the language only of the place where thou +delightest to dwell; but, as soon as thou spreadest thy wings to +some more pleasing clime, power walks abroad with haughty +strides, and tramples upon the weak, whilst oppression, with its +heavy hand, bows down the unwilling neck to the yoke. O, my +Country! alas, my Country! thou wast once the chosen seat of +liberty; her footsteps appeared in thy streets, thy palaces, thy +public assemblies: she exulted in thee: her voice, the voice of +joy and gladness was heard throughout the land: with more than a +mother’s love she held forth her seven-fold shield to +protect thee, the meanest of her sons; whilst justice, supported +by law, rode triumphant by her side with awful majesty, and +looked into fear and trembling every disturber of the public +quiet. O, thou whom my soul loveth, wherefore dost thou sit +dejected, and hidest thy face all the day long? Canst thou +ask the reason of my grief? See, see, my generous hardy +sons are become foolish, indolent, effeminate, thoughtless; +behold, how with their own hands they have loaded me with +shackles: alas! hast thou not seen them take the rod from my +beloved sister, Justice, and give it to the sons of blood and +rapine? Yet a little while I mourn over lost and degenerate +sons, and then with hasty flight fix my habitation in some more +happy clime.</p> +<p>Though the community of the gipseys at other times give +themselves up to mirth and jollity with <!-- page 55--><a +name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>perhaps too +much licence, yet nothing is reckoned more infamous and shameful +amongst them than to appear intoxicated during the time of an +election, and it very rarely happens that any of them are so, for +they reckon it a choice of so much importance, that they cannot +exert in it too much judgment, prudence, and wisdom; they +therefore endeavour to have their faculties strong, lively, +penetrating, and clear at that time. Their method of +election is different from that of most other people, though, +perhaps, it is the best contrived of any, and attended with the +fewest inconveniences. We have already observed, that none +but those who have long been members of the community, are well +acquainted with the institution of it, and have signalized +themselves by some remarkable actions, are permitted to offer +themselves as candidates. These are obliged, ten days +before the election, to fix up in some place of their public +resort an account of those actions, upon the merit of which they +found their pretensions of becoming candidates; to which they +must add their opinions on liberty, and the office and duties of +a king. They must, during these ten days, appear every day +at the place of election, that their electors may have an +opportunity of forming some judgment from the lineaments and +prognostics of their countenance. A few days before the +election, a little white ball, and as many black ones as with the +white one will equal the number of candidates, are given to each +elector.</p> +<p>When the day of election is come, as many boxes are placed as +there are candidates, with the name of the particular candidate +written on the <!-- page 56--><a name="page56"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 56</span>box which is appropriated to him; +these boxes are quite closed, except a little opening at the top, +which is every night, during the election, locked up under the +keys and seals of each candidate, and of six of the most +venerable old men in the community; it is in the little opening +at the top of these boxes, that the elector puts in the little +ball we have just now mentioned; at the same time he puts his +white ball into the box of the candidate whom he chooses to be +his king, he puts a black ball into the boxes of all the other +candidates; and when they have all done so, the boxes are broken +open, and the balls counted in presence of all the candidates, +and of as many electors as choose it, by the old men above +mentioned; and he who has the greatest number of white balls is +always duly chosen. By this means no presiding officer has +it in his power to make one more than two, which sometimes +happens in the elections amongst other communities, who do not +use this form. There are other innumerable advantages +attending this manner of election, and it is likely to preserve +public liberty the longest; for, first, as the candidates are +obliged to fix up publicly an account of those actions upon the +merit of which they become candidates, it deters any but those +who are truly worthy from offering themselves; and, as the +sentiments which each of them gives upon public liberty, and the +duty and office of a king, is immediately entered in their public +register, it stands as a public witness against, and a check upon +that candidate who is chosen, to deter him from a change of +sentiments and principles; for, though in some countries this is +known to have little <!-- page 57--><a name="page57"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 57</span>effect, and men have on a sudden, +without any alteration in the nature of things, shamelessly +espoused those principles and sentiments, which they had +vehemently all their life before opposed, yet in this community, +where there is so high a sense of honour and shame kept up, it +must necessarily be none of the least binding obligations. +Secondly, by this method of balloting, or giving their votes by +balls, the elector’s choice is more free and unbiassed; +for, as none but himself can know the candidate he gives his +white ball to, there can be no influence of fear, interest, ties +of blood, or any other cause, to oblige him to give his vote +contrary to his judgment; even bribes, if they were known amongst +these people, would lose their effect under this method of +voting; because few candidates would choose to bribe, when they +could have no security or knowledge whether the bribed elector +might have put a black ball instead of a white one into his +box.</p> +<p>Our hero was now one of the candidates, and exhibited to the +electors so long a list of bold and ingenious stratagems which he +had executed, and made so graceful and majestic an appearance in +his person, that he had a considerable majority of white balls in +his box, though there were ten candidates for the same honour; +upon which he was declared duly elected, and hailed by the whole +assembly, King of the Mendicants. The public register of +their actions being immediately committed to his care, and homage +done him by all the assembly, the whole concluded with great +feasting and rejoicing, and the electors sang the following +ode:</p> +<blockquote><p><!-- page 58--><a name="page58"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 58</span>I.</p> +<p>Cast your nabs <a name="citation58a"></a><a +href="#footnote58a" class="citation">[58a]</a> and cares away,<br +/> +This is Maunders’ holiday;<br /> +In the world look out and see,<br /> +Where so blest a king as he! <a name="citation58b"></a><a +href="#footnote58b" class="citation">[58b]</a></p> +<p>II.</p> +<p>At the crowning of our king,<br /> +Thus we ever dance and sing;<br /> +Where’s the nation lives so free,<br /> +And so merrily as we!</p> +<p>III.</p> +<p>Be it peace, or be it war,<br /> +Here at liberty we are:<br /> +Hang all Harmenbecks, <a name="citation58c"></a><a +href="#footnote58c" class="citation">[58c]</a> we cry,<br /> +We the Cuffin Queres <a name="citation58d"></a><a +href="#footnote58d" class="citation">[58d]</a> defy.</p> +<p>IV.</p> +<p>We enjoy our ease and rest,<br /> +To the field we are not press’d;<br /> +And when taxes are increased,<br /> +We are not a penny sess’d.</p> +<p>V.</p> +<p>Nor will any go to law<br /> +With a Maunder <a name="citation58e"></a><a href="#footnote58e" +class="citation">[58e]</a> for a straw;<br /> +All which happiness, he brags,<br /> +Is only owing to his rags.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- page 59--><a name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +59</span>Though Mr. Carew was now privileged by the dignity of +his office from going out on any cruise, and was provided with +every thing necessary, by joint contributions of the community, +yet he did not give himself up to the slow poison of the mind, +indolence, which, though its operations are imperceptible, is +more hurtful and fatal than any of the quicker passions; for we +often see great virtues break through the cloud of other vices, +but indolence is a standing corrupted pool, which always remains +in the same state, unfit for every purpose. Our hero, +therefore, notwithstanding the particular privilege of his +office, was as active in his stratagems as ever, and ready to +encounter any difficulties which seemed to promise success, of +which the following is an instance.</p> +<p>Happening to be in the parish of Fleet, near Portland Race, in +Dorsetshire, he happened to hear in the evening of a ship in +imminent danger of being cast away, she having been driven on +some shoals. Early in the morning, before it was well +light, he pulled off his clothes, which he flung into a deep pit, +and then unseen by any one swam to the vessel, which now parted +asunder; he found only one of the crew alive, who was hanging by +his hands on the side of the vessel, the rest being either washed +overboard, or drowned in attempting to swim to the shore. +Never was there a more piteous object than this poor wretch +hanging between life and death; Mr. Carew immediately offered him +his assistance to get him to shore, at the same time inquiring +the name of the vessel, and her master, what cargo on board, +whence she came, and whither bound.</p> +<p><!-- page 60--><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +60</span>The poor wretch replied, she belonged to Bristol, +captain Griffin, master, came from Hamburg, was bound to Bristol +with a cargo of Hamburg goods, and had seven men and a boy on +board; at the same time our hero was pressing him to let go his +hold, and commit himself to his care, and he would endeavour to +swim with him to shore: but, when the danger is so imminent, and +death stands before our eyes, it is no easy matter to be +persuaded to quit the weakest stay; thus the poor wretch +hesitated so long before he would quit his hold of the vessel, +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 difficulty got to shore, +though 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 see Mr. Carew come ashore alive, supposing him to +be one of the poor wretches belonging to the ship. Naked, +spent with fatigue, and wounded, he raised a feeling of pity in +all the spectators; for, so strongly is this tender passion +connected with our frame by the beneficent Author of Nature, to +promote the assistance of each other, that, no sooner does the +eye see a deplorable object, than the heart feels it, and as +quickly forces the hand to relieve it; so that those whom the +love of money, for we think that the greatest opposite to pity, +has rendered unfeeling of another’s woes, are said to have +no hearts, or hearts of stone; as we naturally conclude no one +can be void of that soft and Godlike passion—pity, but +either one <!-- page 61--><a name="page61"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 61</span>who by some cause or other happens to +be made up without a heart, or one in whom continual droppings of +self-love or avarice have quite changed the nature of it; which, +by the most skilful anatomist, is allowed in its natural state to +be fleshy, soft, and tender; but has been found, without +exception, upon inspection into the bodies of several money +lovers, to be nothing but a callous stony substance, from which +the chemists, by most intense fires, have been able to extract +nothing but a <i>caput mortuum</i>, or an earthy, dry, useless +powder.</p> +<p>Amongst the spectators of Mr. Carew, was the housekeeper of +Madam Mohun, in the parish of Fleet, who had a heart made of the +softest substance; for she immediately, agreeable to the +beneficent precepts of the gospel, pulled off her own cloak to +give to him that had none: and, like the good Samaritan, giving +him a handkerchief to bind up his wounds, bid him follow her, and +led him to her mistress’s house, where, placing him before +a good fire, she gave him two large glasses of brandy, with loaf +sugar in it; then bringing him a shirt and other apparel, she +went up stairs and acquainted Madam Mohun, her venerable +mistress, in the most feeling manner, with the whole affair.</p> +<p>Here, could we hope our work would last to future ages, we +might immortalize this generous woman.—Her mistress was so +affected with her relation, that she immediately ordered a warm +bed to be prepared for the poor wretch, and that he should be +taken great care of, which was accordingly soon done, and Mr. +Carew lay very quiet <!-- page 62--><a name="page62"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 62</span>for three or four hours; then waking, +he seemed to be very much disturbed in his mind; his talk was +incoherent, his groans moving, and he tossed from one side of the +bed to the other, but seemed to find ease in none: the good +people seeing him so uneasy in bed, brought him a good suit of +clothes, and he got up. Being told the bodies of some of +his shipmates were flung up by the sea on the shore, he seemed +greatly affected, and the tears dropped from his eyes. +Having received from Justice Farwell, who happened to be there, +ill of the gout, a guinea and a pass for Bristol, and +considerable contributions from the great number of people who +flocked to see him, to the amount of nine or ten pounds, he +expressed an inclination of making the best of his way to +Bristol: and the good Justice Farwell lent him his own horse to +ride as far as the town of Dorchester, and the parson of the +parish sent his man to show him the way.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew would have been gladly excused from going through +Dorchester, as he had appeared there but four or five days before +in the character of a broken miller, and had thereby raised a +contribution of the mayor and corporation of that place; but as +it lay in the direct road to Bristol, and he was attended by a +guide, he could not possibly avoid it. As soon as they came +there, his guide presented the pass in behalf of Mr. Carew to the +mayor, who thereupon ordered the town-bell to be rung, and +assembled the heads of the corporation. Though he had been +so lately with them, yet, being now in a quite different dress, +and a pass which they knew to be signed by Justice <!-- page +63--><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +63</span>Farwell, and the guide testifying that he was an +unfortunate shipwrecked seaman, escaped from the most 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 humanity, and relieved him very generously. After +this, the guide took his leave of him with a great many good +wishes for his safe arrival at Bristol; but Mr. Carew, instead of +pursuing his way thither, steered his course towards Devonshire, +and raised contributions by the way, as a shipwrecked seaman, on +Colonel Brown of Framton, Squire Trenchard, and Squire Falford of +Tolla, Colonel Broadrip, Colonel Mitchell, and Squire Richards of +Long Britty, and several other gentlemen.</p> +<p>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 Cook, a trader of +considerable worth and note, at St. John’s in Newfoundland, +whom he resembled both in person and speech, he resolved to be +the son of Aaron Cook for some time; he therefore went upon the +Tolsey, and other places of public resort for the merchants of +Bristol, and there modestly acquainted them with his name, as +well as his misfortunes; that he was born and lived all his life +at St. John’s in Newfoundland; that he was bound for +England, in the Nicholas, Captain Newman; which vessel springing +a leak, they were obliged to quit her, and were taken up by an +Irishman, Patrick Pore, and by him carried into Waterford; whence +he had got passage, and landed at King’s Road; that his +business in England <!-- page 64--><a name="page64"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 64</span>was to buy provisions and fishing +craft, and to see his relations, who lived in the parish of +Cockington, near Torbay, where, he said, his father was born.</p> +<p>Captains Elton, Galloway, Masters, Thomas, Turner, and several +other Newfoundland traders, many of whom personally knew his +pretended father and mother, asked him many questions about the +family, their usual place of fishing, &c., particularly if he +remembered how the quarrel happened at his father’s (when +he was but a boy) which was of so unhappy a consequence to +Governor Collins? Mr. Carew very readily replied, that +though he was then very young, he remembered that the governor, +the parson and his wife, Madam Short, Madam Bengy, Madam Brown, +and several other women of St. John’s, having met together, +and feasting at his father’s, a warm dispute happened among +the men in the heat of liquor, concerning the virtue of women, +the governor obstinately averring that there was not one honest +woman in all Newfoundland. What think you then of my wife? +said the parson. The same as I do of all other women, all +whores alike, answered the governor roughly. Hereupon the +women, not able to bear this gross aspersion on 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 clothes from being torn off his back; and +what was much worse, the parson’s wife thinking herself +most injured, cut the hamstring of his leg with a knife, which +rendered him a cripple his whole life after.</p> +<p><!-- page 65--><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +65</span>This circumstantial account, which was in every point +exactly as the affair happened, and many other questions +concerning the family which the captains asked him, and he as +readily answered, (having got every particular information +concerning them when in Newfoundland,) fully convinced them that +he must really be the son of their good old friend Mr. Aaron +Cook; they therefore not only very generously relieved him, but +offered to lend him any moderate sum, to be paid again in +Newfoundland, the next fishing season; but Mr. Carew had too high +a sense of honour to abuse their generosity so far; he therefore +excused himself from accepting their offer, by saying he would be +furnished with as much as he should have occasion for, by +merchant Pemm of Exeter. They then took him with them to +Guildhall, recommending him to the benevolence of the mayor and +corporation, testifying he was a man of reputable family in +Newfoundland. Here a very handsome collection was made for +him; and the circumstances of his misfortunes becoming public, +many other respectable ladies and gentlemen gave him that +assistance according to their abilities, which is always due to +unfortunate strangers. Three days did the captains detain +him by their civilities in Bristol, showing him all the +curiosities and pleasures of the place to divert his +melancholy. He then set out for Cockington, where his +relations lived, and Bridgewater being on his road, he had a +letter, from one of the Bristol captains, to Captain Drake in +that place.</p> +<p>As soon as he came to Bridgewater, he went <!-- page 66--><a +name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 66</span>directly to +the mayor’s house, and knocking at the gate, it was opened +to him by madam mayoress, to whom he related his misfortune; and +the good lady, pitying him as an unfortunate stranger, so far +distant from his home, gave him half-a-crown, and engaged her +daughter, a child, to give him a shilling.</p> +<p>We cannot pass by this amiable lady, without paying her the +due tribute of praise; for tenderness and compassion ought to be +the peculiar ornament of every female breast; and it were to be +wished that every parent would betimes, like this good lady, +instil into their children a tender sense of humanity, and +feeling for another’s woes, they would by this means teach +them the enjoyment of the most godlike and pleasing of all other +pleasures, that of relieving the distressed; and would extinguish +that sordid selfish spirit, which is the blot of humanity. +The good lady not content with what she had already done, ushered +him into the room, where her husband, an aged gentleman, was +writing; to whom she related Mr. Cook’s misfortunes in as +moving a manner as she was able; the old gentleman laid aside his +spectacles, and asked him several questions, then dispatched his +servant into the town, who soon returned with two Newfoundland +captains, one of whom happened to be Captain Drake, to whom our +hero had a letter of recommendation given him by one of the +Bristol captains; and the other Captain Morris, whose business +having called him to Bristol, he had there been already informed +by the captains of the circumstances of Mr. Cook’s +misfortunes; and he repeating the same now to the <!-- page +67--><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +67</span>mayor, Captain Morris confirmed this relation, told them +how he had been treated at Bristol, and made him a present of a +guinea and a greatcoat, it being then very rainy weather; Captain +Drake likewise gave him a guinea, for both these gentlemen +perfectly well knew Mr. Cook’s father and mother; the mayor +likewise made him a present, and entertained him very hospitably +in his house.</p> +<p>In the same character he visited Sir Haswell Tent, and several +other gentlemen, raising considerable contributions.</p> +<p>This activity and ingenuity of their new king was highly +agreeable to the community of the mendicants, and his applauses +resounded at all their meetings; but, as fortune delights to +change the scene, and of a sudden to depress those she had most +favoured, we come now to relate the misfortunes of our hero, +though we know not whether we should call them by that name or +not, as they gave him a large field of action, and greater +opportunities of exercising the more manly virtues—courage +and intrepidity in dangers.</p> +<p>Going one day to pay a visit to Mr. Robert Incledon, at +Barnstaple in Devon, (in an ill hour which his knowledge could +not foresee,) knocking at the door softly, it was, opened to him +by the clerk, with the common salutation of How do you do, Mr. +Carew? where have you been? He readily replied, that he was +making a visit to Squire Bassar, and in his return had called to +pay his respects to Mr. Incledon.</p> +<p>The clerk very civilly asked him to walk in; but no sooner had +he entered than the door was shut upon him by Justice +Leithbridge, a very <!-- page 68--><a name="page68"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 68</span>bitter enemy to the whole community +of mendicants, who concealed himself behind it, and Mr. Carew was +made a prisoner;—so sudden are the vicissitudes of life; +and misfortunes spring as it were out of the earth.</p> +<p>Thus suddenly and unexpectedly fell the mighty Cæsar, +the master of the world; and just so affrighted Priam looked when +the shade of Hector drew his curtains, and told him that his Troy +was taken.</p> +<p>The reader will, undoubtedly, be at a loss to comprehend why +he was thus seized upon, contrary to the laws of hospitality; it +is therefore our business to inform him, that he had, some time +before this, in the shape of a poor lame cripple, frightened +either the justice or his horse on Hilton bridge; but which of +the two it was, cannot be affirmed with any certainty. +However, the justice vowed a dire revenge, and now exulted +greatly at having got him in his power; fame had no sooner +sounded with her hundred prattling tongues that our hero was in +captivity, but the justice’s house was crowded with +intercessors for him:—however, Justice Leithbridge was deaf +to all, and even to the entreaties of beauty,—several +ladies being likewise advocates for him; whether it was that the +justice was past that age when love shoots his darts with most +success, or whether his heart was always made of that unmalleable +stuff which is quite unassailable by love, or by his +cousin-german, pity, we cannot well determine.</p> +<p>Amongst the rest who came to see him, were some captains of +collier vessels, whom the justice espying, very probably taking +some disgust at their <!-- page 69--><a name="page69"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 69</span>countenances, demanded who they were, +and immediately discharging the guard which had been before +placed over Mr. Carew, charged the captains with the care of him, +though they affirmed their vessels were to sail the next tide; +however the justice paying as little regard to their allegations +as he had done to their petitions for Mr. Carew, they found they +had no other hope but from the good-natured dame—Patience; +a good woman, who is always ready to render our misfortunes less, +and was, in all his adventures, a great friend to our hero.</p> +<p>At length a warrant was made out for conveying him to Exeter, +and lodging him in one of the securest places in that city; but, +as it was now too late to set forward on their journey that +night, they were ordered to a public house at Barnstaple; and the +justice remembering the old proverb, “fast bind, fast +find,” would fain have locked the door of the room where +Mr. Carew was, and taken the key with him; but the honest +landlord offering to become security for his appearance in the +morning, the justice was at last persuaded to be content without +a jailor.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew, notwithstanding his situation, was not cast down, +but bravely opposed his ill fortune with his usual courage, and +passed the night with great cheerfulness in the company of the +collier captains, who were his guard.</p> +<p>The next day Mr. Carew was conducted to Exeter, without any +thing remarkable happening on the road; here, to his great +annoyance, he was securely lodged for upwards of two months, +before he was brought to trial at the quarter sessions, <!-- page +70--><a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 70</span>held +at the castle, when Justice Bevis was chairman; but that awful +appearance,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">The judges all met—a terrible +show,</p> +<p>did not strike any terror into his breast; though loaded with +chains, he preserved his usual firmness of mind, and saluted the +court with a noble assurance. Being asked by the chairman +what parts of the world he had been in? he answered Denmark, +Sweden, Muscovy, France, Spain, Portugal, Newfoundland, Ireland, +Wales, and some parts of Scotland. The chairman then told +him he must proceed to a hotter country:—he inquired into +what climate, and being told Merryland, he with great composure +made a critical observation on the pronunciation of that word, +implying, that he apprehended it ought to be pronounced Maryland, +and added, it would save him five pounds for his passage, as he +was very desirous of seeing that country: but, notwithstanding, +he with great resolution desired to know by what law they acted, +as he was not accused of any crime; however, sentence of +banishment was passed upon him for seven years; but his fate was +not singular, for he had the comfort of having fellow companions +enough in his unmerited sufferings, as, out of thirty-five +prisoners, thirty-two were ordered into the like banishment.</p> +<p>Whether at that period of time mankind were more profligate +than usual, or whether there was a more than ordinary demand for +men in his majesty’s colonies, cannot by us be +determined. Mr. Carew was not, as is most commonly the <!-- +page 71--><a name="page71"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +71</span>case, deserted by his friends in adversity, for he was +visited during the time of his imprisonment by many gentlemen, +who were exceedingly liberal to him; and no sooner did the news +of his captivity reach the ears of his subjects, than they +flocked to him from all parts, administered to his necessities in +prison, and daily visited him till his departure.</p> +<p>This, and the thoughts of the many new scenes and adventures +which he was likely to encounter, whereby he might have an +opportunity of making his name as famous in America as it was +already in Europe, often filled his mind with too-pleasing +reflections to regret his fate, though he could have liked to +have performed the voyage under more agreeable circumstances; +whenever the thought of being cruelly separated from his beloved +wife and daughters glanced on his mind, the husband and father +unmanned the hero, and melted him into tenderness and fear; the +reflection too of the damage his subjects might sustain by his +absence, and the disorder the whole community would be put in by +it, filled him with many disquietudes.</p> +<p>Thus, between pleasing ideas and heartfelt pangs, did he pass +his time till the day arrived that he was to be conducted on +board the Julian, Captain Froade, commander. But how, +gentle reader, shall I describe the ceremony of parting—the +last farewell of that dreadful day!</p> +<p>Leaving the reader, therefore, to suppose all these fine +things, behold the sails already spread, and the vessel cutting +the waves; but, as if fate had opposed itself to the banishment +of our hero, the winds soon proved contrary, and they were <!-- +page 72--><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +72</span>obliged to stay more than a fortnight in Falmouth +harbour for a fair wind, and from thence, in eleven weeks, they +arrived safely at Maryland, after a disagreeable voyage.</p> +<p>The first place they touched at was Hampton, between Cape +Charles and Cape Henry, where the captain went on shore and got a +pilot; and after about two days stay there, the pilot brought the +vessel down Mile’s River, and cast anchor in Talbot county, +when the captain ordered a gun to be fired as a signal for the +planters to come down, and then went ashore. He soon after +sent on board a hogshead of rum, and ordered all the men +prisoners to be close shaved against the next morning, and the +women to have their best head-dresses put on, which occasioned no +little hurry on board; for, between the trimming of beards, and +putting on of caps, all hands were fully employed.</p> +<p>Early in the morning the captain ordered public notice to be +given of the day of sale; and the prisoners, who were pretty near +a hundred, were all ordered upon deck, where a large bowl of +punch was made, and the planters flocked on board; their first +inquiry was for letters from old England, what passage he had, +how their friends did, and the like.</p> +<p>The captain informed them of the war being declared against +Spain, that it was expected it would soon be declared against +France; and that he had been eleven weeks and four days in his +passage.</p> +<p>Their next inquiry was, if the captain had brought them good +store of joiners, carpenters, blacksmiths, weavers, and tailors; +upon which <!-- page 73--><a name="page73"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 73</span>the captain called out one Griffy, a +tailor, 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 neighbour’s sheep. Two planters, who were +parson Nicholas and Mr. Rolls, asked him if he was sound wind and +limb? and told him it would be worse for him if he told them an +untruth; and at last purchased him from the captain. The +poor tailor cried and bellowed like a bell-wether, cursing his +wife who had betrayed him. Mr. Carew, like a brave man, to +whom every soil is his own country, ashamed of his cowardice, +gave the tailor to the devil; and, as he knew he could not do +without them, sent his shears, thimble, and needle, to bear him +company. Wherefore all these wailings? said our hero: have +we not a fine country before us? pointing to the shore. And +indeed in this he was very right, for Maryland not only affords +every thing which preserves and confirms health, but also all +things that are charming. The beauty of the prospect, the +fragrancy of the fields and gardens, the brightness of the sky, +and the serenity of the air, affect the ravished senses; the +country being a large plain, and hills in it so easy of ascent, +and of such a moderate height, that they seem 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 almost incredible fertility of the soil.</p> +<p>But to return.—When all the best tradesmen were bought +up, a planter came to Mr. Carew, and asked him what trade he was +of. Mr. Carew, to satisfy him of his usefulness, told him +he was a <!-- page 74--><a name="page74"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 74</span>rat-catcher, a mendicant, and a dog +merchant.—What the devil trades are these? inquired the +planter in astonishment; for I have never before heard of them: +upon which the captain thinking he should lose the sale of him, +takes the planter aside, and tells him he did but jest, being a +man of humour, for that he was a great scholar, and was only sent +over on account of having disobliged some gentlemen; that he had +no indenture with him, but he should have him for seven years, +and that he would make an excellent school-master; however, he +did not buy him.</p> +<p>The next day the captain asked him to go on shore with him to +see the country, but with a view of getting a purchaser for him +among the planters. As they were walking, several people +came up to Mr. Carew, and asked him what countryman he was, +&c. At length they went to a tavern, where one Mr. +David Huxter, who was formerly of Lyme in Dorset, and Mr. +Hambleton, a Scotchman, seemed to have an inclination to buy him +between them; soon after came in one Mr. Ashcraft, who put in for +him too, and the bowl of punch went merrily round. In the +midst of their mirth, Mr. Carew, who had given no consent to the +bargain they were making for him, thought it no breach of honour +or good manners to seize an opportunity of slipping away without +taking leave of them; and taking away with him about a pint of +brandy and some biscuit cakes, which by good luck he chanced to +put his hand on, he immediately betook himself to the woods as +the only place of security for him.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew, having found he had eluded their <!-- page 75--><a +name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 75</span>search, +congratulated himself on his happy escape and deliverance; for he +now made no doubt of getting to old England again, +notwithstanding the difficulties which lay in his way, as he knew +his courage was equal to every danger; but we are too often apt, +as the proverb says, “to reckon without our host,” +and are sometimes near danger when we think ourselves most +secure: and so it happened to our hero at this time; for, amidst +his joyful reflections, he did not know that none were allowed to +travel there, unless when known, without proper passes, of which +he was not provided; and there is moreover a reward of five +pounds for any one who apprehends a runaway.</p> +<p>It therefore happened, that one morning early, passing through +a narrow path, he was met by four timbermen, going to work; he +would fain have escaped their observation, but they soon hailed +him, and demanded where he was going, and where his pass +was? These were questions which he would willingly have +been excused from answering; however, as his wit was always +ready, he immediately told them he belonged to the Hector +privateer, (which he knew then lay upon the coast,) and that he +was going on some business for the captain to Charles’ +county:—but, as he could produce no pass, this would not +satisfy them, so they seized upon him, and conducted him to one +Colonel Brown’s, a justice of the peace in Anne Arundel +county.</p> +<p>But here, most gentle reader, that thou mayest not form a +wrong idea of this justice, and, as is too often the case, judge +of what thou hast not seen, from what thou hast seen, it will be +necessary <!-- page 76--><a name="page76"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 76</span>to inform thee, that he was not such +a one as Hudibras describes:</p> +<blockquote><p>An old dull sot, who told the clock,<br /> +For many years at Bridewell dock.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Neither was he such a one as that excellent artist, Mr. +Hogarth, has depicted in his picture of a Modern Midnight +Conversation;—nor such a one as the author of Joseph +Andrews has, above all authors, so inimitably drawn to the life; +nor yet was he such a one as thou hast often seen at a quarter +sessions, with a large wig, a heavy unmeaning countenance, and a +sour aspect, who gravely nods over a cause, and then passes a +decision on what he does not understand; and no wonder, when he, +perhaps, never saw, much less read the laws of his country; but +of Justice Brown, I can assure the reader, he could not only +read, but upon occasion write a mittimus, without the assistance +of his clerk; he was thoroughly acquainted with the general +duties of his office, and the particular laws of Maryland; his +countenance was an awful majesty, tempered with a humane +sweetness, ever unwilling to punish, yet always afraid of +offending justice; and if at any time necessity obliged him to +use the rod, he did it with so much humanity and compassion, as +plainly indicated the duties of his office forced, rather than +the cruelty or haughtiness of his temper prompted to it; and +while the unhappy criminal suffered a corporeal punishment, he +did all that lay in his power, to the end that it might have a +due effect, by endeavouring to amend the mind <!-- page 77--><a +name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>with salutary +advice; if the exigencies of the state required taxes to be +levied upon the subjects, he never, by his authority or office, +excused himself from bearing his full proportion; nor even would +he meanly submit to see any of his fellow-justices do so.</p> +<p>It was before such a justice Mr. Carew had the good fortune to +be carried: they found him in his court-yard, just mounting his +horse to go out, and he very civilly inquired their business; the +timbermen told him they had got a runaway: the justice then +inquired of Mr. Carew who he was: he replied he was a sea-faring +man, belonging to the Hector privateer of Boston, captain +Anderson, and as they could not agree, he had left the +ship. The justice told him he was very sorry it should +happen so, but he was obliged by the laws of his country to stop +all passengers who could not produce passes; and, therefore, +though unwillingly, he should 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. +Carew, finding his commitment made, told the timbermen, that, as +they got their money easily, he would have a horse to ride upon, +for it was too hot for him to walk in that country. The +justice merrily cried, Well spoken, prisoner. There was +then a great ado with the timbermen to get a horse for him; but +at last one was procured, and our hero, mounted on a milk-white +steed, was conveyed in a sort of triumph to New Town, the +timbermen performing the cavalcade on foot.</p> +<p>The commitment was directed to the under-sheriff <!-- page +78--><a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 78</span>in +New Town, a saddler by profession, who immediately waited on him +to the prison; he found it well peopled, and his ears were +confused with almost as many dialects as put a stop to the +building of Babel. Mr. Carew saluted them, and courteously +inquired what countrymen they were: some were from Kilkenny, some +Limeric, some Dublin, others of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and +Cornwall; so that he found he had choice enough of companions, +and, as he saw he had no remedy but patience, he endeavoured to +amuse himself as well as he could.</p> +<p>Looking through the bars one day, he espied a whipping-post +and gallows, at which he turned to his companions, and cried out, +A fine sight truly this is, my friends! which was a jest many of +them could not relish, as they had before tasted of the whipping; +looking on the other side, he saw a fine house, and demanding +whose it was, they told him it was the assembly-house. +While he was thus amusing himself, reflecting on the variety of +his fate, fortune was preparing a more agreeable scene for +him. A person coming up to the window, asked where the +runaway was, who had been brought in that day, Mr. Carew +composedly told him he was the man; they then entered into +discourse, inquiring of each other of what country they were, and +soon found they were pretty near neighbours, the person who +addressed him being one out of Dorsetshire. While they were +talking, our hero seeing the tops of some vessels riding in the +river, inquired what place they belonged to. The man +replied, To the west of England, to one Mr. Buck of Biddeford, to +whom most of the <!-- page 79--><a name="page79"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 79</span>town belonged. Our hero’s +heart leaped for joy at this good news, and he hastily asked if +the captains Kenny, Hervey, Hopkins, and George Bird were there; +the man replying in the affirmative, still heightened his +satisfaction. Will you have the goodness to be an +unfortunate prisoner’s friend, said he to the person he was +talking with, and present my humble duty to any of them, but +particularly to Captain Hervey, and inform them I am here. +The man very civilly replied he would do it; and asked what he +should tell them was his name? Carew, replied our +hero. Away ran the messenger with great haste, but before +he got half way, forgetting the name ran back again to ask +it. Tell them my name is Carew, the rat-catcher; away went +the man again, repeating all the way, Carew, the rat-catcher, +lest he should forget it a second time; and he now executed his +message so well, that very soon after came the captains to the +gaol door.</p> +<p>Inquiring for Carew, the rat-catcher, as they wanted to speak +with him; our hero, who heard them, answered with a tantivy, and +a halloo to the dogs; upon which Captain Hervey swore it was +Carew, and fell a laughing very heartily, then coming to the +window, they very cordially shook hands with him, saying, they +should as soon have expected to have seen Sir Robert Walpole +there as him. They then inquired by what means he came +there; and he informed them circumstantially of every thing as +already mentioned. The captains asked him if he would drink +a glass of rum, which he accepted of very gladly in his present +condition; one of them quickly sent down to <!-- page 80--><a +name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 80</span>the +storehouse for a bottle of rum and a bottle of October, and then +they all went into the gaol, and sat down with him.</p> +<p>Thus did he see himself once more surrounded by his friends, +so that he scarcely regretted his meeting with the timbermen, as +they had brought him into such good company. He was so +elevated with his good fortune, that he forgot all his +misfortunes, and passed the evening as cheerfully as if he was +neither a slave nor a prisoner. The captains inquired if he +had been sold to a planter before he made his escape; he replied +in the negative, when they informed him, that unless his captain +came and demanded him, he would be publicly sold the next +court-day. When they took their leaves, they told him they +would see him the next morning.</p> +<p>Accordingly they returned very early, and having got +admittance into the prison, hailed him with the pleasing sound of +liberty, telling him, they had agreed among themselves to +purchase him, then give him his release, and furnish him with +proper passes; but instead of receiving this joyful news with the +transports they expected, our hero stood for some time silent and +lost in thought. During this while, he reflected within +himself, whether his honour would permit him to purchase his +liberty on these terms: and it was indeed no little struggle +which passed in his breast on this occasion. On the one +side, Liberty, with all her charms, presented herself, and wooed +to be accepted, supported by Fear, who set before his eyes all +the horrors and cruelties of a severe slavery; on the other side, +dame Honour, with a majestic <!-- page 81--><a +name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 81</span>mein, forbade +him, sounding loudly in his ears how it would read in future +story, that the ingenious Mr. Carew had no contrivance left to +regain his lost liberty, but meanly to purchase it at his +friends’ expense. For some time did these passions +remain in equipoise; as thou hast often seen the scales of some +honest tradesman, before he weighs his commodity; but at length +honour preponderated, and liberty and fear flew up and kicked the +beam; he therefore told the captains he had the most grateful +sense of this instance of their love, but that he could never +consent to purchase his freedom at their expense: and therefore +desired they would only do him the favour to acquaint Captain +Froade of his being there. The captains were quite amazed +at this resolution, and used great entreaties to persuade him to +alter it, but all in vain; so that at last they were obliged to +comply with his earnest request, in writing to Captain +Froade.</p> +<p>Captain Froade received with great pleasure the news of his +being in custody in New Town, and soon sent round his long-boat, +paid all costs and charges, and brought him once more on board +his ship. The captain received him with a great deal of +malicious satisfaction in his countenance, telling him in a +taunting manner, that, though he had promised Sir William +Courtney to be at home before him, he should find himself +damnably mistaken; and then with a tyrannic tone bade him strip, +calling the boatswain to bring up a cat-o’-nine-tails, and +tie him fast up to the main geers; accordingly our hero was +obliged to undergo a <!-- page 82--><a name="page82"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 82</span>cruel and shameful punishment. +Here, gentle reader, if thou hast not a heart made of something +harder than adamant, thou canst not choose but melt at the +sufferings of our hero; he, who but just before, did what would +have immortalised the name of Cæsar or Alexander, is now +rewarded for it with cruel and ignominious stripes, far from his +native country, wife, children, or any friends, and still doomed +to undergo severe hardships. As soon as the captain had +satisfied his revenge, he ordered Mr. Carew on shore, taking him +to a blacksmith, whom he desired to make a heavy iron collar for +him, which in Maryland they call a pot-hook, and is usually put +about the necks of runaway slaves. When it was fastened on, +the captain jeeringly cried, Now run away if you can; I will make +you help to load this vessel, and then I’ll take care of +you, and send you to the ironworks of Susky Hadlam.</p> +<p>Captain Froade soon after left the vessel, and went up to a +storehouse at Tuckhoe, and the first mate to Kent island, whilst +the second mate and boatswain kept the ship; in the mean time our +hero was employed in loading the vessel, and doing all manner of +drudgery. Galled with a heavy yoke and narrowly watched, he +began to lose all hopes of escape; his spirits now began to fail +him, and he almost gave himself up to despair, little thinking +his deliverance so near at hand, as he found it soon to be.</p> +<p>One day, as he was employed in his usual drudgery, reflecting +within himself upon his unhappy condition, he unexpectedly saw +his good friends, Captains Hervey and Hopkins, two of the <!-- +page 83--><a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +83</span>Biddeford captains, who, as has been before related, had +offered to redeem him from the prison at New Town; he was +overjoyed at the sight of them, not that he expected any +deliverance from them, but only as they were friends he had been +so much obliged to.</p> +<p>The captains came up and inquired very kindly how it fared +with him, and how he bore the drudgery they saw him employed in; +adding, that he had better have accepted the offer they made him +at New Town. Our hero gallantly replied, that however +severe the hardships he underwent, and were they still more so, +he would rather choose to suffer them, than purchase liberty at +their cost. The captains, charmed with his magnanimity, +were resolved to make one attempt more to get him his +liberty. They soon after sounded the boatswain and mate; +and finding them not greatly averse to give him an opportunity to +escape, they took him aside, and thus addressed him:—Friend +Carew, the offer we made you at New Town may convince you of the +regard we have for you; we therefore cannot think of leaving the +country before we have, by some means or other, procured your +liberty; we have already sounded the boatswain and mate, and find +we can bring them to wink at your escape; but the greatest +obstacle is, that there is forty pounds penalty and half a +year’s imprisonment, for any one that takes off your iron +collar, so that you must be obliged to travel with it, till you +come among the friendly Indians, many miles distant from hence, +who will assist you to take it off, for they are great friends +with the English, and trade with us for lattens, kettles, <!-- +page 84--><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +84</span>frying-pans, gunpowder and shot; giving us in exchange +buffalo and deer skins, with other sorts of furs. But there +are other sorts of Indians, one of which are distinguished by a +very flat forehead, who use cross-bows in fighting; the other of +a very small stature, who are great enemies, and very cruel to +the whites; these you must endeavour by all means to avoid, for +if you fall into their hands, they will certainly murder you.</p> +<p>And here the reader will, we make no doubt, be pleased to see +some account of the Indians, among whom our hero was treated with +so much kindness and civility, as we shall relate in its proper +place.</p> +<p>At the first settling of Maryland, there were several nations +of them governed by petty kings. Mr. Calvert, Lord +Baltimore’s brother having been sent by him to make the +first settlement in Maryland, landed at Potowmac town; during the +infancy of Werowance, Archibau, his uncle, who governed his +territories in his minority, received the English in a friendly +manner. From Potowmac the governor proceeded to Piscataqua, +about 20 leagues higher, where he found many Indians assembled, +and among them an Englishman, Captain Henry Fleet, who had lived +there several years in great esteem with the natives. +Captain Fleet brought the prince on board the governor’s +pinnace to treat with him. Mr. Calvert asked him, whether +he was agreeable that he and his people should settle in his +country. The prince replied, I will not bid you go, neither +will I bid you stay, but you may use your own discretion. +The Indians, finding their prince stay longer on board than they +expected, <!-- page 85--><a name="page85"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 85</span>crowded down to the water-side to +look after him, fearing the English had killed him, and they were +not satisfied till he showed himself to them, to please +them. The natives, who fled from St. Clement’s isle, +when they saw the English come as friends, returned to their +habitations; and the governor, not thinking it advisable to +settle so high up the river in the infancy of the colony, sent +his pinnaces down the river, and went with Captain Fleet to a +river on the north side of the Potowmac, within four or five +leagues, in his long-boat, and came to the town of Yoamaco, from +which the Indians of that neighbourhood are called +Yoamacoes. The governor landed, and treating with the +prince there, acquainted him with the occasion of his coming, to +whom the Indian said little, but invited him to his house, +entertained him kindly, and gave him his own bed to lie on. +The next day he showed him the country, and the governor +determining to make the first settlement there, ordered all his +ships and pinnaces to come thither to him.</p> +<p>To make his entry the more safe and peaceable, he presented +the Werowance and Wilsos, and principal men of the place, with +some English cloth, axes, hoes and knives, which they accepted +very kindly, and freely consented that he and his company should +dwell in one part of the town, and reserving the other for +themselves. Those Indians who inhabited that part which was +assigned to the English, readily abandoned their houses to them; +and Mr. Calvert immediately set hands to work to plant +corn. The natives agreed further to leave the whole town to +the English as soon as their <!-- page 86--><a +name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>harvest was +in; which they did accordingly, and both English and Indians +promised to live friendly together. If any injury was done +on either part, the nation offending was to make +satisfaction. Thus, on the 27th March, 1634, the governor +took possession of the town, and named it St. Mary’s.</p> +<p>There happened an event which much facilitated this with the +Indians. The Susquehanocks, a warlike people, dwelling +between Chesapeak Bay and Delaware Bay, were wont to make +incursions on their neighbours, partly for dominion and partly +for booty, of which the women were most desired by them. +The Yoamacoes, fearing these Susquehanocks, had a year before the +English arrived, resolved to desert their habitations, and remove +higher into the country; many of them were actually gone, and the +rest prepared to follow them. The ships and pinnaces +arriving at the town, the Indians were amazed and terrified at +the sight of them, especially at hearing their cannon thunder, +when they came to anchor.</p> +<p>The first thing that Mr. Calvert did was to fix a court of +guard, and erect a storehouse; and he had not been there many +days before Sir John Harvey, governor of Virginia, came there to +visit him, as did several of the Indian Werowances, and many +other Indians, from several parts of the continent; among others, +came the king of Patuxent, 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 entertainment made +for him and others. A Patuxent Indian coming aboard, and +seeing his king <!-- page 87--><a name="page87"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 87</span>thus seated, started back; thinking +he was surprised, he would have fain leaped overboard, and could +not be persuaded to enter the cabin, till the Werowance came +himself, and satisfied him he was in no danger. This king +had formerly been taken prisoner by the English of +Virginia. After the storehouse was finished and the ship +unladen, Mr. Calvert ordered the colours to be brought ashore, +which was done with great solemnity, the gentlemen and their +servants attending in arms: several volleys were fired on board +and on shore, as also the cannon, at which the natives were +struck with admiration, such at least as had not heard the firing +of pieces of ordnance before, to whom it could not be +dreadful.</p> +<p>The kings of Patuxent and Yoamaco were present at this +ceremony, with many other Indians of Yoamaco; and the Werowance +of Patuxent took that occasion to advise the Indians of Yoamaco +to be careful to keep the league that had been made with the +English. He staid in town several days, and was full of his +Indian compliments; when he went away he made this speech to the +governor: “I love the English so well, that, should they go +about to kill me, if I had so much breath as to speak, I would +command my people not to revenge my death, for I know they would +not do such a thing, except it were through my own +fault.”</p> +<p>This infant colony supplied themselves with Indian corn at +Barbadoes, which, at their first arrival, they began to use to +save their French store of flour and oatmeal. The Indian +women, perceiving that their servants did not know how to <!-- +page 88--><a name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +88</span>dress it, made their bread for them, and taught them to +do it themselves. There was Indian corn enough in the +country, and these new adventurers soon after shipped off 10,000 +bushels for New England, to purchase salt fish and other +provisions. While the English and Indians lived at St. +Mary’s together, the natives went every day to hunt with +the new comers for deer and turkeys, which, when they had caught, +they gave to the English, or sold for knives, beads, and such +like trifles. They also brought them good store of fish, +and behaved themselves very kindly, suffering their women and +children to come among them, which was a certain sign of their +confidence in them.</p> +<p>Most of the Indians still follow the religion and customs of +their ancestors; and are not become either more pious or more +polite by the company of the English.</p> +<p>As to their religion, they have all of them some dark notions +about God; but some of them have brighter ones, if a person may +be believed who had this confession from the mouth of an Indian: +“That they believed God was universally beneficent; that +his dwelling was in heaven above, and the influence of his +goodness reached to the earth beneath; that he was +incomprehensible in his excellence, and enjoyed all possible +felicity; that his duration was eternal, his perfection +boundless, and that he possessed everlasting +happiness.” So far the savage talked as rationally of +the existence of a God as a Christian divine or philosopher could +have done; but when he came to justify their worshipping of the +Devil, whom they call Okee, his notions were very +heterodox. He said, “It is true <!-- page 89--><a +name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 89</span>God is the +giver of all good things, but they flow naturally and +promiscuously from him; that they are showered down upon all men +without distinction; that God does not trouble himself with the +impertinent affairs of men, nor is concerned at what they do, but +leaves them to make the most of their free will, and to secure as +many as they can of the good things that flow from him; that +therefore it was to no purpose either to fear or worship him; +but, on the contrary, if they did not pacify the evil spirit, he +would ruin their health, peace, and plenty, he being always +visiting them in the air, thunders, storms, &c.”</p> +<p>As to the idol which they all worship, and is kept in a temple +called Quiocasan, he seemed to have a very different opinion of +its divinity, and cried out against the juggling of the +priests.—This man did not talk like a common savage, and +therefore we may suppose he had studied the matter more than his +countrymen, who, for the generality, paid a great deal of +devotion to the idol, and worshipped him as their chief +deity.</p> +<p>Their priests and conjurors are highly reverenced by +them. They are given extremely to pawning or conjuring; and +one of them very lately conjured a shower of rain for a +gentleman’s plantation, in a time of drought, for two +bottles of rum. We are not apt to give credit to such +supernatural events; and, had we not found this in an author who +was on the spot, we should have rejected it as a fable.</p> +<p>Their priests promise fine women, eternal spring, and every +pleasure in perfection in the <!-- page 90--><a +name="page90"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 90</span>other world, +which charmed them in this; and threaten them with lakes of fire, +and torments by a fairy in the shape of an old woman. They +are often bloody in their sacrifices, and offer up young children +to the devil. They have a superstitious ceremony among +them, which they call <i>Huskanawing</i>, and is performed thus: +they shut up ten or twelve young men, the most deserving among +them, about twenty years of age, in a strong inclosure, made on +purpose, like a sugar loaf, and every way open like a lattice, +for the air to pass through; they are kept for several months, +and are allowed to have no sustenance but the infusion or +decoction of poisonous intoxicating roots, which turn their +brains, and they run stark mad.</p> +<p>By this it is pretended they lose the remembrance of all +former things, even of their parents, treasure, and language, as +if they had drunk of the water of oblivion, drawn out of the lake +of Lethe. When they have been in this condition as long as +their custom directs, they lessen this intoxicating potion; and, +by degrees, the young men recover the use of their senses; but +before they are quite well, they are shown in their towns; and +the youths who have been <i>huskanawed</i> are afraid to discover +the least sign of their remembering any thing of their past +lives; for, in such a case, they must be huskanawed again, and +they are disciplined so severely the second time, that it +generally kills them.</p> +<p>After the young men have passed this trial, they are +Coucarouses, or men of quality in their nations; and the Indians +say they do it to take away <!-- page 91--><a +name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 91</span>from youth +all childish impressions, and that strong partiality to persons +and things which is contracted before reason takes place.</p> +<p>The Indian priests, to command the respect of the people, make +themselves look as ugly and as terrible as they can; the +conjurors always share with them in their deceit, and they gain +by it; the Indians consult both of them before they go on any +enterprise. There are no priestesses or witches among +them. They erect altars on every remarkable occasion, and +have temples built like their common cabins, in which their idol +stands, and the corpses of their kings and rulers are +preserved.</p> +<p>They have no sort of literature among them; and their way of +communicating things from one to another is by +hieroglyphics. They make their accounts by units, tens, +hundreds, &c., as the English do; but they reckon their years +by cohonks, or winters, and divide every year into five seasons; +the budding time, the earing of the corn, the summer, the +harvest, and the winter.</p> +<p>Their months they count by moons. They divide the day +into three parts, the rise, 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 very pleasant story; that, when +the princess Pocahonta went for England, a Coucarouse, or lord of +her own nation, attended her; his name was Uttamaccomack: and +king Powhatan, Pocahonta’s father, commanded him, when he +arrived in England, to count the people, and give him an account +of their number. Uttamaccomock, when he came ashore, got a +stick, intending to count them by notches; but he <!-- page +92--><a name="page92"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 92</span>soon +found that his arithmetic would be to no purpose, and threw away +his stick. At his return, the king asked him how many +people there were? and he replied, count the stars of the sky, +the leaves upon the trees, and the sand upon the seashore, and +you will know how many are the people in England.</p> +<p>They esteem the marriage-vow as the most sacred of all +engagements, and abhor divorces; adultery is the most +unpardonable of all crimes amongst them, and seldom occurs +without exemplary punishment.</p> +<p>Their maidens are very chaste; and if any one of them happen +to have a child before marriage, her fortune is spoiled. +They are very sprightly and good humoured, and the women +generally handsome. Their manner of handling infants is +very rough: as soon as the child is born, they plunge it over +head and ears in cold water, and they bind it naked to a board, +making a hole in the proper place for evacuation. Between +the child and the board they put some cotton, wool, or fur, and +let it lie in this posture till the bones begin to harden, the +joints to knit, and the limbs to grow strong; they then loosen it +from the board, and let it crawl about where it pleases. +From this custom, it is said, the Indians derive the neatness and +exactness of their limbs, which are the most perfect in the +world. Some of them are of a gigantic stature, live to a +great age, and are stronger than others; but there is not a +crooked, bandy-legged, or ill-shaped, Indian to be seen. +Some nations of them are very tall and large limbed, but others +are short and small; their complexion <!-- page 93--><a +name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>is a dark +brown and tawny. They paint themselves with a pecone root, +which stains them a reddish colour. They are clear when +they are young, but greasing and sunning make their skin turn +hard and black. Their hair, for the most part, is coal +black; so are their eyes; they wear their hair cut after several +whimsical modes, the persons of note always keep a long lock +behind; the women wearing it very long, hanging at their backs, +or twisted up with beads; and all the better sort adorn their +heads with a kind of coronet. The men have no beards, and, +to prevent their having any, use certain devices, which they will +not communicate to the English.</p> +<p>Their clothes are a mantle girt close in the middle, and +underneath a piece of cloth tied round their waist, and reaching +down to the middle of the thigh. The common sort only tie a +piece of cloth or skin round the middle. As for their food +they boil, broil, or roast, all the meat they eat; honomy is the +standing dish, and consists of Indian corn soaked, broken in a +mortar, and then boiled in water over a gentle fire ten or twelve +hours together. They draw and pluck their fowls, skin and +paunch their quadrupeds, but dress their fish with the scales on, +and without gutting; they leave the scales, entrails, and bones, +till they eat the fish, when they throw the offal away. +Their food is chiefly beeves, turtle, several species of snakes, +broth made of deer’s humbles, peas, beans, &c. +They have no set meals: they eat when they are hungry, and drink +nothing but water. Their bread is made of Indian corn, wild +oats, or <!-- page 94--><a name="page94"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 94</span>the seed of the sun-flower; they eat +it alone, and not with meat.</p> +<p>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 +grass. The English prohibit them to keep corn, sheep, or +hogs, lest they should steal their neighbour’s.</p> +<p>When they come to rivers, they presently patch up a canoe of +birch bark, cross over in it, and leave it on the river’s +bank, if they think they shall not want it; otherwise they carry +it along with them.</p> +<p>Their way of receiving strangers is by the pipe, or calumet of +peace. Of this Pere Henepin has given a long account in his +voyage, and the pipe is as follows: they fill a pipe of tobacco, +larger and bigger than any common pipe, light it, and then the +chief of them takes a whiff, gives it to the stranger, and if he +smoke of it, it is peace; if not, war; if peace, the pipe is +handed all round the company.</p> +<p>The diseases of the Indians are very few, and easy to be +cured: they for the most part arise from excessive heats and +colds, which they get rid of by sweating. As for aches, and +settled pains in the joints or limbs, they use caustics and +scarifying. The priests are their physicians, and from +their childhood are taught the nature and use of simples, in +which their knowledge is excellent; but they will not communicate +it, pretending it is a gift of God; and by this mystery they make +it the more valuable.</p> +<p>Their riches consist of furs, peak, roenocke, and pearl. +Their peak and roenocke are made of <!-- page 95--><a +name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 95</span>shells; the +peak is an English bugle, but the roenocke is a piece of cockle, +drilled through like a bead. Before the English came among +them, the peak and the roenocke were all their treasure; but now +they set a value on their fur and pearl, and are greedy of +keeping quantities of them together. The pearl is good, and +formerly was not so rare as it is at this time.</p> +<p>They had no iron tools till the English brought them over: +their knives were sharpened reeds or shells, their axes sharp +stones. They rubbed fire, by turning the end of a hard +piece of wood upon the side of one that is soft and dry, which at +last would burn. They felled great trees by burning them +down at the root, having ways of keeping the fire from +ascending. They hollowed them with a gentle fire, and +scraped the trunk clean, and this made their canoes, of which +some were thirty feet long. They are very good handicraft +men, and what they do is generally neat and convenient.</p> +<p>Their kingdoms descended to the next heir, male or female, and +they were exact in preserving the succession in the right +line. If, as it often happened, one great prince subjected +the other, those conquests commonly were lost at his death, and +the nation returned again to the obedience of their natural +princes. They have no written laws, neither can they have +any, having no letters.</p> +<p>Their lands are in common, and their Werowances, or judges, +are all lord-chancellors, deciding causes and inflicting +punishments according as they think fit. These Werowances +and the Coucarouses are their terms to distinguish the men of +<!-- page 96--><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +96</span>quality; the former are their war-captains, and the +latter such as have passed the trial of huskanawing. Their +priests and conjurors have great authority among them. They +have servants whom they call black boys, and are very exact in +requiring the respect that is due to their several qualities.</p> +<p>Most of the Indians live on the eastern shore, where they have +two or three little towns; some of them go over to the other +side, in winter time, to hunt for deer, being generally employed +by the English. They take delight in nothing else, and it +is very rare that any of them will embrace the Christian way of +living and worship. There are about 500 fighting Indians in +all the province; the cause of their diminution proceeded not +from wars with the English, for they have none with them worth +speaking of, but from the perpetual discords and wars among +themselves. The female sex have always swept away a great +many.</p> +<p>One thing is observed in them, though they are a people very +timorous and cowardly in fight, yet when taken prisoners and +condemned, they will die like heroes, braving the most exquisite +tortures that can be invented, and singing all the time they are +upon the rack.</p> +<p>We find several of the Indians doing actions which would do +honour to the greatest heroes of antiquity: thus captain Smith, +who was one of the first adventurers in planting the colony of +Virginia, being taken prisoner, while he was making discoveries, +by king Oppecamcanough, he not only spared Mr. Smith’s +life, but carried him to his town and feasted him; and afterwards +presented him <!-- page 97--><a name="page97"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 97</span>to Powhaton, the chief king of the +savages, who would have beheaded him, had he not been saved by +the intercession and generosity of his daughter, Pocahonto, who, +when Mr. Smith’s head was on the block, and she could not +prevail with her father to give him his life, put her own head +upon his, and ventured receiving the blow to save him, though she +was scarce then sixteen years of age.</p> +<p>Some time after, Sir Thomas Dale sent captain Argall to +Patowmac to buy corn, where he met with Pocahonta. He +invited her to come aboard his ship, which with some difficulty +she consented to, being betrayed by the king of Postcany, brother +to the king of Patowmac, with whom she then resided.</p> +<p>Argall, having got her into his custody, detained her, and +carried her to James’s Town, intending to oblige her +father, king Powhaton, to come to what terms he pleased for the +deliverance of his daughter. Though the king loved her +tenderly, yet he would not do any thing for her sake which he +thought was not for his own and the nation’s interest; nor +would he be prevailed upon to conclude a firm treaty of peace +till he heard his daughter, who had turned a Christian, was +christened Rebecca, and married to Mr. John Rolfe, an English +gentleman, her uncle giving her away in the church.</p> +<p>Powhaton approved of the marriage, took it for a sincere token +of friendship, and was so pleased with it, that he concluded a +league with the English in the year 1613.</p> +<p><!-- page 98--><a name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +98</span>Some time after, Sir Thomas Dale going for England, took +Mr. Rolfe and his wife Pocahonta with him, and arrived at +Plymouth.</p> +<p>Captain Smith, hearing the lady who had been so 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 himself, +petitioned queen Anne, consort to king James, on her behalf, +setting forth the civilities he had received from her, and +obligations she had laid upon the English, by the service she had +done them with her father.</p> +<p>The queen received this petition very graciously; 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 several friends to wait on her.</p> +<p>Pocahonta was told all along that Captain Smith was dead, to +excuse his not coming to Virginia again; from which he had been +diverted by settling a colony in New England. Wherefore, +when this lady saw him, thinking the English had injured her in +telling her a falsity, which she had ill deserved from them, she +was so angry that she would not deign to speak to him: but at +last, with much persuasion and attendance, was reconciled, and +talked freely to him: she then put him in mind of the obligations +she had laid upon him, and reproached him for forgetting her, +with an air so lively, and words so sensible, that one might have +seen nature abhors nothing more than ingratitude—a vice +that even the very savages detest.</p> +<p><!-- page 99--><a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +99</span>She was carried to court by the Lady Delaware, and +entertained by ladies of the first quality, towards whom she +behaved herself with so much grace and majesty, that she +confirmed the bright character Captain Smith had given of +her. The whole court was charmed with the decency and +grandeur of her deportment so much, that the poor gentleman, her +husband, was threatened to be called to an account for marrying a +princess royal without the king’s consent; though in that +king James showed a very notable piece of kingcraft, for there +was no likelihood that Mr. Rolfe, by marrying Pocahonta, could +any way endanger the peace of his dominions; or that his alliance +with the king of Wicomaco could concern the king of +Great-Britain; indeed, we are told, that upon a fair and full +representation of the matter, the king was pleased to be +satisfied.</p> +<p>The lady Pocahonta, having been entertained with all manner of +respect in England, was taken ill at Gravesend, where she lay in +order to embark for Virginia; she died there with all the signs +of a sincere Christian and true penitent.</p> +<p>She had one son by Mr. Rolfe, whose posterity are at this day +in good repute in Virginia, and inherit lands by descent from +her.</p> +<p>The language of the Indians is lofty, but narrow; the accent +and emphasis of some of their words are great and sweet, as +Okorocston, Rancoce, Oriston, Shakameton, Poquiffin, all names of +places, and as sonorous as any in Attica; then for sweetness they +have their <i>anna</i>, mother, <i>issimus</i>, brother, +<i>nelapsin</i> and <i>usque oret</i>, very good, <i>pone</i>, +<!-- page 100--><a name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +100</span>bread, <i>morridge walk</i>, a burying-place, +<i>scaw</i>, a woman, <i>salop</i>, a man, <i>pappoes</i>, a +child.</p> +<p>The captains acquainted Mr. Carew, that the unfriendly Indians +were not the only enemies he had to fear, for he must expect to +encounter with great dangers and difficulties, as rattle-snakes, +horn-snakes, black-snakes, lions, leopards, bears, wolves, and +wild cats. However this did not dishearten our hero, for he +was resolved to attempt regaining his liberty, let the +consequence be what it would. The captains then gave him a +pocket-compass to steer by, a steel and tinder-box, a bag of +cakes, a cheese, and some rum, telling him, he must leave the +three-notched road a little way off, and steer to his left hand; +(in Maryland they distinguish the roads by letters or notches cut +on the trees;) that he must travel by night, and lie concealed in +the day, for forty miles, and then he would come to a part of the +country quite uninhabited; from thence he would enter the Indian +country. They likewise told him, that all the wild beasts +were afraid of fire, so that his best defence would be to strike +a light and kindle some sticks whenever he was apprehensive of +being attacked by any of them.</p> +<p>Our hero having received these and some other necessary +instructions, and having returned his generous benefactors many +thanks for their kindness, bidding them farewell with tears, set +out on his dangerous journey about three o’clock in the +afternoon. He had not travelled far, before he began to +reflect on his melancholy condition, alone, unarmed, unacquainted +with the way, galled with <!-- page 101--><a +name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 101</span>the heavy +yoke, exposed every moment to the most imminent dangers, and dark +tempestuous night approaching with all its horrors, increased its +terrors; his ears were now assailed with the dismal yells and +crying of wild beasts of different sorts, but, remembering the +instructions he had received from the captains, he soon struck +fire, and kindled some sticks, and was obliged the whole night to +swing a fireband round his head; the sight of which kept the wild +beasts from coming near, for, though they often came and looked +at him, yet they soon turned tail again, seeing the fire.</p> +<p>However it was with great joy he saw day-light appear, at +first dawn of which he was quite freed from those troublesome +guests; he had nothing to do but to seek the thickest tree he +could find, and, climbing up into it, he took some refreshment of +sleep, which he had great need of, having travelled hard all +night. He afterwards eat sparingly of his cheese and +biscuit, fearing they might not last till he could get a fresh +supply, and then took a very large dram of rum, with which, +finding his spirits much refreshed, and night coming on, he began +his journey again, travelling in the same manner as the preceding +night, with a firebrand whirling round his head. In this +manner travelling by night, and concealing himself by day, he +went on four days, when he reached the Blue Mountains, where he +thought himself out of all danger of pursuit, or being stopped +for want of a pass. He now travelled by day, meeting with +great multitudes of buffaloes, black bears, deer, wolves, and +wild turkeys, the latter being so <!-- page 102--><a +name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 102</span>large as to +weigh thirty or forty pounds; none of these creatures offered to +attack him; but walking one day on the side of a small rivulet, +almost lost in thought, he was suddenly alarmed by something he +heard plunging into the water, and turning his head to the side +from whence the noise came, he was struck with the sight of a +great white bear, which, being likewise disturbed, raised itself +immediately and made towards him. Our hero now thought +there was no way to escape; however, with great presence of mind, +he stepped aside to a furze bush, and, striking a light with all +the haste he could, set it on fire; at the sight of which the +bear, who was now within a very small distance of him, turned +about, and went away roaring hideously.</p> +<p>Some time after this he was comically alarmed by an +inoffensive animal; as he was walking along a deer-track, he +chanced to spy a very fine tortoise-shell box, as he imagined, +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 +hissing noise, which seemed to be very near; he immediately +thought it to be some venomous snake, and endeavoured to avoid it +by going out of the path he was in; but still the noise seemed to +pursue him; at last looking down, he sees 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 slips his fingers +into his pocket, takes out his supposed box, and flings it to the +ground, when the creature, opening the upper <!-- page 103--><a +name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 103</span>from the +under shell, marched away; this was, as he afterwards found, no +other than a land-tortoise.</p> +<p>He found his journey very often obstructed by rivers and +rivulets, which he was obliged either to wade through or swim +over. At length, after many days’ tiresome travel, +being grievously galled by his yoke, or collar, he discovered +several tracks of the Indians. Never did more different +passions agitate the breast of any man than did the breast 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 should now get +rid of his heavy collar, as well as get some refreshment of +provisions, his own having been exhausted for almost two days +past; but he had not pleased himself long with this reflection +before the idea of the barbarous and unfriendly Indians struck +into his mind, for he was quite uncertain whether the footsteps +he discovered might lead him to the good and friendly Indians, or +to those barbarous and inhuman wretches; he now represented +himself as set upon by these, against whom he had no arms to +defend himself, cruelly tormented, and at last slain as a victim +in some of their bloody sacrifices.</p> +<p>It was about the evening when he discovered these footsteps, +and he passed the whole night in this tormenting suspense. +Very early in the morning he discovered five Indians at a +distance; his fears represented them in the most frightful +colours; they seemed of a gigantic stature, that he thought he +could perceive their faces to be very flat and broad, which was +the characteristic or mark of the unfriendly Indians. This +struck him with unusual dread, and he now gave himself over for +lost, when <!-- page 104--><a name="page104"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 104</span>he saw they had espied him, and were +making towards him: they coming nearer, he perceived them to be +clothed in deer skins, their hair to be exceeding long, hanging +down a great way over their shoulders; and, to his inexpressible +joy, he distinguished they had guns in their hands, which was a +sure sign they were the friendly Indians. This raised his +spirits, and he approached them in a suppliant manner, making +signs that he craved their assistance. The Indians accosted +him with clapping their hands on their heads, and crying <i>hush +me a top</i>, which in their language signifies good-morrow; then +taking hold of his collar, they repeated one to another, in +broken English, a runaway! a runaway! Presently after came +up two more Indians, one of whom was a person of fine majestic +appearance, whose dress was by far more magnificent than any of +the others. His habit being a most beautiful +panther’s skin faced with fur: his hair was adorned with a +great variety of fine feathers, and his face painted with a great +many colours. By these marks of distinction, Mr. Carew +supposed him to be their king or prince, and indeed such he was; +he spoke very good English, and accosted him as the others had +done before. He then brought him to the wigwam, which is a +name they give their houses, which are no more than stakes driven +into the ground, covered over with deer or other skins. +Here, observing that our hero was grievously hurt by his collar, +this good king immediately set himself about freeing him from it; +but, as he had no proper tool for that purpose, he was at a great +loss how to execute it; but at last, taking the steel of <!-- +page 105--><a name="page105"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +105</span>Mr. Carew’s tinder-box, he jagged it into a kind +of saw, with which he cut off his collar, but not without much +labour, his majesty sweating heartily at the work. He then +carried him into his own wigwam, which appeared very handsomely +furnished. Here he ordered some Indian bread, and other +refreshments, to be set before Mr. Carew, who ate very +heartily. During this the prince acquainted him his name +was George Lillycraft; that his father was one of those kings who +were in England in the reign of Queen Anne; and then showed him +some fine laced clothes, which were made a present of to him by +the late king George of England (meaning his late majesty king +George the First); he expressed a great affection for his brother +kings of England, as he called them, and for the English nation +in general. Soon after came in the queen, dressed in a +short jacket, leading in her hand a young prince, who both +repeated the word runaway twice.</p> +<p>Next day the king presented him to the wisos, or chief men of +the town, who received him with a great deal of civility, and +tokens of high esteem. He ate every day at the king’s +table, and had a lodging assigned to him in his wigwam, and grew +every day more and more in esteem among them, being consulted in +all matters of difficulty. Thus sudden are the scenes of +life shifted and changed; for a brave man will never despair +under whatsoever misfortunes; for our hero, who but a few weeks +before was treated like a beast of burden, heavily loaded, +cruelly whipped, coarsely fed, and all by the insolence and +inhumanity of his own countrymen, is now seated, in a strange +country, <!-- page 106--><a name="page106"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 106</span>with kings and princes, and +consulted by a whole nation.</p> +<p>King Lillycraft, who was a man of very good natural sense, +used to discourse with, and ask Mr. Carew many questions of the +customs and manners of his brother kings in England. Being +told one day that the king of England never stirred abroad +without being surrounded with a great number of armed men, whom +he paid for defending him, and fighting for him, he very simply +asked whom he was afraid of? or whether he was constantly at war +with any neighbouring king, who might fall upon him +unawares? Being told to the contrary, he expressed very +great surprise, and could not conceive of what use these armed +men were, when the king had no enemy, adding, when I am at war, +my people are my guard, and fight for me without being paid for +it, and would each of them lay down his life to defend mine; and +when I am at peace, I can fear no evil from my own people, +therefore I have no need of armed men about me. Being told +another time that the king of England kept himself generally in +his wigwam, or palace, surrounded by certain officers, who +permitted no one to come near him but by their permission, which +was the greatest difficulty in the world to obtain, and that not +a thousandth part of the people, who lived in the town where the +palace was, had ever seen him in their lives, he turned away from +Mr. Carew in a passion, telling him, He was certain he deceived +him, and belied his good brother of England: for how, added he, +can he be the king of a people whom he hath no knowledge of? or +how can he be beloved by <!-- page 107--><a +name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 107</span>his +subjects who have never seen him? how can he redress their +grievances, or provide for their wants? how can he lead his +people against their enemies? or how know what his subjects stand +in need of, in the distant parts of the kingdom, if he so seldom +stirs out of his wigwam? Being told that the king of +England was informed of, and transacted all this by means of the +officers that were about him, he replied, It might be so; but if +he should ever chance to go to England, he should talk with his +good friend the king upon these matters, as he could not clearly +apprehend how they could be. For my part, added he, I know +and am known by all my subjects. I appear daily among them, +hear their complaints, redress their grievances, and am +acquainted with every place in my kingdom. Being told the +people of England paid their king, yearly, vasts sums out of the +profits of their labour, he laughed, and cried, O poor king! +adding, I have often given to my subjects, but never received any +thing from them.</p> +<p>Hunting being the principal employment and diversion of the +Indians, at which they are very expert, Mr. Carew had an +opportunity of gratifying, to the utmost, his taste for this +diversion, there scarcely passing a day but he was a party +amongst them at some hunting match or other, and most generally +with the king himself. He was now grown into such great +respect among them, that they offered him a wife out of the +principal families of the place, nearly related to the king; but +our hero, notwithstanding these honours, could not forget his +native country, the love of which glowed within his breast; he +had therefore, <!-- page 108--><a name="page108"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 108</span>for some time, formed the design of +leaving them, and, very soon after, found an opportunity of doing +so.</p> +<p>One day, being out a hunting, they chanced to fall in company +with some other Indians, near the river Delaware. When the +chase was over, they sat down to be merry together, and having +got some rum amongst them, they drank pretty freely, and fell to +singing and dancing after their country fashion.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew took this opportunity of slipping away, and, going +down to the river side, seized one of the canoes. Though he +was entirely unacquainted with the method of managing them, he +boldly pushed from shore, landing near Newcastle in Pennsylvania; +the place he crossed over being called Duck’s Creek, which +communicates with the great Delaware. Mr. Carew being now +got, as it were, among his countrymen again, soon transformed +himself into a quaker: pulling off the button from his hat, and +flapping it on every side, he put on as demure and precise a +look, as if his whole family had been quakers, and he had never +seen any other sort of people. Here, reader, it will be +necessary to remark, that, as our hero is no longer amongst +simple honest Indians, neither polite, lettered, nor deceitful, +but among polished people, whose knowledge has taught them to +forget the ways of nature, and to act every thing in disguise; +whose hearts and tongues are as far distant asunder, as the North +from the South pole, and who daily over-reach one another in the +most common occurrences of life; we hope it will be no disgrace +to our hero if among such he appears <!-- page 109--><a +name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 109</span>polished as +the best, and puts on a fresh disguise as often as it suits his +convenience.</p> +<p>The first house he went to was a barber’s, of whose +assistance he had indeed need enough, not having shaved his beard +since he left the ship: here he told a moving story, saying his +name was John Elworth, of Bristol; that he had been artfully +kidnapped by one Samuel Ball, of the same place, and gone through +great hardships in making his escape. The good barber moved +by his tale, willingly lent his assistance to take off his beard; +during the operation, he entered into a good deal of chat, +telling him his father was of Exeter; and, when he went away, +gave him a half-crown bill, and he recommended him to Mr. Wiggil, +a quaker of the same place. Here he told his moving story +again, and got a ten-shilling bill from Mr. Wiggil, with +recommendations to the rest of the quakers of the place, among +whom he got a great deal of money. When he took his leave, +he was recommended by them to the quakers of a town called +Castile. Here he found a great deal of favour, and made the +best of his way to Brandywine-Ferry, in which is room enough to +lay up the whole royal navy of England; and from thence to +Chester, so called, because the people who first settled there +came for the most part from Cheshire. It contains above a +hundred houses, and a very good road for shipping, the Delaware, +on which it stands, being about three miles over. Here are +a court-house and a prison. This place is also called +Upland, and has a church dedicated to St. Paul, with a numerous +congregation of those whom, exclusive of all other Christians, we +call <!-- page 110--><a name="page110"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 110</span>orthodox. Mr. Carew came here +on Sunday, staid all the night, and the next morning he enquired +out one Mrs. Turner, a quaker, who formerly lived at Embercomb, +by Minehead, in Somersetshire; from her he got a bill, and a +recommendation to some quakers at Derby, about five miles +further, where she told him he would find Mr. Whitfield. On +hearing this, he set out for Derby; but, before he reached there, +was overtaken by hundreds of people going to hear Mr. Whitfield +preach. Friend, says he to one of them, where are you going +so fast? Hast thou not heard, friend, says the other, the +second Christ is come? He then joined them, and they all +proceeded to Derby, where he found Mr. Whitfield preaching in an +orchard, but could not get near enough to hear his discourse, by +reason of the great concourse of people; however, he seemed to be +affected with it, and strictly imitated the quakers in all their +sighs, groans, lifting up of the eyes, &c. Leaving +them, he went to the sign of the ship, and enquiring where Mr. +Whitfield lodged that night, was told at the justice’s, who +was a miller; he then asked if he could have a bed there that +night, and being told that he might, he passed the evening very +cheerfully.</p> +<p>In the morning he asked for pen, ink, and paper, soon drew up +a moving petition in the name of John Moore, the son of a +clergyman, who had been taken on board the Tiger, Captain +Matthews, and carried into the Havannah, from whence he had got +his redemption by means of the governor of Annapolis; that he was +in the most deplorable circumstances, having nothing to <!-- page +111--><a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +111</span>help himself with, and hoped he would commiserate his +condition. Having finished his petition, away he went to +the miller’s house, where Mr. Whitfield lodged, and found a +hundred people waiting at the door to speak to that +gentleman. Looking narrowly around, he espied a young lad, +whom he found belonged to Mr. Whitfield, and going up to him very +civilly, he begged he would do an unfortunate man the kindness to +present that paper (giving him his petition) to Mr. Whitfield: +and as soon as they perceived him, the quakers pressed round him, +one crying, Pray thee, friend, come and pray by my dear wife; and +another, Pray thee, friend, come and see my dear brother. +Mr. Whitfield made his way through them all, as well as he could, +towards Mr. Carew, whom the young lad pointed out to him. +When he came up to him, he kindly said that he was heartily sorry +for his misfortunes, but that we were all liable to them, that +they happened by the will of God, and therefore it was our duty +to submit to them with patience and resignation; then, pulling +out his pocket-book, he gave him three or four pounds of that +county paper-money. Mr. Carew returned him thanks with all +the marks of the most lively gratitude, and Mr. Whitfield wishing +him well to England, went away singing psalms with those that +were about him; and we make no doubt but Mr. Carew joined with +them in the melody of the heart for the good success he had had +with Mr. Whitfield.</p> +<p>From hence Bampfylde was only seven miles to the city of +Philadelphia, which is one of the finest in all America, and one +of the best laid out cities <!-- page 112--><a +name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 112</span>in the +world. It is the capital of Pennsylvania, and, were it full +of houses and inhabitants, according to the proprietor’s +plan, it would be a capital fit for a great empire; yet it is a +large city, considering its late foundation, most commodiously +situated between two navigable rivers, the Delaware and +Schuylkill. He designed the town in form of an oblong +square, extending two miles in length from one river to the +other. The long streets, eight in number, and two miles in +length, he cut in right angles by others of one mile in length, +and sixteen in number, all straight and spacious. He left +proper spaces for markets, parades, quays, meeting-houses, +schools, hospitals, and other public buildings. There are a +great number of houses, and it increases every day in buildings, +which are all carried on regularly, according to the first +plan. The city has two fronts on the water, one on the east +side facing to Schuylkill, and the other on the west, facing the +Delaware, which is near two miles broad, and navigable three +hundred miles, at least for small vessels. The eastern part +is the most populous, on account of the Schuylkill, which is +navigable eight hundred miles above the falls. We have +observed, that each front of the street was to be two miles from +river to river, as it was at first laid out; but one cannot +suppose that it is finished in that manner. The streets +that run against the Schuylkill are three quarters of a mile in +length; the houses are stately, the wharfs and warehouses +numerous and convenient. This city flourished so much at +first, that there were near a hundred houses, great and small in +it, in less than a year’s time; and it has made answerable +progress since <!-- page 113--><a name="page113"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 113</span>that period; the number of houses, +at this time, being about two thousand, and, generally speaking, +better edifices than in the cities of England, a few excepted, +and those only in a few streets. All the houses have large +orchards and gardens belonging to them; the land on which the +city stands is high and firm, and the convenience of covered +docks and springs have very much contributed to the commerce of +this place, where many rich merchants now reside, some of whom +are so wealthy that they keep their coaches. Ships may ride +in six or seven fathoms water, with a very good anchorage; the +land about it is a dry wholesome level. All owners of one +thousand acres and upwards have their houses in the two fronts, +facing the rivers, and in the High-street, running from the +middle of one front to the middle of the other. Every owner +of one thousand acres has about an acre in front, and the smaller +purchasers about half an acre in the back streets, by which means +the least has room enough for a house-garden and small +orchard. High-street is a hundred feet broad, so is +Broad-street, which is in the middle of the city, running from +north to south. In the centre is a square of ten acres, for +the state-house, market-house, and school-house, as before +hinted. The names of the streets here denote the several +sorts of timber that are common in Pennsylvania, as +Mulberry-street, Sassafras-street, Chesnut-street, Walnut-street, +Beech-street, Ash-street, Vine-street, Cedar-street. There +are also King-street, Broad-street, High-street. Their +court-house is built of brick, and under it is a prison: several +houses on the quay are worth four or five thousand <!-- page +114--><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +114</span>pounds; and thirteen ships have been on the stocks at a +time: some hundreds have been built there. The cellars and +warehouses, on the quay, are made over the river three stories +high. Here are two fairs in a year, and two markets in a +week. It sends two members to the assembly.</p> +<p>The inhabitants were at first mostly quakers, and so they +continue. It was some time before there was a church built +after the manner of England; but as soon as one was built, it was +called Christchurch. It had, in a few years, a very +numerous congregation, and King William ordered an allowance of +fifty-three pounds a-year to the minister; which, with voluntary +contributions, made a very handsome provision for him. +There are about twelve hundred of the inhabitants that are of +this congregation, who have for some years had the benefit of the +organ; and though it looked and sounded strange to the quakers at +first, yet they are now so far reconciled to it, as to bear with +their neighbours having it without grumbling. There are, +besides this, several meeting-houses; viz., for the quakers, who +are properly the church as by law established, being the +originals; the presbyterians, the baptists, and a Spanish +church.</p> +<p>According to the plan, there is in each quarter of the city a +square of eight acres, intended for the same uses as were +Moorfields in London—walks and exercises for the +citizens. The great dock is formed by an inlet of the river +Delaware, at the south corner of the front of the wharfs, and has +a bridge over it at the entrance: several creeks run into the +city out of the two rivers; and there is no city in Holland that +is so naturally <!-- page 115--><a name="page115"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 115</span>accommodated with fine and +commodious canals, as this might very easily be. The quay +is beautiful, about two hundred feet square, to which a ship of +five hundred tons may lay her broadside; and, as these surprising +advantages have already rendered it one of the best trading towns +in the British empire out of Europe, so in all probability it +will continue to increase in commerce, riches, and buildings, +till for number and magnificence it will have no equal in +America; where the French have not, nor are likely to have, any +thing like it. Here are almost all sorts of trades and +mechanics, as well as merchants and planters. Here the +assemblies and courts of judicature are held, and the business of +the province is chiefly managed, as in all capitals. Here +are printing-houses, and several newspapers published. In a +word, here are all things necessary for an Englishman’s +profit and pleasure.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew, walking through the High-street, had a mind to +refresh himself with a nip of punch; the first public house he +chanced to come to was kept by an Irishman, and asking him if he +sold punch, Yes, my dear honey, replied the man. Arrah, +says Mr. Carew, are you my countryman, dear joy? quite in the +Irish brogue. Yes, replied the man: What, do you belong to +one of our vessels?—No, but I belong to Captain Dubois, of +Dublin, who was taken off the Capes, and carried into the +Havannah.—Arrah, dear joy, I know Captain Dubois very well, +replied the Irishman, come in. Accordingly in went Mr. +Carew: the Irishman was so well pleased with his countryman, +(for, giving a very particular account of many <!-- page 116--><a +name="page116"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 116</span>places in +Ireland, and counterfeiting the brogue extremely well, he did not +suspect him to be any other,) that he entertained him kindly, and +they passed the day merrily together.</p> +<p>The next morning his host takes him out to see the city: Mr. +Carew did not content himself with idly gazing, as most of our +modern travellers do; but diligently inquired the names of the +principal merchants and places, and informed himself of all those +circumstances, which could be of any service to him. At +length, seeing a very fine house, he inquired whose it was; and +being told Proprietor Penn’s, who was just come from +England with his brother-in-law, Captain Frame, he takes leave of +his host, telling him he had a little business to transact, and +would be at home presently, for he should be able to find his way +back without his staying for him.—Having thus got rid of +the Irishman, he claps his right hand into his coat, as if he had +lost the use 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 round his neck: he inquired if the proprietor lived +there, and if he was at home: being told he was, Pray tell him, +says he, that a poor man desires the favour of speaking with +him. The negro then bid him come into the court: soon +after, out came the proprietor, very plainly dressed, and his +brother, Captain Frame, in his regimentals. The proprietor +came up to him, inquiring who he was, and what he wanted with +him: he replied he was a poor unfortunate man, who craved his +honour’s charitable assistance: that his name was John +Dawkins, of the city of Exeter; and that he <!-- page 117--><a +name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 117</span>belonged to +Captain Davis’s ship of that place, who was taken near the +Capes. Captain Frame, seeing him a lusty tall fellow, +presently cries out, revenge! revenge! my brave boy! you shall go +along with me, and fight the dogs! Mr. Carew replied with a +sigh, that he should be glad to do that, but that, it was his +misfortune, by the severities and hardships in prison, to have +lost the use of his right arm by the dead palsy. This moved +their compassion so much, that each of them gave him a guinea; +the proprietor telling him he would take care to send him home +with Captain Read, who would sail, very soon; then asking him if +he had been at the governor’s, and he replying in the +negative, the proprietor told him he should go there, for he was +a very good-natured man, and would assist him; then calling to +the black, he bid him show the poor man to the +governor’s. As they were going along, he informed +himself of the black what countryman the governor was; and being +told a Welshman, and his name Thomas, he took care to make his +advantage of it. When he came to the governor’s and +inquired for him, he was told he was walking in the garden; while +he was waiting for his coming out, in came the proprietor and his +brother; and, going into the garden, they represented his case to +the governor, who, coming in, inquired where he was born, +&c.; he told him, as he had before done the proprietor, and +added, that he had married Betty Larkey, parson Griffy’s +maid, of Wales, and that the parson had a son at Bishop’s +Nympton, in Devon: the governor replied he knew the parson very +well, and likewise Betty Larkey; and <!-- page 118--><a +name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 118</span>after he +had asked him some questions about them, which Mr. Carew answered +very readily, he gave him two guineas.</p> +<p>In this manner did he apply to the most of the principal +merchants of Philadelphia, always suiting some circumstances of +his story in particular to the person he applied to; which he +did, by diligently inquiring what places they came from in +England, who were their friends and acquaintance, and the like, +which he knew how to suit most to his purpose.</p> +<p>Captain Read being now ready to sail, and Mr. Carew having a +curiosity of seeing more of the country, he thought proper to +leave Philadelphia without taking leave of any of his good +friends there. From this place he went into Buckingham +county, where he inquired for one George Boon, a justice of the +peace in that county, who formerly lived at Bradnich, in Devon, +his father being a weaver there. Here he went by his own +name, telling him, he had been taken prisoner, and carried into +the Havannah, where he had lain many months. The justice +having known his father very well, entertained him generously, +showed him the country, and gave him three guineas at his +departure, to help to pay his passage.</p> +<p>From thence he went to Burlington, the first town in West +New-Jersey, which contains about two hundred and fifty families, +and has an answerable number of acres laid out for +plantations. The houses are well built, and almost all of +brick. The market affords plenty of all sorts of +provisions, which are as good here as any where in America.</p> +<p><!-- page 119--><a name="page119"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +119</span>From thence to Perth Amboy, so called in honour of the +Duke of Perth. It is at the mouth of the Rantan, which runs +into Sandyhook bay, and is able to contain five hundred +ships. The plan of this city was laid out very regularly +and spaciously. The plot of ground was divided into one +hundred and fifty shares, for purchasers to build upon. +Four acres are preserved for a market-place, and three for public +wharfage—very useful things, if there had been inhabitants, +trade, and shipping. The town being thus skilfully and +commodiously laid out, some Scots began building, especially a +house for the governor, which was then as little wanted as a +wharf or a market. The whole plan of the city consists of +one thousand and seventy-nine acres, and there are two good roads +from it to Piscataqua and Woodbridge. Ships in one tide can +come up to the port, and be at the merchants’ doors, though +of three hundred tons burden; but the Perth city has not above +two or three hundred men, women, and children.</p> +<p>From thence over a ferry, into a town called Trent-town, in +Staten-island; and from thence over Brunswick ferry to East +Jersey, where he found out a Mr. Matthews, a miller, who formerly +lived at Whitechurch, near Lime, in Dorset; and, making use of +his old story of having been taken, he was received by Mr. +Matthews with great hospitality; he kept him three days in his +house, and would have entertained him still longer. At his +departure he gave him a guinea, with several letters of +recommendation, and remitted letters by him to his friends in +England, sending his servant <!-- page 120--><a +name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 120</span>with him as +far as Elizabeth town, which is three miles within a creek +opposite to the west end of Staten-island. Here the first +English settlement was made, and if any place in the Jerseys may +be said to have thriven, it is this; for, notwithstanding the +endeavours of the proprietors to make a capital of Perth, by +calling it a city, Elizabeth town has near six times the number +of inhabitants, containing above two hundred and fifty families, +and forty thousand acres of land laid out. Here the +proprietors have a plantation, which goes by the name of their +farm. The government of the province is here managed, +courts are kept, assemblies held, and the greatest part of the +trade of the colony carried on. Here he met with one Mr. +Nicholas, a Cornish man, who gave him a ten-shilling bill, and +recommended him to one Mr. Anderson, in Long-island, sometimes +called Nassau-island, stretching from Fairfield county, in a fine +spot of ground, one hundred and fifty miles in length, and twenty +in breadth. Here he changed his religion, and turned +Presbyterian, most of the inhabitants being of that denomination: +he travelled quite through the island, and then crossed over a +ferry into Block-island, from whence there are great quantities +of timber transported to the town of Boston.</p> +<p>Soon after, crossing another ferry, he came into New York, +which is a very fine city. There are now about one thousand +one hundred houses, and near seven thousand inhabitants in +it. The houses are well built, the meanest of them is said +to be worth one hundred pounds, which cannot be said of any city +in England. The great church here <!-- page 121--><a +name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 121</span>was built +in the year 1695, and is a very handsome edifice. Here are +also a Dutch church, a French church, and a Lutheran +church. The inhabitants of the Dutch extraction make a very +considerable part of the town; but, most of them speaking +English, one may suppose they went pretty much to the great +church, especially all those that are and hope to be in +offices. Here he was surprised at the sight of a great +number of gibbets, with blacks hanging upon them; but, upon +inquiring, he found the negroes had not long before entered into +a conspiracy for burning the whole city; however, the plot being +timely discovered, great numbers were executed and hung up to +terrify others. His first care here was to inquire the +names, circumstances, families, and countries, of the principal +inhabitants of the city; amongst the rest he inquired out Captain +Lush, who was formerly of Carmouth, by Lime, in Dorsetshire, to +whom he had recommendatory letters from Mr. Matthews, of East +Jersey. He was received very hospitably by Captain Lush, +who likewise gave him two shirts, and informed him, there was no +ship ready to sail for England there, but that he would find one +at New London. Having found there was one Mr. Lucas, +formerly of Taunton, in Somersetshire, in New York, and judging +he was brother to Mr. Lucas, of Brampton, in Devon, whom he knew +very well, he went boldly to his house, which was in the +fish-shambles, and knocking at the door, it was opened to him by +a negro; he enquired if Mr. Lucas was at home; and, before the +negro could give him an answer, out came Mr. Lucas with a little +boy, and demanded what <!-- page 122--><a +name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 122</span>he wanted: +he replied he was an Englishman, born in Devonshire, who had the +misfortune to be cast away in a ship behind Long-island, and +hearing his name was Lucas, he had made bold to apply to him for +his assistance, as he was very well acquainted with his brother, +Mr. Lucas, of Brampton. Mr. Lucas asked him, if he could +tell him whom his brother married; he replied, Mrs. Mary +Tristam. Do you know Huntsham? Yes, replied he, and +Mr. Beer, who first courted Mrs. Tristam. And how many +children has my brother? To this likewise Mr. Carew +answered very exactly; and Mr. Lucas, being convinced by this of +his being no imposter, bid him come in, telling him, he expected +his youngest brother there in three weeks time. He was +entertained here very generously, and at his departure Mr. Lucas +gave him two guineas.</p> +<p>From thence he went through Seabrake and Seaford to New +London, which is situated on a river called the Thames. The +first branch of which river goes by the name of Glass river, the +next branch by that of Russel’s Delight, and the third by +that of Indian river. There is a small river which falls +into the sea at Manchester. The trade of ship building +flourishes here. He now inquired if there were none of the +name of Davy in that city; and being asked why, he replied, they +were near heirs to a fine estate near Crediton in Devon, formerly +belonging to Sir John Davy. He was then shown to two +ancient sisters of Sir John Davy, whose sons were timbermen: they +asked a great many questions about the family, and he told them +that Sir John Davy was dead, <!-- page 123--><a +name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>and his +eldest son also, who had left two sons; that the youngest +brother, Humphrey Davy, was then living at Creedy-house, and the +little boys somewhere about Exeter. Then they gave him two +letters to give to Mr. Humphrey Davy; after which, each gave him +a guinea, with recommendations to one Justice Miller and Captain +Rogers, who was bound for England. Justice Miller received +him very kindly, with whom he agreed to take a run to England for +ten gallons of rum, ten pounds of sugar, ten pounds of tobacco, +and ten pipes.</p> +<p>Captain Rogers having taken in his lading, which consisted of +rice, tobacco, and pipe staves, set sail with a fair wind from +New London, and run to Lundy in a month and three days. +Nothing happened material on their voyage, and the sailors passed +this time very joyfully, having so favourable a gale; but our +hero, who knew that fortune, like a common jilt, often puts on +the fairest smiles when she is about to discard you, thought it +prudent to provide against her slippery tricks as much as lay in +his power; he therefore pricked his arms and breast with a +needle, and then rubbed it with bay salt and gunpowder, which +made it appear like the small-pox coming out; in the night-time +he groaned very dismally, till at length the captain called to +him to know the reason of his groaning so in his sleep. +Alas! Sir, replied he, I have been dreaming my poor wife +was dead, and that she died of the small-pox. Be of good +cheer, man, says the captain, dreams are but fables; and, for +your comfort, I believe we shall quickly make land: however, they +did not do this as soon as the <!-- page 124--><a +name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 124</span>captain +expected; for, towards the next evening, the wind springing up a +fresh gale, the captain ordered to stand out to sea again: during +all the day, Mr. Carew did not stir out of his hammock, +pretending to be very ill. Towards the morning, the wind +was somewhat laid, and they stood in before it; but it being very +hazy weather, the captain ordered a good look-out, crying, my +brave boys, take care we don’t run foul of some ship, for +we are now in the channel. The men replied, all is +well.</p> +<p>Now the cocks began to crow on board, and Sol took his last +embrace of Thetis, to begin his daily stage; for, indeed, already +had his equipage waited near an hour for him. Reader, if +thou art acquainted with the inimitable history of Tom Jones, +thou mayest perhaps know what is meant by this; but, lest thou +shouldest not, we think it not improper to inform thee, that we +mean no more than what we might have told thee in three words, +that it was broad day-light. The captain called out, how +goes the glass, my brave boys? Eight glasses are just run, +replied the men; then look out sharp for land. Soon after, +the cabin boy hallooing out, land, land! the captain ran nimbly +to see if it was so, saying, I am afraid we are embayed. +No, replied the mate, I will be bound for it, it is +Lundy-island. The captain ran up immediately to the +main-topmast head, to look out for other lands to the right and +left, and found it to be indeed Lundy-island; upon which several +sailors ran up the rigging, and, among the rest, Mr. Carew creeps +out with nothing but a blanket upon his shoulders, and makes an +attempt to run up the <!-- page 125--><a name="page125"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 125</span>rigging; which the captain seeing, +he hastily cries out, where is old John going? take care of the +old man, he is light-headed: upon which, some of the sailors took +him down, and carried him back to his hammock. They then +crowded all the sail they could for Lundy. When they came +near, they perceived several ships laying at anchor there, and +made a signal for a pilot. Soon after comes up a pilot of +Clovelly, who was then upon the island, waiting to pilot ships up +to Bristol. The captain welcomed him on board, and agreed +for seven guineas to be pilotted up to Bristol: then the captain +asked him what news, and if any New-England men were gone up the +channel? He replied, that none had passed, but that he +could inform him of bad news for his men, which was, the Ruby +man-of-war, Captain Goodyre, lay then in King-road, and pressed +all the men he could lay hold of. Mr. Carew, hearing this, +immediately comes upon deck, with his blanket upon his shoulders, +and pretended to vomit over the ship’s side. The +pilot, observing him, asked what was the matter with the old +man. I believe, replies the captain, he has got the +small-pox; he dreamed the other night that his wife was dead of +them, which frightened him so much, that I think the small-pox is +come out upon him. The pilot then stepped up and asked him +to let him look upon him, which he complying with, and showing +him his arms, the pilot swore he had got the small-pox heavily +upon him, and Mr. Carew kept on groaning very mournfully. +They then sailed by Appledore, Biddeford, and Barnstaple, (where +Mr. Carew, notwithstanding his having the small-pox <!-- page +126--><a name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 126</span>so +heavily, wished himself on shore, drinking some of their fat +ale,) so to the Holmes, and into King-road early in the +morning. He then thought it advisable to take a pretty +large quantity of warm water into his belly, and soon after, to +their concern, they saw the Ruby man-of-war lying in the road, +with jack, ensign, and pendant hoisted.</p> +<p>Now were all the sailors, who had been so jovial before, +struck with a dreadful panic; but our hero, secure of the favour +and protection of the goddess prudence, was quite easy at +heart.—Soon they perceived the man of war’s boat +making towards them, upon which Mr. Carew grew sicker and sicker: +the captain ordered the ropes to be flung out for a +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 +some good visitor on board; such are the polished arts of the +world; for we think we may venture to say, that both the captain +and the crew, at the time they were making these preparations to +receive the lieutenant, had rather have seen him gone to the +bottom of the sea, than come on board their vessel. At +length the man-of-war’s boat came along side of the ship, +when Mr. Carew went down into the steerage with his belly full of +hot water, and the lieutenant came on board. Sir, you are +welcome on board, says the captain; or, rather, that little part +of the captain called the tongue; for the heart, mind, and every +other particle, of the captain wished him at the d---l at the +same time. The lieutenant inquired from whence they came +and what passage. The captain replied, from Boston, in a +month and four <!-- page 127--><a name="page127"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 127</span>days; and then asked him to walk +aft, and take a drop of rum; but, before he did so, the +lieutenant asked how many hands there were on board. The +captain answered, he had only fifteen, for men were very +scarce. Of what burden is your ship?—Two hundred and +fifty tons. I must have your hands, sir, said the +lieutenant: come in, barge crew, and do your duty. No +sooner were the words spoken, than the crew leaped upon the deck, +and the lieutenant ordered all the ship’s company aft, +saying he wanted to talk with them. He then accosted them +with an oratorial harangue: “Gentlemen sailors,” said +he, “I make no doubt but you are willing to enter +voluntarily, and not as pressed men; if you go like brave men, +freely, when you come round to Plymouth and Portsmouth, and get +on board your respective ships, you will have your bounty money, +and liberty to go on shore and kiss your landladies.” +Though this oration was pronounced with as much self-applause as +Cicero felt when, by the force of his eloquence, he made +Cæsar the master of the world to tremble; or as the +vehement Demosthenes, when used to thunder against king Philip; +yet we are not quite certain whether it was the power of +eloquence alone persuaded the men to enter voluntarily, or +whether being seated between the two rocks of Scylla and +Charybdis, it was indifferent to them which they dashed upon; +however this was, all but one of them entered (though with sad +hearts) without being pressed, which we make no doubt the +lieutenant attributed to the eloquence of his oration.</p> +<p>The lieutenant observing a stout fellow, in a <!-- page +128--><a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +128</span>frock and trowsers, who did not come aft with the other +men, asked the captain who he was. The captain replied, he +was an Indian, and a brave sailor, so called him by his +name. Wat ye want wit mee, replies the Indian, mee wont +come, dammee. Upon which the lieutenant sent some of the +barge crew to bring him forward which the brave Indian +perceiving, he caught hold of a handspike, and put himself in a +posture of defence, crying out to the barge crew who came up +towards him, dammee, ye meddle wit mee, mee dash your brains +out. The crew, finding him resolute, did not think proper +to attack him: upon which the lieutenant asked him, if he would +serve king George. Dam king George, mee know no king +George: mee be an Indian, mee have a king in my own country, whom +mee love and fightee for, because he be de very good king: at +which the lieutenant and captain fell a laughing, and left +him.</p> +<p>Are these all your men? says the lieutenant. Yes, +replied the captain, except an old man, who dreamed the other +night that his wife died of the small-pox, and was so much +frightened, 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 asked the lieutenant in the mean while to walk down and +taste his rum. Accordingly down comes the lieutenant, +humming a tune. Mr. Carew, hearing this, prepared himself, +and, taking an opportunity of putting his finger down his throat, +discharges his stomach just under the lieutenant’s feet, +crying out in a most lamentable tone at the same time, O, my +head! <!-- page 129--><a name="page129"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 129</span>O my back! What! cried the +lieutenant very hastily, is this the fellow who has the +small-pox? No, no, replied Carew; I have had the small-pox +many years ago, and have been with Sir Charles Wager and Sir +George Walton up the Baltic; and now, for God’s sake, take +me on board your ship, noble captain, for I want only to be +blooded. The lieutenant whipped out his snuff box, and +clapped it to his nose, swearing, he would not take him on board +for five hundred pounds, for he was enough to infect a whole +ship’s crew; that the devil should take him before he +would—hurrying at the same time as fast as he could into +the great cabin. When he came there, Mr. Carew heard him +complaining how unfortunate it was that he should come on board, +as he had never had the small-pox himself. When the rest of +the men had had their bills made out, the captain, willing to get +rid of Mr. Carew, said to him, come, old John, I will have your +bill made to; which was accordingly done, and it amounted to +seven pounds ten shillings, for which the captain gave him a +draught on merchant Tidiate of Bristol. The captain then +ordered the boat to put him on shore; but he besought the captain +to let him die on board. No, no, says the captain; by all +means take him on shore. Ay, ay, says the lieutenant, take +him on shore. Then the captain called to some of the +sailors, to help the poor old man over the side of the ship, and +out came Mr. Carew, with the blanket wrapped about his shoulders, +and so well did he counterfeit, that he seemed a most deplorable +object of compassion. The boat having <!-- page 130--><a +name="page130"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 130</span>got a +little distance from the ship, was called back again, and the +lieutenant tossed him half-a-guinea, charging him not to go into +the city of Bristol, as he was enough to infect the whole +city.</p> +<p>Thus our hero, after seeing many cities and men, undergoing +great hardships, and encountering many dangers and difficulties, +once more set foot on his beloved country. Notwithstanding +the joy he felt at being safe on shore, he did not lay aside his +small-pox, but travelled on towards Bristol as one very bad in +that distemper. Coming to Justice Cann’s, near Derham +Downs, he met with the gardener, whom he asked if the justice +lived there, and was at home? Being told he was, he made a +most lamentable moan, and said, he was just come from New +England, and had the small-pox on him. The gardener went +into the house, and, soon returning, told him the justice was not +at home; but gave him half-a-crown. He still kept crying, I +am a dying man, and I beseech you let me lie and die in some +hay-tallet, or any place of shelter. The gardener, seeing +him so ill, went in again, and brought out a cordial dram, and a +mug of warm ale, which Mr. Carew made shift to swallow. The +gardener then left him, being so much affrighted at his +appearance and lamentable moans, that he let both glass and mug +fall to the ground, before he reached the house. Mr. Carew +then made a shift, notwithstanding his dying condition, to reach +the city of Bristol; and being now freed from his apprehensions +of being pressed, at the first barber’s he came to he got +rid of his beard, and bid adieu to the small-pox; he then <!-- +page 131--><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +131</span>made the best of his way to the mendicants’ hall, +on Mile-hill. Just as he came there, the landlady and an +old croney, a tinker’s wife, were standing at the door; as +soon as the landlady espied him, she clapped her hands, and swore +it was either Mr. Carew or his ghost. As soon as they were +convinced he was flesh and blood, great were the kisses, hugs, +and embraces, of the three. Our hero’s first inquiry +was, when they had seen his dear Polly, meaning his wife: the +landlady told him she had not seen her lately, but had heard that +she and his daughter were well; but that his wife never expected +to see him more.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew soon called for a room above stairs, ordered an +elegant dinner to be provided, and passed the afternoon very +merrily. The next morning he waited on the merchant with +his bill, and received the money for it; then weighed anchor, and +steered for Bridgewater, where he arrived at night. He +immediately repaired to a mumper’s house, kept by a +one-eyed woman, named Laskey, from whence he went to the Swan, +where several gentlemen were passing the evening together, viz. +Mr. More, Dr. Deptford, Counsellor Bedford, and others, all of +whom were particularly acquainted with him; however, he pretended +to be a West Indian who had been cast away in a ship, coming from +Antigua, which foundered behind Cape Clear; that he was taken up +by an Irishman, and afterwards put on board a Bristol ship. +Having by this story raised a handsome contribution from the +gentlemen, he discovered himself, knowing them to be his good +friends; but the gentlemen could scarcely credit him, till he +<!-- page 132--><a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +132</span>gave them sufficient proofs of his being the real +Bampfylde Moore Carew.</p> +<p>The next morning he went to Sir John Tynte, and made the same +complaint he had done the night before at the Swan in +Bridgewater: the servant telling him Sir John would come forth +soon, he waited till he did so, and then discovered himself; Sir +John would not believe him, but at last made him a present. +He afterwards visited Justice Grose, of Bromfylde, who presently +knew him, and made him very welcome; from whence, setting out for +Exeter, he visited on the road Mr. John Bampfylde, of Hesticomb, +the Rev. Mr. Boswell, and Dr. Hildyard, of Taunton, the Rev. Mr. +Manifee, Squire Bluet, of Melcombe Regis, the Rev. Mr. Newt, of +Tiverton, Squire Blundel, and Major Worth, in the neighbourhood +of that place, who, being all his particular friends, were very +glad to see him return, and treated him very handsomely. +Major Worth took a hunting with him: but he soon found an +opportunity of slipping away, and directed his steps to his own +parish of Bickley. Here he happened to meet Lady Carew; but +so great was his respect for her, that he, who used to attempt +every thing, had not courage to accost this lady, and therefore +turned off to a place called Codbury, the seat of Mr. +Fursdon. As soon as he came there, he was known to Mr. +Fursdon’s sister, who told him he should not stir thence +till her brother came home; soon after Mr. Fursdon returned, and +brought with him one Mr. Land, of Silverton: he was very much +surprised to see him, and treated him very generously, making him +a very handsome present, as did also Mr. <!-- page 133--><a +name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 133</span>Land. +He abode there that night, went a hunting with Mr. Fursdon the +next day, and likewise to see Mr. Bampfylde Rode, at Stoke, who +would not believe Mr. Carew had been in America; he treated him +handsomely, and made him a present at his departure. He +came next into Exeter, the place he had sailed from to Maryland, +and going into St. Peter’s church-yard, saw Sir Henry +Northcote, Dr. Andrews, and two other gentlemen, who were walking +there; he accosted them with a God bless you, Sir Harry, Dr. +Andrews, and the rest of the company. Sir Harry, staring +very wistfully at him, cried, are you flesh and blood? why you +can never have been in America? Dr. Andrews then asked if +it was Carew; and the report being spread that he was in Exeter, +it drew a number of spectators to see him; and amongst the rest +merchant Davy himself, who asked him, in a very great hurry, if +the ship was cast away. No, no, said he, I have been in +America, have had the honour of seeing your factor, Mr. Mean, and +saw Griffiths sold for a thousand weight of tobacco: did I not +tell you that I would be at home before Captain Froade? He +then gave an account of several particulars, which convinced the +gentlemen he had really been in America. Mr. Davy asked +him, if he had been sold before he ran away; and he replying he +had not, the merchant told him jeeringly, that he was his servant +still, that he should charge him five pounds for his passage, and +five pounds for costs and charges, besides Captain Froade’s +bill. He next inquired where he had left Captain +Froade. Mr. Carew told him he had left him in Miles’s +river. The gentlemen <!-- page 134--><a +name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 134</span>then gave +him money, as did likewise merchant Davy.</p> +<p>Two months after this came home Captain Froade, laden with +tobacco. As soon as he came to an anchor, several gentlemen +of Exeter went on board, and inquired what passage, and where he +left Mr. Carew? Damn him, replied the captain, you will +never see him again: he ran away, was taken, put into New Town +gaol, brought back again, and whipped, had a pot-hook put upon +him, ran away with it on his neck, and has never been heard of +since; so that, without doubt, he must either be killed by some +wild beast, or drowned in some river. At this the gentlemen +fell a laughing, telling the captain he had been at home two +months before him. Captain Froade swore it could never be; +however, they confirmed it to him that it was so.</p> +<p>Soon after this Mr. Carew went and paid his respects to Sir +William Courtenay, returning him many thanks for what he had +furnished him with when he sailed for Maryland; adding, he had +been as good as his word, in coming home before Captain +Froade. Sir William told him he thought he had; and then +called to his butler to give him something to drink. In a +little time Sir William came to him again, with his brother, Mr. +Henry Courtenay, who conducted him to a noble parlour, where was +a great company of fine ladies sitting, whom our hero accosted +with all that respect which is ever due to beauty and +merit. Sir William then asked him jocosely if he could find +out which was his dove. He replied, he knew some of the +ladies there; and that, unless his <!-- page 135--><a +name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 135</span>judgment +deceived him, such a lady, (singling out one of them) was the +happy person. You are right, replied Sir William; this is +indeed my dove, and turtle-dove. Sir William then put a +piece of money in his hat, as did Mr. Courtenay, and bid him go +round to the ladies, which he did, addressing them in a very +handsome manner; and, we need not add, gathered a plentiful +harvest, as the fair sex are, in general, so much inclined to +humanity and good-nature. Sir William asked him if he would +not drink to the ladies’ health? and filled him up a bumper +of excellent wine; he then took his leave of this truly noble and +hospitable gentleman.—Here, reader, if my pen were equal to +the task, I would describe to you one whom, in this degenerate +age, thou mayest gaze at as a prodigy; one who, like the +phœnix rising from the ashes of his father, inherits all +the virtues of his glorious ancestors; I would describe to you +magnificence without extravagance, pomp without ostentation, +plenty without luxury or riot, and greatness undiminished by +little pride; I would set before you something more than a king, +surrounded and imprisoned by worthless and impervious favourites, +fawning sycophants, and tasteless grandeur. Such are the +scenes within thy walls, such thy master, happy Powderham!</p> +<p>From hence our hero went to Squire Bell’s, of Mamheap; +in the way he met with Mr. Jackson, his steward, who was lame +with the gout; he presently knew Mr. Carew, gave him +half-a-crown, and told him, he would hop back on his crutches to +give him something to drink. While they were drinking a +glass, the steward advised <!-- page 136--><a +name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 136</span>him to make +application to the squire. Presently after, he came out, +and Mr. Carew soon began his attack upon him. Pray, who are +you? said the justice. I am a poor unfortunate West Indian, +replied he, who has been shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland, and +was taken up by a Bristol ship. Ay, ay, you are one of +Carew’s gang, I suppose, said the justice, but he is +transported. Bless your honour, returned he, I am no +impostor; I have heard that he was a very great one, and I think +deserved more than transportation. Well, well, +there’s a shilling for you, replied the justice, and go +about your business.</p> +<p>From hence he steered towards Mr. Oxenham’s, at +New-house: when he came near the house, he pulled off his shirt, +and gave it to an old man he met, as though he had been amazed: +then marched up to the house, and just at the stable met Mrs. +Oxenham and another lady, whom he immediately accosted with a +doleful complaint of being a poor shipwrecked mariner. Mrs. +Oxenham told him, she should have taken him for Bampfylde Moore +Carew, but she knew him to be transported. He was not +disconcerted at this, but readily told her, with great composure, +that his name was Thomas Jones, belonging to Bridport, in +Dorsetshire. The ladies gave each a shilling, and then bid +him to go into the house, where he had victuals set before him; +before he went away the lady sent him a Holland shirt. +Being thus equipped, he inquired out the churchwardens of the +parish, and by the same story got a crown of them. From +hence he went to Lord Clifford’s, at Uggbroke, in the +parish of Chudleigh: here he sent in a petition to my <!-- page +137--><a name="page137"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +137</span>Lord as an unfortunate Roman Catholic, and received a +guinea; he lay that night at Sandy-gate, and behaved as a Roman +Catholic, under the name of William Passmore.</p> +<p>The next day, at Moll Upton’s, in Newton Bushel, he met +with one of the sisters of that order of mendicants commonly +called cousin Betties; and he, having an inclination to pay a +visit to Sir Thomas Carew, at Hackum, soon made an agreement with +the cousin Betty to exchange habits for that day. The +barber was then called in to make his beard as smooth as his art +and razor could make it, and his hair was dressed up with +ribbons; thus metamorphosed, our hero set out, having a little +dog under his arm. Being come to Sir Thomas Carew’s, +he rushed into the house without ceremony, demanding his rent in +an imperious tone. None of the men-servants being in the +way, the women first ran one way and then another; but he, taking +notice of this confusion, continued to act the mad woman, beating +his head against the wall, kissing the dog, and demanding his +rent; at last, one of the women-servants came out, crying, lady, +you are welcome to the rent, and gave him a crown; but he was not +to be removed so easily, for now he fell a raving again, and +demanded some merry-go-down; they then brought him some ale, +which having drunk, he took his leave, thanking them with a very +low courtesy. From hence he returned in his progress to +parson Sandford’s, of Stoke, in Tinney, where, having +entered the house with as little ceremony as before, he not only +demanded his rent, as usual, but a gown for some of his cousins: +neither would he take his leave <!-- page 138--><a +name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>till he had +got a shilling for rent, a good gown, and some pinners. He +next called upon parson Richards, at Coombe, in Tinney, where he +got a shilling and a shift. Having thus succeeded in his +new adventure, he returned to his quarters at mother +Upton’s, in Newton-Bushel, where he divided the profits of +the day with his good cousin Betty, and also passed the night +very merrily with her.</p> +<p>The next day he restored his borrowed accoutrements to cousin +Betty, and, calling for a pen and ink, wrote a petition in the +character of a poor unfortunate soap-boiler, whose house was set +on fire by the carelessness of an apprentice, in the parish of +Monksilver, not forgetting to sign it with the names of several +neighbouring gentlemen. With this fictitious petition he +went to Justice Taylor’s, at Dembury, where he was +handsomely relieved: thence he went to Justice Neil’s, and +finding upon inquiry the justice himself was at home, he did not +venture to deliver his petition, but begged as an unfortunate +man, and was relieved with a cup of cider, and some bread and +cheese. At Darlington he assumed the character of a +rat-catcher, and sold a receipt to a gentleman’s steward +for a crown: and under this character he travelled forward to +Plymouth. Here, learning that there was to be a great +cock-match, he laid aside his rat-catcher’s habit, and put +on that of a gentleman, and not the habit only, as too many do, +but the manners and behaviour likewise. At the cock-match, +he betted several wagers with Sir Coventry Carew, and his own +brother Mr. Henry Carew, the minister of Saltash, which he had +<!-- page 139--><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +139</span>the good fortune to win, and left the cock-pit +undiscovered by any one. Thus great is the power of dress, +which transforms and metamorphoses the beggar into a gentleman, +and the cinder wench into a fine lady; therefore let not the +little great (I mean those who have nothing to recommend them but +their equipage) pride themselves as though they had something +superior in them to the poor wretch they spurn with so much +contempt; for, let me tell them, if we are apt to pay them +respect, they are solely indebted for it to the mercer and +tailor; strip them of their gaudy plumes, and we shall not be +able to distinguish them from the lowest order of mumpers. +This puts us in mind of a remarkable adventure of our +hero’s life, which he always told with a great deal of +pleasure.</p> +<p>One day, as he was begging in the town of Maiden Bradley, from +door to door, as a poor shipwrecked seaman, he saw on the other +side of the street a mendicant brother-sailor, in a habit as +forlorn as his own, begging for God’s sake, just like +himself. Seeing Mr. Carew, he crossed the way, came up to +him, and in the cant language, asked where he lay last night, +what road he was going, and several other questions; then, +whether he would brush into a boozing-ken and be his thrums; to +this he consented, and away they went; where, in the course of +their conversation, they asked each other various questions +concerning the country, the charitable and uncharitable families, +the moderate and severe justices, the good and queer +corporations. This new acquaintance of Mr. Carew’s +asked him if he had been at Sir Edward <!-- page 140--><a +name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +140</span>Seymour’s? He answered, yes, and had +received his alms: the stranger, therefore, not having been +there, left him at the alehouse, and went thither himself, where, +having received the same alms that his new companion had, he +returned to him again.</p> +<p>The next day they begged through the town, one on one side of +the street, and the other on the other, each on his own separate +story and account: they then proceeded to the houses of several +gentlemen in the neighbourhood, both in one story, which was that +of the stranger. Among many others, they came to Lord +Weymouth’s, where it was agreed that Mr. Carew should be +spokesman: upon their coming up to the house, the servants bid +them begone, unless they could give a good account of themselves +and the countries in which they pretended to have been, for, +should Lord Weymouth come and detect them in any falsehood, he +would horse-whip them without mercy, which was the treatment to +all those whom he found to be counterfeits met with from him, and +he had detected great numbers of them, having been abroad +himself. Our travellers were not the least daunted, Mr. +Carew being conscious in himself that he could give a +satisfactory account of Newfoundland, and the other affirming +that he had been at Rome, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, &c. +and could give as good a description of those countries as his +lordship himself. Therefore up they went to the kitchen +door, and Mr. Carew broke ice, telling the deplorable story of +their misfortune in his usual lamentable tone. The +housekeeper at first turned a deaf ear to their supplication and +entreaty; but Mr. Carew, at the instigation of his <!-- page +141--><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +141</span>companion, redoubled his importunity, kneeling on one +knee, and making use of all the methods of exciting charity, of +which he was capable; so that at last the housekeeper gave them +the greatest part of a cold shoulder of mutton, half a fine +wheaten loaf, and a shilling, but did it with great haste and +fear, lest his lordship should see her, and be angry. Of +the butler they got a copper of good ale, and then, both +expressing their thankfulness, departed.—Having reached +some distance from the house there arose a dispute who should +carry the victuals, both being loath to incumber themselves with +it, as having neither wife nor child near to give it to. +Mr. Carew was for throwing it into the hedge, but the other urged +that it was both a sin and a shame to waste good victuals in that +manner, so they both agreed to go to the Green Man, about a mile +from my lord’s, and there exchange it for liquor. At +this alehouse they tarried for some time, and snacked the argot; +then, after a parting glass, each went his way.</p> +<p>The reader cannot but be surprised when we assure him that +this mendicant companion of his was no less a person than my Lord +Weymouth himself, who, being desirous of sounding the tempers and +dispositions of the gentlemen and other inhabitants of the +neighbourhood, put himself into a habit so vastly beneath his +birth and fortune, in order to obtain that discovery. Nor +was this the first time that this great nobleman had +metamorphosed himself into the despicable shape and character of +a beggar, as several of that neighbourhood can testify; but, when +he went abroad into the world in this disguise, he took especial +care to <!-- page 142--><a name="page142"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 142</span>conceal it even from his own family, +one servant only, in whose secrecy he greatly confided, being +entrusted therewith; and this was his valet-de-chambre, who used +to dress, shave, and perform other such offices about his +lordship’s person.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew and his noble companion having thus parted from each +other, he took his way into the woodlands towards Frome; and the +disguised lord, by a private way through the park and gardens, +returned to his own house, and there, divesting himself of his +rags, put on his embroidered apparel, and re-assumed the dignity +and state to which both his birth and fortune entitled him. +I am informed, said his lordship, that two sailors have been at +my house; and, inquiring which way they went, he ordered two men +and horses to go after them, with a strict charge to bring them +back to his house, for he had heard they were impostors; and, if +he found them such, he would treat them accordingly. The +servants obeyed his commands without the least suspicion of the +intricacy of this affair, and soon came up with Mr. Carew, whom +they forcibly brought up to my lord. His lordship accosted +him in a very rough stern manner, asking where the other fellow +was, and told him he should be made to find him. Mr. Carew +in the mean time stood thunder-struck, expecting nothing less +than a commitment to prison, but, upon examination, made out his +story as well as he could.</p> +<p>After having thus terrified and threatened him for a +considerable time, his lordship went out, and, divesting himself +of the habit and character of a nobleman, again put on his rags, +and was, by his <!-- page 143--><a name="page143"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 143</span>trusty valet-de-chambre, ushered +into the room where his brother-beggar stood sweating for fear, +when they compared notes together, whispering to each other what +to say, in order that their accounts might agree when examined +apart, as in effect they were. The steward took Mr. Carew +aside into a private chamber, and there pretending that the other +fellow’s relation contradicted his, and proved them both to +be counterfeits, he said that a prison must be the portion of +both; and indeed nothing was omitted that might strike Mr. Carew +with the greatest terror and confusion. By this time my +lord having thrown off his rags, and put on his fine apparel, Mr. +Carew was again brought into his presence to receive his final +sentence; when his lordship, having sufficiently diverted himself +with the fear and consternation of his brother mumper discovered +himself to him.</p> +<p>We might have mentioned before, that, while my lord and Mr. +Carew travelled together, they asked each other whence they came, +and what their names were. Mr. Carew ingeniously confessed +his, but my lord disguised both his name and country; so that +having accidentally met with a mendicant of the greatest note in +England, his lordship thought fit to treat him in the manner +aforesaid, which he would not have done to every common +vagrant.—However, to satisfy himself that this was the +famous and true Bampfylde Moore Carew, for many impostors had +usurped his name, he sent for Captain Atkins, a gentleman of his +acquaintance in the neighbourhood, who went to school with Mr. +Carew at Tiverton. This gentleman was very glad to see his +old school-fellow, <!-- page 144--><a name="page144"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 144</span>and assured his lordship that it was +really Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, upon which his lordship very +nobly entertained him at his house for the space of three days, +and gave him an excellent suit of clothes and ten guineas; but, +remembering the trouble they had, and the loss they were at to +dispose of the shoulder of mutton and bread which the housekeeper +had given them, as likewise the resolution Mr. Carew had once +taken to throw it away, he called his housekeeper, and strictly +charged her never to give away a morsel of victuals more, but +bestow the alms in money only, rightly judging that to be more +acceptable to beggars than the best of provisions, the greatest +part of which they either waste, give away, or exchange for an +inconsiderable quantity of drink, as my lord and Mr. Carew had +done. His lordship took Mr. Carew to Warminster horserace, +and there recommended him to many honourable gentlemen, who were +very liberal to him. He several times after made bold to +call upon his lordship in his rounds, and at every visit received +a guinea, and a hearty welcome at his house. His lordship +would frequently make himself merry with the story, and jocosely +say, that he was more expert in the science of mumping than even +Mr. Carew himself.</p> +<p>Not long after this, Mr. Carew came to Biddeford again, where +he had been some time before, and delivered the compass to +Captain Haley’s wife, who immediately burst into tears upon +seeing it, supposing her husband was dead: he then went to the +Dolphin, where, as he was drinking, he saw some gentlemen in the +Butchers’ Row, and asked <!-- page 145--><a +name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 145</span>the +landlord who they were. Being told they were the Captains +Harvey, Hopkins, and Burd,—Go, said he, and give my duty, +and tell them Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew is at your house. +The landlord went accordingly, and soon returned with the +captains. They were glad to see our hero, who returned them +thanks for the favours he had received from them in +America. The captains asked him a great many questions +respecting his travels through the Indians’ country, +&c., and told him they never thought he could have gone +through that dangerous undertaking, but expected to have seen him +return again. He then gave them an account of every thing +to their satisfaction, telling them he had followed their +directions in every point. They afterwards treated him very +handsomely, and made a collection for him. The captains +then going out, and reporting that he was in town, a great +concourse of people assembled to see him, to the no little profit +of the landlord; for our hero ordered that no one should be +admitted to see him, till he had first drunk a quart of ale in +the house.</p> +<p>Some time after this, he disguised himself like a poor +miserable decrepid old man, and took to selling of matches and +gathering old rags. Happening to meet a brother ragman at +Wiveliscombe, they joined company, and agreed to travel to +Porlock together. Just as they came to Gutter-Hall, night +coming on a-pace, they proposed taking up their quarters +there. The landlord told them he had no lodging to spare, +but if they would go half-a-mile farther, and lie in a haunted +house, they should have their lodging free cost, and good bread, +<!-- page 146--><a name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +146</span>cheese, and cider, with a rasher of bacon into the +bargain. The ragmen very readily accepted this offer, and, +accompanied by the landlord, repaired to Farmer Liddon’s +house. When they came there the landlord told the farmer he +had brought two men who would lie in the haunted house. The +farmer received them very gladly, and asked them if they were +sure they had courage enough to do it, adding he would give them +twenty shillings if they could lay the old woman. Never +fear, farmer, replied Mr. Carew; we have not only courage to +speak to, but learning enough to lay, the old woman, so that you +shall never hear of her more. Things being thus agreed on, +the farmer’s son, a great stout fellow, willing to show his +courage, in a very bold manner offered to keep them +company. Having provided themselves with firing, cider, +bread, cheese, and bacon, they adjourned to the haunted house, +but not before Mr. Carew had taken an opportunity of going into +the yard, and filling his pockets with large stones. When +they came to the haunted house, they made a good fire, and he and +his companion sat down, eating and drinking very merrily; but the +farmer’s son, beginning to have some terrors upon him, had +little stomach to eat. About the middle of the night, when +every thing is most silent and solemn, at that time when every +whisper of the mind is apt to create fear, Mr. Carew took an +opportunity of throwing a stone unseen up the stairs, which, +coming rumbling down again with a frightful noise, might have at +that time struck a panic into the most courageous heart. +The farmer’s son turned pale, and leaped from his chair in +a great fright, <!-- page 147--><a name="page147"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 147</span>believing that the old woman was +making her entrance; but nothing appearing, the same awful +silence and stillness as before took place, only fear staid +behind in the farmer’s breast, and Mr. Carew and his +companion kept mute, as though in expectation of what would +follow; but soon this solemn silence was disturbed by a loud +thump at the door; again the farmer leaped from his seat, crying +out, O Lord! save and deliver us! At the same time, unable +to command those passages at which fear is apt to issue out, he +caused a smell almost as bad as Satan himself is said to bring +along with him. Mr. Carew caught him in his arms, and, +holding his head close to his breast, cried, don’t be +afraid, Mr. Liddon, for I will make the old woman fly; at the +same time, pretending to conjure her, he repeated three times +very solemnly, “Hight spirito diabolico rubro +oceano,” whilst his companion went a little aside, and +answered in a squeaking tone, like Joan Liddon, unless my will is +fulfilled, I will tear them in pieces.</p> +<p>Soon after cock-crowing, there was another huge blow at the +door, and then they bid the farmer look up, telling him the old +woman was gone; however, he would not let go his hold of Mr. +Carew. Just as day-light appeared, his companion went +forth, and picked up the stones from the stairs, entry, +&c. He had scarce done this, before the old farmer came +down, to see if his son was alive, and if they had seen old +Joan. He accosted them with, How do you do? how have you +spent the night? O father, replied the son, most terribly +indeed. You can’t conceive what rattlings and noises +we heard; but this good man secured <!-- page 148--><a +name="page148"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 148</span>me in his +arms. But what smell is this? replied the father; sure old +Joan stinks of brimstone, or something worse, if she brought this +along with her. Ay, father, father, said the son, I believe +you would have raised as bad a smell as I have done, if you had +been here. Well, well, said the father, perhaps I might; +but have you spoken to old Joan? Yes, indeed, replied Mr. +Carew. And what does the old woman say? she says, if her +will is not exactly fulfilled as she desired, she will never +leave haunting you; but, if it be, all shall be well and +quiet. They then went to the farmer’s house, where +they were made very welcome, and received the twenty shillings, +according to promise, the farmer requesting they would stay the +next night by themselves, for he believed his son would have no +stomach to go with them, and tell the old woman every thing +should be fulfilled according to her will, and they should be +satisfied to their content. They accordingly passed the +next night there very merrily, and received another twenty +shillings in the morning, which was well bestowed too by the +farmer; for ever after the house had the reputation of being +quiet.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew and his companion then set forward for Porlock, +where they parted company; and Mr. Carew coming into Porlock, met +Dr. Tanner, a relation of old Joan Liddon’s, and his +brother, Parson Tanner, who was with him. After the usual +salutations, he very composedly asked if they had heard the news +of the conjuring old Joan? The doctor replied they had +heard something of it, and that he was resolved either to send or +take a ride over himself, to inquire into the truth of it. +He <!-- page 149--><a name="page149"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +149</span>confirmed it to them, which occasioned a great deal of +discourse about it, and who these two conjurers could be.</p> +<p>We should, perhaps, have passed over in silence this adventure +of our hero’s, but that an author of the first rate has +taken a great deal of pains to frighten a poor soldier, and +entertain his readers by dressing up his hero in a white coloured +coat, covered with streams of blood; though we cannot well +conceive how those streams of blood, which ran down the coat in +the morning, should appear so very visible twenty hours after, in +the middle of the night, and at a distance by the light of a +single candle; notwithstanding this great author has very +judicously acquainted us with a light-coloured coat; but however +this may be, we are of opinion that the farmer’s son in the +above adventure is a more entertaining character than the soldier +in the renowned history we are speaking of; and that our hero, +whenever it was needful, could make a much more tremendous figure +than Mr. Jones in his white-coloured coat covered with streams of +blood. The following is a sufficient instance.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew being in the town of Southmolton, in Devon, and +having been ill used by a great officer, vulgarly called the +bellman, was resolved to take comical revenge. It was about +that time reported and generally believed, that a gentleman of +the town, lately buried, walked by night in the church-yard; and, +as the bellman was obliged by his nightly duty to go through it +just at the hour of one, that well-known accustomed time of +spectres issuing from their graves, Mr. Carew repaired <!-- page +150--><a name="page150"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +150</span>there a little before the time, and, stripping to his +shirt, lay down upon the gentleman’s grave. Soon +after, hearing the bellman approach, he raised himself up with a +solemn slowness; which the bellman beholding, by the glimmering +light of the moon through some thick clouds, he was harrowed up +(as Shakspeare expresses it) with fear and wonder, and an +universal palsy seized every limb; but, as nature most commonly +dictates flight in all such cases, he retreated with as much +haste as his shaking limbs would allow; yet, as fear naturally +inclines us to look back upon the object we are flying from, he +several times cast his eyes behind him, and beheld the ghost +follow him with a solemn march. This added fresh vigour to +his flight, so that he tumbled over graves and stones, not +without many bruises, and at length dropped his bell, which the +ghost seized upon as trophy, and forbore any farther +pursuit. The bellman, however, did not stop till he reached +home, where he obstinately affirmed he had seen the +gentleman’s ghost, who had taken away his bell, which +greatly alarmed the whole town; and there were not wanting many +who afterwards frequently heard the ghost ringing the bell in the +church-yard.</p> +<p>It was some time before the bellman had the courage to resume +his usual nightly rounds through the church-yard; but after a +while, his fear abating, he ventured upon it again, and met with +no interruption. Mr. Carew happening about a year +afterwards to be in Southmolton again, was afresh insulted by the +bellman, which made him resolve to give him a second meeting in +the church-yard; taking therefore the opportunity of a very dark +<!-- page 151--><a name="page151"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +151</span>night, he dressed himself in a black gown, put a great +fur cap upon his head, and at the usual time of the bellman +coming, repaired to the church-yard, holding in his mouth, by the +middle, a stick lighted at both ends, at the same time rattling a +heavy iron chain. If the bellman’s terror before was +great, it was now much greater; and indeed the appearance, joined +to the rattling of the chain, was so hideous, that the boldest +soldier might have been terrified by it, without any imputation +of cowardice. The bellman fled away with all the wings of +fear, the spectre following him at a distance, rattling the chain +with a most hideous noise; hence the bellman concluded himself to +be haunted by the devil, and declined ever after his nocturnal +employment.</p> +<p>About this time Mr. Carew met with one Mr. Philips, a +celebrated limner in Porlock, who showed him a great many +pictures of different likenesses, and asked him if he knew any of +them. He pointed out his old school-fellow, Edward Dyke, +Esq., and Sir Thomas Carew. Mr. Philips then asked him if +he would sit for his picture, as he had been desired to draw it +for Mr. Copplestone Bampfylde; which our hero agreeing to, he +went the next day, and the following, to sit for the picture, +undisguised. When it was finished, Mr. Philips desired him +to come again another time in his mumping dress, which he +accordingly promised to do.</p> +<p>After this he went to Minehead, and called on several of his +old acquaintance, viz. Dr. Bell, Parson Beer, and the Collector, +who all treated him very kindly. Having raised +contributions from <!-- page 152--><a name="page152"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 152</span>these gentlemen, he repaired to his +quarters, and desired them to lend him a pair of trowsers. +Having a mind to try some of the neighbouring country parishes, +he pretended to be a cast-away seaman, 3500 miles from home, and +picked up a great deal of money, and seven or eight pounds of +bacon, which he brought to his quarters, and gave as a recompense +for the loan of the trowsers.</p> +<p>Some days after he met with an old female acquaintance, who +had a young child with her, at a place called Embercomb, with +whom joining company, they came into Dunster, and lay at private +lodgings. The next day, being willing to indulge his +companion, he borrowed her child, a gown, and one of her +petticoats. Thus accoutred, with the child in his arms, he +returned to Minehead among the gentlemen he had so lately +received contributions from; and pretending to be an unfortunate +woman, whose house had been burnt at Chadleigh, and giving a good +account of that place and its inhabitants to those who questioned +him, coughing very violently, and making the child cry, he got a +great deal of money, clothes for the child, and victuals. +On his return to Dunster, he gave the mother of the child the +clothes, and the greatest part of the money he had obtained in +his trip; neither was this method new to him, for he had long +before this taught his own daughter, a little infant, to say, +“drowned in a boat,” as often as he or any other +person asked her what was become of her mother, or mammy. +Having made her perfect in this lesson, he set out with her upon +his back, and pretended to have been a sailor on board a vessel +that had been lately lost on the <!-- page 153--><a +name="page153"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 153</span>coast of +Wales, when most of the ship’s crew and passengers were +drowned, among whom, he said, was the mother of the tender infant +at his back, and that he had saved himself and the infant by +swimming. By this story he pocketed a great deal of money +every where, especially, as by way of confirmation, when he was +telling of it, he would turn and ask the babe, where is your poor +mammy, my dear, my jewel? To which the babe would reply, +drowned in the boat; which so affected all that heard it, that it +not only drew their purse but their tears also.</p> +<p>From Dunster he went through the country to Ilfracombe, where +he inquired for a passage to Ireland. He was told there was +no vessel going to Ireland, but that he might have a passage for +Wales, which he soon resolved upon, and, after waiting upon the +collector and some other friends in Ilfracombe, set sail for +Swansea. He had no sooner landed there, than he repaired to +the Rev. Mr. Griffy of that place, in the character of a +cast-away seaman, a native of Devonshire; and, as he gave a +particular account of Mr. Griffy’s son, the minister of +Bishop’s Nympton, he was made very welcome, and handsomely +relieved, and by his recommendations obtained a great deal of +money in the town.</p> +<p>From thence he went in the same character to Lord +Mansell’s, at Cowbridge, and other places, and returned to +Swansea. Thence he set out again, travelling through the +country to Tenby, where, hearing of one Captain Lott, he waited +upon him with the same story, but with the addition of his name +being John Lott, whereby he soon <!-- page 154--><a +name="page154"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 154</span>got +half-a-crown and a good welcome. He next set out for +Carmarthen, and raised a great deal of money from the Welsh +gentry, pretending now to be an unfortunate sailor belonging to +Ireland, who had been cast away near Portland Race, coming from +Bilboa. He proceeded upon the same story to Aberystwyth and +Port Ely, where he chanced to meet with a brother of the +mendicant order, to whom he was well known; they inquired of each +other’s success, and many other particulars, and agreed to +join company for some time. Mr. Carew now got a cere-cloth +of pitch, which he laid to his arms, with a raw beef-steak at the +top, covered over with white bread and tar, which has the exact +appearance of a green wound. They still continued in the +same story of being cast away, but, added to it, that he had +fallen off the rigging, and wounded his arm in that manner. +They travelled together with good success as far as Shadwell, +where they parted company.</p> +<p>Our hero made the best of his way to Holyhead, and begging a +passage on board the packet to Dublin, after a fine trip landed +at King’s End, near that city. His first inquiry here +was for an old acquaintance, and in particular for one Mr. Crab, +and Lord Annesly, who had been schoolfellows with him at +Tiverton. He found my Lord Annesly lived a mile from the +town, but did not see him the first day, being gone to +Blessington, as the servants told him. Accordingly he set +out for that town the next day, where he found my lord at a +tavern with several officers; he went in, and told the +tavern-keeper he wanted to speak with his lordship; but, as his +appearance was none of <!-- page 155--><a +name="page155"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 155</span>the best, +the tavern-keeper did not like to deliver this message to my +lord, but asked what his business was. Tell him, said he, +that I am an old school-fellow of his, and want to see him. +My lord, being told this, came out with two gentlemen, and +inquired who he was; which our hero told him. Ha! Mr. +Carew, said his lordship, is it you, mon? walk in, walk in. +What, said one of the captains, is this old Carew? the very same, +replied my lord. After he had sat down for some time, and +talked over several old affairs with my lord, one of the captains +asked him if he could get him a good pointer. Ay, ay, that +he can, replied his lordship; for, by my saul, mon, he and I have +stolen many a dog, and lain in many a hay tallet, in our youthful +days. Then turning to Mr. Carew, he told his fame was +spread as much in Ireland as in England. Indeed it is so, +replied one of the captains. His lordship then asked him +how he found him out there. He replied, he had been +directed there by their old school-fellow, Crab. Well, said +my lord, you shall go home along with me. He desired to be +excused, as he designed to go and see lord St. Leger, who was +another of his school-fellows; but my lord swore by his saul he +should go home along with him, and visit Lord St. Leger another +time; accordingly a good horse was provided for him, and they all +set out for Dublin.</p> +<p>The next day my Lord Annesly took him to his own house. +During his abode here, which was about a fortnight, our hero +received great civilities from the Irish gentry; Lord Annesly +introducing him to all the chief company in the city, <!-- page +156--><a name="page156"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 156</span>as +the man they had heard so much talk of. One day Mr. +O’Brien, a gentleman of great fortune, being in company, +asked Mr. Carew if he had ever been on board the Yarmouth +man-of-war; he replied, that he had been in her up the +Baltic. The gentleman asked if he remembered a young +gentleman about fourteen years of age, very fat, and who had a +livery-servant to wait on him. He replied, that he +remembered him very well, and that he was blest with as beautiful +a face as any youth he ever saw. The gentleman then asked +him if he recollected what became of him; which he answered, by +saying he died at Gosport a day or two after they landed; and +that Mr. Price, of Pool, composed a Latin epitaph for him; at +which the gentleman could not refrain letting fall some tears, it +being his own brother he was speaking of. He then asked +what men-of-war were with them at that time; all which he gave a +very good account of, saying, Sir Charles Wager and Rear-Admiral +Walton commanded; Sir Charles carrying a red flag at the +fore-topmast head of the Torbay, and the latter a blue at the +mizen of the Cumberland, both eighty-gun ships. The +gentleman replied, he was satisfied, for he had given a very +faithful account of every thing; he then made Mr. Carew a present +to drink his health when he came to England, as Lord Annesly said +he would supply him while he was in Ireland. A great +hunting-match being proposed, Lord Annesly told them that Mr. +Carew could make one with the best of them at the diversion, upon +which he was desired to make one of the party. Accordingly, +they set out very early next morning, and had fine <!-- page +157--><a name="page157"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +157</span>sport, he exerting all his abilities, though he was +afraid of riding into some bogs, of which the country is +full. When the chase was ended, they all went to Lord +Annesly’s to dinner, and the company allowed him to be an +excellent sportsman.</p> +<p>Lord Annesly afterwards took him to Newry and many other +places, introducing him to much company. At length he +desired liberty to go and see his old school-fellow, Lord St. +Leger, at Donnerail, which Lord Annesly would not consent to, +unless he promised to call upon him again on his return; which +agreeing to do, he sent his servant with him as far as +Blessington. Parting with the servant here, he travelled to +Kilkenny; thence to Cashel, (where is a fine seat belonging to +Lord Mark Ker,) Clonmel, and Cahir, where our hero was taken +dangerously ill. It would be unpardonable not to mention +the hospitality he was treated with here. His good +landlady, finding him so ill, sent for the minister of the place +to come and pray by him, which he accordingly did, and at going +away clapped half-a-crown into his hand, and soon after sent an +apothecary to him, who administered what medicines were proper +for him, which had so good an effect as to enable him to get upon +his legs: however, they would not let him proceed forward for +several days, lest he should relapse; and before he set out, the +minister of the parish sent his clerk round the place to make a +collection for the stranger. At length, being perfectly +recovered, he set out for Lord St. Leger’s. When he +came there, and was introduced, my lord presently recollected +him, and cried, Why sure, and doubly sure, it is Carew! +<!-- page 158--><a name="page158"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +158</span>He then asked how long he had been in Ireland; adding, +he hoped he would stay with him for some time. His lordship +made him very welcome, and they talked over some of the merry +pranks they had played together. Mr. Carew inquired if Sir +Matthew Day, another of their old schoolfellows, was alive. +His lordship told him he was dead; but that there was a young +gentleman would be glad to see any old friend of his +father’s. He abode with Lord St. Leger about a +fortnight, being entertained in the kindest manner possible; at +his departure, my lord made him a handsome present, and gave him +a good suit of clothes, with a recommendatory letter to young Mr. +Day.</p> +<p>Here he was received with great civility, as well upon account +of Lord St. Leger’s letter, as being an old school-fellow +of Mr. Day’s father. The conversation happening to +turn upon dogs, Mr. Day told him he had heard he was very famous +for enticing dogs away, and that Sir William Courtenay’s +steward had told him there was not a dog could resist his +allurements; however, he believed he had one that would; he then +ordered a surly morose dog to be brought out, and offered to lay +a wager he could not entice him away, which he readily accepted, +and began to whistle to the dog, but found him very surly; upon +which he took out a little bottle, and dropping a few drops upon +a bit of paper, held it unseen to the dog, and then told Mr. Day +the dog would follow him to England. Away then he went, and +the dog after him. Mr. Day and his servants all followed, +calling Roger, Roger, which was the name of the dog; but Roger +turning a deaf ear to all they <!-- page 159--><a +name="page159"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 159</span>could say, +not thinking proper to turn about once. Mr. Carew having +diverted himself sufficiently, by leading Mr. Day and his +servants above half-a-mile, turned back again, with the dog still +following him. Having abode here some days, he took his +leave, receiving a handsome present from Mr. Day; he then +returned back to Lord Annesly, and thence to Kinsale, where he +took the first opportunity of a vessel, and landed at Padstow, in +Cornwall, after a short and pleasant passage.</p> +<p>From this place he went to Camelford; thence to Great +Torrington, where he met with his wife, and then proceeded to +Biddeford: and on the next day, being Sunday, he strolled down to +one Holmes, who kept a public-house between Biddeford and +Appledore, where he passed great part of the day drinking pretty +freely; and money being at a low ebb with him, he desired +landlord Holmes to lend him a good suit of clothes, which he +accordingly did. Being thus gallantly equipped, he went and +planted himself at the church-door in Biddeford, and pretending +to be the supercargo of a vessel which had been a few days before +cast away near the Lizard, he got a very handsome +contribution. From thence he travelled to Barnstaple, where +he had great success, none suspecting him in his dress, as it was +certainly known such a ship had been really cast away near the +Lizard a few days before. Returning back, he called upon +Squire Ackland, at Tremington, where he got half-a-crown of the +lady upon the same story; then, steering to Appledore, he met +with landlord Holmes, who had been in no little fear about his +clothes; however, he would not disrobe till he got <!-- page +160--><a name="page160"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 160</span>to +Appledore, where also he added to his store, and then returning +to Holmes, he restored him his clothes, and gave him some small +part of the profit of the excursion.</p> +<p>It was about this time Mr. Carew became acquainted with the +Hon. Sir William Wyndham in the following manner.—Being at +Watchet, in Somersetshire, near the seat of this gentleman, he +was resolved to pay him a visit; putting on, therefore, a jacket +and a pair of trowsers, he made the best of his way to Orchard +Wyndham, Sir William’s seat; and luckily met with him, Lord +Bolingbroke, and several other gentlemen and clergy, with some +commanders of vessels, walking in the park. Mr. Carew +approached Sir William with a great deal of seeming fearfulness +and respect; and with much modesty acquainted him he was a +Silverton man, (which parish chiefly belonged to Sir William,) +and that he was the son of one of his tenants, named Moore; that +he had been at Newfoundland, and in his passage homeward, the +vessel was run down by a French ship in a fog, and only he and +two more saved; and, being put on board an Irish vessel, he was +carried into Ireland, and from thence landed at Watchet. +Sir William, hearing this, asked him a great many questions +concerning the inhabitants of Silverton, who were most of them +his own tenants, and of the principal gentlemen in the +neighbourhood, all of whom Mr. Carew was perfectly well +acquainted with, and therefore gave satisfactory answers. +Sir William at last asked him if he knew Bickley, (which is but a +small distance from Silverton,) and if he knew the parson +there. Mr. Carew replied <!-- page 161--><a +name="page161"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 161</span>he knew him +very well, and indeed so he might, as it was no other than his +own father. Sir William then inquired what family he had, +and whether he had not a son called Bampfylde, and what was +become of him. Your honour, replied he, means the mumper +and dog-stealer: I don’t know what has become of him, but +it is a wonder he is not hanged by this time. No, I hope +not, replied Sir William; I should be very glad, for his +family’s sake, to see him at my house. Having +satisfactorily answered many other questions, Sir William, +generously relieved him with a guinea, and Lord Bolingbroke +followed his example; the other gentlemen and clergy contributed +according to their different ranks, which they were the more +inclined to do, as the captains found he could give a very exact +account of all the settlements, harbours, and most noted +inhabitants of Newfoundland. Sir William then ordered him +to go to his house, and tell the butler to see him well +entertained, which he accordingly did; and he set himself down +with great content and satisfaction; but our enjoyments are often +so suddenly dashed, that it has become a proverb, “that +many things happen between the cup and the lip,” and Mr. +Carew found it so; for, while he was in the midst of his regale, +he saw enter, not the ghost of bloody Banquo to take his seat +from him, nor yet the much more tremendous figure of Mr. Tom +Jones, in a light-coloured coat covered with streams of blood; +no, but the foot-post from Silverton, with letters to Sir +William. This proved to be little less than a very sharp +sword hanging by a hair over Mr. Carew’s head, <!-- page +162--><a name="page162"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +162</span>for, as he thought it natural Sir William would ask him +some questions about Mr. Moore, and as he did not choose, though +he had passed Sir William’s strict examination, to undergo +a fresh one, he made great haste to rise from table, and set out +without using much ceremony. A few miles distant from hence +he met Dr. Poole going from Dulverton to Sir William’s, +who, knowing Mr. Carew, stopped his horse to talk to him. +Amongst other conversation at Sir William’s, the Dr. +happened to mention whom he had met that day (not knowing that he +had been lately there); it was soon known by the description he +gave of his person and habit, to be no other than the unfortunate +Silverton man, to whom Sir William and his friends had been so +generous, which occasioned a great deal of mirth. About two +months after, Mr. Carew again ventured to pay his honour a second +visit, in the habit and character of an unfortunate grazier; he +met the worthy baronet and his lady taking the air in a chaise, +in a meadow where some haymakers were then at work; he approached +them with a great deal of modest simplicity, and began a very +moving tale of the misfortunes he had met with in life. In +the midst of his oration, Sir William called to the haymakers to +secure him; which struck his eloquence dumb, or at least changed +it from the pathetic to the tragic style, for he could not +conceive what might be the end of this; however, the baronet soon +gave him a choice of either a true confession of his name and +profession, or a commitment to prison; he made choice of the +former, and confessed himself to be Bampfylde Moore Carew, +sovereign of the whole <!-- page 163--><a +name="page163"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 163</span>community +of mendicants. Sir William, with a great deal of +good-nature, treated him with all that respect which is due to +royalty; entertained him generously at his house, and made him a +very handsome present at his departure, desiring him to call upon +him as he came that way; and he was ever a constant friend and +benefactor to him.</p> +<p>Soon after this he planned a new design, which he put into +execution with great success. Dressing himself up in a +chequered shirt, jacket, and trowsers, he went upon Exeter quay, +and, with the rough but artless air and behaviour of a sailor, +inquired for some of the king’s officers, whom he informed +that he belonged to a vessel lately come from France, which had +landed a large quantity of run goods, but the captain was a +rascal, and had used him ill, and damn his blood if he would not +---. He was about to proceed, but the officers, who with +greedy ears swallowed all he said, interrupted him by taking him +into the custom-house, and filling him a bumper of cherry brandy, +which when he had drunk, they forced another upon him, persuading +him to wet the other eye, rightly judging that the old proverb, +‘In wine there is truth,’ might with equal propriety +be applied to brandy, and that they should have the fuller +discovery, the more the honest sailor’s heart was cheered; +but, that no provocation should be wanting to engage him to speak +the truth, they asked him if he wanted any money. He with +much art answered very indifferently, no; adding, he scorned to +make such a discovery out of a mercenary view, but that he was +resolved to be revenged of his captain. They then ordered +him to the sign <!-- page 164--><a name="page164"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 164</span>of the Boot, in St. Thomas’s, +Exeter, whither they soon followed him, having first sent to Mr. +Eastwood, an exciseman, to ask what he would have for dinner, and +what liquor he would have to drink. A fire was lighted up +stairs in a private room, a couple of ducks roasted, and full +glasses of wine and punch went cheerfully round; they then thrust +four guineas into his hand, which at first he seemed unwilling to +accept of, which made them the more pressing. He now began +to open his mind with great freedom, gave a particular account of +the vessel, where they had taken in their cargo at France, and +what it consisted of; the day they sailed, and the time they were +on their passage; and at last concluded with acquainting them +they had landed and concealed part of their valuable cargo in the +out-houses of Squire Mallock, of Cockington, and the remainder in +those of Squire Cary, of Tor-abbey, both which houses, upon +account of their situation on the sea-side, were very noted for +such concealments. The officers, having now got on the +scent, were like sagacious hounds for pursuing it forthwith, and +also thought proper the sailor should accompany them; and, to +prevent all suspicion, resolved he should now change his habit; +they therefore dressed him in a ruffled shirt, a fine suit of +broad cloth belonging to the collector, and put a gold-laced hat +on his head; then, mounting him on a fine black mare, away they +rode together, being in all seven or eight of them; they that +night reached Newton-Bushel, and slept at the Bull; nothing was +wanting to make the night jovial; the greatest delicacies the +town afforded were served up at their table, the best liquors +<!-- page 165--><a name="page165"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +165</span>were broached for them, and music, with its enlivening +charms, crowned the banquet; the officers’ hearts were +quite open and cheerful, as they already enjoyed, in imagination, +all the booty they were to seize on the morrow. Thinking +they could not do enough for the honest sailor, they inquired if +he knew any thing of accounts; promising, if he did, to get him a +place in the customs. In the morning, after a good hearty +breakfast, they set forward for Tor-abbey; and, being arrived in +Tor-town, they demanded the constables’ assistance, who was +with the utmost reluctance prevailed on to accompany them in +making this search; Squire Gary being a gentleman so universally +beloved by the whole parish, (to which he always behaved as a +father,) that every one was very backward in doing any thing to +give him the least uneasiness. Did gentlemen of large +estates in the country but once taste the exalted pleasure of +making the whole neighbourhood happy, and consider how much +honest industry they might support, how much misery they might +alleviate, and how many daily blessings they might have poured +forth upon their heads from hearts overflowing with love, respect +and gratitude, almost to adoration, we should not so often see +them leave their noble country mansions to repair to noise and +folly; nor exchange the heart-enlivening pleasure of making +numbers happy, for the beguiling smiles and unmeaning professions +of a prime minister.</p> +<p>Being come to the house, they all dismounted, and the +collector desired the sailor to hold his horse, but he replied he +would rather go round the garden, and meet them on the other side +of the <!-- page 166--><a name="page166"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 166</span>house, to prevent any thing from +being conveyed away, and that it would be proper he should be +present to show the particular place where every thing was +deposited. This appeared quite right to the collector; he +therefore contented himself with fastening his horse to the +garden rails, and proceeded with the rest of the officers, in +great form, to search the dog-kennel, coal-house, dove-house, +stables, and all other suspicious places, expecting every minute +to see the informing sailor, who by this time had nearly got back +to Newton-Bushel, having turned his horse’s head that way +as soon as he was out of sight of the collector. He stopped +at the Bull, where they had been the preceding night, and drank a +bottle of wine; then, ordering a handsome dinner to be got ready +for his company, whom he said he had left behind, because his +business called him with urgent haste to Exeter, he clapped his +spurs to his horse, and did not stop till he reached that city, +where he put up at the Oxford inn, then kept by Mr. Buckstone, to +whom both himself and friends were well known; he acquainted Mr. +Buckstone that he was now reformed, and lived at home with his +friends, and spent the night very jovially, calling for the best +of every thing. In the morning he desired Mr. Buckstone to +do him the favour of lending him a couple of guineas, till he +could receive some of a merchant in the city upon whom he had a +bill, for the merchant was gone out of town. As Mr. +Buckstone had a mare in his custody worth ten or twelve pounds, +he made no scruple of doing it; and soon after Mr. Carew thought +proper to change his quarters, without bidding the landlord +good-bye. <!-- page 167--><a name="page167"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 167</span>Leaving the mare to discharge the +reckoning and the loan he had borrowed, he repaired immediately +to a house of usual resort for his community, where he pulls off +the fine clothes the collector had lent him, and rigged himself +again in a jacket and trowsers; then setting out for Topsham, +about three miles from the city of Exeter, he there executed the +same stratagem upon Mr. Carter and the other officers there; +informing them also of some great concealments at Sir Coppleston +Bampfylde’s house, at Poltimore, for which they rewarded +him with a good treat and a couple of guineas.</p> +<p>The Exeter officers (whom, as we have before said, he left +without the least ceremony at Squire Gary’s) having +searched all the out-houses, and even in the dwelling-house, very +narrowly, without finding any prohibited goods, began to suspect +the sailor had outwitted them; therefore they returned in a great +hurry to Newton-Bushel, all their mirth being turned into +vexation, and their great expectations vanished into smoke. +Soon after they had dismounted from their horses, the landlord +brought in the dinner, which he said their companion had ordered +to be got ready for them; but though it was a very elegant one, +yet they found abundance of faults with every thing; however, as +it was too late to reach Exeter that night, they were obliged to +take up their quarters there; but, instead of the jollity and +good humour that reigned among them the night before, there now +succeeded a sullen silence, interrupted now and then by some +exclamations of revenge, and expressions of dislike of every +thing that was brought them: when they came into Exeter the next +day, they had intelligence <!-- page 168--><a +name="page168"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 168</span>brought +them of the mare, which was safe enough at the Oxford inn; but +they were obliged to disburse the money Mr. Carew had made her +surety for.</p> +<p>From Topsham Mr. Carew proceeded to Exmouth, where he also +succeeded, and from thence to Squire Stucky’s, a justice of +peace at Brandscombe, about four miles from Sidmouth; and, being +introduced, acquainted his worship with several discoveries he +could make; the justice thereupon immediately dispatched a +messenger for Mr. Duke, an officer in Sidmouth; in the mean time +he entertained him very handsomely, and pressed him to accept of +two guineas, as a small token of kindness, often shaking him by +the hand, and saying, he thought himself very much obliged to him +for making this discovery: and that, as a reward for his loyalty +to the king, he would engage to get him a place, having many +friends at London. About two o’clock the next +morning, Mr. Duke, the sailor, and servant of the squire’s, +set forward towards Honiton, it being at Squire Blagdon’s, +near the town, where they were to find the hidden treasure. +Mr. Carew was mounted on a good horse of Justice Stucky’s, +and, while the officer and servant were very busy in searching +the out-houses and stables, Mr. Carew gave them the slip, and +posted away to Honiton, and took some refreshment at the Three +Lions; then leaving the justice’s horse to answer for it, +hasted away to Lime, in Dorsetshire; where he applied to Mr. +Jordan, the collector of the place, whom he sent upon the same +errand some miles off, to Colonel Brown’s, at Frampton; but +the collector, not judging it proper <!-- page 169--><a +name="page169"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 169</span>for him to +accompany him, for fear of creating suspicion, left him at his +own house till his return, giving his servant orders to let him +want for nothing; at the same time making him a handsome present, +as an earnest of a greater reward when he returned. Mr. +Carew enjoyed himself very contentedly at the collector’s +house for several hours, both eating and drinking of the best, as +he knew Frampton was at too great a distance for him to return +presently; but he prudently weighed his anchor when he thought +the collector might be on his return, and steered his course +towards Weymouth, where he made his application to the collector, +and after being handsomely treated, and a present given to him, +sent the officers to Squire Groves’s, near White-street, +and Squire Barber’s, on the Chase, both in Wiltshire. +And as soon as they were gone, he set out for Poole; and sent the +collector and officers of that place to Sir Edward +Boobey’s, who lived in the road between Salisbury and +Hendon; they gave him two guineas in hand, and a promise of more +upon their return with the booty; in the mean time they +recommended him to an inn, and gave orders that he should have +any thing the house afforded, and they would make satisfaction +for it; but this adventure had like not to have ended so well for +him as the former; for, being laid down upon a bed to nap, having +drunk too freely, he heard some people drinking and talking in +the next room of the great confusion there was in all the +sea-ports in the west of England, occasioned by a trick put on +the king’s officers by one Bampfylde Carew, and that this +news was brought <!-- page 170--><a name="page170"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 170</span>to Poole by a Devonshire gentleman, +who accidently came that way. Mr. Carew hearing this, +rightly judged Poole was no proper place to make a longer stay +in; he therefore instantly arose, and, by the help of a back +door, got into a garden, and with much difficulty climbed over +the wall belonging thereto, and made the best of his way to +Christchurch, in Hampshire; here he assumed the character of a +shipwrecked seaman, and raised considerable contributions. +Coming to Ringwood, he inquired of the health of Sir Thomas +Hobbes, a gentleman in that neighbourhood, who was a person of +great hospitality; he was told that some of the mendicant order, +having abused his benevolence, in taking away a pair of boots, +after he had received a handsome present from him, it had so far +prejudiced Sir Thomas, that he did not exercise the same +hospitality as formerly. This greatly surprised and +concerned Mr. Carew, that any of his subjects should be guilty of +so ungrateful an action: he was resolved therefore to inquire +strictly into it, that, if he could find out the offender, he +might inflict a deserved punishment upon him; and therefore +resolved to pay a visit to Sir Thomas the next morning, hoping he +should get some light into the affair. When he came to the +house, it was pretty early in the day, and Sir Thomas had not +come out of his chamber; however, he sent up his pass, as a +shipwrecked seaman, by one of the servants, who presently +returned with half-a-crown. As he had been always wont to +receive a large present from Sir Thomas, whenever he had applied +to him, he thought there was some unfair practice at the bottom; +he therefore <!-- page 171--><a name="page171"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 171</span>asked the footman for a copper of +ale to drink the family’s health, hoping Sir Thomas might +come down by that time; the servant pretended to be in so great a +hurry, that he could not attend to draw any, but he was of too +humane a nature to permit the poor sailor to suffer by his hurry, +so gave him a shilling out of his own pocket to drink at the next +public-house. This extraordinary generosity of the footman +increased Mr. Carew’s suspicion; he therefore kept +loitering about the door, and often looking up at the window, in +hopes of seeing Sir Thomas, which accordingly happened, for at +length he flung up the sash, and accosted him in a free familiar +manner, called him Brother Tar, and told him he was very sorry +for his misfortunes, and that he had sent him a piece of money to +assist him in his journey towards Bristol. Heaven bless +your honour, replied he, for the half-crown your honour sent me; +upon which Sir Thomas ran down in his morning gown, and with +great passion seized the footman by the throat, and asked him +what he had given the sailor. The fellow was struck dumb +with this, and indeed there was no need for his tongue on the +present occasion, as his looks, and the trembling of his limbs, +sufficiently declared his guilt; however he at last owned it with +his tongue; and excused himself by saying, he knew there was an +ill use made of the large bounties his honour gave. Sir +Thomas, enraged at the insolence of his servant, bestowed upon +him the discipline of the horse-whip, for his great care and +integrity in not seeing his bounty abused; adding, he now saw by +whose villany he had lost his boots. He then made the +footman return the <!-- page 172--><a name="page172"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 172</span>whole guinea to the sailor, and +discharged him from any further service in his family; upon which +Mr. Carew took his leave with great thankfulness, and went his +way, highly pleased with his good success in this +adventure.—Here we cannot forbear wishing that there was no +higher character in life than Sir Thomas’s footman, to +whose hands gold is apt to cling in passing through them; that +there was no steward who kept back part of his master’s +rent, because he thinks he has more than he knows what to do +with; no managers of charities, who retain part of the +donors’ benefactions in their own hands, because it is too +much for the poor; nor officers of the public, who think they may +squander the public treasure without account, because what is +everybody’s is nobody’s.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew having laid aside his sailor’s habit, put on a +long loose vest, placed a turban on his head, dignified his chin +with a venerable long beard, and was now no other than a poor +unfortunate Grecian, whose misfortunes had overtaken him in a +strange country. He could not utter his sorrowful tale, +being unacquainted with the language of the country; but his mute +silence, his dejected countenance, a sudden tear that now and +then flowed down his cheek, accompanied with a noble air of +distress, all pleaded for him in more persuasive eloquence than +perhaps the softest language could have done, and raised him +considerable gains; and indeed benevolence can never be better +exerted than towards unfortunate strangers, for no distress can +be so forlorn as that of a man in necessity in a foreign country; +he has no friends to apply to, no laws to shelter him under, no +means to provide <!-- page 173--><a name="page173"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 173</span>for his subsistence, and therefore +can have no resource but in those benevolent minds who look upon +the whole world as their own brethren.</p> +<p>We have already mentioned Mr. Carew’s being on board the +Yarmouth man-of-war up the Baltic; it will not, therefore, be +improper here to relate the occasion of that voyage, which was as +follows:—He and his friend, Coleman, being at Plymouth, and +appearing to be able-bodied men, some officers seeing them there, +thought them extremely fit to serve his majesty, therefore +obliged them to go on board the Dunkirk man-of-war: but they not +liking this, Coleman pricked himself upon the wrists, between his +fingers, and other joints, and inflamed it so with gunpowder, +that every one thought it to be the itch; he was therefore +carried ashore, and put into the hospital, from whence he soon +made his escape. Mr. Carew tried the stragem, but too late; +for the Lively and Success men-of-war now arriving from Ireland +with impressed men, they were all of them carried immediately +(together with the impressed men lying at Plymouth) to the grand +fleet, then lying at Spithead; they were first put on board the +Bredau, Admiral Hosier, to choose whom he liked of them: and +their names being called over, the Irishmen were all refused; +which Mr. Carew seeing declared himself, in a true Irish brogue, +to be a poor Irish weaver, and disabled in one arm, whereupon he +was also refused: the Irish, among whom he was now ranked, were +carried from ship to ship, and none would accept of them, which +made them all expect to be discharged; but they were disappointed +in their hopes, for they were <!-- page 174--><a +name="page174"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 174</span>put on +board the Yarmouth, Captain O’Brien, being one of the +squadron destined for the Baltic. Mr. Carew finding Captain +O’Brien refused no Irishmen, when he came to be examined +changed his note, and declared himself to be an Englishman, but +crippled in one arm: however, the captain accepted of him, and +putting a sword in his hand, made him stand sentry at the bitts, +which easy post he liked very well; and during all the time he +was on board, every one supposed him really disabled in his +arm.</p> +<p>The fleet, sailing from Spithead with a fair wind, anchored +safely at Copenhagen, and then the king of Denmark came on board +Sir Charles Wager: the moment he set his foot on board, both the +flag-ships were covered with an infinite number of colours of +every hue, which, waving in the wind, made a most gallant sight: +upon his departure, the colours were all taken down in an +instant, and every ship fired eighteen or twenty guns. +Sailing from Copenhagen, they anchored next in Elson Cape, in +Sweden; from hence they sailed to Revel, in a line of battle, in +form of a rainbow, and anchored there: the sick men were carried +ashore to Aragan island, which Mr. Carew observing, and burning +with love to revisit his native country, counterfeited sickness, +and was accordingly carried ashore to this island, which lies +near Revel, belonging to the Muscovites, from whence boats came +every day to fetch wood. He prevailed upon an Englishman, +who was a boatswain to one of the Czarina’s men-of-war, to +give him a passage in his boat from that island to Revel town; +when he came there, the boatswain used great endeavours <!-- page +175--><a name="page175"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 175</span>to +persuade him to enter her majesty’s service, but it was all +in vain, being resolved to return to his beloved country; the +boatswain, therefore, having entertained him a day and a night at +his house, gave him, at his departure, a piece of money, and +engaged several Englishmen of his acquaintance to do the same; he +likewise furnished him with a bag of provisions, a bottle of +excellent brandy, a tinder-box, and a few lines wrote in that +country language, which he was to show to those he met, to inform +him of the road he was to go; and then conducted him out of the +town. That night he took up his lodgings in the woods, and, +by the help of his tinder-box, made a large fire all round him, +to secure himself from any visits from the wild beasts, then +broiled a piece of flesh, drank a dram, and rested very quietly +till morning, it being the middle of summer.</p> +<p>The whole country here is wild, full of large woods and +uninhabited deserts, the towns and villages lying very +thin. In the morning, finding his way out of the woods, he +espied a lonely hut, to which he made up, and making signs of +hunger and thirst, they gave him some rusk bread and cabereta, or +goat’s flesh, to eat, and some goat’s milk to drink, +which is the usual fare amongst those people, who are most of +them Lutherans by religion, and lead very sober lives; of some of +them he got small bits of money, which they call campekes, and +are of silver, something larger than a barley-corn, being of a +penny value; he likewise frequently got drams of excellent brandy +amongst them, and his shoes being worn-out by travelling, <!-- +page 176--><a name="page176"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +176</span>they gave him a pair of good wooden ones, which sat +very awkwardly on his English feet.</p> +<p>After six or seven days’ travel through this wild +country he came to Riga, a large town and famous sea-port: here +he met with many English merchants and commanders of vessels, who +were very kind to him; he tarried two days in Riga, to rest and +refresh himself: during which the English merchants and +commanders provided lodgings and other accommodations for him, +collecting upwards of fifty shillings for him. Having +expressed his utmost gratitude towards his good benefactors, he +again pursued his journey, subsisting himself sometimes on the +charity of the inhabitants of the country, and at other times +milking the cows upon the mountains or in the woods. The +next place of note he arrived at was the city of Dantzic, in the +kingdom of Poland: here he found a great number of English +merchants who traded to Exeter, and Bristol, and had many +correspondents living in those places, several of whom Mr. Carew +being acquainted with, he gave a particular account of.</p> +<p>Having been entertained here very hospitably for several days, +he set out again, having first received some handsome presents +from the English merchants. From Dantzic he got a passage +on board an English brigantine bound for Copenhagen, but through +stress of weather was obliged to put into Elson Cape, where he +went on shore, and travelled by land to Stockholm, the capital of +Sweden, but in his road thither he lost his way in this wild and +desert country, and for the space of three days and nights saw +neither house, hut, nor human <!-- page 177--><a +name="page177"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 177</span>creature, +the weather being very thick and foggy. Nothing could be +more melancholy and dreadful than these three days’ travel; +his provisions were exhausted, and every step he took he was +uncertain whether it might lead him farther into the woods, as he +could make no observation how the country lay, the fog +intercepting the light of every thing. Sometimes fancy +would paint to him a hut through the fog at a little distance, to +which he would direct his steps with eager haste, but when he +came nearer, found it nothing but an illusion of sight, which +almost drove him to despair. The fourth day he was +exceedingly hungry, when, to his great joy, he espied two +she-goats fastened together with ropes of straw: he ran to them +with great eagerness, and drunk very heartily of their milk; +after this he began to consider that there must be some hut at +least hard by, as the goats could not have strayed in that manner +any great distance; he therefore resolved to stay upon the spot +for some time; and soon after the fog clearing up, he espied a +hut just before him, to which he directly repaired, and there got +a belly-full of their homely fare, and directions to find his way +to Stockholm.</p> +<p>The religion of this country being chiefly Lutheran, he passed +for the son of a presbyterian parson, and his name Slowly, +pretending to have been cast away in a vessel bound for +Revel. The Lutherans at Stockholm were exceedingly kind to +him and raised a handsome contribution for him. He likewise +chanced there to meet with a relation of Dr. Bredaw, a Swiss +gentleman, that resided at <!-- page 178--><a +name="page178"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 178</span>Dartmouth, +in Devonshire, who asked several questions about him; and as Mr. +Carew was well acquainted with him, he gave very satisfactory +answers, upon which account that gentleman gave him a guinea, a +great fur cap, a coat, and a fine dog, with a letter to carry to +his relation at Dartmouth.</p> +<p>From Stockholm he went to Charles-town, and after a short stay +there continued his journey to Copenhagen, the metropolis of +Denmark; here he met with one Captain Thomas Giles, of Minehead +in Somersetshire, who knew him, and was surprised to see him in +that part of the world, and not only liberally relieved him +himself, but recommended him to several English commanders there, +and also to several inhabitants of the city. From +Copenhagen he went to Elsinburgh, thence to Elsinore, where he +got a passage for England, and once more arrived in his native +country. Landing at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he visited his +wife’s relations, and then set forward for Devonshire, +travelling all the way in the character of a shipwrecked +seaman. Meeting at Exeter with his beloved wife, and +likewise with his friend Coleman and his wife, they travelled +together for some time, during which Coleman’s wife was +delivered of a daughter; but as they found so helpless an infant +a great hindrance to their travelling, Mr. Carew contrived a +stratagem to get rid of it, and at the same time advanced the +fortune of the child.</p> +<p>There was in the town, where they then were, a gay bachelor, +who lived with his mother and sisters, and was a great admirer of +that order of female travellers called Cousin Betties. +Coleman’s <!-- page 179--><a name="page179"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 179</span>wife had been with him some months +before in that character, was very well entertained, and, amongst +other favours, received a present of a silk handkerchief. +They therefore dressed up the babe very neatly, wrapped it up +exceeding warm, and put it in a hand-basket, taking care to put +in the handkerchief Coleman’s wife had received from this +gay bachelor; then getting a large boar cat, in the dusk of the +evening they tied it to the knocker of the door, setting down +before it the basket with the helpless infant. The cat, not +liking the treatment, made a hideous squalling, and with his +struggling, rap, rap, rap, went the knocker of the door; out ran +the gentleman, with his mother, sisters, and servants, and the +neighbourhood gathered about the door to see what this noise +could mean. Mr. Carew and Coleman mingled among them to +learn what would be the event of their stratagem. The cat, +by long struggling, got free of the knocker, and ran away, only +leaving part of the tail behind. The basket alone now +engaged the attention of every one, and being delivered to the +gentleman to open, the feeble cries of an infant soon reached +their ears. The mother and sisters, alarmed at this +unexpected salutation, snatched the basket from him, and upon the +child’s breast found a note in these words:</p> +<blockquote><p>“Remember, sir, where you last met me, you +have not been so kind as you often promised and swore you would: +however, it justly belongs to you. I have made bold to send +you the fruits of our meeting, and this handkerchief which you +made me as a token. Be kind to our infant daughter; <!-- +page 180--><a name="page180"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +180</span>and the unfortunate mother on her part, will forgive +you.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">“Your’s, +&c.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The horrid squalling of the cat did not grate so disagreeably +upon the gentleman’s ears, as the reading of these words; +so that his hat and wig were flung off, and he ran about stamping +and swearing that the child was none of his, neither did he know +any thing of the mother. On the other hand, his mother and +sisters flew into a violent rage, assailing his ears on every +side with reproaches; so that he would at that time have thought +deafness preferable to any one of the senses. “Dost +thou deny the child to be thine?” cried the mother: +“has it not thy very eyes, nose, and mouth? and is this not +thy very handkerchief? this thou canst not deny, for I can safely +swear it was thine.” The poor gentleman, thus beset +on all sides, was obliged to quit the field; the child was taken +into the house, and brought up and educated there, and is at this +day a very accomplished fine lady.</p> +<p>Some time after this adventure, Mr. Carew took passage at +Folkstone, in Kent, for Boulogne in France, where he arrived +safe, and proceeded to Paris and other cities in that +kingdom. His habit was now tolerably good, his countenance +grave, his behaviour sober and decent, pretending to be a +Roman-catholic, who left England, his native country, out of an +ardent zeal of spending his days in the bosom of the catholic +church. This story readily gained belief; his zeal was +universally applauded, and handsome contributions made for him; +but at the same time he was so zealous a <!-- page 181--><a +name="page181"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +181</span>Roman-catholic, with a little change of habit, he used +to address those English he heard of in any place as a protestant +shipwrecked seaman. He had the good fortune, in this +character, to meet an English physician at Paris, to whom he told +his deplorable tale, who was so much affected by it, that he not +only relieved him very handsomely, but, what was more, +recommended him to that noble pattern of unexhausted benevolence, +Mrs. Horner, who was on her travels, from whom he received ten +guineas, and from some other company with her, five more.</p> +<p>Here, reader, if thou hast a good heart, we cannot entertain +thee better, than by drawing a true though faint picture of this +generous lady; for, were benevolence and generosity real beings, +we are persuaded they would act just like her; with such an +unsparing hand would they bestow their bounties, and with such +magnificence reward desert; with such godlike compassion cheer +the afflicted, and just so make happy all around them: but thou +canst form no adequate idea, unless thou hast been in the +neighbourhood of that noble mansion, the seat of Mrs. Horner, at +Mulberry, Dorsetshire, where benevolence has fixed her +seat. Permit me, therefore, to transport thee thither, to +bless thy sight with the delightful scene. See, already, +the parish church, rebuilt at her expense, strikes the eye; it is +she that has erected it to the honour of her God. Thou art +surprised, I see, to behold an eminent physician, who is allowed +a constant salary by her to visit the poor sick in her +neighbourhood, coming out of his chariot to enter the wretched +huts of poverty; but know, she has <!-- page 182--><a +name="page182"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 182</span>already +paid his fees: see here another compounding the choicest drugs +and medicines for a whole neighbourhood; it is her bounty that +has supplied them. Cast your eye the other way, and behold +that company of aged and decrepid poor; they are going to receive +their daily bread at her table. But let us enter the poor +cottage; see, here are the holy Scriptures and other books of +pious instruction; and, hark! the lisping child is reading +distinctly in one of them; her munificence has bestowed these +useful gifts, and instilled instruction into that tender +mind. Behold, with how dejected a look and grief-swollen +heart, with what a load of care, yon person enters the mansion: +but see, he returns—how changed his aspect! joy sparkles in +his eye, and thankfulness swells his exulting heart; content sits +cheerful upon his brow, and he no longer bends under his care: +what wonderful magic has wrought this sudden change?—the +opening only of her beneficent hand has done it.</p> +<p>What we are now going to relate will raise an honest +indignation in the breast of every true lover of liberty; for all +such know that the beauteous flower of liberty sickens to the +very root (like the sensitive plant) at the lightest touch of the +iron hand of power upon any one of its most distant branches.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew being in the city of Exeter with his wife, and, +having visited his old friends there, he walked to Topsham, about +three miles distant, leaving his wife in Exeter. Alas! +little did he think this walk would end in a long and cruel +separation from his friends and country; little did he imagine, +that, in the land of freedom and justice, <!-- page 183--><a +name="page183"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 183</span>he should +be seized upon by the cruel grasp of lawless power: though poor, +he thought himself under the protection of the laws, and, as +such, liable to no punishment till they inflicted it. How +far he thought right in this, let the sequel tell. Going +down to Topsham, and walking upon the quay there, enjoying the +beauties of a fine evening, meditating no harm, and suspecting no +danger, he was accosted by merchant D---y, accompanied with +several captains of vessels, in some such words as these: Ha! Mr. +Carew, you are come in a right time! As you came home for +your own pleasure you shall go over for mine. They then +laid hands on him, who found it in vain to resist, as he was +overpowered by numbers; he therefore desired to be carried before +some magistrate, but this was not hearkened to, for they forced +him on board a boat, without the presence or authority of any +officer of justice, not so much as suffering him to take leave of +his wife, or acquaint her with his misfortune, though he begged +the favour almost with tears. The boat carried him on board +the Phillory, Captain Simmonds, bound for America with convicts, +which then lay at Powderham-castle waiting for a fair wind. +Here, had my pen gall enough, I would put a blot of eternal +infamy on that citizen of liberty, who usurped so much power over +a fellow-citizen, and those who suffered a brother of liberty, +however undeserving, to be dragged to slavery by the lawless hand +of power, without the mandate of sovereign justice. Foolish +wretch! dost thou not know that thou oughtest to be more careful +of keeping all usurping power within its bounds, than thou +wouldst the raging <!-- page 184--><a name="page184"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 184</span>sea ready to overflow and overwhelm +them all; for thou who hast consented to see power oppress a +fellow-heir of glorious liberty, how canst thou complain, if its +all-grasping iron hand should seize upon thyself, or whatever +thou holdest most dear? then wouldst thou, too late, bewail that +thou hadst ever suffered power wantonly to set foot on the neck +of liberty.</p> +<p>But to return: Mr. Carew was no sooner put on board, than he +was strictly searched, and then taken between decks, where he was +ironed down with the convicts. There was at the same time a +violent fever raging among them, and Mr. Carew, by being chained +with them night and day, was soon infected, and taken very ill; +however, he had not the liberty of sending to his wife, nor any +of his friends, though they lay three weeks in the roads for a +fair wind. In the mean time, his wife, not hearing any +thing from him, and uncertain what was become of him, or whether +he was alive or dead, abandoned herself to an excess of grief, +for he had always been a kind and affectionate husband to her; +she therefore sought him up and down, at all the houses of his +usual resort, but in vain, for no news could she gain of her +beloved husband.</p> +<p>The wind coming fair, they hoisted sail, and soon bid adieu to +the English coasts. We need not describe what passed in Mr. +Carew’s breast at this time; anger and grief prevailed by +turns, sometimes resentment, for being thus treated, fired his +bosom, and he vowed revenge: at other times the thoughts of his +being thus unexpectedly separated from his country and friends, +and doomed <!-- page 185--><a name="page185"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 185</span>to an ignominious slavery, filled +him with sad and melancholy reflections; however, he had the +pleasure, before it was long, of knowing he was not entirely +deserted; for Captain Simmonds, the commander of the Phillory, a +humane compassionate man, came down to him between decks, soon +after they were under sail, and bid him be of good cheer, for he +should want for nothing; and though he had strict orders from +merchant D---y never to let him return, yet he would be a friend +to him, and provide for him in the best manner he could. +Mr. Carew returned thanks to his generous and unexpected +benefactor in as handsome a manner as he was able.</p> +<p>Soon after this, he had liberty allowed him of coming upon +deck, where the captain entered into conversation with him, and +jocosely asked if he thought he could be at home before +him. He generously replied he thought he could, at least he +would endeavour to be so; which the captain took all in good +part.</p> +<p>Thus did Mr. Carew spend his time, in as agreeable a manner as +could be expected under his present circumstances: but, alas! all +our happiness is too fleeting, and we scarcely taste the pleasure +before it is ravished from us: and thus it happened to our hero; +for they had scarcely been under sail five weeks before the good +Captain Simmonds was taken ill, which increased every day with +too many fatal symptoms; till at last death, who regards alike +the good and virtuous, and the bad and vicious, struck the fatal +blow: but the approaches of the grisly tyrant were not so +dreadful to this man, as the distress it would occasion <!-- page +186--><a name="page186"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 186</span>to +his wife and family, whom he cried out for during his whole +illness. Mr. Carew bewailed the loss of this generous +benefactor with more than outward sorrow. Every thing in +the vessel was now in confusion by the death of the captain; at +length the mate, one Harrison of Newcastle, took charge of the +vessel and the captain’s effects; but had not enjoyed his +new honours before he was taken dangerously ill, so that the +vessel was obliged to be left to the care of the common sailors, +and was several times in great danger of being lost. At +last, after sixteen weeks passage, in the grey of the morning, +they made Cape Charles, and then bore away to Cape Henry: at +Hampton they took in a pilot. The vessel having several +times run upon the sand, and was not got off again without great +difficulty; the pilot soon after brought them to Kent-island, +where they fired a gun, and Harrison, who was now recovered, went +on shore, near Annapolis, and made a bargain with one Mr. Delany +of that place, for Mr. Carew, as an expert gardener. He was +then sent on shore, and Mr. Delany asked him if he understood +gardening. Being willing to get out of Harrison’s +hands, he replied in the affirmative; but Mr. Delany asking him +if he could mow, he replied in the negative. Then you are +no gardener, replied Mr. Delany, and so refused to buy him. +Then one Hilldrop, who had been transported about three years +before from Exeter, for horse stealing, and had married a +currier’s widow in Annapolis, had a mind to purchase him, +but they could not agree about the price, whereupon he was put on +board again, and they sailed from Miles-river.</p> +<p><!-- page 187--><a name="page187"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +187</span>Here they fired a gun, and the captain went on shore; +in the mean time the men prisoners were ordered to be close +shaved, and the women to have clean caps on: this was scarcely +done, before an overseer belonging to Mr. Bennet, in Way-river, +and several planters, came up to buy. The prisoners were +all ordered upon deck, and Mr. Carew among them: some of the +planters knew him again, and cried out, “Is not this the +man Captain Froade brought over, and put a pot-hook +upon?” Yes, replies Mr. Harrison, the very same: at +which they were much surprised, having an account he had been +either killed by the wild beasts or drowned in some river. +Ay, ay, replied Harrison with a great oath, I’ll take care +he shall not be at home before me. By this time several of +the prisoners were sold, the bowl went merrily round, and many of +the planters gave Mr. Carew a glass, but none of them chose to +buy him.</p> +<p>During this, Mr. Carew, observing a great many canoes and +small boats lying along-side the vessel, thought it not +impossible to make himself master of one them, and by that means +reach the shore, where he supposed he might conceal himself till +he found an opportunity of getting off; though this was a very +hazardous attempt, and, if unsuccessful, would expose him to a +great deal of hard usage, and probably put it out of his power of +ever regaining his liberty, yet he was resolved to venture. +He now recollected the common maxim, that ‘fortune favours +the bold,’ and therefore took an opportunity, just as it +grew dark, of slipping nimbly down the ship’s side into one +of the canoes, which he paddled with as much <!-- page 188--><a +name="page188"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 188</span>silence and +expedition as possible towards the shore: but he had not gone far +before the noise he made gave the alarm, that one of the +prisoners had escaped. Harrison immediately called out to +inquire which of them, and where Carew was; and, being told that +he was gone off, swore that he would much rather have lost half +of the prisoners than him.</p> +<p>All hands were then called upon to pursue; the captain and +planters left their bowl; the river was soon covered with canoes, +and every thing was in confusion. Mr. Carew was within +hearing of this, but, by plying his canoe well, had the good +fortune to get on shore before any of them; he immediately took +himself to the woods as soon as he landed, and climbed up into a +great tree, where he had not been many minutes before he heard +the captain, sailors, and planters, all in pursuit of him; the +captain fretted and stormed, the sailors d---d their blood, and +the planters endeavoured to pacify every thing, by telling the +captain not to fear his getting off. He heard all this, +though not unmoved, yet without taking notice of it: at last, +finding their search fruitless, the captain, sailors, and +planters returned; the planters still assuring the captain they +would have him in the morning.</p> +<p>As soon as they were gone he began to reflect upon his present +situation, which, indeed, was melancholy enough, for he had no +provisions, was beset on every side, quite incapable of judging +what to undertake, or what course to steer: however, he at last +resolved to steer farther into the woods, which he accordingly +did, and got up into another tree: here he sat all the succeeding +day, <!-- page 189--><a name="page189"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 189</span>without a morsel of food; but was +diverted with a great multitude of squirrels he saw skipping from +tree to tree; and had he had a gun, he could have shot hundreds +of pigeons, there was so great a plenty of them. The next +day, towards night, hunger became too powerful, and he was almost +spent for want of food; in this necessity he knew not what to do; +at last, happening to spy a planter’s house at a distance, +he was resolved to venture down in the night, thinking he might +chance to find food of some sort or other, in or about the house: +agreeable to this resolution, he came down the tree in the middle +of the night, and, going into the planter’s yard, to his +great joy he found there a parcel of milk cows penned in, which +he soon milked in the crown of his hat, making a most delicious +feast, and then retired to the woods again, climbing up into a +tree, where he passed the day much more easy than he had the +preceding one.</p> +<p>Having found out this method of subsisting, he proceeded +forwards in the same manner, concealing himself in a tree in the +day-time, and travelling all the night, milking the cows as often +as he had an opportunity; and steering his course as near as he +could guess towards Duck’s Creek.</p> +<p>On the fifth night he heard the voices of several people near +him in the woods, upon which he stepped on one side, and +concealed himself behind a tree, till they had passed by. +When he came near enough to distinguish their words, he heard +them say, we will make the best of our way to Duck’s Creek, +and there we shall certainly have him. He now judged that +these were some men in pursuit <!-- page 190--><a +name="page190"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 190</span>of him, +therefore thought himself very happy in having so narrowly +escaped them.</p> +<p>On the eighth day, being upon a tree, he discovered a lone +house, near the skirts of the woods, and saw all the family (as +he supposed) going out to hoe tobacco, and the dog following +them; this was a joyful sight to him, for he had not, the two +preceding nights, met with any cows, and consequently had been +without food. As soon, therefore, as the family were out of +sight, he came down from the tree, and ventured in the house, +where he found not only enough to satisfy his hunger, but what +might be deemed luxury in his present condition: for there was a +jolly cake, powell, a sort of Indian corn bread, and good omani, +which is kidney-beans ground with Indian corn, sifted, then put +into a pot to boil, and eat with molasses. Seeing so many +dainties, he did not hesitate long, but, hunger pressing, sat +down and ate the omani with as much composure as if he had been +invited thereto by the owner of it: and knowing that hunger and +necessity are bound by no laws of honour, he took the liberty of +borrowing the jolly cake, powell, and a leg of fine pork, then +hastened back to the tree with his booty. What the people +thought when they returned at night with good appetites, and +found their dainty omani, their jolly cake, and their pork, all +vanished, we know not, but suppose they were not a little +surprised.</p> +<p>Being thus stocked with provisions, he made the best of his +way to Ogle-town that night, and so to Old-town. In the +dawn of the morning of the eleventh day, he came in sight of +Duck’s <!-- page 191--><a name="page191"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 191</span>Creek; but being afraid he might +fall into the hands of his pursuers, he struck a great way into +the woods towards Tuck Hoe; where staying all the day in a tree, +he came again in the middle of the night to Duck’s +Creek. As soon as he came here, he ran to the water side to +seek for a canoe, but found them all chained; he immediately set +himself about breaking the chain, but found it too strong, and +all endeavours to break it were in vain. Never was man more +thunder-struck than he was now, just at the time when he expected +to be out of danger, to meet with so unforeseen and +insurmountable an obstacle. He knew there was no way of +escaping, but by passing the river Delaware, and could not think +of a method of effecting it. Several hours did he pass in +this agitation of mind: sometimes he had a mind to try his +strength in swimming, but the river being so wide, he thought he +could not reach the opposite shore; at last, reflecting what one +of his ancestors had done in swimming a horse over Teignmouth +bar, and seeing some horses grazing thereabout, he resolved to +attempt passing the Delaware in that manner; for, let the worst +happen, he thought death preferable to slavery. Being thus +resolved, he soon caught one of the horses, and, making a sort of +bridle with his handkerchief, brought the horse to the water +side; he walked for some time on the banks, looking for a proper +place to enter the horse: at last, espying a little stream, which +ran into the great river Deleware, he stripped himself, and, +tying his frock and trowsers about his shoulders, mounted the +horse, and putting him forward a little, the horse soon lost his +footing, and the water came <!-- page 192--><a +name="page192"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 192</span>up to Mr. +Carew’s middle, who kept his legs as near as possible to +the horse, and in this manner launched into the great river +Delaware.</p> +<p>The horse snorted and neighed to his companions, but made for +the opposite shore with all the strength he could. Mr. +Carew did not imagine the horse would be able to reach it, but +proposed to save himself by swimming when the horse failed, for +the river was three miles over: however the horse reached the +shore, but finding no place to land, it being a sandy mud, he was +obliged to swim him along the shore, till he came to a little +creek, which the horse swimming into, soon got sure footing, to +the great joy of Mr. Carew, who, dismounting, kissed the horse, +telling him he must now turn quaker as well as himself, and so +let him go into the woods.</p> +<p>His clothes were not very wet; however, he staid on the banks +some time to dry them with the morning sun, then went up into the +country. The first house he came to was a miller’s, +whose wife came out and asked him from whence he came? He +told her he had been a prisoner some time in the Havannah, from +whence he had been released by an exchange of prisoners, and was +now going home.</p> +<p>The good woman pitied him much, and told him he looked very +melancholy; but her husband coming in, said, he believed he was +an Irishman. This he denied, averring he was of the West of +England; so they gave him a piece of that country money, and a +mug of rum, which he drinking greedily, being very thirsty, it +threw him into such a violent fever, that he was obliged to stop +at a <!-- page 193--><a name="page193"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 193</span>neighbouring house, where he lay +sick for three or four days. From hence he went to +Newcastle, where he raised contributions from several gentlemen, +as he had done before, but not under the former name, from hence +to Castle, Brandywine Ferry, Chester, and Derby, where he got +relief from the same miller that Mr. Whitfield was with when he +was there before, and lodged at the same house, but took care to +disguise himself so as not to be known: he there got a pass from +the justice as a sick man bound to Boston. From hence he +proceeded to Brunswick, where he got relief from Mr. Matthews, +the miller, who treated him so hospitably the first time he was +there, but did not know him again now.</p> +<p>From hence he proceeded to New London, where he chanced to see +the captain who had taken him home before, but he avoided +him. From New London he proceeded to Groten, where he got a +twenty-shilling bill from one Mr. Goyf, and several half-crown +bills from other people. He then inquired of his landlord +his way to Rhode-island, who accompanied him about two miles of +the way, when they chanced to fall into the company of some +drovers, who were driving a number of bullocks, for the use of +some privateers that lay at Rhode-island; he therefore joined +them, and, after about nine or ten miles travelling, they came to +a ferry, where they stopped at a public-house for some time, till +the bullocks were taken over; but neither the tavern-man nor +drovers would suffer him to pay any thing, they pitying his +unfortunate condition: and passing over this ferry, they came to +Rhode-island.</p> +<p><!-- page 194--><a name="page194"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +194</span>Rhode-island, by the natives called Aquetnet, near the +Narraganset Bay, is fourteen or fifteen miles long, and four or +five miles abroad. It was first inhabited by the English in +the year 1639. Those that withdrew to this island were such +as espoused the covenant of grace, and were under great +persecution from them that sided with the covenant of +works. There is a very considerable trade from Rhode-island +to the sugar colonies for butter and cheese, a sure sign of the +fruitfulness and beauty of the place, for horses, sheep, beef, +pork, tallow, and timber, from which the traders have been +enriched. It is deservedly called the Paradise of New +England, for the great fruitfulness of the soil, and the +temperature of the climate, which, though it be not above +fifty-five miles from Boston, is a coat warmer in winter, and, +being surrounded by the ocean, is not so much affected in summer +with the hot land-breezes as the towns on the continent. +They live in great amity with their neighbours, and, though every +man does what he thinks right in his own eyes, it is rare that +any notorious crimes are committed by them, which may be +attributed in some measure to their great veneration for the Holy +Scriptures, which they all read, from the least to the greatest, +though they have neither ministers nor magistrates to recommend +it to them.</p> +<p>Here Mr. Carew found many of his old acquaintance, +particularly one Mr. Perkins, a stay-maker, and Mr. Gidley and +his mother, who kept several negroes for distilling rum, and Mr. +Southeon Lingworthy, a pewterer, all natives of Exeter, and one +Mr. Martin, of Honiton, in Devon, they were all <!-- page +195--><a name="page195"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +195</span>very glad to see him; he telling them, that he was +taken by the Spaniards, and had escaped from prison, they treated +him with very great kindness, and gave him letters to carry to +their friends in England.</p> +<p>From hence he went through Piscataqua and Marblehead to +Boston, the capital of New England, and the largest city in +America, except two or three on the Spanish continent. It +is pleasantly situated on a peninsula, about four miles in +compass, at the bottom of a fine bay, (the Massachusets,) guarded +from the roughness of the ocean by several rocks appearing above +water, and by above a dozen islands, many of which are +inhabited. One of these, called Nettle’s island, +within these few years, was esteemed worth two or three hundred +pounds a year to the owner, Colonel Shrimpton. There is but +one common and safe passage into the bay, and that not very +broad, there being hardly room for three ships to come in +abreast; but, being once in, there is room for the anchorage of +five hundred sail.</p> +<p>The most remarkable of these islands is called Castle-island, +from the castle there built. It stands about a league from +the town, upon the main channel leading to it, and is so +conveniently situated, that no ship of burden can approach the +town, without the hazard of being torn in pieces by its +cannon. It was now called Fort William, being mounted with +one hundred pieces of ordnance: two hundred more which were given +to the province of Queen Anne, are placed on a platform near high +water mark, so as to rake a ship fore and aft, before she can +bring her broadsides <!-- page 196--><a name="page196"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 196</span>to bear against the castle. +Some of these cannon are forty-two pounders. Five hundred +able men are exempt from all military duty in time of war, to be +ready to attend the service of the castle at an hour’s +warning, upon any signal of the approach of an enemy, of which +there seems to be no great danger at Boston; where in twenty-four +hours’ time, ten thousand effective men, well armed, might +be ready for their defence. To prevent all possible +surprise, there is a light-house built on the rock appearing +above water, about a long league from the town, which in time of +war makes a signal to the castle, and the castle to the town, by +hoisting and lowering the union flag, so many times as there are +ships approaching, which, if they exceed a certain number, the +castle fires three guns, to alarm the town of Boston; and the +governor, if need be, orders a beacon to be fired, which alarms +all the adjacent country; so that unless an enemy can be supposed +to sail by so many islands and rocks in a fog, the town of Boston +must have six or more hours to prepare for their reception; but, +supposing they might pass the castle, there are two batteries at +the north and south end of the town that command the whole bay, +and make it impossible for an enemy’s ship of any burden to +ride there in safety, while the merchant-men and small craft may +retire up into Charles-river, out of the reach of cannon.</p> +<p>It is equally impossible for any ship to be run away with out +of this harbour by a pirate; for the castle suffers no ships +outward-bound to pass, without a permit from the governor, which +is never granted without a clearing from the custom-house, <!-- +page 197--><a name="page197"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +197</span>and the usual notice of sailing, by loosening the +fore-top sail.</p> +<p>The bay of Boston is spacious enough to contain, in a manner, +the whole navy of England. The masts of ships here, at the +proper season of the year, make a kind of a wood of trees, like +that which we see upon the river Thames about Wapping and +Limehouse, which may be easily imagined, when we consider, that, +by the computation given in by the collectors of his +majesty’s light-house, it appeared that there were +twenty-four thousand tons of shipping cleared annually.</p> +<p>There is a larger pier at the bottom of the bay, one thousand +eight hundred, or two thousand feet in length, with a row of +warehouses on the north side. The pier runs so far into the +bay, that ships of the greatest burden may unload without the +help of boats and lighters. The chief streets of the town +come down to the head of the pier. At the upper end of it +is the town-house, or exchange, a fine building, containing, +besides the walk for merchants, the council-chambers, the house +of commons, and a spacious room for the courts of justice. +The exchange is surrounded with booksellers’ shops, who +have a good trade. There are several printing-houses, where +the presses are generally full of work, which is in a great +measure, owing to the colleges and schools for useful learning in +New England.</p> +<p>The town of Boston lies in the form of a half-moon round the +harbour, consisting of between three and four thousand houses, +and makes an agreeable prospect; the surrounding shore being +high, the streets long, and the buildings beautiful. <!-- +page 198--><a name="page198"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +198</span>The goodness of the pavement may compare with most in +London; to gallop a horse on it is three shillings and fourpence +forfeit.</p> +<p>It is computed the number of inhabitants is not less than +twenty-four thousand, which is one-third more than the +computation of the city of Exeter, and consequently Boston is +one-third bigger than that city, which is pretty near the +matter.</p> +<p>There are ten churches in Boston, viz. Old Church, North +Church, South Church, New Church, New North Church, New South +Church, the Church of England Church, the Baptist Meeting, and +the Quakers’ Meeting.</p> +<p>The conversation in this town is as polite as in most of the +cities and towns in England; many of their merchants having +traded in Europe, and those that stay at home having the +advantage of society with travellers; so that a gentleman from +London would think himself at home in Boston, when he observes +the number of people, their furniture, their tables, their dress, +and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that +of the most considerable tradesmen in London. Upon the +whole, Boston is the most flourishing town for trade and commerce +in all America. Near six hundred sail of ships have been +laden here in a year for Europe and the British +plantations. Here the governor commonly resides, the +general court and assembly meet, the courts of judicature sit, +and the affairs of the whole province are transacted.</p> +<p>The streets are broad and regular; some of the richest +merchants have very stately, well built, convenient houses. +The ground on which the town stands is wonderfully high; and very +good <!-- page 199--><a name="page199"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 199</span>water is found all over it. +There are several wharfs built, which jet into the harbour, one +of which is eight hundred feet in length, where large ships with +great ease may load and unload. On one side are warehouses +almost the whole length of the wharf, where the merchants stow +their goods; and more than fifty ships may load and unload there +at the same time.</p> +<p>Coming into the city, Mr. Carew was surprised at the grandeur +of it; and seeing a green hill at the end of the great street, +much like Glastonbury Tower, he went up to it, and had a most +beautiful prospect of the city from the top of it, where was +placed the mast of a ship, with pullies to draw up a lighted +barrel of tar to alarm the country in case of an invasion. +Going down the hill again he met two drummers, a sergeant, and +several soldiers and marines, who were, by the beat of drum, +proclaiming, that the taverns and shopkeepers might safely credit +the soldiers and marines to a certain value. Some of the +soldiers presently knew him, and, accosting him, persuaded him to +go along them to one Mother Passmore’s, a house of +rendezvous, where they were very merry together. While they +were drinking, in came Captain Sharp, who commanded them, and who +was an old acquaintance of our hero’s. What, Mr. +Carew! cried the captain in a surprise, who could think of seeing +you here? When did you see my brother? I saw him, +replied he, about six months ago, but his lady is dead. Is +she so? said the captain, I have heard nothing of it. The +captain having asked him several other questions, treated him +very handsomely, and kept him some time at his own <!-- page +200--><a name="page200"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +200</span>charge: but his heart glowing to see his native +country, he once more resolved to ship himself for old +England. He accordingly agreed to take the run with Captain +Ball, of the Mary, for fifteen pounds, fifteen gallons of rum, +ten pounds of sugar and tobacco, and ten pipes. They were +two months on their voyage before they made Lundy, nothing +material happening on their passage worthy of being recorded in +this true history. The captain would not stop at Lundy for +a pilot, but made for Combe, and there took one in, who brought +the ship safe to King Road, and the next tide up to the quay at +Bristol; and having moored the vessel, the crew spent the night +on shore with their jolly landladies.</p> +<p>The next morning early they all got on board, and soon after +the captain came with some Bristol merchants. The captain +gave Mr. Carew a bill on his brother who lived at Topsham, and +having received payment thereof, he soon turned his back on +Bristol.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew, having left Bristol, made the best of his way to +Bridgewater, and from thence unto Taunton, and so to Exeter, +supporting his travelling expenses by his ingenuity as a +mendicant. As soon as he arrived at Exeter, he made the +best of his way to the house of an old acquaintance, where he +expected to hear some news of his beloved wife; but going through +East-gate, he was met by two gentlemen, who immediately cried +out, Here’s our old friend Carew! They then laid hold +of him, and took him back to the Oxford Inn, where they inquired +where he had been this long time. He acquainted them in +what manner he had been <!-- page 201--><a +name="page201"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 201</span>seized, on +Topsham quay, and carried to Maryland; he likewise informed of +Captain Simmonds’s death, (which they were sorry to hear +of,) and that the vessel had been carried into port by Harrison, +the mate, who was afterwards drowned, in company with some +planters, in Talbot river.</p> +<p>Fame having soon sounded the arrival of our hero through every +street in Exeter, several gentlemen flocked to the Oxford Inn to +visit him, and amongst the rest merchant Davy. What! have +you found your way home again? said the merchant. Yes, yes, +replied he; as you sent me over for your pleasure, I am come back +for my own; which made the gentlemen laugh very heartily. +The merchant then asked him several questions about Captain +Simmonds and Harrison, where he left the vessel, and if he had +been sold. No, no, replied he, I took care to be out of the +way before they had struck a bargain for me; and, as to the +vessel, I left her in Miles river. The gentlemen could not +help being surprised at his ingenuity and expedition, in thus +getting home twice before the vessel which carried him out. +Merchant Davy then proposed making a collection for him, and +began it himself with half-a-crown; having therefore received a +handsome contribution, he returned the gentlemen thanks, and took +his leave, being impatient to hear some news about his +wife. He went directly to his usual quarters, at Kitty +Finnimore’s, Castle-lane, where he occasioned no little +terror to his landlady, she believing it to be his ghost, as she +heard he was certainly dead; however, our hero soon convinced her +he was real flesh and blood. He then inquired when she +heard from <!-- page 202--><a name="page202"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 202</span>his wife, who informed him, to his +great joy, that both his wife and daughter were there a few days +before, and were going towards Newton-Bushel; but they had given +over all thoughts of seeing him any more, as they thought him +dead.</p> +<p>He now set forward immediately for Newton-Bushel. +Calling at Lord Clifford’s in his way, he was told by Mrs. +Ratcliffe, the housekeeper, and Mr. Kilshaw, the steward, (who +were quite surprised to see him,) that his wife had been there +just before, supposing him to be dead; and that he would find her +at Newton-Bushel. Though it was then night, our hero, +impatient of seeing his wife and daughter, set forward for +Newton-Bushel, where he arrived late in the night. Going +directly to his usual quarters, he found them all in bed, and +calling out to the woman of the house, his wife, hearing his +voice, immediately leaped out of bed, crying, it was her poor +Bampfylde. A light was then struck with as much expedition +as possible, and his wife, daughter, and landlady, all came down +to open the door to him.</p> +<p>Here, how shall I find words to express the transports of our +hero, the tender embraces of his wife, the endearing words of his +daughter, and hearty congratulations of the landlady! +Unable for the task, most gentle reader, I must imitate that +celebrated painter who painted Agamemnon with a covering over his +face, at the sacrifice of his daughter, and draw a veil over this +scene of tenderness; let it suffice to say, that their joy was +too full to be contained, and, not finding any other passage, +gushed out in tears.</p> +<p>The next morning, accompanied by his wife and <!-- page +203--><a name="page203"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +203</span>daughter, he went and paid his respects to Sir Thomas +Carew, at Hackum, where they were received with great kindness; +and Sir Thomas told him, if he would forsake the mendicant order, +he would take care to provide for him and his family. He +returned Sir Thomas a great many thanks, but declared, that, as +he had entered himself into the mendicant order, he was resolved +to continue therein as long as he lived; but hoped if any +accident happened to him, he would extend his goodness to his +dear wife and daughter.</p> +<p>It was about this time, that one of the greatest personages in +the kingdom being at Bath, Mr. Carew was drawn thither with the +rest of the world to see her, but to more advantage indeed to +himself than most others reaped from it; for making himself as +much an Hanoverian as he could in his dress, &c., he +presented a petition to her as an unfortunate person of that +country; and as every one is inclined to be kind to their own +countryfolks, he had from her a very princely benefaction.</p> +<p>Some time after this, Squire Morrice, who succeeded to the +fine seat and estate of Sir William Morrice, near Launceston, in +Cornwall, coming to reside there, and hearing much talk of Mr. +Carew, was very desirous of seeing him; and he happening to come +soon after into that neighbourhood, some of the servants, who +knew their master’s inclinations, chancing to see him, soon +conducted him to the house, and showed him immediately into the +parlour, where Mr. Morrice was with a good deal of company. +Mr. Carew was made very welcome, and the company had a great deal +of conversation with him, during which Mr. Morrice very nicely +<!-- page 204--><a name="page204"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +204</span>examined every feature in his countenance, and at last +declared, that he would lay any wager that he should know him +again, come in what shape he would, so as not to be imposed upon +by him. One of the company took Mr. Morrice up, and a wager +was laid that Mr. Carew should do it within such a limited time; +this being agreed upon, Mr. Carew took his leave. He soon +began to meditate in what shape he should be able to deceive the +circumspection of Mr. Morrice; and in a few days came to the +house, and endeavoured in two or three different shapes, and with +as many different tales, to obtain charity from Mr. Morrice, but +he, remembering his wager, would hearken to none. At last, +understanding that Mr. Morrice was to go out a hunting one +morning with several of the company who were present when the +wager was laid, he dressed himself like a neat old woman, and +walking in the road where they were riding along, all of a sudden +he fell down, and so well counterfeited all the distortion of the +most violent fits in such a terrible manner, that Mr. Morrice was +greatly affected with the poor creature’s condition, +ordering his servants to get down and assist her, staying himself +till she was brought a little to herself, then gave her a piece +of money, and ordered one of his servants to show her his house, +that she might have some refreshment there; but Mr. Carew, having +obtained what he desired, flung off the old woman, and discovered +himself to Mr. Morrice and the rest of the company, wishing them +all a good-morrow: upon which he owned that he had fairly lost +the wager.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew, some time after this, steered his <!-- page +205--><a name="page205"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +205</span>course for Oxford, where he visited Messrs. Treby, +Stanford, Cooke, and other collegians, his particular friends, of +whom he got a trencher-cap.—Having staid at Oxford as long +as was agreeable to his inclinations, he set out for Abington, +and from thence to Marlborough, having put on a pair of white +stockings, a grey waistcoat, and the trencher-cap. Thus +equipped, he pretended to be disordered in his mind; and, as his +knowledge of the Latin tongue enabled him to intermix a few Latin +phrases in his discourse, which he made very incoherent, he was +in no fear of being discovered. Under this character he, +therefore, went to the minister of Marlborough, who, seeing his +dress, and finding he could talk Latin, made no doubt but he was +an Oxford scholar, whose brain was turned, either by too much +study or some misfortune; he therefore talked to him a good deal, +endeavouring to find out the cause; telling him, that, though he +was unfortunate now, things might go better with him hereafter; +but he could get nothing but incoherent answers from him: +however, he gave him half-a-crown. From hence he went to +Market-Lavington, where he likewise deceived the minister; and +going forward to Warminster, he met with Dr. Squire, and his +brother, the Archdeacon of Bath, who both took him for an Oxford +scholar whose brain was turned, and relieved him as such.</p> +<p>The next morning he went in the same dress to Mrs. Groves, at +Wincanton, and from thence to the Rev. Mr. Birt’s, at +Sutton, at both of which places he was much pitied, and +handsomely relieved. He then steered for Somerton, and +visited <!-- page 206--><a name="page206"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 206</span>the Rev. Mr. Dickenson; but this +mask would not avail him here, for the parson discovered him +through it; but he desired him to keep it secret till he was gone +out of town, which he accordingly did: he therefore went boldly +to the Rev. Mr. Keat, and pretended to be a scholar of Baliol +College, which Mr. Keat believing, and pitying his condition, he +gave him a crown.</p> +<p>Next day he went to Bridgewater in the same habit, and from +thence to Sir Charles Tynte’s, at Haswell: going into the +court, he was met by the Rev. Mr. Standford, who immediately knew +him, and accosted him with, How do you do, friend Carew! +Soon after that came Sir Charles, who accosted him also in the +same manner. Mr. Standford and he made themselves very +merry at the character he had assumed. Well, said Sir +Charles, we will make you drink, but unless you can deceive my +Bess, (so he was pleased to call his lady,) you shall have +nothing of me; but whatever she gives, I’ll double. +He was then ordered into the hall, and exchanged his cap for a +hat with one of the servants; after waiting some time lady Tynte +came down. It will here be proper to observe, that this +lady, though of a very charitable disposition to her poor +neighbours, having been often deceived by mendicants, and finding +few of them deserving of her charity, had resolved to relieve no +unknown objects, however plausible their tale; but our hero, +depending upon his art, was not afraid to accept of Sir +Charles’s challenge. From the servants’ hall he +watched a proper opportunity of accosting the lady, and she +passed and repassed several times before he could speak to +her. At last, seeing her <!-- page 207--><a +name="page207"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 207</span>standing in +the hall talking with Sir Charles, he came behind her, and +accosted her with—God bless you, most gracious lady. +The lady turned about and asked him pretty hastily from whence he +came? I am a poor unfortunate man, replied he, who was +taken by two French privateers coming from Boston, and carried +into Boulogne, where we were teased day and night to enter into +the French service, but refused to do it. And how got you +from thence? asked the lady. We took an opportunity of +breaking out of the prison, and seized upon a fishing-boat in the +harbour, with which we got safe to Lymington, being in all +twenty-five of us, where we sold our boat. What do you beg +for then? if you sold your boat, you must have money. +Several of us were sick, replied he, which was very +expensive. But what countryman are you? I am an Old +England man, please you, my lady, but I have my wife in +Wales. From what part? says the lady, who was a native of +Wales herself. I married, replied he, one Betty Larkey, who +lived with Sir John Morgan, and afterwards with parson Griffy, at +Swansea. Ay, did you marry Betty Larkey?—how many +children have you by her? Only one daughter, replied +he. In the mean time Sir Charles and the parson were ready +to burst with containing their laughter, to see how he managed my +lady to bring her to; for his assertion of having married Betty +Larkey, who was a country-woman of my lady’s, and formerly +known to her, was a loadstone which presently drew my +lady’s hand to her purse; then turning to Sir Charles, she +asked him if he had any small money about him? I have none, +replied Sir <!-- page 208--><a name="page208"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 208</span>Charles, pretty bluntly, being +scarce able to contain himself from bursting out into laughter; +so she went up stairs, and soon returning, gave him five +shillings, and asked him to eat and drink, going out herself to +call the butler. In the mean time Sir Charles stepped +nimbly into the servant’s hall, and fetched the Oxford cap, +which he put on Mr. Carew’s head. The lady and butler +came in immediately after, and she, seeing the cap upon his head, +cried out, God bless me! what, did you bring that from +France? It is just like one of our Oxford scholar’s +caps. Ay, so it is indeed, my lady, replied Sir Charles; +why don’t you know who it is? It is Bampfylde Moore +Carew. Ay, ay, this is your doings, Sir Charles, said the +lady; and went away somewhat disgusted at the trick that had been +put upon her. Sir Charles, however, was as good as his +word, in doubling the money his lady gave, and parson Standford +gave him half-a-crown.</p> +<p>Some time after this, he called upon the Miss Hawkers, of +Thorn, near Yeovil, who treated him very hospitably, and inquired +what news he had heard, it being in the late rebellion. +Whilst he was talking with them, he observed a new house almost +opposite, and inquired who lived there. They told him one +parson Marks, a dissenting clergyman; upon which, taking leave of +the ladies, he stept over the way, and knocked boldly at the +door, which was opened by the parson himself. Sir, said Mr. +Carew, pulling off his hat, and accosting him with a demure +countenance, I have come three miles out of my road on purpose to +call upon you. I believe, Sir, you are acquainted with my +brother, Mr. John Pike, of Tiverton, teacher <!-- page 209--><a +name="page209"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 209</span>of a +dissenting congregation of that place; and you have undoubtedly +heard something of his brother Roger Pike, which unfortunate man +I am, having been taken prisoner coming from Boston in New +England, by two French privateers, and carried into Boulogne, +where we were cruelly treated. Alack, alack! said the +parson; pray come in, good Mr. Roger. I am indeed very well +acquainted with that worthy servant of God, your brother, Mr. +John Pike, and a gracious man he is; I have likewise heard him +mention his brother Roger. He then ordered some victuals +and drink to be instantly brought out for good Roger Pike. +While he was eating, he inquired how he got away from +Boulogne. He replied, that twenty-five of them had broken +out of prison, and seized upon a vessel, in the harbour, by which +they had got safe to the English coast. Well, said the +parson, what news did you hear in France? It is reported +there, replied he, that the rebels are very powerful in Scotland, +and that great numbers are gone over to them safe from +France. Stop a little, Roger, cried the parson; and running +up stairs, soon after came down with a letter in his hand, which +he read to him, wherein it was said that the rebels were very +powerful; then shaking his head very sorrowfully, cried, indeed, +Mr. Pike, I cannot be at ease, for they say they will make us +examples, on account of the 30th of January. Never fear +them, Sir, said Mr. Carew; we shall be a match for them in +Devonshire and Cornwall. I am afraid not, cries the parson, +shaking his head again; I have had no rest for thinking of them +these several nights past. <!-- page 210--><a +name="page210"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 210</span>After some +farther discourse, he fetched Mr. Pike a good Holland shirt, and +clapped a half-guinea into his hand, entreating him to take a bed +with him that night, for that he should be heartily welcome; but +he desired to be excused, and took his leave with many thanks, +and returned to Miss Hawker’s again. Well, Mr. Carew, +cried the ladies, you have had a very long conference with the +parson. Ay, ay, replied he, and to good purpose too, for +this shirt and a half-guinea are the fruits of it; and then told +them in what manner he had deceived the parson, which made them +laugh very heartily; they then gave him five shillings, and +promised to keep Mr. Pike’s secret for a day or two.</p> +<p>A few days after, the parson going over to see the ladies, +they asked him if a poor seaman had been at his house. Yes, +replied the parson, it was one Roger Pike, whose brother had a +congregation in Tiverton, and whom I am very well acquainted +with. And did you give him any assistance? Yes, I +gave him a shirt and a half-guinea: and we gave him five +shillings, said the ladies, not as being Roger Pike, but as Mr. +Bampfylde Moore Carew; at which the parson was in a very great +hurry, and would scarce be convinced but that it was old Roger +Pike. Thus had Mr. Carew the happy art of suiting his +eloquence to every temper and every circumstance; for his being +the brother of good Mr. Pike, of Tiverton, was as powerful a +loadstone to attract the parson, as his marrying of Betty Larkey +had been to Lady Tynte.</p> +<p>From hence he went to parson White’s, at Cocker, where +he found Justice Proctor: here he <!-- page 211--><a +name="page211"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 211</span>passed for +an unfortunate sailor, who had been cast away coming from the +Baltic, and was now travelling to his native place, Tintagel, in +Cornwall. Parson White asked who was minister there, he +replied, that one Atkins was curate, and that there was no other +there at that time. The justice asked but few questions, +and told him he ought to have a pass, and asked where he +landed. He replied, at Dover. Had you a pass, then, +from the mayor there? We had one, said he, very readily; +but some of our company being sick, and myself in good health, I +left them the pass, and came forward by myself, they not being +able to travel so fast. Why then, says the justice, you are +liable to be taken up as a vagrant, for begging without a pass: +however, we will relieve you; and if you call upon gentlemen +only, they will scarcely molest you. He returned them a +great many thanks for this civility, and then went to a +tanner’s hard by, where he changed his story, and passed +for a bankrupt tanner. Here he was likewise relieved, as he +touched upon the right string; for had he passed here for an +unfortunate sailor, probably his eloquence would have had no +effect.</p> +<p>From hence he went to the parson of East Chinock, and told him +that he belonged to a man-of-war, in which his brother was +lieutenant. Being then about dinner time, the parson asked +if he could eat sea provisions, such as pork and peas, which he +readily accepting of, they sat down together, and had a great +deal of discourse about the lieutenant. Next he went to +Madam Philips, of Montacute, where happened to be Parson Bower, +of Martock, who asked him if he knew Bampfylde <!-- page 212--><a +name="page212"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 212</span>Moore +Carew? Sir, replied he, I am of Tintagel, in Cornwall, and +know the Carews there very well, and have heard of the wanderer +you speak of, who, I’m told, is a great dog stealer, but +know not what has become of him; for some say he is hanged. +God forbid he is hanged, cried the parson, upon account of his +family; and after some other questions, he was relieved with +sixpence. Leaving Montacute, he went forward to Yeovil, +having appointed to meet his wife and daughter at the sign of the +Boot, Sherborne, and from Yeovil to Squire Hellier’s, at +Leweston, who treated him very handsomely, and would have had him +stay there all night, but he excused himself, being impatient to +see his wife and daughter.</p> +<p>As soon as he came to Sherborne, he went to his usual +quarters, the sign of the Boot, where he inquired for his wife +and daughter; but how was he thunder-struck, when he was told +they were in hold, at Webb’s the bailiff! He inquired +for what reason, and was informed, that four officers had been +walking all through the town to take up all strangers, such as +chimney-sweepers, tinkers, pedlars, and the like. What +could our hero do? he revolved it over and over in his mind, and +at last determined to go to Webb’s, resolving either to +free his wife and daughter, or else to share their fate. +When he came there, he asked to see the prisoners, and demanded +upon what account they had apprehended his wife, as she had +neither stolen nor begged in the town: this occasioned high +words, and at last ended in blows. Long did our hero +maintain an unequal fight with great valour. At length, +being overpowered with numbers, he <!-- page 213--><a +name="page213"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 213</span>fell, but +not till his assailants had felt the force of his arms. He +was kept in safe custody that night, and the next morning taken, +with the rest of the prisoners, before Thomas Medlycott, Esq., at +Milbourn Port, where they were all examined, and all maintained +their professions to be extremely useful. The +chimney-sweeper alleged, he preserved houses from taking fire, +whereby he saved whole towns, and consequently was a useful +member to his country. The tinker harangued on the +usefulness of kettles, brass pans, frying-pans, &c., and of +consequence, what use he was of to the public: and our hero +declared he was the famous Bampfylde Moore Carew, and had served +his king and country both by sea and land.</p> +<p>The justice thought proper to send these useful men to their +respective parishes, at the public expense: accordingly Mr. +Carew, with his wife and daughter, were ordered to Bickley, in +Devonshire. The Sherborne people waited upon them to +Yeovil, where they were delivered to the care of the chief +magistrate. The next day, horses being provided, they set +out for Thomas Proctor’s, Esq., at Cocker: but, he refusing +to sign the pass, they proceeded to Axminster, where the +magistrate refused to receive them, on account of the pass not +being signed; upon which they would have left Mr. Carew, but he +insisted upon being accomodated to the end of his journey, they +therefore adjourned to Mr. Tucker’s, about two miles from +Axminster, who asked him if he had a mind to have his attendants +dismissed, or chose to have their company to Bickley; and he +replying that he did not choose to have them dismissed, Mr. +Tucker signed the warrant, <!-- page 214--><a +name="page214"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 214</span>and our +hero, with his wife and daughter, rode all the way very +triumphantly into Bickley, where, as soon as they arrived, the +bells were set a ringing, and the greatest joy spread through all +the place.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew remained some time at Bickley, but fresh news +arriving every day of the progress of the rebels, that insatiable +curiosity which had always actuated his breast, prompted him to +go and see the army of the rebels: he therefore, taking his leave +of his wife and daughter, though they entreated him with tears +not to go to the North, made the best of his way towards +Edinburgh.</p> +<p>After some days travel, Mr. Carew arrived at the city of +Edinburgh, which lies in a sort of a valley, between two hills, +one of which is called Salisbury Crags, the other marks the +foundation of the castle. It was strongly walled, and is +adorned with public and private buildings. At the extremity +of the east end of the city stands the palace of Holyrood house; +leaving which, a little to the left, you come through a populous +suburb to the entrance, called the Water-port. From hence, +turning west, the street goes on in a straight line through the +whole city to the castle, which is above a mile in length, and is +said by the Scots to be the largest and finest street for +buildings and number of inhabitants in Europe. From the +palace door, which stands on a level with the lowest of the plain +country, this street begins to ascend very gradually, being no +where steep; but this ascent being continued for so long a way, +it is easy to understand that the furthest part must be +necessarily very high; for the castle, which stands as it were at +the <!-- page 215--><a name="page215"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 215</span>extremity, west, as the palace does +east, makes on all sides (that only excepted which joins it to +the city) a frightful and inaccessible precipice. The +castle is situated on a high rock, and strongly fortified with a +great number of towers, so that it is looked upon as +impregnable. In the great church they have a set of bells, +which are not rung out as in England, (for that way of ringing is +not now known in this country,) but are played on by the hand +with keys, like a harpsichord, the person playing having great +leather covers for his fists, which enables him to strike with +the more force; and for the larger bells there are treddles, +which he strikes with his feet.</p> +<p>They play all manner of tunes very musically; and the town +gives a man a yearly salary for playing upon them, from +half-an-hour after eleven till half-an-hour after twelve every +day, Sundays and holidays excepted. On the south side of +this church is a square of very fine buildings, called the +Parliament Close, the west and south side of which are mostly +taken up with the Parliament house, the several courts of +justice, the council chamber, the exchequer, the public +registers, the lawyers’ library, the post-office, +&c. The great church makes up the north side of the +square, and the east, and part of the south side, is built into +private dwellings, very stately, lofty, and strong, being seven +stories high to the front of the square, and the hill that they +stand on having a very deep descent; some of them are no less +than fourteen stories high backwards. Holyrood house is a +very handsome building, rather convenient than large; it was +formerly a royal palace and an abbey, founded <!-- page 216--><a +name="page216"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 216</span>by King +David I. for the canons regular of St. Austin, who named it +Holyrood-house, or the house of the Holy Cross, which was +destroyed by Oliver Cromwell, but nobly re-edificed by King +Charles the second, and of which his grace the Duke of Hamilton +is hereditary keeper; it is now almost entirely neglected.</p> +<p>The entrance from the great outer court is adorned with +pillars of hewn stone, under a cupola, in form of an imperial +crown, balustrated on each side at the top. The fore part +has two wings, on each side of which are two turrets; that +towards the north was built by King James V. whose name it bears +in letters of gold; and that towards the south (as well as the +rest) by Charles II, whereof Sir William Bruce was the +architect. The inner court is very stately, all of +free-stone, well hewn, with a colonade round it, from whence are +entries into the several apartments; but above all, the long +gallery is very remarkable, being adorned with the pictures of +all the Scotch kings, from Fergus the first, done by masterly +hands. Here Mr. Carew met the rebels, but having no mind to +join them, he pretended to be very sick and lame; however, he +accosted them with, God bless you, noble gentlemen! and the +rebels moving on to Carlisle, he hopped after them, and from +thence to Manchester, and there had a sight of the +Pretender’s son, and other commanders. He afterwards +accompanied them to Derby, where a report was spread, that the +Duke of Cumberland was coming to fight them; upon which, their +courage failing, though the Pretender’s son was for +fighting, they retreated back to Carlisle; upon which <!-- page +217--><a name="page217"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 217</span>he +thought it time to leave them, and hopped homewards on his +crutches, taking care to change his note to “God bless King +George, and the brave Duke William!” Coming into +Bristol, he met with one Mr. P---, an apothecary, who had +formerly known him at St. Mary Ottery, in Devon. Mr. P--- +was very glad to see him, and took him to a tavern, where he +treated him very handsomely, and then sent for his wife, sister, +and other friends, to come and see him. They were all +highly pleased to see a man they had heard so much talk of, and, +after spending some hours very merrily with him, they would have +him to try his fortune in that city, but to take care of the +mint. Accordingly he went to a place of rendezvous of the +brothers of the mendicant order in Temple-street, equipped +himself in a very good suit of clothes, and then went upon the +Exchange, as the supercargo of a ship called the Dragon, which +had been burnt by lightning off the Lizard point. By this +story he raised a very handsome contribution on the merchants and +captains of vessels, it being well known that such a ship had +been burnt in the manner he described. He then returned to +his friend Mr. P---, the apothecary, and, knocking at the door, +asked if he was at home; upon which Mr. P---, came forth, and, +not knowing him again in his supercargo’s dress, made him a +very low bow, and desired him to walk in. Mr. Carew asked +him if he had any fine salve, as he had met with an accident, and +burnt his elbow; upon which Mr. P--- ran behind his counter, and +reached down a pot of salve, desiring, with a great deal of +complaisance, <!-- page 218--><a name="page218"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 218</span>the favour of looking at his elbow; +he then discovered himself, which occasioned no little diversion +to Mr. P--- and his family, who made him very welcome.</p> +<p>Going back to his quarters, he laid aside his finery, and +dressed himself more meanly, like to a labouring mechanic; he +then went into the street, and acted like a madman, talking in a +raving manner about Messrs. Whitfield and Wesley, as though he +was disordered in his mind by their preaching; calling in a +furious manner at every step upon the Virgin Mary, Pontius +Pilate, and Mary Magdalen, and acting the part of a man +religiously mad. Sometimes he walked with his eyes fixed +upon the ground, and then, of a sudden, he would break out into +some passionate expressions about religion. This behaviour +greatly excited the curiosity and compassion of the people, some +of whom talked to him, but he answered every thing they said in a +wild and incoherent manner; and, as compassion is generally the +forerunner of charity, he was relieved by the most of them.</p> +<p>The next morning he appeared in a morning-gown, still acting +the madman, and carried it so far now, as to address himself to +all the posts in the streets, as if they were saints, lifting up +his hands and eyes in a fervent though distracted manner to +heaven, and making use of so many extravagant gestures, that he +astonished the whole city. Going through Castle-street, he +met the Rev. Mr. B---c, a minister of that place, whom he +accosted with his arms thrown round him; and insisted, in a +raving manner, he should tell him who was the father of the +morning star; which frightened <!-- page 219--><a +name="page219"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 219</span>the parson +so much, that he took to his heels and ran for it, he running +after him, till he took shelter in a house.</p> +<p>Having well recruited his pockets by this stratagem, he left +the city next day, and travelled towards Bath, acting the madman +all the way till he came to Bath. As soon as he came there, +he inquired for Dr. Cooney’s, and being directed to his +house, found two brother mendicants at the door; after they had +waited some time, the servant brought each of them a halfpenny, +for which his brother mendicants were very thankful; but Mr. +Carew gave his halfpenny to one of them; then knocking at the +door, and the maid coming out again, Tell your master, said he, I +am not a halfpenny man, but that my name is Bampfylde Moore +Carew, king of the mendicants, which being told, the Dr. came out +with one of his daughters, and gave him sixpence and a mug of +drink, for which he returned thanks.</p> +<p>The next day he went to Mr. Allen’s seat, near Bath, and +sent in a petition as from a poor lunatic, by which he got +half-a-crown. From thence he made the best of his way to +Shepton Mallet, when, calling at Mr. Hooper’s, and telling +the servant who he was, the mistress ordered him in, and inquired +if he was really the famous Bampfylde Carew; she then gave him +five shillings, and ordered him to be well entertained. At +Shepton Mallet our hero had the pleasure of meeting with his +beloved wife, to their mutual joy and satisfaction; and finding +several brethren of the order there, they passed some days +together with much mirth and harmony.</p> +<p><!-- page 220--><a name="page220"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +220</span>Going near Rye, in Sussex, (where, upon account of +their extraordinary merit, the two brothers L---d are perpetually +mayors,) he met two of his mendicant subjects, who acquainted him +there was no entering the town, but with extreme hazard to his +person, upon account of the severity which the mayor exercised +towards all of their community. Mr. Carew’s wife +hearing this, entreated him in the most tender manner not to +venture into the town; but as his great heart always swelled when +any thing hazardous presented, and as he was willing to show his +subjects, by example, that nothing was too difficult for industry +and ingenuity to overcome, he was resolved to enter Rye; which he +did with a very slow, feeble, and tottering pace, stopping every +minute by the most violent fits of coughing, whilst every limb +shook with an universal palsy, his countenance appearing rather +to be the property of some one among the dead than to belong to +any living body: in this manner he crept along to the +mayor’s house, and in a most lamentable moan begged some +relief. The mayor, seeing so deplorable a figure, said he +was indeed a real object of pity; and therefore gave him a +shilling, and liberty to go through the town; which he did with +no little profit, and with great applause from the mendicants, +when they heard of his success.</p> +<p>Steering from thence to Dungeness, he found a vessel ready to +sail for Boulogne, on board of which he embarked, and landed safe +there; and found it so thronged with English soldiers, (it being +soon after the reducing of the army,) that had he not known the +contrary, he should have <!-- page 221--><a +name="page221"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 221</span>thought +himself in some town in England. Some of the soldiers +knowing him, cried out, Here’s Bampfylde Moore Carew! upon +which they took him along with them to their quarters, and they +passed the day very merrily: the soldiers expressed great +discontent at their being discharged, swearing they would never +come over to England any more, saying, if they had not come over +then, they should have been either starved or hanged. He +then inquired how they lived in France? They replied, never +better in their lives. From Boulogne he set off for Calais; +where he likewise found a great multitude of English soldiers, +and more were daily coming in. Whilst he was here, the Duke +of Richmond arrived, in his way to Paris; who, seeing many +English soldiers, asked some of them why they came there? to +which they replied, they should have been either starved or +hanged if they had staid in England. Mr. Carew intended to +have paid his respects to his grace, but had not an opportunity; +and soon after, being taken very ill, was obliged to desist from +his intended design of making a tour through France, Germany, +&c.</p> +<p>He therefore took a passage in the packet-boat from Calais, +and landed at Dover; from hence he went to Folkstone, where he +got a pass and relief from the mayor, under the name of John +Moore, a native of St. Ives, in Cornwall, who had been cast away +on the coast of France, in a vessel coming from Ireland. +Having borne this character as long as suited his inclination, he +metamorphosed himself again, and appeared in quite a different +shape. He now wore a full handsome tie-wig, but a little +<!-- page 222--><a name="page222"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +222</span>changed by age; a good beaver hat, somewhat duffy; a +fine broad-cloth coat, but not of the newest fashion, and not a +little faded in its colour. He was now a gentleman of an +ancient family and good estate, but reduced by a train of +uncommon misfortunes. His venerable looks, his dejected +countenance, the visible struggles between the shame of asking +and the necessity which forced him to it, all operated to move +the pity of those he applied to, which was generally shown by +handsome contributions, for few could think of offering mites to +a gentleman of so ancient a family, and who had formerly lived so +well; and indeed how much soever we may envy the great in their +prosperity, we are as ready to relieve them in their +misfortunes.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew happening to be in the city of Wells, in +Somersetshire, on a Sunday, was told that the bishop was to +preach that morning: upon which he slips on a black waistcoat and +morning-gown, and went out to meet the bishop as he was walking +in procession, and addressed himself to his lordship as a poor +unhappy man, whose misfortunes had turned his brain; which the +bishop hearing, gave him five shillings. From Wells he +steered to Bridgewater, but did not appear in the day-time, and +went only in the evenings upon his crutches, as a poor lame man, +not being known by any one till he discovered himself.</p> +<p>Having heard that young Lord Clifford, his first cousin, (who +had just returned from his travels abroad,) was at his seat at +Callington, about four miles from Bridgewater, he resolved to pay +him a visit. In his way thither resided Parson <!-- page +223--><a name="page223"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +223</span>C---, who being one whom nature had made up in a hurry +without a heart, Mr. Carew had never been able to obtain any +thing of him, even under the most moving appearance of distress, +but a cup of small drink. Stopping now in his way, he found +the parson was gone to Lord Clifford’s, but being saluted +at the door by a fine black spaniel, with almost as much +crustiness as he would have been, had his master been at home, he +thought himself under no stronger obligation of observing the +strict laws of honour, than the parson did of hospitality; and +therefore soon charmed the crossness of the spaniel, and made him +follow him to Bridgewater; for it is very remarkable “that +the art has been found of taming the most savage and ill-natured +brutes, which is generally attended with success; but it requires +a much higher skill, and is but seldom successful, to soften the +ill-nature and inhumanity of man: whether it is that the brutes +are more capable of receiving instruction, or whether the +ill-nature of man exceeds that of the brutes, we cannot well +determine.”</p> +<p>Having secured the spaniel, and passed the night merrily in +Bridgewater, he set out the next morning for Lord +Clifford’s, and in his way called upon the parson again, +who very crustily told him he had lost his dog, and supposed some +of his gang had stolen him: to which Mr. Carew very calmly +replied, What was he to his dog, or what was his dog to him? if +he would make him drink it was well, for he was very dry: at +last, with the use of much rhetoric, he got a cup of small drink; +then, taking leave of him, he went to the Red Lion, in the same +parish, where he staid some time. In <!-- page 224--><a +name="page224"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 224</span>the mean +time down ran the parson to my Lord Clifford’s, to acquaint +him that Mr. Carew was in the parish, and to advise him to take +care of his dogs; so that Mr. Carew, coming down immediately +after, found a servant with one dog in his arms, and another with +another: here one stood whistling and another calling, and both +my lord and his brother were running about to seek after their +favourites.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew asked my lord what was the meaning of this hurry, +and if his dogs were cripples, because he saw several carried in +the servants’ arms: adding, he hoped his lordship did not +imagine he was come to steal any of them. Upon which his +lordship told him, that parson C--- had advised him to be +careful, as he had lost his spaniel but the day before. It +may be so, replied he: the parson knows but little of me, or the +laws of our community, if he is ignorant that with us ingratitude +is unknown, and the property of our friends always sacred. +His lordship, hearing this, entertained him very handsomely, and +both himself and his brother made him a present.</p> +<p>There being about this time a great fair at Bridgewater, in +the county of Somerset, our hero appeared there upon crutches as +a poor miserable cripple, in company with many of his subjects +that were full as unfortunate as himself, some blind, some deaf, +some dumb, &c., among whom were his old friends and +school-fellows Martin, Escott, and Coleman. The mayor of +that corporation, a bitter enemy to their community, jocosely +said, that he would make the blind see, the deaf hear, and the +lame walk; and by way of preparation or <!-- page 225--><a +name="page225"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 225</span>beginning +to this intended cure, he had them all apprehended and confined +in a dark hole, which greatly terrified them with the +apprehension of severe punishment. After one night’s +repose in limbo, he sent a physician or surgeon of most profound +skill and judgment to them, who brought the keys of their +melancholy apartments, and pretending greatly to befriend them, +advised them, if there were any of them counterfeits, to make +haste out of the town, or otherwise they must expect no mercy +from the mayor, unknown to whom he had privately stolen the keys; +then, unlocking the door, forth issued the disabled and infirm +prisoners; the lame threw aside their crutches and artificial +legs, and made an exceeding good use of their natural ones: the +blind made shift to see the way out of town; and the deaf +themselves, with great attention, hearkened to this their friend, +and followed his advice with all possible speed. The mayor, +with the aldermen and several gentlemen, planted themselves +opposite to the prison, and were spectators to this diverting +scene, calling out to stop them, not with an intention to do them +any prejudice, but only of adding a spur to their speed: however +there were some who were ready enough to lay hold on them, and +our hero, in a struggle of this nature, left a skirt of his +garment behind him, which might be done without much violence, as +we may reasonably conclude it to have been none of the soundest; +and Coleman was so closely pursued, that he plunged into the +river, and swam to the opposite shore: in short, so well did +these cripples ply their limbs, that none of them <!-- page +226--><a name="page226"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +226</span>could be taken, excepting a real object, a lame man, +who, in spite of the fear and consternation he was in, could not +mend his decrepid pace: he therefore was brought before the +mayor, who, after slightly rebuking him for his vagrant course of +life, ordered him to be relieved in a very plentiful and generous +manner, and the whole corporation was exceeding kind to him.</p> +<p>One method of gaining his ends our hero had peculiar to +himself. He used with great intent to read the inscriptions +on tombs and monuments in church-yards, and when the deceased +person had a character for piety and charity, he would with the +greatest importunity apply to his or her surviving relations: +and, if they refused an alms, he would, in the most moving terms +imaginable, implore their charity for the sake of their deceased +relation, praying they would follow the laudable and virtuous +example of their dead husband, wife, father, mother, or the like; +hoping there was the same God, the same spirit of piety, +religion, and charity, still dwelling in the house as before the +death of the person deceased. These and the like +expressions, uttered in a most suppliant and pathetic voice, used +to extort not only very handsome contributions, but tears from +the person to whom he applied.</p> +<p>Some time after this, he engaged, at Burton, in Somersetshire, +in the habit and character of a seaman, cast away in coming from +Newfoundland, with a captain, who, by his great severity, had +rendered himself the terror of all the mendicant order; but he, +relying upon his perfect acquaintance with the country, ventured +up to him, <!-- page 227--><a name="page227"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 227</span>had the best entertainment his house +afforded, and was honourably dismissed with a considerable piece +of money. Captains H---h and N---n, with both of whom our +hero had sailed, were intimate acquaintances of this captain, of +whom he asked many questions, and also about Newfoundland, which +country trade he had used the most part of the time; to all which +questions he gave very satisfactory answers. This captain +had detected so many impostors, that he concluded they were all +so; but, not being able to find Mr. Carew in any one error, he +was very proud of it, pitied and relieved him in an extraordinary +manner, went with him himself to the principal people of the +town, wrote him letters of recommendation to his distant +relations and friends, that lay in his road, and acted with such +extraordinary kindness, as if he thought he could never do +enough; it is to be remarked, that he passed rather for a +passenger than a seaman.</p> +<p>In the same town lived Lord B---y, who had a son, who was +captain of the Antelope man-of-war, stationed in the West Indies, +and who died on the passage; Mr. Carew informed himself of every +circumstance relating thereto, and made it his business to meet +his lordship as he came out of church. After his first +application, he gave his lordship to understand, that he was a +spectator of the burial of his son on board the Antelope; at the +same time came up this critical captain, who gave him the +character of a man of great veracity, so that his lordship gave +him a guinea, his eldest son five shillings, and also good +entertainment from the house. This happened to be a fair +day; he <!-- page 228--><a name="page228"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 228</span>thereupon, going into the town, was +accosted by an apothecary, who whispered him in the ear, saying, +that he knew him to be the famous Bampfylde Moore Carew, and had +most grossly imposed upon the captain and the town, but at the +same time assured him that he would not injure him, but +faithfully keep the secret. In the mean time there was an +Irish quack-doctor in view, who had gathered the whole market +around him, and who, with more strength of lungs than sense of +argument, most loudly harangued, entertaining them in a very +florid manner with the sovereign virtues of his pills, plasters, +and self; and so far did he impose upon them, as to vend his +packets pretty plentifully, which the apothecary could not +forbear beholding with an envious eye, and jocularly asked Mr. +Carew if he could not help him to some revenge upon this +dangerous rival and antagonist of his; which he promised him to +do effectually.</p> +<p>Accordingly he got a little phial, and filled it up with +spirits of turpentine; he then mixed in with the gaping auditory +of this Irish itinerant physician, who was in the midst of them, +mounted on his steed adorned with a pompous curb-bridle, with a +large parcel of all-curing medicines in his bags behind him, and +was with a great deal of confidence and success, Æsculapius +like, distributing health around him: we must observe, that our +physician had taken his stand among the stalls of orange and +gingerbread merchants, shoemakers, glovers, and other such +retailers.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew therefore approached him, and planted himself close +by the horse, and, wetting <!-- page 229--><a +name="page229"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 229</span>his fingers +with the spirits, rested his hand upon the steed, as an +unconcerned person might have done; at the same time putting +aside the hair, he rubbed the turpentine upon the bare flesh, +which immediately beginning to burn and smart, the afflicted +quadruped began to express his sense of pain, by flinging his +hinder legs, gently shaking himself, and other restless motions, +which made the poor mountebank wonder what had befallen his +horse; but the pain increasing, the disorderly behaviour of the +steed increased proportionably, who now began to kick, prance, +stand on end, neigh, immoderately shake himself, utterly +disregarding both his bridle and rider, and running a tilt +against the stalls of oranges, gingerbread, gloves, breeches, +shoes, &c., which he overthrew and trampled under foot; this +occasioned a scramble among the boys for the eatables, and there +were some who were but too unmerciful to the scattered goods of +the poor shoemakers and glovers, who, enraged by their several +losses, began to curse the doctor and his Rosinante, who was all +this while capering, roaring, and dancing among their oranges, +panniers of eggs, &c., to the entire ruin of the hucksters, +who now began to deal very heavy blows, both on the unfortunate +horse and his distressed master. This odd spectacle and +adventure attracted the eyes and attention of the whole fair, +which was all in an uproar, some laughing, some crying, +(particularly the poor suffering pedlars,) some fighting, and +others most unmercifully cursing and swearing; to make short of +the story, the doctor rode about the fair, without either hat or +wig, at the pleasure and discretion of his <!-- page 230--><a +name="page230"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 230</span>horse, +among the ruined and overturned stalls and the dissipated mob, +who concluded both the quack and the steed to be either mad or +bewitched, and enjoyed their frolicsome situation.</p> +<p>The doctor, being no longer able to keep his seat, fell +headlong into the miry street; the horse ran into a river, and +rolled himself over several times, to the entire confusion and +ruin of the inestimable pills and plasters; the doctor employed a +good farrier, and after some time the horse came to himself +again. The reader may very easily judge what glorious +diversion this was for the apothecary and Mr. Carew, who were +spectators of the whole scene. He was treated handsomely +upon this account, not only by the apothecary, but all others of +the same profession in the town, and several other gentlemen.</p> +<p>Upon Mr. Carew’s departure from Burton, the generous +captain befriended him with many recommendatory letters to +friends and acquaintance, that lay in his road, as he pretended: +nay, indeed, he was never out of it; thence he proceeded to +Bristol, and other places where the letters were directed to, and +received considerable sums of money from many, on account of +these letters, which were mostly to captains of vessels, and +gentlemen that had been at sea, with whom he several times passed +muster very well; it being by desire of the captain, as was +mentioned in the letters, that they examined him.</p> +<p>Sometimes he and his wife, in conjunction with Coleman and his +wife, being all dressed genteelly, passed for gipseys of +extraordinary knowledge and reputation: many a poor credulous +unsuspecting <!-- page 231--><a name="page231"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 231</span>person became their prey, and many a +good booty they got in almost every town of the counties of +Cornwall and Devon. Once in particular, himself and +Coleman, with both their spouses, being in Buckford-sleigh, near +Exeter, one Mr. Collard, a wealthy but simple shoemaker, came to +their quarters, to consult them on a very intricate and important +affair; he told them, “that it was the opinion of every +body in the country, that his grandmother had somewhere concealed +very large sums of money before her death, and that himself, by +several dreams, was confirmed in the same opinion, and that he +thought proper to advise with them upon the affair; not doubting +but they, by the help of their profound learning and knowledge, +for which they were so famous through the west, were capable of +informing him in what particular place he might find this +particular treasure, which if they would discover to him, he +would give them thirty guineas.”</p> +<p>Our magicians, after long deliberation and consultation with +their books, told him, “that if he would that night take a +walk with one of them, he would see the spirit of his +grandmother; that he must not be afraid of the apparition, but +follow it till it vanished away, and in that individual spot of +ground from which the ghost vanished, there he would find the +hidden treasure.”</p> +<p>In order for the execution of this scheme, Coleman put a +woman’s cap on his head, washed his face, and sprinkled +meal on it while wet, stuck the broken pieces of a tobacco-pipe +between his teeth, and wrapping his body in a white sheet, +planted himself in the road that Collard and Mr. Carew <!-- page +232--><a name="page232"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +232</span>were to come; the moon at this time shone very bright, +which gave an additional horror to the pretended spectre. +Our hero, by virtue of his supposed profound learning and most +mysterious science, spoke to it in an unknown language, to the +following effect:—“High, wort, bush rumley to the +toggy cull, and ogle him in the muns;” at which command the +terrific hobgoblin fiercely advanced up to poor Collard, and with +a most ghastly look stared him in the face; the shoemaker was +greatly terrified thereat, and shook and trembled as if a fit of +the ague had been upon him, and, creeping close to Mr. Carew, +laid fast hold of his clothes, imagining he had sufficient power +to protect him from the threatening appearance of this insolent +apparition; whereupon he bid the ghost, “hike to the +vile;” and would have persuaded the frightened Collard to +have followed his departing grandmother, in order to observe the +particular place from which she vanished; but no persuasions of +his could induce him to move from his side.</p> +<p>They then returned to the alehouse they had left, and Mr. +Carew (this method of conjuration miscarrying through the +shoemaker’s fear,) cast a figure, and informed Crispin, +that, if he took up two or three planks of the floor of his +little parlour, he would there find the concealed treasure, at +the depth of about three or four feet: upon his hearing this +joyful news, the shoemaker instantly disbursed the thirty +guineas, highly extolling them as people of the profoundest skill +that he had ever heard of or conversed with: but whether he was +of the same opinion when he came to dig for the <!-- page +233--><a name="page233"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +233</span>treasure, we will not take upon us to say—but we +may suppose the contrary.</p> +<p>Happening, a short time after this, to be in Brakeness, near +Lymington, in the character of a cast-away seaman, he went to the +house of Mr. Joseph Haze, an eminent and wealthy presbyterian +parson, of whom he begged relief, in the most earnest manner he +was able, for God’s sake, with uplifted eyes and hands, and +upon his bended knee; but could not with all his importunity and +eloquence obtain a crust of bread, or a draught of small +beer. Mr. Carew, not accustomed to be unsuccessful in his +applications, could by no means brook this churlishness of the +parson, and thought it highly necessary, for the benefit of his +community, that it should not go unpunished. He was a great +sportsman, and had two fine greyhounds, the one named Hector, the +other Fly; and two excellent spaniels, Cupid and Dido, and an +admirable setting dog, called Sancho. Our hero, therefore, +about twelve o’clock on the same night, paid a second visit +to the parson’s house, and brought away all these fine dogs +with him. And afterwards he sent a letter to the parson, to +this purpose:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“<span class="smcap">Rev. Sir</span>,</p> +<p>“You err, if you suspect yourself to have been wronged +of your dogs by any of your neighbours; the cast-away seaman, who +begged so earnestly, for the love of God, to whom you would not +vouchsafe a crust of bread, or a draught of small beer, took them +away, to teach you another time to behave to unfortunate +strangers more <!-- page 234--><a name="page234"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 234</span>as becomes your profession, and your +plentiful circumstances.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The mayor of Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, fared little better at +his hands. This gentleman was an implacable enemy to all +Mr. Carew’s subjects. He therefore, happening to be +in that town, and overhearing the mayor talking to a gentleman in +the street, and saying that he was going to dine with Captain +Colloway, of Upton, he thought this a proper opportunity for +taking some revenge of the mayor, for the many indignities he had +put on his subjects. Having soon got intelligence what +suits of clothes the mayor had, and understanding he had a good +snuff-coloured suit, he went to his house, and informed the lady +mayoress that he was a seaman under misfortunes, had met with the +mayor, as he was going to dinner at Captain Colloway’s, of +Upton, and his honour had sent him to her, giving him orders to +receive his snuff-coloured suit of clothes from her; which the +good natured gentlewoman hearing, without the least scruple, +quickly brought him the coat, waistcoat, and breeches. Thus +our hero, by turning his natural ingenuity to account, procured a +handsome suit of clothes, while, at the same time, he was +revenging himself upon his enemy; fulfilling the old proverb of +killing two dogs with one stone. It is unnecessary to say, +that our hero departed from Weymouth forthwith.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew being in Bristol, at a time when there was a hot +press, wherein they not only impressed seamen, but able-bodied +landmen they could any where meet with, which made some fly <!-- +page 235--><a name="page235"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +235</span>one way, and some another, putting the city into a +great rout and consternation, he, among the rest, knowing himself +to have a body of rather a dangerous bigness, he was willing to +secure himself as effectually as he possibly could, greatly +preferring his own ease to the interest and honour of his +king. He therefore set his wife and landlady to work, who +with all speed, and proper attention to cleanliness, made a great +number of small mutton-pies, plum-puddings, cheesecakes, and +custards, which our hero, in the ordinary attire of a female +vender of these commodities, hawked about the city, crying, +Plum-pudding, plum-pudding, plum-pudding; hot plum-pudding; +piping hot, smoking hot, hot plum-pudding. Plum-pudding +echoed in every street and corner, even in the midst of the eager +press-gang, some of whom spent their penny with this masculine +pie-woman, and seldom failed to serenade her with many a +complimentary title, such as bitch and whore.</p> +<p>Arriving at Squire Rhodes’s seat, near +King’s-bridge in Devonshire, and knowing the squire had +married a Dorsetshire lady, he thought proper also to become a +Dorsetshire man, and of Lyme, which was the place of the +lady’s nativity, and applied himself to the squire and his +lady, whom he met both together, giving them to understand that +he was lost in a vessel belonging to Lyme. The squire and +his lady gave him five shillings each, for country’s sake, +and entertained him very well at their own house. This was +early in the forenoon, and he wished to put off his time a +little, before proceeding upon another adventure.</p> +<p>Going from hence, he went to a public-house, <!-- page +236--><a name="page236"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +236</span>called Malston-cross, about a quarter of a mile from +the squire’s; he there fell into company with Squire +Reynolds, Squire Ford, Dr. Rhodes, brother to the squire, and +several other gentlemen, who were met there to make happy after a +hunting-match, in which they had been uncommonly successful, and +were much inclined to be jovial. In the afternoon there was +a terrific storm of rain, thunder, and lightning, that continued +with great violence for several hours: in the midst of this +tempestuous weather, he (having a great mind to clear his +afternoon’s expenses) stripped off all his apparel, except +his nightcap, shoes, and breeches, and went to Squire +Rhodes’s. Nothing could possibly look with a more +deplorable appearance than this naked and wretched spectacle, in +such dreadful weather: the landlord with pity regarding his +destitute appearance, fetched him a shirt, as he thought, to +cover his nakedness; but upon his endeavouring to put it on, it +proved to be a smock belonging to the good woman of the house, +which afforded a great deal of diversion to the good squire and +his benevolent lady, who happened to be looking from their window +enjoying the mistake; when, calling to him, and inquiring from +whence he came, he pretended to have been cast away at +Bigbury-bay, during the late violent tempest, in a vessel +belonging to Poole, and he was the only person on board that had +escaped. Squire Rhodes ordered a fine Holland shirt, and a +suit of good clothes to be given to him, as also a hearty +refreshing dram; and then, kindly giving him five shillings, +dismissed him with every mark of commiseration for his +unfortunate condition, not <!-- page 237--><a +name="page237"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 237</span>in the +least suspecting him to be the poor Lyme man, whom both his lady +and himself had been so generous in relieving his wants in the +morning. Having succeeded so much to his satisfaction in +levying two contributions, in one day, on the benevolent Squire +Rhodes and his lady, he quickly determined on making another +trial upon their good-nature: for which purpose he retired to the +nearest house which was frequented by the members of his +community, where he dressed himself as a farmer, and speedily +returned to the squire’s, to whose presence he was +admitted. He stated that he had been a tenant on the estate +of Squire H---, (a gentleman between whom and Squire Rhodes he +knew there was a disagreement of long standing,) for many years, +where he had reared a numerous and happy family in +respectability: that about three years ago the squire had seduced +his eldest daughter, a handsome girl of eighteen years, who died +in giving birth to a still-born son: that his wife had died +shortly after of a broken heart, and he was left to struggle +through the world with a helpless family of young children: that, +through bad crops and bad debts, he had fallen in arrears of his +rent; and his cruel landlord had seized upon his whole stock, and +turned him out of his favourite home, to become a destitute +wanderer—destitute of food, shelter or clothing for himself +and family. The benevolent Squire Rhodes whose ear was ever +open to the tale of pity—whose heart was ever ready to +relieve the unfortunate, after venting many imprecations on the +hard-hearted squire, bestowed a guinea on the poor farmer.</p> +<p><!-- page 238--><a name="page238"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +238</span>Having obtained this third contribution from the +unsuspecting squire, he returned to the public-house, where the +gentlemen waited for him (for they were the principal occasion of +this last adventure); and being informed how he had fared, +diverted themselves exceedingly with the stratagem; and shortly +after, meeting with Squire Rhodes, they discovered the various +impositions that had been practised upon him, and very heartily +bantered him thereupon.</p> +<p>Some time after this, Mr. Carew, exercising his profession at +Modbury (where squire Rhodes’s father lived), among other +houses made his application to Legassick’s, where he by +chance was visiting. Mr. Carew knocked at the kitchen door, +which being opened, he saw his old friend the squire, who was +then alone, and in a careless manner swinging his cane +about. As soon as he began to tell his lamentable tale, Mr. +Rhodes said, “I was three times in one day imposed on by +that rogue, Bampfylde Moore Carew, to whose gang you may very +likely belong; furthermore, I do not live here, but am a +stranger.” Mean time in comes Mr. Legassick, with a +bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr. Carew a private wink, to +let him understand that he knew him, and then very gravely +inquired into the circumstances of his misfortune, as also of the +affairs and inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to +have sailed several times; of all which he gave a full and +particular account; upon which Mr. Legassick gave him five +shillings, and recommended him as a real object to Mr. Rhodes, +who also made the same present; upon which Mr. Legassick burst +<!-- page 239--><a name="page239"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +239</span>out laughing; and, being asked the reason thereof, he +could not forbear telling him, even in Mr. Carew’s +presence; when Mr. Rhodes, finding himself a fourth time imposed +upon by the same person, with a great deal of good nature made +himself very merry therewith.</p> +<p>Mr. Carew being now advanced in years, and his strength +beginning to fail, he was seized with a violent fever, which +confined him to his bed for several weeks; on recovering he +reflected how idly he had spent his life, and came to the +resolution of resigning the Egyptian sceptre. The assembly +finding him determined, reluctantly complied, and he departed +amidst the applause, as well as the regrets of his subjects, who +despaired of ever again having such a king.</p> +<p>Our hero returned home to the place of his nativity, but +finding the air of the town not rightly to agree with him, and +the death of some of his relations rendering his circumstances +quite easy, he retired to the west country, where he purchased a +neat cottage, which he embellished in a handsome style, and lived +in a manner becoming a good old English gentleman, respected by +his neighbours, and beloved by the poor, to whom his doors were +ever open. Here he died, full of years and honours, +regretted by all.</p> +<p>Having left his daughter a handsome fortune, she was married +to a neighbouring gentleman of good family, by whom she had a +numerous family of promising children.</p> +<p>We shall now conclude our true history, by observing, that we +consider Mr. Carew to have as good a claim to fame and +immortality as any of <!-- page 240--><a name="page240"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 240</span>the heroes of the present age. +We acknowledge he had his faults, but every body knows a perfect +character is quite out of fashion, and that the authors of the +present age hold it as an absurdity to draw even a fictitious +hero without an abundance of faults.</p> +<h2><!-- page 241--><a name="page241"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 241</span>A DICTIONARY OF THE CANT +LANGUAGE.</h2> +<p>As the Language of the Community of Gipseys is very +expressive, and different from all others, we think we shall +gratify the curious by publishing a specimen of it.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p><i>ABRAM</i>, naked, without clothes, or scarce enough to +cover the nakedness.</p> +<p><i>Ambi-dexter</i>, one that goes snacks in gaming with both +parties; also a lawyer that takes fees of a plaintiff and +defendant at once.</p> +<p><i>Alel-Wackets</i>, blows given on the palm of the hand with +a twisted handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular punishment +among seamen, who sometimes play at cards for wackets, the loser +suffering as many strokes as he has lost games.</p> +<p><i>Abram Cove</i>, among thieves signifies a naked or poor +man; also a lusty strong rogue.</p> +<p><i>Adam</i>, <i>Tiler</i>, a pickpocket’s associate, who +receives the stolen goods.</p> +<p><i>Air</i> and <i>Exercise</i>. He has had air and +exercise, i.e., has been whipped at the cart’s tail; or, as +it is generally expressed, at the cart’s arse.</p> +<p><i>Alls</i>, the Five Alls is a country sign, representing +five human figures, each having a motto under him. The +first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the +second a bishop in his pontificals; motto, I pray <!-- page +242--><a name="page242"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +242</span>for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead +for all: fourth, a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; +with the motto, I fight for all: and the fifth, a poor countryman +with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all.</p> +<p><i>Amen Curler</i>, a parish clerk.</p> +<p><i>Anodyne Necklace</i>, a halter.</p> +<p><i>Arch Rogue</i>, or <i>Dimber Damber Upright Man</i>, the +chief of a gang of gipseys.</p> +<p><i>Arch Doxy</i>, signifies the same in rank among the female +canters or gipseys.</p> +<p><i>Ard</i>, hot.</p> +<p><i>Autumn Mort</i>, a married woman; also a female beggar with +several children, hired to excite charity.</p> +<p><i>Autumn</i>, a church; also married.</p> +<p><i>Autumn bawler</i>, a preacher.</p> +<p><i>Autumn cacklers</i> or <i>prick-ears</i>, dissenters of +whatever denomination.</p> +<p><i>Autumn divers</i>, church pickpockets; but often used for +churchwardens, overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who +manage the poor’s money.</p> +<p><i>Autumn jet</i>, a parson.</p> +<p><i>Babes in the Wood</i>, criminals in the stocks.</p> +<p><i>Back’d</i>, dead.</p> +<p><i>Badge Coves</i>, parish pensioners.</p> +<p><i>Balsam</i>, money.</p> +<p><i>Bam</i>, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug.</p> +<p><i>Bandog</i>, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his +yeomen; also a fierce mastiff.</p> +<p><i>Bandero</i>, a widow’s mourning peak; also a musical +instrument.</p> +<p><i>Baptised</i>, rum, brandy, or any other spirits that have +been lowered with water.</p> +<p><i>Barker</i>, a salesman’s servant that walks before +the shop, and cries, coats, gowns, &c., what d’ye +buy?</p> +<p><i>Barking irons</i>, pistols, from their explosion resembling +the barking of a dog.</p> +<p><i>Barnacles</i>, a good job, or a snack easily got; also, the +irons worn by felons in gaols.</p> +<p><i>Barrel Fever</i>, he died of the barrel fever; he killed +himself by drinking.</p> +<p><i>Battner</i>, an ox.</p> +<p><i>Bawbee</i>, a halfpenny.</p> +<p><!-- page 243--><a name="page243"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +243</span><i>Baudrons</i>, a cat.</p> +<p><i>Beak</i>, a justice of peace, or magistrate.</p> +<p><i>Beard splitter</i>, a whoremaster, or a beadle.</p> +<p><i>Beater cases</i>, boots.</p> +<p><i>Bellows</i>, the lungs.</p> +<p><i>Belly cheat</i>, an apron.</p> +<p><i>Bill of sale</i>, a widow’s weeds.</p> +<p><i>Bing</i>, to go, bing avast; get you gone. Binged +avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night. Bing we to +Rumvilck; shall we go to London.</p> +<p><i>Bingo</i>, brandy, or other spirituous liquor.</p> +<p><i>Bingo boy</i>, a dram drinker.</p> +<p><i>Bingo mort</i>, a female dram drinker.</p> +<p><i>Bingowaste</i>, get you hence.</p> +<p><i>Black fly</i>, the greatest drawback on the farmer is the +black fly, i.e. the parson.</p> +<p><i>Bleating rig</i>, sheep-stealing.</p> +<p><i>Blind harpers</i>, beggars counterfeiting blindness, +playing on fiddles, &c.</p> +<p><i>Black box</i>, a lawyer.</p> +<p><i>Black Indies</i>, Newcastle, from whence the coals are +brought.</p> +<p><i>Black spy</i>, the devil.</p> +<p><i>Blind cheek</i>, the breech.</p> +<p><i>Blowen</i>, a whore.</p> +<p><i>Bluffer</i>, an innkeeper, or victualler.</p> +<p><i>Boarding school</i>, Bridewell, Newgate, or any other +prison, or house of correction.</p> +<p><i>Bob</i>, a shoplifter’s assistant, or one that +receives and carries off stolen goods.</p> +<p><i>Bob ken</i>, or <i>a Brownmanken</i>, a well furnished +house.</p> +<p><i>Bone</i>, to apprehend, seize, or arrest.</p> +<p><i>Bone box</i>, the mouth.</p> +<p><i>Bone Darkmans</i>, a good night.</p> +<p><i>Bone setter</i>, a hard-trotting horse.</p> +<p><i>Booby hutch</i>, a one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or +leathern bottle.</p> +<p><i>Borde</i>, a shilling.</p> +<p><i>Bouncing cheat</i>, a bottle.</p> +<p><i>Bracket face</i>, ugly, ill-favoured.</p> +<p><i>Brown George</i>, an ammunition loaf.</p> +<p><i>Buck’s face</i>, a cuckold.</p> +<p><i>Bufe</i>, a dog.</p> +<p><i>Butt’s eye</i>, a crown, or five shilling piece.</p> +<p><!-- page 244--><a name="page244"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +244</span><i>Bung</i>, a purse, pocket, or fob.</p> +<p><i>Bur</i>, a hanger-on, a dependant.</p> +<p><i>Bum bailiff</i>, a sheriff’s officer who arrests +debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at +their bums, or as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their +a---s. Blackstone says it is a corruption of bound bailiff, +from their being obliged to give bond for their good +behaviour.</p> +<p><i>Bum brusher</i>, a schoolmaster.</p> +<p><i>Bus-napper</i>, a constable.</p> +<p><i>Bus-napper’s kenchin</i>, a watchman.</p> +<p><i>Bye-blow</i>, a bastard.</p> +<p><i>Calle</i>, a cloak or gown.</p> +<p><i>Cank</i>, dumb.</p> +<p><i>Canniken</i>, the plague.</p> +<p><i>Cap</i>, to swear.</p> +<p><i>Captain Queernabs</i>, a fellow in poor clothes.</p> +<p><i>Caravan</i>, a good round sum of money about a man.</p> +<p><i>Case</i>, a house, shop, or warehouse.</p> +<p><i>Cassun</i>, cheese.</p> +<p><i>Caster</i>, a cloak.</p> +<p><i>Calfskin fiddle</i>, a drum. To smack calfskin; to +kiss the book in taking the oath. It is held by the St. +Giles’s casuists, that by kissing one’s own thumb +instead of smacking calfskin, the guilt of taking a false oath is +avoided.</p> +<p><i>Canticle</i>, a parish clerk.</p> +<p><i>Canting</i>, preaching with a whining affected tone, +perhaps a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew +Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who used that whining manner of +expression. Also, a kind of gibberish used by thieves and +gipseys, called, likewise, pedlar’s French.</p> +<p><i>Catamaran</i>, an old scraggy woman; from a kind of float, +made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving shipwrecked +persons.</p> +<p><i>Catch Club</i>, a member of the catch club; a bum +bailiff.</p> +<p><i>Chanticleer</i>, a cock.</p> +<p><i>Charactered</i>, or <i>Lettered</i>, burnt in the +hand. They have palmed the character upon him, they have +burned him in the hand.</p> +<p><i>Charm</i>, a picklock.</p> +<p><i>Chates</i>, the gallows.</p> +<p><!-- page 245--><a name="page245"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +245</span><i>Chats</i>, lice.</p> +<p><i>Chanter culls</i>, grub-street writers, who compose songs +and carrols for ballad singers.</p> +<p><i>Cherubims</i>, peevish children, because cherubim and +seraphim continually do cry.</p> +<p><i>Cheat-the-devil</i>, a dicky.</p> +<p><i>Chife</i>, a knife, file, or saw.</p> +<p><i>Chosen Pells</i>, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the +streets and squares of London; to prevent being followed by the +sound of their horses’ shoes on the stones, they shoe them +with leather.</p> +<p><i>Chuck farthing</i>, a parish clerk.</p> +<p><i>Clank napper</i>, a silver tankard.</p> +<p><i>Clickman Toad</i>, a watch; also, an appellation for a +west-countryman, said to have arisen from the following—a +westcountryman, who had never seen a watch, found one on a heath +near Pool, which, by the motion of the hand, and the noise of the +wheels, he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind; +and, from its clicking, he named it a clickman toad.</p> +<p><i>Clowes</i>, rogues.</p> +<p><i>Cloy</i>, thief, robber, &c.</p> +<p><i>Cloyes</i>, thieves, robbers, &c.</p> +<p><i>Cly</i>, money; also, a pocket. He has filed a cly; +he has picked a pocket.</p> +<p><i>Cold burning</i>, a punishment inflicted by private +soldiers, on their comrades, for any trifling offences of their +mess laws; it is administered in the following manner—the +prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is to be +burned tied as high above his head as possible; the executioner +then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it +slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting him, and +leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at the +bottom of his trowsers—this is repeated to the other arm, +if he is sentenced to be burned in both.</p> +<p><i>Cloak</i>, a silver tankard.</p> +<p><i>Coach wheel</i>, or <i>a fore coach wheel</i>, +half-a-crown; <i>a hind coach wheel</i>, a crown.</p> +<p><i>Cobblecotter</i>, a turnkey.</p> +<p><i>Collar day</i>, execution day.</p> +<p><i>Colquarron</i>, a man’s neck.</p> +<p><i>Comefa</i>, a shirt, or shift.</p> +<p><!-- page 246--><a name="page246"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +246</span><i>Commission</i>, a shirt.</p> +<p><i>Comfortable impudence</i>, a wife.</p> +<p><i>Cooler</i>, a woman.</p> +<p><i>Costard</i>, the head.</p> +<p><i>Court card</i>, a gay fluttering coxcomb.</p> +<p><i>Cow’s baby</i>, a calf.</p> +<p><i>Cow-handed</i>, awkward, not dextrous.</p> +<p><i>Crab shells</i>, shoes.</p> +<p><i>Cramp word</i>, sentence of death passed on a criminal by a +judge:—he has just undergone the cramp word; sentence has +just been passed upon him.</p> +<p><i>Crew</i>, a knot or gang: the canting crew are thus divided +into twenty-three orders:—</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Men</span>.</p> +<p>1. Rufflers.</p> +<p>2. Upright Men.</p> +<p>3. Hookers, or Anglers.</p> +<p>4. Rogues.</p> +<p>5. Wild Rogues.</p> +<p>6. Priggers, or Prancers.</p> +<p>7. Pailliards.</p> +<p>8. Fraters.</p> +<p>9. Jarkmen, or Patricoes.</p> +<p>10. Fresh Water Mariner’s or Whip Jackets.</p> +<p>11. Drummerers.</p> +<p>12. Drunken Tinkers.</p> +<p>13. Swaddlers, or Pedlars.</p> +<p>14. Abrams.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Women</span>.</p> +<p>1. Demanders for Glimmer or Fire.</p> +<p>2. Bawdy Baskets.</p> +<p>3. Morts.</p> +<p>4. Autumn Morts.</p> +<p>5. Walking Morts.</p> +<p>6. Doxies.</p> +<p>7. Delles.</p> +<p>8. Kinchin Morts.</p> +<p>9. Kinchin Coves.</p> +<p><i>Crookmans</i>, hedges.</p> +<p><!-- page 247--><a name="page247"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +247</span><i>Coxy</i>, a stupid fellow.</p> +<p><i>Crook</i>, sixpence.</p> +<p><i>Croker</i>, a groat, or fourpence.</p> +<p><i>Croppen</i>, the tail of any thing.</p> +<p><i>Cucumbers</i>, tailors.</p> +<p><i>Cuffin cove</i>, a drunken fellow.</p> +<p><i>Cull</i>, a fellow.</p> +<p><i>Cut his stick</i>, run away.</p> +<p><i>Culp</i>, a kick, or blow.</p> +<p><i>Cup hot</i>, drunk.</p> +<p><i>Cursitors</i>, pettyfogging attornies.</p> +<p><i>Cussin</i>, a man.</p> +<p><i>Darby</i>, ready money.</p> +<p><i>Dace</i>, twopence;—tip me a dace; lend me +twopence.</p> +<p><i>Dag</i>, a gun.</p> +<p><i>Damber</i>, or <i>Dimber</i>, a rascal.</p> +<p><i>Dancers</i>, stairs.</p> +<p><i>Darkmans</i>, night.</p> +<p><i>Dash</i>, a tavern drawer.</p> +<p><i>Dawbe</i>, a bribe or reward for secret service.</p> +<p><i>Decus</i>, a crown.</p> +<p><i>Degen</i>, a sword.</p> +<p><i>Diddle</i>, gin.</p> +<p><i>Diggers</i>, spurs.</p> +<p><i>Dimber Damber</i>, a top-man among the canting crew; also +the chief rogue of the gang, or the greatest cheat.</p> +<p><i>Dimbermort</i>, a pretty wench.</p> +<p><i>Doash</i>, a cloak.</p> +<p><i>Dobin rig</i>, stealing ribbons from haberdashers early in +the morning, or late at night, generally practised by women in +the disguise of maid-servants,</p> +<p><i>Doctor</i>, milk and water, with a little rum and some +nutmeg; also the name of a composition used by distillers, to +make spirits appear stronger than they really are.</p> +<p><i>Doctors</i>, loaded dice that will run but two or three +chances—they put the doctors upon him; they cheated him +with loaded dice.</p> +<p><i>Dodsey</i>, a woman; perhaps a corruption of Doxey.</p> +<p><i>Downy cove</i>, a smart fellow.</p> +<p><i>Drumbelow</i>, a dull fellow.</p> +<p><i>Dunnikin</i>, a necessary, or little-house.</p> +<p><i>Dunaker</i>, a stealer of cows and calves.</p> +<p><i>Eriffs</i>, rogues just initiated, and beginning to +practise.</p> +<p><!-- page 248--><a name="page248"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +248</span><i>Eternity box</i>, a coffin.</p> +<p><i>Facer</i>, a bumper without lip room.</p> +<p><i>Families</i>, rings.</p> +<p><i>Famms</i>, hands.</p> +<p><i>Fastener</i>, a warrant.</p> +<p><i>Fawney</i>, a ring.</p> +<p><i>Feeder</i>, a spoon:—to nab the feeder; to steal a +spoon.</p> +<p><i>Fermerdy beggars</i>, all those who have not the sham sores +or clymes.</p> +<p><i>Ferret</i>, a pawnbroker or tradesman, that sells goods to +young spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts +them without mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they +perish for their debt.</p> +<p><i>Fidlam Ben</i>, general thieves; called also St. +Peter’s sons, having every finger a fish-hook.</p> +<p><i>Flag</i>, a groat.</p> +<p><i>Flash</i>, a periwig.</p> +<p><i>Flaybottomist</i>, a bum-thrasher, or schoolmaster.</p> +<p><i>Flick</i>, old-fashioned, or sly.</p> +<p><i>Flicker</i>, a drinking-glass.</p> +<p><i>Flicking</i>, to cut, cutting; as flick me some panea and +cassan, cut me some bread and cheese.</p> +<p><i>Flute</i>, the recorder of London, or any other town.</p> +<p><i>Flyers</i>, shoes or boots.</p> +<p><i>Fogus</i>, tobacco: tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe +of tobacco.</p> +<p><i>Froglanders</i>, Dutchmen.</p> +<p><i>Frummagemmed</i>, choked, strangled, or hanged.</p> +<p><i>Furmen</i>, aldermen.</p> +<p><i>Gaberlunzie</i>, a beggar.</p> +<p><i>Gan</i>, a mouth.</p> +<p><i>Gans</i>, the lips.</p> +<p><i>Gage</i>, a liquor pot, or a tobacco pipe.</p> +<p><i>George</i>, a half-crown piece.</p> +<p><i>Gem</i>, a fire.</p> +<p><i>Gentry cove</i>, a gentleman.</p> +<p><i>Gibberish</i>, the cant language of thieves and gipseys, +called pedlars’s French, St. Giles’s Greek, and the +Flash tongue: also the mystic language of Geber, used by +chemists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised +language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable +of an English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of +the letter inserted; if <i>f</i>, it is <!-- page 249--><a +name="page249"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 249</span>the +<i>f</i> gibberish; if <i>g</i>, the <i>g</i> gibberish; as in +the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog?</p> +<p><i>Gigg</i>, a nose: snitchell his gigg; fillip his nose: +grunter’s gigg; a hog’s snout. Gigg is also a +high one-horse chaise.</p> +<p><i>Gipseys</i>, a set of wandering vagrants found in the +country. When a fresh recruit is admitted into this +fraternity, he is to take the following oath, administered by the +principal maunder, after going through the annexed +forms:—</p> +<p>First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to +be called; then standing up in the middle of the assembly, and +directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the +gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by +some experienced member of the fraternity:</p> +<p>I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I +will in all things obey the commands of the great tawney prince, +and keep his council, and not divulge the secrets of my +brethren.</p> +<p>I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and +keep all the times of appointment, either by day or night in +every place whatever.</p> +<p>I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of +our mysteries to them.</p> +<p>I will take my prince’s part against all that shall +oppose him, or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability: +nor will I suffer him, or any one belonging to us, to be abused +by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, +Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen, bawdy baskets, +domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or curtails; but will +defend him or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers +whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, or +from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the +company. Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and +will bring her duds, margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, +or tibs of the buttery, or any thing else I can come at, as +winnings for her wappings.</p> +<p><i>Gigger</i>, a door.</p> +<p><i>Globe</i>, pewter.</p> +<p><!-- page 250--><a name="page250"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +250</span><i>Glue-pot</i>, a parson; from joining men and women +together in matrimony.</p> +<p><i>Glaziers</i>, eyes.</p> +<p><i>Glim</i>, a dark lantern.</p> +<p><i>Glimfenders</i>, hand-irons.</p> +<p><i>Glim</i>, a candle.</p> +<p><i>Glimstick</i>, a candlestick.</p> +<p><i>Gaoler’s coach</i>, a hurdle.</p> +<p><i>Goose Riding</i>: a goose, whose neck is greased, being +suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, +a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull +off the head; which if they effect, the goose is their +prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the +memory of persons now living.</p> +<p><i>Grannan gold</i>, old hoarded coin.</p> +<p><i>Green bag</i>, a lawyer.</p> +<p><i>Grig</i>, a farthing.</p> +<p><i>Gropers</i>, blind men.</p> +<p><i>Gutter-lane</i>, the throat.</p> +<p><i>Hammer</i>, a great lie, a rapper.</p> +<p><i>Halberhead</i>, a silly foolish fellow.</p> +<p><i>Half nab</i>, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or +miss.</p> +<p><i>Half-borde</i> sixpence.</p> +<p><i>Hams</i>, breeches.</p> +<p><i>Hamlet</i>, a high constable.</p> +<p><i>Hand-me-downs</i>, second-hand clothes.</p> +<p><i>Hanktel</i>, a silly fellow, a mere cod’s-head.</p> +<p><i>Hansan kelder</i>, a jack in the box, the child in the +womb, or a health to it.</p> +<p><i>Harman</i>, a constable.</p> +<p><i>Harmanbeck</i>, a beadle.</p> +<p><i>Hawk</i>, a sharper.</p> +<p><i>Hazel gold</i>, to beat any one with a stick.</p> +<p><i>Hearingcheats</i>, ears.</p> +<p><i>Heaver</i>, the breast.</p> +<p><i>Hell</i>, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage +or remnants, which are sometimes very large.</p> +<p><i>Hempen widow</i>, one whose husband was hanged.</p> +<p><i>Henfright</i>, those commanders and officers who are +absolutely swayed by their wives.</p> +<p><i>High tide</i>, when the pocket is full of money.</p> +<p><i>Hocus</i>, disguised in liquor, drunk.</p> +<p><!-- page 251--><a name="page251"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +251</span><i>Hodmendods</i>, snails in their shells.</p> +<p><i>Hoggrubber</i>, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking +fellow.</p> +<p><i>Hop-merchant</i>, a dancing-master.</p> +<p><i>Hum-box</i>, a pulpit.</p> +<p><i>Humpty-dumpty</i>, ale boiled with brandy.</p> +<p><i>Hums</i>, persons at church.</p> +<p><i>Huskylour</i>, a job, a guinea.</p> +<p><i>Iron doublet</i>, a parson.</p> +<p><i>Itchland</i>, Ireland.</p> +<p><i>Jackrum</i>, a licence.</p> +<p><i>Jack Adams</i>, a fool.</p> +<p><i>Jack-a-dandy</i>, a little insignificant fellow.</p> +<p><i>Jack-in-a-box</i>, a sharper or cheat.</p> +<p><i>Jack-at-a-pinch</i>, a poor hackney parson.</p> +<p><i>Jacobites</i>, sham or collar shirts.</p> +<p><i>Jack</i>, a seal.</p> +<p><i>Jet</i>, a lawyer</p> +<p><i>Ken</i>, a house.</p> +<p><i>Kicks</i>, breeches.</p> +<p><i>Kill devil</i>, row.</p> +<p><i>Kinchin</i>, a little child.</p> +<p><i>King’s pictures</i>, money of any description.</p> +<p><i>Laced mutton</i>, a woman.</p> +<p><i>Lag</i>, last; lagging behind, to be hindmost.</p> +<p><i>Lage</i>, water.</p> +<p><i>Lage duds</i>, a buck of clothes.</p> +<p><i>Lambskin men</i>, the judges of several courts.</p> +<p><i>Lansprisado</i>, he that comes into company with only +two-pence in his pocket.</p> +<p><i>Lantern</i>. <i>A dark lantern</i>, the servant or +agent that receives the bribe at court.</p> +<p><i>Libben</i>, a private dwelling-house.</p> +<p><i>Libbege</i>, a bed.</p> +<p><i>Lifter</i>, a crutch.</p> +<p><i>Lightmans</i>, the day, or day-break.</p> +<p><i>Line of the old author</i>, a dram of brandy.</p> +<p><i>Little Barbary</i>, Wapping.</p> +<p><i>Lop’d</i>, run away; he lop’d up the dancers, +he whipped up the dancers.</p> +<p><i>Loge</i>, a watch.</p> +<p><i>Louse-trap</i>, a comb.</p> +<p><i>Low tide</i>, when there’s no money in a man’s +pocket.</p> +<p><i>Lushy cove</i>, a drunken man.</p> +<p><!-- page 252--><a name="page252"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +252</span><i>Maik</i>, a halfpenny.</p> +<p><i>Mannikin</i>, a dwarf or diminutive fellow.</p> +<p><i>Maunders</i>, beggars.</p> +<p><i>Maundering breath</i>, scolding.</p> +<p><i>Meggs</i>, guineas.</p> +<p><i>Meet</i>, to spend money.</p> +<p><i>Millclapper</i>, a woman’s tongue.</p> +<p><i>Mist</i>, a contraction of commission, signifying a shirt, +smock or sheet.</p> +<p><i>Mishtopper</i>, a coat or petticoat.</p> +<p><i>Moabites</i>, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.</p> +<p><i>Moon-curser</i>, a link-boy.</p> +<p><i>Mower</i>, a cow.</p> +<p><i>Muck</i>, money, wealth.</p> +<p><i>Muttonmonger</i>, a lover of women.</p> +<p><i>Mutton in long coats</i>, women; a leg of mutton in a silk +stocking, a woman’s leg.</p> +<p><i>Nab</i>, a hat, cap, or head; also a coxcomb.</p> +<p><i>Ne’er a face but his own</i>, not a penny in his +pocket.</p> +<p><i>Nim gimmer</i>, a doctor, a surgeon, an apothecary.</p> +<p><i>Nubbing cheat</i>, the gallows.</p> +<p><i>Nut-crackers</i>, a pillory.</p> +<p><i>Oak</i>, a rich man of good substance and credit.</p> +<p><i>Ogles</i>, eyes.</p> +<p><i>Old flick</i> a knowing fellow.</p> +<p><i>One in ten</i>, a parson.</p> +<p><i>Pad-the-hoof</i>, journeying on foot.</p> +<p><i>Panum</i>, bread.</p> +<p><i>Panter</i>, a heart.</p> +<p><i>Pantler</i>, a butler.</p> +<p><i>Peaches</i>, discovers, informs.</p> +<p><i>Peeper</i>, a looking-glass.</p> +<p><i>Peter</i>, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag.</p> +<p><i>Peg tandrums</i>, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead.</p> +<p><i>Penance boards</i>, a pillory.</p> +<p><i>Penthouse nab</i>, a very broad-brimmed hat.</p> +<p><i>Periwinkle</i>, a peruke or wig.</p> +<p><i>Philistines</i>, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.</p> +<p><i>Porker</i>, a sword.</p> +<p><i>Property</i>, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a +cat’s foot.</p> +<p><i>Prig</i>, a thief.</p> +<p><i>Quail pipe</i>, a woman’s tongue.</p> +<p><!-- page 253--><a name="page253"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +253</span><i>Queer cuffin</i>, a justice of peace, also, a +churl.</p> +<p><i>Rabbit suckers</i>, young spendthrifts, taking goods on +tick of pawnbrokers or tallymen, at excessive rates.</p> +<p><i>Rattling</i> cove, a coachman.</p> +<p><i>Red rag</i>, a tongue; <i>your red rag will never lie +still</i>, your tongue will never be quiet.</p> +<p><i>Regraters</i>, forestallers in markets.</p> +<p><i>Ribben</i>, money.</p> +<p><i>Rotan</i>, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon +wheels, but principally a cart.</p> +<p><i>Royster</i>, a rude roaring fellow.</p> +<p><i>Ruffin</i>, the devil.</p> +<p><i>Ruffmans</i>, the woods or bushes.</p> +<p><i>Rumbeck</i>, a justice of peace.</p> +<p><i>Rumbo</i>, a prison.</p> +<p><i>Rumboozling welts</i>, bunches of grapes.</p> +<p><i>Rumboyled</i>, sought after with a warrant.</p> +<p><i>Rum clank</i>, a large silver tankard.</p> +<p><i>Rum degen</i>, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.</p> +<p><i>Rumdropper</i>, a vintner.</p> +<p><i>Rum ogle’s</i>, fine, bright, clear, piercing +eyes.</p> +<p><i>Rum-strum</i>, a long wig.</p> +<p><i>Rum-swag</i>, full of riches.</p> +<p><i>Scab</i>, a sixpence.</p> +<p><i>School butter</i>, a whipping.</p> +<p><i>Sconce</i>, to run in debt, to cheat.</p> +<p><i>Seeds</i>, poor, moneyless, exhausted.</p> +<p><i>Setters</i>, or <i>setting-dogs</i>, they that draw in +bubbles for old gamesters to rook; also a sergeant’s +yeoman, or bailiff’s follower; also an excise-officer.</p> +<p><i>Sharper</i>, a swindler, a cheat.</p> +<p><i>Sharper’s tools</i>, false dice.</p> +<p><i>Shot</i>, clapped or poxed.</p> +<p><i>Shove the tumbler</i>, whipped at the cart’s +tail.</p> +<p><i>Skin-flint</i>, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the +same as flat.</p> +<p><i>Smearer</i>, a painter, or plasterer.</p> +<p><i>Smeller</i>, a nose.</p> +<p><i>Smelling cheat</i>, a nosegay; also an orchard, a +garden.</p> +<p><i>Smiter</i>, an arm.</p> +<p><i>Smug</i>, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce.</p> +<p><i>Smite</i>, to wipe or slap.</p> +<p><!-- page 254--><a name="page254"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +254</span><i>Snitch</i>, to eye or see any body; the cub +snitches, the man eyes or sees you.</p> +<p><i>Snout</i>, a hogshead.</p> +<p><i>Sack</i>, a pocket.</p> +<p><i>Shanks’s naigs</i>, the feet.</p> +<p><i>Snacks</i>, full share.</p> +<p><i>Son of prattlement</i>, a lawyer.</p> +<p><i>Soul driver</i>, a parson.</p> +<p><i>South-sea mountain</i>, Geneva.</p> +<p><i>Sow’s baby</i>, a pig.</p> +<p><i>Spanish money</i>, fair words and compliments.</p> +<p><i>Spanks</i>, money, gold or silver.</p> +<p><i>Specked wiper</i>, a coloured handkerchief.</p> +<p><i>Spiritual flesh-broker</i>, a parson.</p> +<p><i>Split fig</i>, a grocer.</p> +<p><i>Splitter of causes</i>, a lawyer.</p> +<p><i>Spoil pudding</i>, a parson who makes his morning sermon +too long.</p> +<p><i>Squeel</i>, an informer.</p> +<p><i>Squirrish</i>, foolish.</p> +<p><i>Stamps</i>, legs.</p> +<p><i>Stampers</i>, shoes, or carriers.</p> +<p><i>Stick flams</i>, a pair of gloves.</p> +<p><i>Stoter</i>, a heavy blow.</p> +<p><i>Strapper</i>, a handsome woman.</p> +<p><i>Strommel</i>, straw.</p> +<p><i>Strum</i>, a periwig.</p> +<p><i>Stubble it</i>, hold your tongue.</p> +<p><i>Suit and cloak</i>, good store of brandy, or agreeable +liquor.</p> +<p><i>Supouch</i>, a hostess or landlady.</p> +<p><i>Swag</i>, a shop.</p> +<p><i>Swell cove</i>, a man with plenty of money.</p> +<p><i>Tagmans</i>, a gown or cloak.</p> +<p><i>Tanner</i>, a sixpence.</p> +<p><i>Tears of the tankard</i>, drops of good liquor that falls +aside.</p> +<p><i>Thrums</i>, threepence.</p> +<p><i>Tickler</i>, a knowing fellow.</p> +<p><i>Tile</i>, a hat.</p> +<p><i>Tip of the buttery</i>, a goose.</p> +<p><i>Tip</i>, to give or lend.</p> +<p><i>Tip’s your flipper</i>, give us a shake of your +hand.</p> +<p><i>Toggery</i>, clothes.</p> +<p><!-- page 255--><a name="page255"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +255</span><i>Top diver</i>, a lover of women.</p> +<p><i>Topping cheat</i>, the gallows.</p> +<p><i>Topping cove</i>, the hangman.</p> +<p><i>Topt</i>, to go out sharp, to be upon one’s +guard.</p> +<p><i>To twig</i>, to disengage, to sunder, to break off.</p> +<p><i>To twig the darbies</i>, to knock of the irons.</p> +<p><i>Track</i>, to go.</p> +<p><i>Trees</i>, wins threepence.</p> +<p><i>Trib</i>, a prison.</p> +<p><i>Trine</i>, to hang, also Tyburn.</p> +<p><i>Troch</i>, a drunkard.</p> +<p><i>Trooper</i>, a half-crown.</p> +<p><i>Trundles</i>, pease.</p> +<p><i>Tumbler</i>, a cart.</p> +<p><i>Turkey merchant</i>, driver of turkeys.</p> +<p><i>Vampers</i>, stockings.</p> +<p><i>Velvet</i>, a tongue.</p> +<p><i>To tip the velvet</i>, to tongue a woman.</p> +<p><i>Vinegar</i>, a cloak.</p> +<p><i>Wattles</i>, ears.</p> +<p><i>Whack</i>, a share.</p> +<p><i>Whids</i>, words.</p> +<p><i>Whipshire</i>, Yorkshire.</p> +<p><i>Whoball</i>, a milkmaid.</p> +<p><i>Whisker</i>, a great lie.</p> +<p><i>White wool</i>, silver money.</p> +<p><i>Whibble</i>, sad drink.</p> +<p><i>Whiddle</i>, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: +he whiddles the whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull +whiddled because they would not tip him a snack, the fellow +peached because they would not give him a share: they whiddle +beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves and we must make +off.</p> +<p><i>Whinyard</i>, a sword.</p> +<p><i>Whip off</i>, to run away, to drink off greedily, to +snatch: he whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, where he +whipped off a full tankard, and coming back whipped off a +fellow’s hat from his head.</p> +<p><i>White swelling</i>, a woman big with child is said to have +a white swelling.</p> +<p><i>Witcher</i>, a silver bowl.</p> +<p><i>Wing</i>, a penny.</p> +<p><!-- page 256--><a name="page256"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +256</span><i>Womblety cropt</i>, the indisposition of a drunkard +after a debauch in wine or other liquors.</p> +<p><i>Wooden Ruff</i>, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he +stood in the pillory.</p> +<p><i>Word-pecker</i>, one that plays with words, a punster.</p> +<p><i>Yam</i>, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.</p> +<p><i>Yarmouth-capon</i>, a red herring.</p> +<p><i>Yarum</i>, milk, or food made of milk.</p> +<p><i>Yellow George</i>, a guinea.</p> +<p><i>Yelper</i>, a town-crier; also one subject to complain or +make a pitiful lamentation.</p> +<p><i>Znees</i>, frost, or frozen.</p> +<p><i>Zneesy weather</i>, frosty weather.</p> +<h2>Footnotes</h2> +<p><a name="footnote12"></a><a href="#citation12" +class="footnote">[12]</a> As it has been long a dispute +among the learned and travellers, whether or no there are +cannibals or man-eaters existing, it may seem something strange +that we should assert there is, beyond all doubt, one of that +species often seen lurking near St. Paul’s, in the city of +London, and other parts of that city, seeking whom he may +devour.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58a"></a><a href="#citation58a" +class="footnote">[58a]</a> Hats or caps.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58b"></a><a href="#citation58b" +class="footnote">[58b]</a> Pointing to the new made king.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58c"></a><a href="#citation58c" +class="footnote">[58c]</a> Constables.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58d"></a><a href="#citation58d" +class="footnote">[58d]</a> Justices of the Peace, or +churls,</p> +<p><a name="footnote58e"></a><a href="#citation58e" +class="footnote">[58e]</a> A Beggar.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">printed by +william walker</span>, <span class="smcap">otley</span>.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF +BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 27210-h.htm or 27210-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/2/1/27210 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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