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 ManUnknown
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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
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 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.
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.
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