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 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, 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.
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.
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