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The Life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars : being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gipsies, wherein the motives of his conduct are related and explained, the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe, with his travels twice through great part of America : giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies, with the method of electing their kings, and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?.
- Carew, Bampfylde Moore.
- Beggars--England.
- Beggars.
- Romanies.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Garret, John (Autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Taylor, 1789.
- Notes:
- One of numerous versions, with varying titles, of this work.
- Attributed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Robert Goadby and Carew himself. Cf. NUC pre-1956, 332, 549.
- "A dictionary of the cant language": p.[193]-204.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 27615
- Howes, W. U.s.iana (2nd ed.), c132
- OCLC:
- 84530037
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