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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)

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Transcribed from the 1850's Thomas Allman and Son edition by David Price,
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[Picture: Bampfylde Disguised with Children]

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.

[Picture: Bampfylde Frightening the Bellman]

LONDON:
THOMAS ALLMAN AND SON.
W. WALKER AND SON, OTLEY.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW.

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 who