The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars... : being a true account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gypsies ... : 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 king ; to which is added a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants
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Type of record: Book
Title: The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars... : being a true account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gypsies ... : 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 king ; to which is added a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants
Classmark: BC Rom Fraser CAR
Additional creator(s): Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?) (Other); Price, Thomas (1787-1848) (Other); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778) (Other); Goadby, Mrs Robert (Other)
Related people: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Browne
Publication city: Bath
Date(s): 1802
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/375104
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015941129705181
Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections
Description
One of the numerous versions with varying titles the authorship of which has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself.
"A dictionary of the cant terms": p. 117-124.
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