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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... the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in ... 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: and a dictionary of the Cant language, used by the mendicants
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert
1789
The authorship has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself. There are numerous versions with varying titles. "A dictionary of the Cant language," p. [19...
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
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert
[1813]
Engraved t.p., undated; plates undated. 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 hi...
The king of the beggars, or the history of Bampfylde Moore Carew who was the son of a gentleman near Plymouth, and ran away from his father and joined a gang of Gypsies, detailing the numerous tricks and impositions practiced by him in various disguises, with an account of the coronation of the king of the Gypsies
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)
(1827?)
A chapbook.