Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
Author: first_name: Bampfylde Moore
last_name: Carew
first_name: Robert
last_name: Goadby
Language: English
Year: 1850

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry alike, employing in his craft an ingenious variety of deceptions and disguises put on for the purpose. Often he impersonates a shipwreck-surviving seaman and uses his wide knowledge of foreign parts and personages to achieve plausibility. Or he might