The life and strange surprizing adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a Highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon. Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland; ...
Ramkins, Alexander,1672-1719?
Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731,attributed name.
London : printed for W. Boreham,
1720 [1719]
A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore).
Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs.
ESTC
Moore,