# A Set of Rogues

A SET OF ROGUES
TO WIT
CHRISTOPHER SUTTON JOHN DAWSON The Señor Don SANCHEZ DEL CASTILLO de CASTELAÑA and MOLL DAWSON
THEIR WICKED CONSPIRACY
AND A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THEIR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
TOGETHER WITH MANY OTHER SURPRISING THINGS, NOW DISCLOSED FOR THE FIRST TIME, AS THE FAITHFUL CONFESSION OF CHRISTOPHER SUTTON
BY
FRANK BARRETT
Author of "The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane," "The Great Hesper," etc.
New York MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON 1895
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1895, BY MACMILLAN AND CO.
Norwood Press: J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS. :
| CHAPTER I. ||
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| Of my companions and our adversities, and in particular from our getting into the stocks at Tottenham Cross to our being robbed at Edmonton | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. ||
| Of our first acquaintance with the Señor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaña, and his brave entertaining of us | 10 |
| CHAPTER III. ||
| Of that design which Don Sanchez opened to us at the Bell | 18 |
| CHAPTER IV. ||
| Of the several parts that we are appointed to play | 27 |
| CHAPTER V. ||
| Don Sanchez puts us in the way of robbing with an easy conscience | 34 |
| CHAPTER VI. ||
| Moll is cast to play the part of a fine lady; doubtful promise for this undertaking | 46 ​ |
| CHAPTER VII. ||
| Of our journey through France to a very horrid pass in the Pyraneans | 52 |
| CHAPTER VIII. ||
| How we were entertained in the mountains, and stand in a fair way to have our throats cut | 61 |
| CHAPTER IX. ||
| Of the manner in which we escaped pretty fairly out of the hands of Señor Don Lopez and his brigands | 70 |
| CHAPTER X. ||
| Of our merry journeying to Alicante | 79 |
| CHAPTER XI. ||
| Of our first coming to Elche and the strangeness of that city | 88 |
| CHAPTER XII. ||
| How Don Sanchez very honestly offers to free us of our bargain if we will; but we will not | 96 |
| CHAPTER XIII. ||
| A brief summary of those twelve months we spent at Elche | 104 |
| CHAPTER XIV. ||
| Of our coming to London (with incidents by the way), and of the great address whereby Moll confounds Simon, the steward | 114 ​ |
| CHAPTER XV. ||
| Lay our hands on six hundred pounds and quarter ourselves in Hurst Court, but stand in a fair way to be undone by Dawson, his folly | 127 |
| CHAPTER XVI. ||
| Prosper as well as any thieves may; but Dawson greatly tormented | 135 |
| CHAPTER XVII. ||
| How Dawson for Moll's good parts company with us, and goes away a lonely man | 144 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. ||
| Of our getting a painter into the Court, with whom our Moll falls straightway in love | 152 |
| CHAPTER XIX. ||
| Of the business appointed to the painter, and how he set about the same | 161 |
| CHAPTER XX. ||
| Of Moll's ill humour and what befel thereby | 170 |
| CHAPTER XXI. ||
| Of the strange things told us by the wise woman | 180 |
| CHAPTER XXII. ||
| How Moll and Mr. Godwin come together and declare their hearts' passion, and how I carry these tidings to Dawson | 185 ​ |
| CHAPTER XXIII. ||
| Don Sanchez proposes a very artful way to make Mr. Godwin a party to our knavery, etc. | 197 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. ||
| I overcome Moll's honest compunctions, lay hold of three thousand pounds more, and do otherwise play the part of rascal to perfection | 203 |
| CHAPTER XXV. ||
| A table of various accidents | 212 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. ||
| How Moll Dawson was married to Mr. Richard Godwin; brief account of attendant circumstances | 220 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. ||
| Of the great change in Moll, and the likely explanation thereof | 233 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. ||
| Moll plays us a mad prank for the last time in her life | 237 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. ||
| Of the subtile means whereby Simon leads Mr. Godwin to doubt his wife | 247 |
| CHAPTER XXX. ||
| How we are discovered and utterly undone | 254 ​ |
| CHAPTER XXXI. ||
| Moll's conscience is quickened by grief and humiliation beyond the ordinary | 259 |
| CHAPTER XXXII. ||
| How we fought a most bloody battle with Simon, the constable, and others | 265 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. ||
| We take Moll to Greenwich; but no great happiness for her there | 271 |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. ||
| All agree to go out to Spain again in search of our old jollity | 281 |
| CHAPTER XXXV. ||
| How we lost our poor Moll, and our long search for her | 288 |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. ||
| We learn what hath become of Moll; and how she nobly atoned for our sins | 300 |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. ||
| Don Sanchez again proves himself the most mannerly rascal in the world | 308 |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. ||
| How we hear Moll's sweet voice through the walls of her prison, and speak two words with her, though almost to our undoing | 313 ​ |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. ||
| Of our bargaining with a Moorish seaman; and of an English slave | 322 |
| CHAPTER XL. ||
| Of our escape from Barbary, of the pursuit and horrid, fearful slaughter that followed, together with other moving circumstances | 330 |
| CHAPTER XLI. ||
| How Dawson counts himself an unlucky man who were best dead; and so he quits us, and I, the reader | 340 |
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