The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars
Subtitle: being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of Gipsies, wherein the motives of his conduct are related and explained : the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in through Great-Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe, with his travels twice through great part of America : containing 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.
Contributors: Price, Thomas, of Poole.; Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778.; Goadby, Robert, Mrs.; Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by and for H. Mozley
Published: 18uu
Place of publication: Derby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?; Rogues and vagabonds -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Notes: Exists in numerous versions with different titles.
Variously ascribed to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby, and Carew himself.