NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2«* S. No 53., Jan. 3. '67. 



racteristic, particularly tlie reference to the "noted 

 author of two lately published " Epistles — the 

 Epistles to Burlington and Bathurst. 



« To the Reader. 



"As the Epistolary Way of Writing hath prevailed 

 much of late, we have ventured to publish this piece 

 composed some time since, and whose Author chose this 

 manner, notwithstanding his Subject was high and of 

 dignitj', because of its being mixt with Argument, yhich 

 of its Nature approacheth to Prose. This, which we first 

 give the Reader, treats of the Nature and State of Man, 

 ■with Respect to the Universal S^'steras; the rest will 

 treat of him with Respect to his own System, as an Indi- 

 vidual, and as a Member of Society ; under one or other 

 of which Heads all Ethicks are included. 



" As he imitates no Man, so he would be thought to 

 vye with no Man in these Epistles, particularly with the 

 noted Author of Two lately published : But this he may 

 most surely say, that the Matter of them is such, as is of 

 Importance to all in general, and of Offence to none in 

 particular." 



M. C. A. 



BAMPFTLDE MOOBE CAREW. 



As the old books of the people are now fairly 

 beaten out of the field, it seems respectful that, 

 after having done hard service, we should inter 

 them upon our antiquarian shelves with such 

 identification and memorabilia of their authors as 

 may be procurable. I therefore ask, who wrote 

 the Life of Bampfylde Moore Carew ? 



Timperley, in his Encychpcedia, in noticing the 

 death of Robert Goadby, the printer of Sher- 

 borne, says unhesitatingly that he, the said Robert 

 Goadby, was the author ; his name in connexion 

 with the book is found upon the title of the eighth 

 edition of An Apology for the Life ofB. M. C, the 

 King of the Beggars, but in the wrong place ; the 

 imprint running, " Lond. : printed for R. Goadby," 

 &c., 1768 : a nice edition, by the way, with a fine 

 large folding portrait of the royal mendicant. 



Lowndes is silent upon the point of authorship, 

 but records another version of our chap book, 

 under the title of The Life, Voyages, and Adven- 

 tures of B. M. C, by Thos. Price, 8vo., Lond., n. 

 d._ I have seen a modern book bearing this title, 

 without date ; and purporting to be collected and 

 amended from his (the hero's) own writing, by 

 " T. Price, of Poole, in Dorset." Is this the book 

 alluded to by Lowndes, or is it a reprint of an 

 older one known to that bibliographer ? The 

 same authority informs us, that the Apology was 

 printed in octavo at London in 1749, leaving us 

 to infer that this was the first edition of the 

 genuine book ; although, he adds, a spurious one 

 had preceded it, entitled The Accomplished Vaga- 

 bond, or Complete Mumper exemplified, in the Bold 

 and Artful Enter prizes and l^erry Pranks of B. 

 M. C, 8vo., Oxon (Query, Exon ?), 1745. Our 

 book would, therefore, appear to have assumed as 



many shapes as did its vagabond hero himself; 

 and I have still another to add to those already 

 enumerated, in the following curiosity which has 

 lately fallen into my hands : — 



" The Life and Adventures of B. M. C, the Noted 

 Devonshire Stroller and Dogstealer; as related by Him- 

 self during his Passage to the Plantations in America : 

 containing a great Variety of Remarkable Transactions 

 in a Vagrant Course of Life which he followed for the 

 Space of Thirty Years and upwards. Exon : printed by 

 the Parleys for J. Drew. 8vo. 1745." 



In the pretended introductory address of B. M. 

 C. to the public, in the edition of 1768, he says, 

 in his apology for impostors in general : " Even 

 the printer of these Memoirs intends to print 

 them on large letter, and with a broad margin, 

 which he may tell you is to adorn them, but it is 

 in truth for nothing else than to make thee pay 

 the more for them;" a foot-note adding, "this 

 was done in the first edition," which completely 

 identifies the bold type and ample margin of my 

 above described uncut copy ; and enables me, 

 without hesitation, to introduce it to your readers, 

 curious in such matters, as the veritable editio 

 princeps of the book. 



The compiler's Preface is diflferent to that found 

 in subsequent impressions. The Memoirs, indeed, 

 judging from the editions of 1745 and 1768, appear 

 to have been entirely recast ; and among other 

 novelties, not in the author's first draught, is the 

 satirical dedication "To the worshipful Justice 

 Fielding," which, with many interpolations in the 

 text, form a running, startling commentary upon 

 Tom Jones and its author. J. O. 



KErOBMA.TION OF ALE-HOUSES IN ELIZABETHS 

 BEIGN. 



I send you two or three extracts from the 

 Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, 

 relating to the state and reformation of ale-houses 

 in the time of Queen Elizabeth : at which time 

 the irregularities practised in them appear to have 

 attracted the serious attention of her government. 



In one of the volumes (No. 49., art. 28.) Mr. 

 William Gorges shows the mischief of ale-houses, 

 from the omission of prosecuting recognizances, 

 &c., A.D. 1586. 



He states that — 



" In the o"i and 6«h Edw. VI"', a statute was made for 

 the reformation of such abuses as were before the making 

 of the said Statute used among such as did keep common 

 Ale Houses and Tipling Houses. Bj' which Statute it 

 was enacted, that none should be admitted to keep a 

 common Ale-house but such as should be admitted in 

 open Sessions, or else by two Justices, &c., and that 

 upon bond to be taken by the said Justices by recog- 

 nizance as well against the using of unlawful Games, as 

 also for using and maintaining good order ; and also that 

 if any person did keep any such common tipling or ale- 



