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The hermit or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put Prentice to a Locksmith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious map of the island, and other cuts.
- Title
- The hermit [electronic resource] : or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put Prentice to a Locksmith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious map of the island, and other cuts.
- Author
- Longueville, Peter, active 1727.
- Publication
- London : printed for J. Wren, near Great Turn-Stile in Holborn; J. Jefferies, at the Bible and Crown in Ludgate-Street; and J. Fuller, at the Bible in Butcher-Hall Lane, 1751.
Details
- Description
- xii,263,[1]p.,plates : map; 12⁰.
- Subject
- Quarll, Philip
- Note
- Purporting to be by Edward Dorrington. In fact by Peter Longueville. With an editor's preface signed: P.L.
- Also attributed to Alexander Bicknell.
- Braces in imprint.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Indexed In (note)
- English Short Title Catalog
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- OCLC
- 642452545
- ECCO1-T147818
- Author
- Longueville, Peter, active 1727.
- Title
- The hermit [electronic resource] : or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put Prentice to a Locksmith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious map of the island, and other cuts.
- Imprint
- London : printed for J. Wren, near Great Turn-Stile in Holborn; J. Jefferies, at the Bible and Crown in Ludgate-Street; and J. Fuller, at the Bible in Butcher-Hall Lane, 1751.
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
- English Short Title Catalog, T147818.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain England London.