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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59303	The compleat memoirs of the life of that notorious impostor Will. Morrell, alias Bowyer, alias Wickham, &c. Who died at Mr. Cullen's the bakers in the strand, Jan. 3. 1691/2. With considerable additions never before published. Licensed, April 14. 1694.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2673; ESTC R214764	54,948	96

more Flourish and Bravado than any great Feats of War any Martial Wonders he intended to perform In Flanders he made a pretty long Campaign for he stirred not from thence till all his Mony was spent and at length when his dwindling Stock was so small that his very Horses Heads grew a little too big for a new Supply he converted them into ready Mony and when that last Stake was almost run out and he had just enough left to land him safe upon English Ground again he returned for London and there setting in again at his old Play of Wiving he Wooes a Parson's Daughter of 500 l. Portion and by virtue of the great Name of Sir Charles Bowyer and other winning Arts he used he Married her and gain'd so far upon her Father that he got One Hundred Pound in part of the Five into his Clutches But not satisfied with that Modicum but resolving to gripe the whole remainder too he takes a House for her at Hampstead where he lived some time very kindly with her still plying her Father with all the softest and tenderest Management to hook in the 400 l. But here as Fortune will not always Smile a Turn of her Wheel gives him a little stop to the Current of his Felicities His Ludlow Wife had made no little Out-cry with her Wrongs and amongst other Search and Inquiries comes up to London being the last place she has to make her Quest after this Impostor and Monster for those are the gentlest Names her Sufferings and Resentments can give him She has a great Opinion that Newgate or Newgate-Roll or some other such Chronicles of his Renown will give her some light into his Life and Fortune and perhaps the Justice of Heaven afford her a fight of him at least if not a power to execute Heavens and her Just Vengeance on so egregious a Reprobate Her Inn being at Holbourn-bridge she lights into the Company of a good Motherly Woman just come from Oxford-shire the Sorrow in so young a Face and the swoln Eyes which were not yet dried the Fountain being indeed Inexhaustible the Curiosity of the elder Traveller made bold to ask her the cause of so doleful a Look c. The young one who now had no Reserves plainly told her whole Sufferings To which the Matron replied Alas young Woman what are your Griefs to mine I have been many Years the Wife of the most Infamous Miscreant that the Earth ever bore deserted and abandon'd by the wickedest of Men after long Years of Honest and Loyal Fidelity to his Bed and exposed to Perish which you thanks to able Friends need not fear c. with a great deal more bitter Invectives against him Till at last upon further conferring of Notes and describing of Characters and Persons they came to jump together and found themselves both abused by the very same Monster the eldest being indeed his old Banbury Wife What Amazement this Accident produced may easily be conjectured it will be enough to tell you that the Anguish of both their Souls and the Bitterness of Gall on each side made them Swear an inviolable Friendship determining to search if possible the whole World to hunt down this Devil Accordingly they take a Lodging a little higher in Holbourn where making no secret of both their hard cases they open their whole Souls to their new Landlady to engage her assistance in the Quarrel The Landlady transported at both their Narrations fell upon her Knees and bless'd God he had sent them to her House for this Lucifer they had described was certainly the very Man that next Week was to Marry her Daughter This Surprize put them all into new Confusion and the Daughter being called to the Council it was evident that this very Fellow had made Love to the Daughter of the House the day of Marriage concluded the Ring and Wedding-Cloaths preparing c. This last Deliverance made the poor old Woman and the Daughter no less melt into Tears at this happy Discovery Well 't is agreed between them all that they shall not stir till he comes thither which will be in twenty four Hours at most and all their united Vengeance Constables Warrants and what not shall be prepar'd for his Reception This Resolution was heartily fix'd amongst them only the Banbury Wife would that Evening take a walk to a Cousins a Citizen where she had some important Affairs but nothing should stay her abroad above an Hour she had not walk'd half a Furlong but Destiny or some other ruling Power threw her full in the Mouth of her Husband her Passion at sight of him rose so high that at first it could not find vent for words which he perceiving desir'd her to walk into a Tavern which was just before them and there recover her Confusion You may conceive she was very ready to accept the Invitation her Stomach being so full that 't was the only thing she wanted to have her full swing at him The Discourse of her part you may well guess at but his Answer was so tender and his Confession so open that at last she grew patient enough to hear him out He plainly told her all he had done or at least the greatest part That it was only the Effects of his Wants and Necessities that now he had raised enough to re-establish him in the World that the Hony-Moon of Love had been almost over between them and that if he had made any Lapse in Disloyalty to her Marriage-Right it was not Infidelity but Interest that had enforced him to all And so shewing her handfuls of Gold and Silver he humbly intreated a Reconciliation betwixt them Which good Words and Address at last so perfectly obtain'd that he perswaded her to send for all her Houshold-Goods and to live with him somewhere in the Liberties of Westminster where disguising his Name and amending his Faults he doubted not through his Practice to recover a plentiful Being and maintain her like a Woman The poor Creature absolutely mollified promises Fidelity to him and never returning to her new Lodging takes him along with her defeating the whole Vengeance that Was hatching against him and not stirring from him till all her Goods were come up from Banbury and a new House furnish'd with them She had not liv'd there three days till finding a Gossiping Errand for her to keep her from home a whole day at her return at Night to Bed she finds neither Husband nor Goods Bed to lye or Stool to sit upon the whole House being utterly dismantled and nothing but Nakedness and empty Walls to receive her This last Cruelty of her Barbarian made her almost run stark Mad and returning to her Holbourn Lodging to own her Frailty in believing an Infidel and the Just Judgment that had befaln her upon it she found the poor Ludlow Mourner departed and all her Relief left was to return to Banbury to live upon the Alms of the Parish This Libertine Life

to venture her whole Mortality and in spight of Predictions marry this formidable Desperado Here let us slip over the Nuptial Ceremony and bring her to the Grand Work Consummation When the brisk Bridegroom came to attack the Fort and enter the Breach of Love the fair Bride who had conceiv'd most prodigious Imaginations of the Assault had her Expectations so far defeated that instead of the Monster the Hercules the Gigant c. she sound him but a meer Man Nay as the malicious Devil of Love would have it the Dimensions of her Felicity was so far short that what with Remembrance and Comparison those unlucky Criticks she found the Furniture of the whole new Magazine not answerable even to the poor Defunct in the Grave the very Worms were now Feasting of that more Substantial Quondam Dish that 't is not a small untowardly Reflection upon her present slenderer Bill of Fare Not but to do our Bridegroom all Right and Justice he behav'd himself in all Points as briskly as Manhood of between a Score and a half could perform and really there was no reasonable Objection to be made against him However Expectation had rap'd her into those Extravagant Notions and Phoenomena's that 't is no little damp to her high Flights to be so frustrated and disappointed Our young Couple had not slept the first whole Night together I mean as much as a first Nights Sleep generally is but the Bride before Morning was heard to Sigh very often which much surpriz'd the Bridegroom and made him a little Inquisitive into the Occasion of so untuneable a Musick for a Wedding-Night To which she made answer She much feared that she should be a very Miserable Woman for truly she had made a Vow to her old Husband upon his Death-bed to Mourn a double Widowhood for him and now so notoriously contrary to her Promise and all the Decensies of her Sex to Marry in less than half a Year after his Death not one quarter of the Time engaged was both that Shame and Trouble to her that she had just reason to dread some exemplary Vengeance from Heaven at least to be haunted by his Ghost a due Punishment for so wicked a Perjury The Bridegroom gave her a great many mollifying Arguments in answer to so ridiculous a Scruple of Conscience but God-wot to little purpose all her Quondam Sweetness was perfectly sour'd to all Intents and Purposes The Good-man the new Spouse found her still more and more in her Melancholly Dumps especially after her return to Portsmouth for to tell Truth 't was one of the shortest Hony-moons of Love that ever New-wedded Couple had Amongst her daily Invectives against her unhappy Marriage the old Lodger the Tarpawling took occasion to remind her of the fair Warning he had given her against Marrying this Man Ay replied the Dame you did advise me in the Devil's name a Pox of such Plaguy Counsellors For his part like a Lying Couzening Cheating Loon as he was she turned him out of her Doors and would suffer him to lie no longer in her House The Husband who upon conferring Notes with his Tar-friend and other Remarks guess'd where the Shoe pinch'd began to think upon raising a little of the Rhino out of her and therefore before he had been a Week married a Letter comes down from London to tell him his Lodging in Town by an Accidental Fire was burnt down in which his Trunk Cloaths Sea-Chest and every thing he had there were unhappily lost in the Flames Upon this he made strange Moan for Ten Pounds to recruit his Chest otherwise his Voyage would be lost and to send home to Worcester for Mony of his own would be longer work than the time he had on Shore would grant him For which cause he must request his Dear Wife to do that great Favour for him She raise Ten Pound God knows where should she have it she Swears 't is twice as much as she is worth in the whole World Nay then replied our young Doctor 't is but losing his Voyage and giving over all Sea-Affairs he 'll e'en set up a Doctor in Portsmouth his Ability will find him Practise enough to live like a Gentleman and so Live and Dye in the Arms of his Dear Sweet Betty And therefore he would immediately write to his Friends at Worcester that his Tenant might know his Resolution This last Proposal was worse than the Ten Pound Demand for to live all days of his Life with her was so Mortal an Apprehension to her that she had rather pay twice that Sum to be rid of him to Sea to the Devil any whither so she can but see his Back-side and Ten Pound well laid out And accordingly upon second Thoughts she told him That truly that Town was over-stock'd with his Profession already and therefore rather than lose him his Employ she would try all her Friends to raise it which was done the next day after Whilst our Operator under Pretence of a Journy to London to new furnish his Labaratory lays in a Stock of Brandy and other comfortable Importance into a Merchants Ship and in no higher a Post than before the Mast sets out a Voyage for Venice Our young Traveller being thus set out with a fair Gale and his Dear Turtle his Fair Spouses best Wishes by the way of a Witches Prayer for his Good Voyage and Safe Return We have little of Moment through his Voyage only that he was very Bounteous to the Sea-men and doled his Brandy and the rest of his good Stowage amongst them which excused him from the greatest part of his Duty they being all ready to serve him More particularly he ingratiated with the Surgeon of the Vessel and gain'd some small Experience in Chirurgery and some little Insight into Physick At his Arrival at Venice by virtue of his pretty decent Appearance in Habit and some little matter of Money in his Pocket but chiefly by his natural Talent of Confidence he set up for a Spark and gain'd an intimate Acquaintance with a young Venetian Merchant who traded with the English and had a little smattering in the Tongue enough to be understood With this young Merchant he went now and then to a Bona Roba some of the Fair Wantons of Venice During which extraordinary Familiarity between them the Merchant was so Frank as to unbosom some few of his Secrets to him one above the rest That he had Debauch'd a young Girl of some considerable Quality there which had run away from her Relations That 't is true her Friends knew not who 't was had Dishonour'd their Family And that if by any Accident it should be discover'd the least he must expect was to have his Throat Cut as the common Revenge of that Nation upon much lesser Injuries Our young Doctor seeming very much concern'd for his Friends Danger offer'd his Service of a Projection that should make all Safe and Happy which was If he thought fit by