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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76087	The knight errant being a witty, notable and true relation of the strange adventures of Sir William Hart now prisoner in the tower: his severall exploits, cheats, and most witty tricks by him acted ever since his first beeing untill his proclaiming the Scotch king at Worcester, in August last. Written by J.B. Gent.	J. B.	1651 (1651)	Wing B107; Thomason E1370_5; ESTC R209334	7,261	24

THE KNIGHT ERRANT Being a witty notable and true Relation of the Strange adventures OF Sir William Hart Now Prisoner in the Tower His severall exploits cheats and most witty tricks by him acted ever since his first beeing untill his proclaiming the SCOTCH KING at WORCESTER In August last Written by J. B. Gent. London Printed by E. C. 165● THE Knight Errant GUzman is famous through the world for tricks that he hath plaide Quixot is like renownd for Iusts against the Wind-mils made With other his adventures strange poor Lazarillo too Is sung amongst the Spanish Bards for feats that he did doe Our Hynd amongst the English Pads doth many one a excell And Knowles from all the jugling wits doth bear away the bell With many equall unto these who in print were never known Who by their wits and cheating tricks hath couZned many a one Yet in praises of our Errant Knight with me they 'l bear a part And all submit in feats of wit to our Sir William Hart. Of Sir William Hart his strange birth and of his being nourished by the Solan Geese of his being found by a Fisherman likewise how he left that trade and turned Mosse Trooper IT is a thing very difficill to give any exact account of the life or first production of this our doughty Knight the subject of this our story being it is a matter that has not only bin delivered in clouds unto all his acquaintance and those that have heard of him but even rest hid as yet to the present Powers that question him he being endued with the learned language of the Highlands and as good Lowland Scotch as any of his fellow prisoners he pretending to be one of the Hungry nation but since my Genius has received further light then any other touching this businesse I will no longer hold the wondering World in admiration It is a generall conclusion amongst the learned that a Mandrake proceeds from the seed of men that are hanged that that radicall moisture distilling from the Mentula received by the earth nourisht and hatch by the Sun but Sir William had a more strange conceivement For in the year of our Lord Anno 1611. severall sail of Scots who had obtained leave and Patents of King James to transplant the Natives in the Ulster Plantation of Ireland these ships being fraught with men women and their families setting out for Ireland from Dumbarton Ayer and other Western parts of Scotland But they had not sailed many houres with a prosperous gayle but the winds change the Seas boil and in fine the Elements conclude their overthrow a just judgement beware of Naboths garden or another mans possession it 's not lawfull and to be brief the storm waxes so violent that in a short time away flyes the main Masts tackles sailes c. and splits some against the rocks some splits and sinks in the mouth of Asike the River that parts Cumberland and Scotland others by excessive leaks immediately sink this so affrights the perishing passengers that through excessive feare severall women gave up their young and in the end not one escapes yet so it came to passe that one of the ships in which some of the Abortives were being broken all to peices one of the untimely fruits floated upon a certain chest and was beaten into a rocky cliffe a place the Sea seldom kiss'd but in some such extravagant weather This little lump was so much favoured by certain fowl called Solan Geese which are of a strange nature drobing from the sides and masts of drowned ships these inhabiting in those clifty rocks kindly nourishes and hatches our yong one who being fed with such fish as the fowles procured for the space of nine months at the end of which time severall fishermen used thereabouts a hadock fishing one amongst the rest was by foul weather driven into the cliffe where our Sir William lay and finding that miracle friendly takes him away robbing the kinde fostering birds of their prey brings him home to his cave where his wife kindely receives the childe giving it a messe of Poleloore a dainty dish in in that countrey I can assure you The stripling grows up to age of 12 yeares at which time the old man takes him to Sea where he assists in the trade of fishing for the tearm of five years But in the mean time a disaster befals him for his father the Fisherman as he supposed had a daughter with whom they ligging awe togither it was his fortune to ingender with shee proving fruitfull as most of that countrey cattell are forces our Billicoe Wully for fear of the Scotch damnable Inquisition that wayfull steule of Repentance to leap into the Lawlands into Anandayle where he was entertained by a Mosse Trooper to be Sub-Cow-stealer Thus have you heard how strange our Hart Preserv'd was from this wrack And that when others drown'd were in the Sea The Billows beat him back Which makes me shrewdly to conclude In reference to our Knight That maugre all the Windes and Seas The Rope will have its right How Sir William Hart became famous amongst the Moss Troopers by robbing my Lord William Howard of the North likewise how he cozened them and came disguised into England THE Mosse-Troopers are your Scots that dwell in Nidesdayle Anandale the Marsh countrey and other adjacent parts upon England some in Gilsland and in the Mosses of Cumberland these fellows are Countrey men which keep good horses are well armed and in fine are notable resolved theeves being numerous having for shelter their Caves in the Mosses and Mountains where they inhabit unto one of the chiefest of these was our Sir William an appendix whose name was Kinman famous for his fellonies these Blades had been much persecuted by my Lord Howard of Naworth upon the borders of Carlyle many plots of revenge had they had against the said Lord. But none to any great purpose by reason of the great fear they stood in of him but upon Harts being admitted to their Counsel they resolve to try their fate thus Sir William and another that had attained to the English tongue having laid Kinman with his crew betwixt Naworth and Brantree and another party between Naworth and Carlyle away comes my two Kendall men for so Sir Willy and his associate tearmed themselves to be to Naworth where after a long narration of their being rob'd by Kinman and his crew not far from thence as they were going to Brantree from Perith Fair with commodities also that they were confident hee had not passed the the town but lay in wait for a further prize whereupon my Lord causes his men to arm and horse themselves and goe in pursuit of these theeves with Harts comrade for their guide Sir Wully staying behind having his head broke a purpose pretetending debility through his wounds This being in the close of the evening the guide leads my Lords men up and downe untill it was midnight before they came