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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

not mention being a Widower and taken with the manner of his Discourse kindly invited him to his own House which our Travelling Gallant as kindly embracing Accommodation was made and he was lodg'd that very Night at this Private Landlord's His Entrance here gave him the Opportunity of daily conversing with no mean Wit and Charms in the two sweet Daughters of the Family and our Gallant very apt to take fire at but a small matter of Beauty especially with a Portion at the Tail of it felt no little Wamblings at the extraordinary Accomplishments of the Elder somewhat the sweeter Creature But this new Adventure was not an Enterprise so easie as the last this Sire of some Fashion was so far above the Education and Extract of his former Father-in-Law a Man of Mortar and Trowel and his Daughters of a Reach and understanding so much beyond the other 's humbler Capacity that Measures must be quite alter'd here from those that he took before Accordingly now his Discourse was always upon Foreign Subjects himself and his own Affairs the least Part of his Talk and if any inquisitive Question either by Father or Daughters were made relating to his Family or Concerns he answer'd with that Modesty and almost Silence to all Demands of that Kind that he left their Curiosity still in the Dark and which indeed was so much Heightning to the favourable Imaginations they had conceived of him that they doubted not in the least but he was of eminent Quality and what any boasting Vanity would have made 'em rather suspect his Modesty on the contrary confirm'd 'T was some few Days before they inquir'd his Name for which he had ready at his Tongues End the Name of a very great Family in Barkshire but not descending to Particulars the Remoteness of the Place did not gain 'em much Intelligence of his Quality from only the bare Name All this while at some little distance he dropt a great many complaisant Words to the elder Sister which look'd very much like Love and which he indeed desired should be so interpreted In this Conversation now of a Fort-nights Continuance he had rendred himself so acceptable to the whole Family that a great many favourable Thoughts on all sides inclined towards him The Address to the Daughter at last looked a little more plain and barefac'd and at that Time a Fair happening at Ludlow where he had been diverting himself with seeing of Fashions he came home in much Concern and some kind of Passion much greater than hitherto they had at any Time seen from him Certainly there is no Place in the World says he passionately so retir'd but some Devil or other will still find out and haunt me The Oddness of this Expression invited the elder Sister to ask him what he meant Why truly Madam he replied I have been hunted from three or four Towns already for in spight of all my Resolutions of living incognito some unlucky Person or other comes full in my Mouth and will betray me in spight of my Soul This Answer did but heighten her Curiosity and having as she thought some little Interest in him as a profest Servant of her's she was a little the bolder in pressing the Question and therefore plainly ask'd him why he liv'd incognito and what Accident had now discovered him To this at last with a little more Frankness than he had hitherto used he replied the Reason of his Ramble from his Family with his Living three or four Months past unknown to the whole World was only to prevent the Ruin of a Sister who like a foolish Girl was in much Danger to be undone by a Beggarly Match she was too fond of and her Portion being in his Hands he had absented himself from his Home lest the Softness of her Tears the Importunities of several Advocates in Behalf of this indigent Lover together with the Weakness of his own tender Heart might at last be prevail'd upon to grant his Consent to what he knew would be his Shame and her Undoing And as Ill Luck would have it he had unfortunately tumbled upon a Country-man of his now at the Fair who would infallibly run open mouth'd to his Sister and his Family and tell 'em all where he was This Discovery gave a good Occasion to the fair Examiner to be not only a Pleader for her own Sex in the Person and Cause of his unknown Sister but likewise to be a Champion for Love For now she plainly told him that a great many Grains of Allowance were to be made where Hearts were inseparable If this Lover of his Sisters was a Man of Sense and Quality as neither of those he could deny him it was a little barbarous in him to oppose the whole Repose and Contentment of so near a Relation as a Sister for so sordid a Consideration as a little Worldly Interest Besides there was a Providence always attended Faith and Truth in Love and undoubtedly sooner or later would provide for their well-being or else enable 'em to bear a meaner Portion of Riches which others perhaps might less contentedly possess This Argument was almost the daily Discourse in which she seem'd to gain some little Ground but not enough to perswade him to the unreasonable Grant of his Sisters Desires About five Days after comes a Letter directed to him at Ludlow with the Post Mark upon it very authentically which in a very legible Womans Hand contained these Words Dear Brother WHat unhappy Star am I born under to suffer all this miserable Persecution Certainly when my Father left me to your Disposal and tied my Portion to your liking of the Man that must marry me surely he could never have died reconciled to Heaven could he have foreseen the Slavery he tied his poor Child to in putting me into the Power of so cruel a Brother To run so many Months from your House your Family nay your Honour too for what must the censuring World talk of you and all to break a poor Sisters Heart Oh shameful To hide your self from the World and run from Mankind only to shut your Ears against Justice and to be deaf to all Goodness and Humanity Alas what Capital Crime have I committed who only loved a Gentleman in Birth and Blood no ways my Inferior and what if an unfortunate Younger Brother's slender Patrimony of a Hundred a Year is not answerable to a Portion of Two thousand Pounds A wonderful Cause to make me the most unhappy Creature living in refusing me the only Blessing the World has to give How many fair Steps to Preferment and Honour lie in the way of so accomplish'd and so well-related a Gentleman notwithstanding his Elder Brother run away with the Estate and what good Fortune have I not to hope for if your Barbarous Aversion did not interpose between my Felicity and me In short resolve to return home and be kind to your Languishing and almost Despairing Sister or else expect very speedily

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