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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

upon Kinman who unawares upon the watch word from the guide breakes out upon Naworth men in the mean time Sir William steales out of the Castles sets fire on the Barnnes stables and out-houses and hasts away to the other party by Carlyle packs away part of them like Countrey men for Naworth with all speed as assistants to slack the fire which was much increased by reason of the time of night the small number that was left about the house to asswage it these Hacks so behaved themselves that whilest the family runne confusedly and amazed up and downe they robbed severall roomes of a great deale of treasure and so escaped in the middle of this hurley burley Back comes those that had been in pursuit of Kinman cut and beaten stript and dismounted crying out they had beene betrayed by a false Scot whilest Kinman Hart and their comrades were marching through Asike up to their dens well laden with a rich prize this plot taking so good effect proclaimes our Sir William famous amongst the Mossetroopers who honour him now as much as the Senate of Rome did their perpetuall Dictatour hee perceiving the influence hee had upon them they being gathered together in councell hee thus delivers himselfe unto them I make no doubt but it is well knowne unto you all that how these divels dig'd out of the Indies viZ. Gold and Silver are become the Idols of the earth and that their power ransome Kings saves the condemned from the jawes of death and leads captives the desires of the World it being thus my Bulleys I thinke a treasury amongst us would bee a greater safety to us then our dens holes and sculking places by the vertue of which wee might release any of our fellows from captivity when fallen therein by any adventure This project is approved of and they conclude to treasure up the tithe of all their gain in the hands of Sir William and one more of their chiefe to the intent above mentioned which in few years contrary to the Proverb amounts to a very large summe which our Knight perceiving having drawne in one of the sub-theeves as his man having horses and other things necessary robs his fellow treasurer of the money who was the next day dirged by the Mossetroopers for a Conspirator in the fact notwithstanding his innocency But our Sir William escaped so well that you shall finde him presently a banisht Knight out of Ireland amongst the then Noble housekeepers the Catholiks of Lancashire Now all ye Scots behold and see how your Repentant Stoole Made this our doughty Errant Knight become more Knave then Fowle Though he by silly birds were fed who from guilt and fraud are free Yet for creeping to his sisters bed my Bulley was fain to flee And as the Mossetroopers can tell he being turned loose They Gods wot●ken full well he prov'd more Fox then Goose How Sir William Hart rob'd a Roman Catholick in Lancashire AT Kirby Loyndsdayle our Sir William puts himselfe and his in Noble equipage and under the notion of an Irish Knight hee sets on upon his progresse falling into society with severall Gentlemen of Lancashire and was well liked of having a fluent tongue being full of gold and silver hunting a weeke here and a weeke there alwayes largely giving to the servants wheresoever hee came which made him be cryed up for the bravest Gentleman that came within their Masters doores but coming on hee betakes himselfe to one of the richest Catholicks houses in that Countrey Mr. Preston by name and there seemingly betakes himselfe to his devotions hee was but a seeming Saint God wot Lent running on he charges his man to have ready their horses against Maunday Thursday at night the day comming that family with many others of the said Religion were at their devotion Sir William likewise Now as they were at their Ceremonies singing the Lamentations in the Chappel the Altar being most sumptuously drest when they came to the passage of representing how Judas came to take our Saviour at which time they put out all the lights then I say did our Knight step to the Altar nimbly though profanely dismantling that sacred place of a world of rich Jewels and stealing out of the Chappell to his horses and away which caused at the relighting of the Tapers the Lamentations to be renewed many being taxed the Knight not suspected which gave a greater scope to his escape Thus did he with Religion cloak his Sacriligious act And in the Holy Altar smoak Judas like commit the fact To mowe the lasse was not so bad that 's but a fleshly sin Nor when he was Mossetrooper lad for them the prize to win But by pretence of Holy prayer to doe so bad a thing Will to the world appear most rare if that he scape the swing How Sir William Hart after his Robbery in Lancashire upon his Journey towards London lights into a rich Inne in Warwickshire and by a wyle marries the mans daughter of the House OUr Knight after his Robbery at Mr. Prestons flyes towards London making no stop but what necessity forced him to and lighting into an Inne not far from Coventry he resolves to rest himselfe some dayes there which he accordingly doth and observing his Host he findes him a notable Cavalier and of a believing nature which sets Sir Williams wits a grinding the mans daughter being hansome and Sir Williams kisses complements and glances amorus But observed with a majestick distance by Sir William his man not fayling his part the house much listen and hearken to find out what our Noble man was who fits them for their hearking his man always being telling him when they where hearkning what a disgrace it would be for him a Lords son and heir to match with an Inkeepers daughter but Sir William calls him rogue swearing maugre the world he would have her this being heard by his Host and his daughter at severall times they rejoyce infinitely otherwhiles his man would be at him saying Please your Honour send me to this Lord or that naming persons of Honour they will think themselves obliged to furnish you with an hundred pound or two which the man of the house overhearing causes his daughter to furnish the Knight upon all occasions which so sweetens him that he in a short time marries her has to boote most of her fathers wealth and all this to be a Lady To the world nothing is more common Then the proud ambition of a woman Eve our first father did deceave And of that heavenly blisse did us bereave Which none but Adam ere did know Pride having wrought our overthrow For which proud fact women oft doth smart As for example take our lady Hart. How Sir William Hart came to London where living at a high rate at last Cozened a Linen Draper living upon Ludgate-hill of an hundred and forty pounds in monies and for lodging NOw behold our mighty match marching towards London Sir William and

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