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

People / Organizations

• Peter Longueville (Author)

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.

Publication year

1751

ESTC No.

T147818

Grub Street ID

194348

Description

xii,263,[1]p.,plates : map ; 12°.

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.