efore, that, while my lord and Mr. Carew
travelled together, they asked each other whence they came, and what
their names were. Mr. Carew ingeniously confessed his, but my lord
disguised both his name and country; so that having accidentally met with
a mendicant of the greatest note in England, his lordship thought fit to
treat him in the manner aforesaid, which he would not have done to every
common vagrant.--However, to satisfy himself that this was the famous and
true Bampfylde Moore Carew, for many impostors had usurped his name, he
sent for Captain Atkins, a gentleman of his acquaintance in the
neighbourhood, who went to school with Mr. Carew at Tiverton. This
gentleman was very glad to see his old school-fellow, and assured his
lordship that it was really Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, upon which his
lordship very nobly entertained him at his house for the space of three
days, and gave him an excellent suit of clothes and ten guineas; but,
remembering the trouble they had, and the loss they were at to dispose of
the shoulder of mutton and bread which the housekeeper had given them, as
likewise the resolution Mr. Carew had once taken to throw it away, he
called his housekeeper, and strictly charged her never to give away a
morsel of victuals more, but bestow the alms in money only, rightly
judging that to be more acceptable to beggars than the best of
provisions, the greatest part of which they either waste, give away, or
exchange for an inconsiderable quantity of drink, as my lord and Mr.
Carew had done. His lordship took Mr. Carew to Warminster horserace, and
there recommended him to many honourable gentlemen, who were very liberal
to him. He several times after made bold to call upon his lordship in
his rounds, and at every visit received a guinea, and a hearty welcome at
his house. His lordship would frequently make himself merry with the
story, and jocosely say, that he was more expert in the science of
mumping than even Mr. Carew himself.

Not long after this, Mr. Carew came to Biddeford again, where he had been
some time before, and delivered the compass to Captain Haley's wife, who
immediately burst into tears upon seeing it, supposing her husband was
dead: he then went to the Dolphin, where, as he was drinking, he saw some
gentlemen in the Butchers' Row, and asked the landlord who they were.
Being told they were the Captains Harvey, Hopkins, and Burd,--Go, said
he, and give my duty, and tell them Mr. Bampf