The hermit: or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of 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 about 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, lifted 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, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus, 1783.

Publication year

1783-1783

ESTC No.

N2332

Grub Street ID

12678

Description

207,[1]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Purporting to be by E. Dorrington. In fact by Peter Longueville.

Sometimes also attributed to Alexander Bicknell.