The hermit: or, the unparalleled sufferings, and surprizing adventures, of Philip Quarll, and Englishman: who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-Sea; where he lived above fifty years, without any human assistance. Containing I. His Conference 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 took 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 a singing-master, and married three wives, for which he was tried and condemned, at the Baily. III. How he was pardoned by K. Charles II. turned merchant, and was shipwrecked on a desolate island on the coast of Mexico. With a curious frontispiece.

People / Organizations

• Peter Longueville (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for the book-sellers, 1790.

Publication year

1790-1790

ESTC No.

T106469

Grub Street ID

159623

Description

iv,272p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

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

Sometimes also attributed to Alexander Bicknell.