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<P><HI>HINDS ELDER BROTHER, OR The Ma&s;ter Thief DISCOVERED</HI> Being a notable pithy Relation of the Life of Major <HI>THOMAS KNOWLS</HI> his many Exploits E&s;capes, and witty Robberies.</P>
<P><ADD>Jan. 30^t^h.</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>Hind.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Knowls.</HEAD>
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<P>Imprinted at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>John Clows An. Dom.</HI> 1651. <ADD>1652</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>Hinds Elder Brother, or the Ma&s;ter-Thief di&s;covered, being a pithy re|lation of the life of Major Tho|mas Knowls, his many e&s;|capes, cheats, and witty Robberies.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Of his Birth and Education.</HEAD>
<P>_THe greate&s;t certainty of the place of his Birth, is to mo&s;t uncertain, he not being able to give any exact account by rea&s;on his Parents died &s;o much in his minority, but left to the care of &s;ome friends in <HI>Lealand</HI> Pari&s;h in <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> which care of theirs extended it &s;elf to no|thing more then how to be rid of him, which he to their de&s;ires effected in the age of fourteen coming here to <HI>London,</HI> where he had not been many dayes a
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->mendicant, but he is entertained by <HI>Punteus</HI> the Moun|tebank, who then was newly come into <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of his &s;erving the Mountebank</HEAD>
<P>HE had not long been with the Mountebank (but a witty rogue) he was &s;o dexterous grown in his profe&s;&s;ion, that he added much to the Sale of his Ma&s;ters Antidotes, by his witty Je&s;ts, Boufooni&s;h behaviour, and nimble vaultings, &s;o that he became chief man to <HI>Punteus,</HI> and who is the Gentleman now, but Mr. <HI>Johan a pudding.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Of his curing an &V;&s;urer of the Toothach.</HEAD>
<P>A Rich U&s;urer being much tormented with the Toothach and not willing to be at too much Charge in procuring his Ea&s;e, came to Mr. <HI>Punteus</HI> his Lodging, thinking to have his cure for little or nothing, (by rea&s;on that <HI>Punteus</HI> drew many poor mens teeth that were afflicted out of charity) and enquiring for the French Doctor of the Maid of the hou&s;e, &s;he pre&s;ently goes up to the Chamber, where &s;he finds <HI>Knowls</HI> and his Comrade fitting them&s;elves with fal&s;e Beards, and Antick apparrel for the next dayes &s;how, &s;he acquaints them, that there was an U|&s;urer at the door to &s;peak with their Ma&s;ter, and as &s;he thought by the muffling of his Chops to have &s;ome
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->Remedy for his teeth, whereupon <HI>Knowls</HI> cryes out to his Comrade, a pri&s;e, now off with this party colou|red Coat, Give me my Ma&s;ters Gown, fa&s;ten m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> on that black Beard, &s;tand bare, and keeping your coun|tenance call up the U&s;urer, up comes the Patient re|lates his malady, and as a poor man invokes a remedy, which <HI>Knowls</HI> out &s;uppo&s;ed <HI>Punteus,</HI> &s;ayes he will apply his be&s;t skill for Gods &s;ake, and &s;etting the U|&s;urer down, views his tooth, and &s;ayes I &s;hall do the cure, but you mu&s;t have a little patience, for it is a ve|ry forked one; his man imployed his time &s;o well, that whiles <HI>Knowls</HI> pulled out the tooth, he pulled out of his pocket a Cats skin Pur&s;e with twenty nine pounds, two Rings, and a Watch. The Cure being effected, <HI>Knowls</HI> demands &s;omething for his pains, the U&s;urer replies, (the Maid being by) with an Oath that he had not one penny, nor the value about him of one farthing, nay &s;ayes <HI>Knowls,</HI> &s;ince you &s;wear be|fore witne&s;&s;e, I am content, God &s;peed you well, and &s;o departs my U&s;urer, little thinking <HI>Knowls</HI> had been &s;o well paid.</P>
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<L><HI>Knowls</HI> thought this Robbery was but ju&s;t,</L>
<L>To rob the man that no body would tru&s;t,</L>
<L>Who for to &s;ave a little of his Pelf,</L>
<L>Before witne&s;&s;e, ba&s;ely for&s;wears him&s;elf,</L>
<L>This was the cau&s;e that he ne're came</L>
<L>Back unto <HI>Knowls,</HI> his mony lo&s;t to claim,</L>
<L>Being o'rcome with perjury and &s;hame.</L>
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<HEAD>How <HI>Knowls</HI> robbed the Scotch Com|mi&s;sioners, when they lay at <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>KNowls</HI> having a great de&s;ire to finger &s;ome of the Scoth Commi&s;&s;ioners money, by rea&s;on he had heard they had received abundance, though for a little de&s;ert, either in them or their Army. He plots many wayes, but none takes effect; at la&s;t he takes a &s;houl|der Trumpet, flings it under his Cloak, he being in black, very neat, more like a Scotch Laird then a Trumpeter, and away he marches to the Gate, where he finds &s;everall Trumpeters, Waits, and others at Pu&s;h a Pike with the Porter, who valiantly defend|ed him&s;elf in the behalf of his Lairds Pouch, <HI>Knowls</HI> makes his approach, &s;aying, how now hone&s;t Porter, What are the&s;e fellows, Fools or Fidlers? O my Saul are they, quoth the Porter, wad yeer gude wor|&s;hip &s;peak wi my Lord, yes quoth <HI>Knowls,</HI> I have af|fairs of importance to comunicate to thy Lord; mary and yee een &s;all ple<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e yeer gude wor&s;hip to gang along wi me, &s;o with that, in enters <HI>Knowls</HI> with the Porter, who goes and acquaints his Lord, the Lord <HI>Lowden,</HI> that there was a Gentleman to &s;peak with his Honor. <HI>Lowden</HI> comes into the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ining Room; where he finds <HI>Knowls</HI> attending: who addre&s;&s;es him&s;elf unto my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner, &s;aying, my Lord, I am Ma|&s;ter Trumpeter to the Navy, under the Command of
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> and being &s;ent hither to furni&s;h the Fleet with Trumpets, I am charged by the Earl who lies now upon the <HI>Downs</HI> to &s;alute your Honours, in troth Sir, replyes <HI>Lowden,</HI> I am een blyth to hear his Lord&s;hip is in gude health, calling to his Porter, &s;aying, <HI>Saundy,</HI> gar <HI>Jeamy</HI> give this Gentleman forty Shil|lings, and with a Congee departs into his Chamber, the Servants being affrighted at the unwelcome Gue&s;t they had brought their Lord, &s;ome runs one way &s;ome another, leaving <HI>Knowls</HI> alone in the dining room, who in a moment di&s;mantles the cupboard of a large quan|tity of Plate being fled before the Porter or <HI>Jeamy</HI> could come with the forty &s;hillings, who upon their finding the plate gone, cryed out to a wofull Tune O Black day, the fal&s;e Lown has beguiled us aw, little wi&s;t I I quoth the porter, that his Wor&s;hip was a pi|per: the Dell blaw's Baggs, mi Livings gene, but the tumults continued &s;o long among&s;t the Bullies, that <HI>Knowls</HI> had convenient time to e&s;cape.</P>
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<L>Thus witty <HI>Knowls</HI> did borrow plate,</L>
<L>O tho&s;e which cozen'd King and State.</L>
<L>The one they &s;old, the others thought to cheat,</L>
<L>But now repent, &s;ince they are &s;ound<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y beat,</L>
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<HEAD>How Knowls left his Majer the Moun|tebank, turned Cutter and robbed Hind.</HEAD>
<P><HI>KNowls</HI> having a de&s;ire no longer to be a &s;ervant, if he could devi&s;e any how to live a Ma&s;ter, and having gained a pretty &s;umme under the Mountebank, he takes his leave of him, and re&s;olves to live a bro|ther of the Blade, huyes him a pretty highway Nag, a good Sword and Ca&s;e of private Pi&s;tolls (away goes my Friend to the Road) and now Gentlemen beware your Portmantles) many exploits our Moun|&s;ieur Abbot playes, for &s;o he is called now) in <HI>Lin|coln</HI> &s;hire <HI>Notingham</HI> and other places, and one night coming into the Lion Inne at <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> eight miles from <HI>Mansfield,</HI> the Ho&s;tler takes his Hor&s;e, he pa&s;&s;es under the notion of a Gra&s;ier, and is by the &s;aid Ho&s;tler &s;et to <HI>Hind</HI> (for one that was po&s;&s;e&s;t with a good round &s;umme) that night they &s;upped together, being igno|rant one of the others Calling, the next day in <HI>Wel|beck</HI> Fore&s;t <HI>Hind</HI> overtakes our Moun&s;ieur, claps a pl&s;tol to his brea&s;t, wi&s;hing him immediately to deli|ver his pur&s;e, or life and pur&s;e together, <HI>Knowls</HI> &s;eing death at the Collar of his Doublet, wi&s;ely replyes, in faith Sir, I have a &s;umme of money about me, which I do not value near comparable with my life, there|fore here take it, delivering to <HI>Hind</HI> a leather Bag, with four&s;core and od pounds in it, and Sir, believe me,
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->Since you have done &s;o gallantly, as to adventure a|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> upon me I &s;wear to you, I will never pro&s;ecute you, therefore, never &s;hun me, where&s;oever you &s;ee me, and riding on together, a little along the Fore&s;t, he &s;ayes, being in di&s;cour&s;e, I pray Sir tell me one t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, <HI>Hind</HI> replying, &s;aid he would, then &s;ayes <HI>Knowls,</HI> pray you had you any thing in that pi&s;toll you clapt to my Brea&s;t, or did you it to affright me, nay &s;ayes <HI>Hind,</HI> God damne me, it is charged with a Brace of Bullets, and thereupon &s;laps off his pi&s;toll, which <HI>Knowls</HI> perceiving, claps one of his to <HI>Hinds</HI> throat, &s;aying, now return back my money with wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t addition you can make of your own, or by <HI>Jove</HI> you die, &s;o he di&s;mantled Mr. <HI>Hind</HI> of all his money riding away crying, farewell younger Brother.</P>
<Q><L>Thus Hind which knew the cutting Trade &s;o well,</L>
<L>Was robb'd by <HI>Knowls</HI> who did him farre excell</L>
<L>In th' highway arts, and in the padding skill,</L>
<L>For <HI>Hind</HI>'s in <HI>Newgate,</HI> and <HI>Knowls</HI> at freedome &s;till</L></Q>
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<HEAD>How <HI>Knowls</HI> being brought a Pri&s;oner in the Habit of a Par&s;on to <HI>White Hall</HI> made his E&s;cape.</HEAD>
<P><HI>KNowls</HI> being taken by one of the Thieftakers a|bout this Town, was brought to <HI>White Hall,</HI> and
<PB N="7" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->there upon the Guard &s;ecured that night, the next day &s;ecured in a Chamber, having two Souldiers Sentries upon him, &s;hortly af|ter being examined, he was asked what made him a&s;&s;ume that Habit, being he could nei|ther write nor read, he replyed the rather be|cau&s;e he thought no man would &s;u&s;pect an illiterate man in &s;uch a Coat, and after &s;ome que&s;tions he was remanded back to the &s;aid Cu&s;tody, where after liberally giving all &s;orts of Liquours to the two Souldiers his Guard, he &s;eeing them in a merry mood, thus began to &s;peak, dear Comrades and fellow Souldi|ers, you may perceive, this is onely through malice, that I am here a Pri&s;oner, Since I have never done any thing again&s;t the State, yet there is one thing vexeth me to the Soul, what is that Mai&s;ter an&s;wered the Souldiers, marry quoth Knowls, I have fifty pounds in the hands of the man that keepeth the Leg in the pallace yard, and I would willingly give ten pounds to a good fellow, that I had it here, one of the Souldiers replies, Sir I will fetch it you with a good will, nay nay,
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->&s;ayes Knowls, that cannot be, for he will not give it to any body but my &s;elf, yet I can tell you what we may do, one of you put on my Habit here, and I will put on your Red Coat and Bandileers, the other take his Mu&s;quet, and go along with me, and &s;o in le&s;&s;e then half an hour, we will be back with the money, and I will give you five pounds a|piece for your pains, the matter being thus carryed, you can no wayes be found in blame, this conceit takes, away marches Knowls and one of the Souldiers, the other lies down up|on the bed in his Par&s;ons weed, they march to We&s;tmin&s;ter, come into the Legge, call for a pot of Ale, which is brought them, Knowls he demands for the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e, who comes immediately, he takes him a&s;ide, whi&s;pers him in the Ear, thru&s;ting half a Crown in his hand, &s;aying, Sir, I would not that my Comrade &s;hould know I have any money, but whil&s;t we drink, pay your &s;elf out of this, and &s;aying, &s;hall it be &s;o carryed, the man of the Hou&s;e not &s;u&s;pecting any thing, replyies aloud, you &s;hall
<PB N="10" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 7 -->you &s;hall Sir, and &s;o departs the Roome, Knowls turns to the Souldier, come Brother, let us drink one half dozen, and by that time the money will be told out, further &s;aying, truly this man of the Hou&s;e is a very hone&s;t man, now by that time they had drunk four or five pots, the Souldier begins to ask why the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e came not his way, Knowls having the Pot of Ale in his hand, &s;uddenly flings the pot violently in the &s;oul|diers face, knocking him down, crying a|loud, Villain do&s;t thou &s;ay, my Captain is a Coward, I would have thee know, I have &s;o much of a &s;ouldier in me, that Ile die be|fore I hear my Officer abu&s;ed, but Ile have the Corporall to fetch thee to the Guard with a Pox, and &s;o running out of the hou&s;e, before the &s;ouldier recovered Knowls had cro&s;&s;ed the water, and &s;o clearly e&s;caped.</P>
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<L>Let <HI>Knowls</HI> his &s;lipperie trick example be</L>
<L>To all tho&s;e Guards which love a fee,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t he may chance to have the &s;ame reward</L>
<L>For coveting Coyn as had this fooli&s;h Guard,</L>
<L>The one in Par&s;ons weeds the Gantlet run,</L>
<L>The other being Ca&s;hier'd was quite undone.</L>
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<HEAD>How <HI>Knowls</HI> being Captain of the Pio|ners to the Scotch Army e&s;caped from <HI>VVorce&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>KNowls having Command of the Pio|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ers at Worce&s;ter, upon their being rout|ed he calls to him one of the C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">untrey-men which he had pre&s;t for a pioner not many days before, and one whom he had noted to bee a mon&s;trous &s;illy fellow, &s;aying, alas for you poor hearts, for you will have no quarter, the ene|my &s;aves none but officers, upon which words the fellow was ready to &s;ink, but Knowls &s;ayes come courage, give me thy Pickax and Ca&s;&s;ock, and here take my Sword, Buff Coat, and Hat, and I will run for it, for I am lighter of foot then thou art, whereupon they change and by that means Knowls e&s;capes the Parli|aments forces entring the Town, &s;ome Troops enters the hou&s;e where this Country man was who pre&s;ently cryes out, &s;ave my life Gentle|men, for I am Major Knowls, Captain of the Pioners, I quoth the &s;oldier I will give you quarter, but I will pay your skin for a tumbling rogue, and knockt him &s;oundly, &s;tript him na|ked, and turned him among&s;t the re&s;t of the pri&s;oners.</P>
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<L>THus Reader, in this &s;mall Epitome,</L>
<L>Some Acts of famous Kmowls I have &s;how'd thee,</L>
<L>Which if con&s;idered rightly thou wilt find,</L>
<L>In witty pranks he far exceeds our <HI>Hind:</HI></L>
<L>And as from murder he was alwayes free,</L>
<L>So &s;tands he clear from all ba&s;e Treachery</L>
<L>Towards any of the Pad or cutting Trade,</L>
<L>As being now the onely knight o'th' Blade;</L>
<L>Of many a Gang he is the &s;ole &s;urviver,</L>
<L>So of many a feat he hath been the main contriver;</L>
<L>Then let <HI>Hind</HI> and <HI>Guzman</HI> both &s;ubmit</L>
<L>To active <HI>Knowls</HI> for valour &s;hifts and wit.</L>
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