A Set of Rogues

by Frank Barrett

A SET OF ROGUES

     TO WIT

CHRISTOPHER SUTTON
JOHN DAWSON
The Señor Don SANCHEZ
DEL CASTILLO de CASTELAÑA
and MOLL DAWSON

THEIR WICKED CONSPIRACY

AND A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THEIR
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES

TOGETHER WITH MANY OTHER SURPRISING THINGS, NOW
DISCLOSED FOR THE FIRST TIME, AS THE FAITHFUL
CONFESSION OF CHRISTOPHER SUTTON

BY

FRANK BARRETT

Author of "The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane,"
"The Great Hesper," etc.

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1895

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1895,
BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Norwood Press:
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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Of my companions and our adversities, and in particular from our getting into the stocks at Tottenham Cross to our being robbed at Edmonton	1
CHAPTER II.
Of our first acquaintance with the Señor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaña, and his brave entertaining of us	10
CHAPTER III.
Of that design which Don Sanchez opened to us at the Bell	18
CHAPTER IV.
Of the several parts that we are appointed to play	27
CHAPTER V.
Don Sanchez puts us in the way of robbing with an easy conscience	34
CHAPTER VI.
Moll is cast to play the part of a fine lady; doubtful promise for this undertaking	46
CHAPTER VII.
Of our journey through France to a very horrid pass in the Pyraneans	52
CHAPTER VIII.
How we were entertained in the mountains, and stand in a fair way to have our throats cut	61
CHAPTER IX.
Of the manner in which we escaped pretty fairly out of the hands of Señor Don Lopez and his brigands	70
CHAPTER X.
Of our merry journeying to Alicante	79
CHAPTER XI.
Of our first coming to Elche and the strangeness of that city	88
CHAPTER XII.
How Don Sanchez very honestly offers to free us of our bargain if we will; but we will not	96
CHAPTER XIII.
A brief summary of those twelve months we spent at Elche	104
CHAPTER XIV.
Of our coming to London (with incidents by the way), and of the great address whereby Moll confounds Simon, the steward	114
CHAPTER XV.
Lay our hands on six hundred pounds and quarter ourselves in Hurst Court, but stand in a fair way to be undone by Dawson, his folly	127
CHAPTER XVI.
Prosper as well as any thieves may; but Dawson greatly tormented	135
CHAPTER XVII.
How Dawson for Moll's good parts company with us, and goes away a lonely man	144
CHAPTER XVIII.
Of our getting a painter into the Court, with whom our Moll falls straightway in love	152
CHAPTER XIX.
Of the business appointed to the painter, and how he set about the same	161
CHAPTER XX.
Of Moll's ill humour and what befel thereby	170
CHAPTER XXI.
Of the strange things told us by the wise woman	180
CHAPTER XXII.
How Moll and Mr. Godwin come together and declare their hearts' passion, and how I carry these tidings to Dawson	185
CHAPTER XXIII.
Don Sanchez proposes a very artful way to make Mr. Godwin a party to our knavery, etc.	197
CHAPTER XXIV.
I overcome Moll's honest compunctions, lay hold of three thousand pounds more, and do otherwise play the part of rascal to perfection	203
CHAPTER XXV.
A table of various accidents	212
CHAPTER XXVI.
How Moll Dawson was married to Mr. Richard Godwin; brief account of attendant circumstances	220
CHAPTER XXVII.
Of the great change in Moll, and the likely explanation thereof	233
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Moll plays us a mad prank for the last time in her life	237
CHAPTER XXIX.
Of the subtile means whereby Simon leads Mr. Godwin to doubt his wife	247
CHAPTER XXX.
How we are discovered and utterly undone	254
CHAPTER XXXI.
Moll's conscience is quickened by grief and humiliation beyond the ordinary	259
CHAPTER XXXII.
How we fought a most bloody battle with Simon, the constable, and others	265
CHAPTER XXXIII.
We take Moll to Greenwich; but no great happiness for her there	271
CHAPTER XXXIV.
All agree to go out to Spain again in search of our old jollity	281
CHAPTER XXXV.
How we lost our poor Moll, and our long search for her	288
CHAPTER XXXVI.
We learn what hath become of Moll; and how she nobly atoned for our sins	300
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Don Sanchez again proves himself the most mannerly rascal in the world	308
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
How we hear Moll's sweet voice through the walls of her prison, and speak two words with her, though almost to our undoing	313
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Of our bargaining with a Moorish seaman; and of an English slave	322
CHAPTER XL.
Of our escape from Barbary, of the pursuit and horrid, fearful slaughter that followed, together with other moving circumstances	330
CHAPTER XLI.
How Dawson counts himself an unlucky man who were best dead; and so he quits us, and I, the reader	340