Bampfylde Moore Carew
Bickleigh, Devon
Bampfylde Moore Carew was a Devon-born rogue whose embellished life story made him the self-styled King of the Beggars and Gypsies. Chapbook accounts turned his disguises, escapes, and confidence tricks into a durable popular legend, blending historical fact with folk invention across 18th-century England.
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