LIFE (the) and adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross; who served as a foot-soldier and dragoon, in several campaigns, under King William and the late Duke of Marlborough; containing variety of transactions both serious and diverting: wherein she gave surprizing proofs of courage, strength, and dexterity in handling all sorts of weapons, rarely to be met with in the contrary sex; for which, besides being otherwise rewarded, she was made a pensioner of Chelsea College, by Queen Anne, where her husband now is a serjeant, and she continued to her death. The whole taken from her own mouth, and known to be true by many noblemen, generals, and other officers, &c. mentioned in her life, and still living, who served in those wars at the same time, and were witnesses of her uncommon martial bravery. [By Daniel DEFOE.] The second edition. To which is added, an appendix, containing several remarkable passages, omitted in the former impression. London, M, DCC, XLI. Octavo. [In two parts.] Each part has a separate pagination.* [Lee's Defoe.] LIFE (the) and adventures of Paul Plaintive, Esq. an author. Compiled from original documents, and interspersed with specimens of his genius, in prose and poetry. By Martin Gribaldus Swammerdam, (his nephew and executor.) [By William MUDFORD.] [In two volumes.] London 1811. Duodecimo.* : LIFE (the) and adventures of Peter Porcupine, with a full and fair account of all his authoring transactions; being a sure and infallible guide for all enterprising young men who wish to make a fortune by writing pamphlets. To which is added, his will and testament. By Peter Porcupine himself. [William COBBETT.] Glasgow: 1798. Duodecimo. Pp. 57.* LIFE (the) and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornishman: relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful passage thro' a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world; his there meeting with a gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glums and gawrys, or men Likewise a de and women that fly. scription of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them. Taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. With an introduction, giving an account of the surprizing manner of his coming on board that vessel, and his death on his landing at Plymouth in the year 1739. Illustrated with several cuts, clearly and distinctly representing the structure and mechanism of the wings of the glums and gawrys, and the manner in which they use them either to swim or fly. By R. S. a passenger in the Hector. [Robert PALTOCK, or PULTOCK.] In two volumes. London: M. DCC. LI. Duodecimo. [Boase and Courtney, Bib. Corn., ii. 420.] Introduction signed R. P. LIFE (the) and adventures of Sir Bartholomew Sapskull, Baronet, nearly allied to most of the great men of the three kingdoms. By Somebody. [William DONALDSON.] In two volumes. 1768. Duodecimo. [Taylor's Records of my life, i. 62. Mon. Rev., xxxix. 83.] LIFE and adventures of the Marchioness Urbino in England, Spain, Turkey, Italy, France, and Holland. [By Dorothy NOAKE.] 1735. Octavo. [Kinsman's Cat., 25.] LIFE (the) and character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis: collected from Plutarch in the Greek, and from Lucan, Salust, Lucius Florus, and other authors in the Latin tongue. 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Pp. 6. b. t. 32.* [Bodl.] LIFE (the) and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal; once Arch Bishop of York, and Lord Chancellour of England. Containing, I. The original of his promotion, and, the way he took to obtain it. 2. The continuance in his magnificence. 3. His negotiations concerning the peace with France and the Netherlands. 4. His fall, death, and burial. Wherein are things remarkable for these times. Written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher. [George CAVENDISH.] London, 1667. Octavo. Pp. 14. b. t. 157.* [Bodl.] Epistle dedicatory signed N.D. The first edition was printed in 1641, 4to. This is the second. LIFE and death of William Longbeard, the most famous and witty English traitor, borne in the city of London. Accompanied with manye other most pleasant and prettie histories. By T. L. [Thomas LODGE] of Lincolns London: 1593. Quarto. [W., Lowndes, LIFE (the) and defence of the conduct London 1818. Octavo. [W., Brit. 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