The life and strange surprising adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins an Highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon. Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland, from the battle of Gillycranky fought between two Highland generals the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay; to the death of K. James II. Being a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c. Together with the promise the late French King made to K. James on his death-bed

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  • The life and strange surprising adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins an Highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon. Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland, from the battle of Gillycranky fought between two Highland generals the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay; to the death of K. James II. Being a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c. Together with the promise the late French King made to K. James on his death-bed
  • Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins
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Imprint
London : printed for R. King, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and F. Jeffries, at the Bible in Ludgate-street, M DCC XXII. [1722] The second edition.; ..
Added name
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.; Jeffries, Francis, -1739, bookseller.; [King, R. (Richard)], bookseller.
Publication year
1722
ESTC No.
N498484
Grub Street ID
359288
Description
[6], 182 p. ; 12°.
Note
With a half-title

Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions

Signatures: A]4] (-A4,=K1?) B-H]1]2] I]6] K1.