bound to Genoa; they wanted a few Hands, some of their own Men having died in the Voyage; I proffered my Service; they accepted of me, staid in Cork, a few Days afterwards, then weighed Anchor, and set sail for Genoa, where we arrived in Safety in about three Weeks; here we had not continued long, before I perpetrated the Murther, for which I am about to suffer: Now Gentlemen, I have given you a full Account of the most material Incidents that has happened to me since I left England, I therefore earnestly intreat the Favour of you, when once you return to England, to enquire after my Wife, and if you find her, be pleased in my Name, to present her the Love of a dying Husband, who conscious of his Guilt, humbly begs her Pardon and Forgiveness, for all the Injuries he hath done her, since first he knew her; this his Request we promised to fulfill, if once we returned to England; so we took our last Farewel. None of us, ever saw him afterwards, but were informed, that he was sewed up in a Sack, with heavy Stones, and thrown into the Sea; the other two Englishmen sailed for Leghorn, and I for this Place, and when I go Home, I intend to make an Enquiry concerning the said Woman: She listened attentively all the While he was relating this Story, and weighing all the particular Circumstances of this Relation, she perceived so many concurring Circumstances blended together, as put it beyond all Doubt he was her Husband; this Account however, notwithstanding his vile Proceedings, grieved her much, and no doubt would have broke forth into briny Tears, had she been in a Place of Retirement: She sometimes grieved at his cruel and untimely Fate, but suddenly, the ill Treatment she met with from him, returned triumphant in her Mind, and extinguished her kindled Tenderness: However, she told the Sailor who related this Story, that from the Account he gave of this Man, he must have been the same identical Person, with whom she had formerly been acquainted, and if once she came to England, she would endeavour to find out the Wife of this unfortunate Man, whom she knew very well, and would acquaint her with this Catastrophe, and by so saying, concealed herself entirely from the least Suspicion.

Having now finished the Account of her Husbands untimely End, as related to her at Lisbon; the Detail of which, appeared to her, as if sent from above, to free her from those anxious Cares, which, in the midst of the greatest Dangers, always set triumphant in her Breast, I shall now proceed to her Voyage from thence to England.

They set sail from Lisbon the 3d of May, and arrived at Spithead the 1st of June, without any Thing material during the Voyage (which was lengthened by Calms and contrary Winds); that very Day she arrived at Spithead she came on Shore, and took a Lodging along with several of her Shipmates and Marines, at one James Cunningham’s, at the Sign of the Jolly Marine and Sailor; where the House being thronged with Lodgers, she was obliged to be Bedfellow to one John Huchins, a Brother Marine, the first Night; but during her short Stay in Portsmouth, in her often Rovings in and about the Town, (which was only two Days and three Nights) she happen’d to meet with the Sister of Mr. Cunningham, the Drum-Major’s Wife, one Catherine ——, with whom she had cultivated a slender Acquaintance at the Time she first enlisted there. This young Woman knew Hannah to be the young Soldier that had enlisted and been sent abroad with Admiral Boscawen, and expressed some Joy at her safe Return: Then entering into this Conversation, introduced a farther Intimacy; and Hannah, rather than sit to drink with her Shipmates, spent most of her Time with this young Woman. This Opportunity improved their Conversation, and sometimes they conversed upon Love; and Hannah finding this young Woman had no dislike to her, she endeavoured to try if she could not act the Lover as well as the Soldier, which she so well effected, that it was agreed upon she should return from London, in order to be married as soon as she had got her Discharge and Pay; and tho’ but so short a Time there as two Days, had effected this her Amour so as to obtain the young Woman’s Consent to marry her.

In order to countenance this her Scheme, she told the supposed Object of her Love, that as soon as she arrived at London, and received her Wages, she would remit the same to her; and when she had visited, and tarried some time with each of her nigh Relations and intimate Friends, she would then return to Portsmouth, according to Agreement, and consummate their matrimonial Ceremonies with a Solemnity suitable to her Abilities.

The next Night, being Saturday the 2d of June, Hannah’s Bedfellow, who had lain with her the Night before, went out of Town, and one James Moody, who had been a Ship-mate with her on board the Eltham from Fort St. David’s to England, coming in the Evening of that Day, and wanting a Lodging, he was received by the Landlord, and as Hannah was his intimate, he was admitted to be her Bedfellow, which continued for two Nights together, without the least Suspicion in Life.

It is here worthy of Observation, that this Woman should lay three Nights with two different Men, one of whom who had been her Companion and Fellow-adventurer, during the Space of fifteen Months and more; and never, during that Space of Time, discover the least Hint of her being of the female Kind; and this Man had often been her Assistant in the most dangerous Exploits, and could not avoid acknowledging, that she behaved upon all Occasions, with the greatest Bravery and Resolution.

Whitmonday, being the 4th of June, she set out from Portsmouth for London; accompanied by George Orley, a Serjeant of Marines, who was a Partner with her in her Adventures, and who, together with nine Marines, accompanied her to London: She received before they set out from Portsmouth, five Shillings Conduct-money. The first Place she traveled to after her departure from Portsmouth, was Petersfield, in Hampshire; where she lay all Night, with one Andrew Gray a Marine, not only in the same Regiment, but in the same Company: Next Day travel’d as far as Guildford, where the aforesaid Andrew Gray and she were Bedfellows; next Night she arrived in London, where she disingaged herself from her old Intimates, and lodged along with her Brother, Mr. James Gray, Carpenter, in Ship-Street, Wapping; where she now resides.

Now I have brought my female Adventurer home again to her native Country, after near five Years Adventures; prompted thereto by the ill Usage of a faithless Husband, who, after first stripping her of her all, and then eloping, prompted her to the Resolution of disguising herself, by putting on Men’s Apparel, going into the Country without the Knowledge of her Brother, Sister, or any other of her Friends, in search of him who had thus abused her; and entering into Colonel Guise’s Regiment of Foot, then lying at Coventry, who from thence marched to Carlisle, where she was ill used, the Particulars of which, are set forth at large in the foregoing Pages: How she received five hundred Lashes at Carlisle, as a Punishment for her virtuous Conduct, her Resolution to desert, and her puting