Richard Head (1637?-1686?)
He had been amongst the gipsies. He looked like a knave with his gogling eies. He could transforme1144 himselfe into <any> shape. Brake 2 or 3 times. Was at last a bookeseller, or towards his later end. He maintained himselfe by scribling. He <got> 20s. per sheet. He wrote severall pieces, viz. The English RogueEV, The Art of Wheadling, etc.
He was drowned goeing to Plymouth by long sea about 1676, being about 50 yeares of age.
Note
EV In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v, Anthony Wood notes ‘Meriton Latrone in “the English Rogue”; I have it <i.e. the book> in my other study.’—‘The English Rogue described in the life of Meriton Latrone,’ Lond. 1666.
Notes
1143From Mr. Bovey:—... Meriton—his true name was Head (Mr. Bovey knew him). Borne...; was a bookeseller in Little Britaine.