Sinopsis

I was born at Penhale, in the county of Cornwall, on the 21st day of
December 1685, about four months after my father, Peter Wilkins, who was
a zealous Protestant of the Church of England, had been executed by
Jeffreys, in Somersetshire, for ing in the design of raising the Duke of
Monmouth to the British throne. I was named, after my father and
grandfather, Peter, and was my father's only child by Alice his wife, the
daughter of John Capert, a clergyman in a neighbouring village. My
grandfather was a shopkeeper at Newport, who, by great frugality and
extraordinary application, had raised a fortune of about £160 a year in
lands, and a considerable sum of ready money, all whic...