By 1715, this African pidgin had made its way into novels by Daniel Defoe, in particular, The Life of Colonel Jacque.

According to Jeremy Butterfield, " The first person we know of who made usage refer to language was Daniel Defoe, at the end of the seventeenth century ".

In his History, Defoe reports that Sheppard made light of his predicament, joking that " I am the Sheppard, and all the Gaolers in the Town are my Flock, and I cannot stir into the Country, but they are all at my Heels Baughing after me ".

In The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe made Robinson Crusoe stay in Tobolsk from September 1703 to June 1704.

Defoe has said Beckton has " made him the man he is today ".

It made Knox internationally famous and was a major influence on the works of Daniel Defoe ; Robinson Crusoe and the later Captain Singleton both draw on the experiences of Knox.

He has also edited the works of Daniel Defoe and made major contributions to the question of attributions to Defoe in A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe, The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe, and A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe all written with W. R. Owens, in addition to many others on aspects of Defoe.

On 10 February 2010, Guðjohnsen made his full Spurs debut alongside Jermain Defoe as a striker in a 1 – 0 away defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

This goal also made him England's joint top scorer for the 2010 World Cup, tying with Steven Gerrard and Jermain Defoe on one goal each.

Defoe made his England debut in 2004 and to date has made 51 appearances, scoring 17 goals.

Less than 24 hours after the club had been relegated, Defoe made a written request for a transfer, saying " As much as I love West Ham United I feel that now is the right time for me to move on in my career.

Defoe made 49 league and cup appearances for Tottenham, scoring 18 goals, during the 2006 – 07 season as Tottenham competed in the UEFA Cup as well as the domestic competitions.

Defoe was presented at White Hart Lane before the start of Spurs ' League Cup clash against Burnley, after Spurs fans made it clear they wanted the striker back at White Hart Lane.

Defoe made his return debut on 11 January 2009 in a Premier League game against Wigan, scoring his first goal against former club Portsmouth at White Hart Lane on 18 January 2009.

Defoe made his debut for the senior England team in a 1 – 0 defeat to Sweden in March 2004, coming on as an early substitute for the injured Darius Vassell.

A list of the nearly 700 books in his library is preserved in the Bodleian Library while architecture and related crafts made up the bulk of his books ; other subjects covered included: antiquities, coins, and heraldry ; histories of England, Scotland and Rome and other nations ; literature included works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Matthew Prior ; travel books including Egypt, the South Seas, Russia, Hungary, Lapland, Virginia, Ceylon and Abyssinia, missionary travels included China, Formosa, Guinea, Borneo and the East Indies ; books on religion included both Anglican and Roman Catholic works ; and even cookery books.

He returned for the 2012 / 13 season and made his first appearance as a substitute for Jermaine Defoe against Norwich City on 1 September 2012.

It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 after four years on the otherwise uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands ; Defoe usually made use of current events for his plots.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

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Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

( The book is often printed under the byline of Daniel Defoe, on the assumption that " Charles Johnson " is a pseudonym, but there is no proof Defoe is the author, and the matter remains in dispute.

His harshest critic was Augustus Moore, who wrote " God help English literature when English people lay aside their Waverley novels, and the works of Defoe, Swift, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and even Charles Reade for the penny dreadfuls of Mr Haggard "; adding, " The man who could write ' he spoke to She ' can have no ear at all ".

Daniel Defoe visited Bradford in the early 18th century and commented: " They told me at Bradford on Avon that it was no extra-ordinary thing to have clothiers in that county worth £ 10, 000 to £ 40, 000 per man " ( equivalent to £ 1. 3M to £ 5. 3M in 2007 ).

Daniel Defoe, in his book A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, passed through Baldock and commented: " Here is that famous Lane call'd Baldock Lane, famous for being so unpassable, that the Coaches and Travellers were oblig'd to break out of the Way even by Force, which the People of the Country not able to prevent, at length placed Gates, and laid their lands open, setting Men at the Gates to take a voluntary Toll, which Travellers always chose to pay, rather than plunge into Sloughs and Holes, which no Horse could wade through.

However, in 1988 scholars P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owen attacked the theory in The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe, in which they point out that there is no documentary evidence linking Johnson to Defoe, and that there are discrepancies between A General History and Defoe's other works.

About this time, Defoe described the place as " the greatest mere village in England ", by which he meant that a place the size of a populous market town had no form of local government to speak of, and was still subject to the whims of a lord of the manor.

Daniel Defoe ’ s Moll Flanders includes a character who successfully pled her belly despite being “ no more with child than the judge that tried .” John Gay ’ s The Beggar's Opera includes a scene where the character Filch picks up income working as a “ child getter … helping the ladies to a pregnancy against their being called down to sentence ”.

Since then in his tenure as director, as of 2010, Carr is credited with producing talent which has earned an estimated £ 80 million in transfer fees for the club, while the 23 man England squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup contained no less than seven players trained by Carr-Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Michael Carrick, Jermain Defoe, Glen Johnson and John Terry.

In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions " merry andrews " while describing the effects of the plague on London society: " All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid to act ; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the people, were shut up and suppressed ; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, shut up their shops, finding indeed no trade ; for the minds of the people were agitated with other things, and a kind of sadness and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common people.

The English writer Daniel Defoe, who studied the period, listed the reasons why the more intransigent clergy refused to countenance the offer:

The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in 1709 and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works.

The locals also claimed that " the same spring is said to turn wood into iron ", but Defoe put this down to the presence of " copperas " in the water.

Daniel Defoe describes life in the Mint for his heroine Moll Flanders in the novel of the same name.

On it, he sees Daniel Defoe with his ears chopped off, John Tutchin being whipped publicly through western England, two political journalists clubbed to death ( on the same day ), and himself being wrapped in a blanket and whipped by the schoolboys of Westminster ( for having printed an unauthorized edition of the sermons of the school's master, thereby robbing the school's own printer ).

Defoe received the number 18 shirt after the loan spell of former Manchester United player Fraizer Campbell had ended, the same kit number that he wore during his first spell with Tottenham Hotspur.

In the same year, Defoe produced A Journal of the Plague Year ( 1722 ), which summoned up the horrors and tribulations of 1665 for a journalistic market for memoirs, and an attempted tale of a working-class male rise in Colonel Jack ( 1722 ).

In the same year, Defoe produced a flatly journalistic A Journal of the Plague Year ( 1722 ), and an attempted tale of a working class male rise in Colonel Jack ( 1722 ).

A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;

Defoe being a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".