Preface

i

AWDELEY’S Fraternitye, not plagiarized from, but published ‘a fewe yeares’ before, Harman’s Caueat

i

HARMAN’S Caueat: two states of the 2nd edition. The latter, now called the 3rd edition, is reprinted here

iv

Piraters from Harman: Bynnyman, and G. Dewes

vi

Short account of Thomas Harman

vii

HARRISON’S quotation of Harman, and his account of English Vagabonds, and the punishments for them

xi

The Groundworke of Conny-catching is a reprint of Harman’s Caueat, with an Introduction

xiv

DEKKER’S Belman of London: its borrowings from Harman

xiv

S. ROWLANDS’S Martin Mark-all shows up Dekker, and has new Cant words

xvi

DEKKER’S Lanthorn and Candle-light borrows from Harman: Canting Song from it

xix

The Caterpillers of this Nation anatomized

xxi

A Warning for Housebreakers

xxi

Street Robberies consider’d

xxii

Parson HABEN’S or HYBERDYNE’S Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery

xxiv

Shares in the present work

xxiv

1. Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, with the .xxv. Orders of Knaues (p. 12–16)

1–16

2. Harman’s Caueat or War­rening for Com­men Cvrse­tors vul­garely called Vaga­bones

17–91

3. Parson Haben’s (or Hyberdyne’s) Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery

92–95

4. The Groundwork of Conny-catching: those parts that are not reprinted from Harman’s Caueat

96–103

5. Index

104?–?111