FOOTNOTES:
[1] Liber Vagatorum: Der Betler Orden: First printed about 1514. Its first section gives a special account of the several orders of the 'Fraternity of Vagabonds;' the 2nd, sundry notabilia relating to them; the 3rd consists of a 'Rotwelsche Vocabulary,' or 'Canting Dictionary.' See a long notice in the Wiemarisches Jahrbuch, vol. 10; 1856. Hotten's Slang Dictionary: Bibliography.
[2] See the back of his title-page, p. [2], below.
[3] as well and and as well not in the title of the 1575 edition.
[4] Compare the anecdote, p. [66], [68], 'the last sommer. Anno Domini, 1566.'
[5] 'now at this seconde Impression,' p. [27]; 'Whyle this second Impression was in printinge,' p. [87].
[6] Mr J. P. Collier (Bibliographical Catalogue, i. 365) has little doubt that the verses at the back of the title-page of Harman's Caveat were part of "a ballad intituled a description of the nature of a birchen broom" entered at Stationers' Hall to William Griffith, the first printer of the Caveat.
[7] Cp. Kente, p. 37, 43, 48, 61, 63, 66, 68, 77, &c. Moreover, the way in which he, like a Norfolk or Suffolk man, speaks of shires, points to a liver in a non -shire.
[8] In Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell, 1610, quoted below, at p. [xvii].