Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Ser­mon, &c.; Edit­ed by Ed­ward Viles and Fred­er­ick James Furn­i­vall; Authored by John Awdeley (flour­ished 1559–1577), Thomas Har­man (active 1567), and Par­son Haben (or Hyber­dyne). Pub­lished in 1869 for the Ear­ly En­glish Text So­cie­ty, by Humphrey Milford, Ox­ford Uni­vers­i­ty Press.

Transcriber’s note is [here]

Extra Series, IX.


PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED

BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

CONTENTS.

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 Com­menCvrse­tors vul­garely called Vaga­bones

[17–91]

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

[92–95]

4. The Groundwork of Conny-catching: those parts that arenot reprinted from Harman’s Caueat

[96–103]

5. Index

[104–111]

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