Gentle reader, as there hath beene diuers bookes set forth, as warnings for all men to shun the craftie coossening sleights of these both men and women that haue tearmed themselues Conny-catchers; so amongst the rest, bestow the reading ouer of this booke, wherin thou shalt find the ground-worke of Conny-catching, with the manner of their canting speech, how they call all things in their language, the horrible coossening of all these loose varlots, and the names of them in their seuerall degrees,
- First, The Visiter.
- 2. The Shifter.
- 3. The Rufflar.
- 4. The Rogue.
- 5. The wild Rogue.
- 6. A prigger of Prauncers.
- 7. A Pallyard.
- 8. A Frater.
- 9. An Abraham man.
- 10. A freshwater Marriner, or Whipiacke.
- 11. A counterfait Cranke.
- 12. A Dommerar.
- 13. A Dronken Tinkar.
- 14. A Swadder, or Pedler.
- 15. A Iarkeman & Patrico.
- 16. A demander for glimmar.
- 17. The baudy Basket.
- 18. An Autem Mort.
- 19. A walking Mort.
- 20. A Doxe.
- 21. A Dell.
- 22. Kinchin Mort.
- 23. A Kinchin Co.
All these playing their coossenings in their kinde are here set downe, which neuer yet were disclosed in anie booke of Conny-catching. {100}
[Headnote: SHIFTERS AT INNS.]
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A new kind of shifting sleight, practised at this day by
some of this Cony-catching crue, in Innes or vitualling
houses, but especially in Faires or Markets,
which came to my hands since the im-
printing of the rest.