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 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

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