The defence of conny catching. Or A confutation of those two iniurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences. By Cuthbert Cunny-catcher, licentiate in Whittington Colledge.

Title

The defence of conny catching. Or A confutation of those two iniurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences. By Cuthbert Cunny-catcher, licentiate in Whittington Colledge.

Author

Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.

Publication

Printed at London :: By A. I[effes] for Thomas Gubbins and are to be sold by Iohn Busbie,

1592.

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Subject terms

Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. -- Notable discovery of coosenage.

Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. -- Second part of conny-catching.

Thieves -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To all my good frends health.
• THE DEFENCE OF Conny-catching.
  • A pleasant tale of an Vsurer.
  • A pleasant Tale of a Miller and an Alewiues Boy of Edmondton.
  • A pleasant Tale of Will Sommers.
  • A pleasant Tale how a holy brother Conny-catcht for a Wife.
  • A pleasaunt Tale of a man that was marryed to sixteene Wiues, and how courteously his last wife intreated him.
  • A pleasant Tale of a Taylor, how he conny-catcht a Gen∣tlewoman, and was made himselfe a Gonny af∣terwardes by his man.