The groundworke of conny-catching, the manner of their pedlers-French, and the meanes to vnderstand the same with the cunning slights of the counterfeit cranke : therein are h[a]nd[l]ed the practises of the visiter, the fetches of the shifter and rufflar, the deceits of their doxes, the deuises of priggers, the names of the base loytering losels, and the meanes of euery blacke-art-mans shifts, with the reproofe of all the diuellish practises / done by a iustice of peace of great authoritie, who hath had the examining of diuers of them.

Title

The groundworke of conny-catching, the manner of their pedlers-French, and the meanes to vnderstand the same with the cunning slights of the counterfeit cranke : therein are h[a]nd[l]ed the practises of the visiter, the fetches of the shifter and rufflar, the deceits of their doxes, the deuises of priggers, the names of the base loytering losels, and the meanes of euery blacke-art-mans shifts, with the reproofe of all the diuellish practises / done by a iustice of peace of great authoritie, who hath had the examining of diuers of them.

Author

Harman, Thomas, fl. 1567.

Publication

[London :: Printed by John Danter for William Barley,

1592].

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Subject terms

Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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"The groundworke of conny-catching, the manner of their pedlers-French, and the meanes to vnderstand the same with the cunning slights of the counterfeit cranke : therein are h[a]nd[l]ed the practises of the visiter, the fetches of the shifter and rufflar, the deceits of their doxes, the deuises of priggers, the names of the base loytering losels, and the meanes of euery blacke-art-mans shifts, with the reproofe of all the diuellish practises / done by a iustice of peace of great authoritie, who hath had the examining of diuers of them." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68139.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the gentle Readers Health.
• A new kind of shifting sleight, practised at this day by some of this Cony-catching crue, in Innes or vittailing houses but especially in Faires or Markets, which came to my hands since the im∣printing of the rest.
• TO THE READER.
  • The vpright Coffe canteth to the Rogue The vpright man speaketh to the Rogue.
• THE GROVNDWORKE of Conny-catching.
  • The Visiter.
  • A Shifter.
• THE GROVND-WORKE of Conny-catching.
  • A Rufflar.
  • A Vpright man. cap. 2.
  • A Hooker or Angler. Cap. 3.
  • A Rogue. Cap. 4.
  • A wilde Roge. Cap. 5.
  • A Prigger of Prauncers. Cap. 6.
  • A Palliard. Cap. 7.
  • A Frater. Cap. 8.
  • A Abraham man. Cap. 9.
  • A Freshe Water Mariner or Whipiacke. Cap 10.
  • A counterfet Cranke, cap. 11.
  • A Dommerar. Cap. 12.
  • A dronken Tinkar. Cap. 13.
  • A Swadder oe Pedler. Cap. 14.
  • A Iarkeman and a Patrico▪ Cap. 15.
  • The ground-worke A Demaunder for glimmar. Cap. 16.
  • The Baudy Basket. cap. 17.
  • A Autem Mort.
  • A walking Mort. cap. 19.
  • A Doxe. Cap. 20.
  • A Dell. Cap. 21.
  • A Kinching Morte. Cap. 22.
  • A Kinching Co. Cap. 23.
  • Thei. vsage in the night. Cap. 24.