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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.
(LICENSED IN 1560–1, IMPRINTED THEN, AND IN 1565)
FROM THE EDITION OF 1575 IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.
A Caueat or Warening for Commen Cursetors vulgarely called Vagabones
FROM THE 3RD EDITION OF 1567, BELONGING TO HENRY HUTH, ESQ.
COLLATED WITH THE 2ND EDITION OF 1567 IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, AND WITH THE REPRINT OF THE 4TH EDITION OF 1573.
A Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery
FROM THE LANSDOWNE MS. 98, AND COTTON VESP. A. 25.
THOSE PARTS OF The Groundworke of Conny-catching (ed. 1592) THAT DIFFER FROM _HARMAN’S CAUEAT_.
EDITED BY EDWARD VILES & F. J. FURNIVALL.
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
BY HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
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
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
Parson HABEN’S or HYBERDYNE’S _Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery_ 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