THE NAMES OF THE VPRIGHT MEN, ROGES, AND PALLYARDS.
HEre followeth the vnrulye rablement of rascals, and the moste notoryous and wyckedst walkers that are lyuinge nowe at this present, with their true names as they be called and knowne by. And although I set and place here but thre orders, yet, good Reader, vnderstand that all the others aboue named are deriued and come out from the vpright men and Roges. Concerning the number of Mortes and Doxes, it is superfluous to wryte of them. I could well haue don it, but the number of them is great, and woulde aske a large volume.
Harry Smyth, he driueleth whe_n_ he speaketh.
Iohn Horwood, a maker of wels; he wyll take halfe his bargayne in hand, _and_ when hée hath wrought ii. or iii. daies, he runneth away with his earnest.
Iohn Leuet; he maketh tappes and fausets.
Robart Brownswerd, he werith his here long.
Nycholas Blunt _alias_ Nycholas Gennings, a counterfet Cranke.
Rychard Horwod, well nere lxxx. yeares olde; he wyll byte a vi. peny nayle a sonder w_i_t_h_ his téeth, and a bawdye *[leaf 27]* dronkard.
Richard Crane; he carieth a Kynchne Co at his backe.
Thomas Smith, _with_ the skald skyn.[157]
Wylliam Gynkes, with a whyte bearde, a lusty and stronge man; he runneth about the countrey to séeke worke, with a byg boy, his sonne carying his toles as a dawber or playsterer, but lytle worke serueth him.
Edward Heyward, hath his Morte following him, which fained the Cranke.
Iohn Gylford, Irish, w_i_t_h_ a counterfet lisence.
Nycholas Newton, carieth a fained lisence.
Richard Hylton, caryeth ii. Kynchen mortes about him.
Wyll Pettyt, beareth a Kinche_n_ mort at his back.
There is aboue an hundreth of Irish men and women that wander about to begge for their lyuing, that hath come ouer within these two yeares. They saye the[y] haue béene burned and spoyled by the Earle of Desmond, and report well of the Earle of Vrmond.
¶ All these aboue wryten for the most part walke about Essex, Myddlesex, Sussex, Surrey, and Kent. Then let the reader iudge what number walkes in other Shieres, I feare me to great a number, if they be well vnderstande.
*[leaf 27, back]* [159]Here followyth their pelting speche.[159]
HEre I set before the good Reader the leud, lousey language of these lewtering Luskes _and_ lasy Lorrels, where with they bye and sell the common people as they pas through the countrey. Whych language they terme Peddelars Frenche, a vnknowen toung onely, but to these bold, beastly, bawdy Beggers, and vaine Vacabondes, being halfe myngled with Englyshe, when it is famyliarlye talked, and fyrste placinge thinges by their proper names as an Introduction to this peuyshe spéeche.