But if a doubt on Awdeley's priority to Harman exists in any reader's mind, let him consider this second reference by Harman to Awdeley (p. 60, below), not noticed by the bibliographers: "For-as-much as these two names, a Iarkeman and a Patrico, bée in _the old briefe of vacabonds_, and set forth as two kyndes of euil doers, you shall vnderstande that a Iarkeman hath his name of a _Iarke, which is a seale in their Language_, as one should _make writinges and set seales for lycences_ and pasporte," and then turn to Awdeley's _Fraternitye of Vacabondes_, and there see, at page 5, below:
A Iackeman is he that can write and reade, and sometime speake latin. He vseth _to make counterfaite licences_ which they call Gybes, _and sets to Seales, in their language called Iarkes_. (See also 'A Whipiacke,' p. 4.)
Let the reader then compare Harman's own description of a _Patrico_, p. 60, with that in 'the old _Briefe of Vacabonds_,' Awdeley, p. 6:
A Patriarke Co doth _make whiche in their language is a mariages_, & that is _vntill death priest, that should _make depart_ the maried folke. mariages tyll death dyd depart_.
And surely no doubt on the point will remain in his mind, though, if needed, a few more confirmations could be got, as
A Palliard is he that goeth in These Palliardes ... go with patched a patched cloke, and hys Doxy clokes, and haue their Morts with goeth in like apparell. them.
We may conclude, then, certainly, that Awdeley did not plagiarize Harman; and probably, that he first published his _Fraternitye_ in 1561. The tract is a mere sketch, as compared with Harman's _Caueat_, though in its descriptions (p. 6-11) of 'A Curtesy Man,' 'A Cheatour or Fingerer,' and 'A Ring-Faller' (one of whom tried his tricks on me in Gower-street about ten days ago), it gives as full a picture as Harman does of the general run of his characters. The edition of 1575 being the only one accessible to us, our trusty Oxford copier, Mr George Parker, has read the proofs with the copy in the Bodleian.
Let no one bring a charge of plagiarizing Awdeley, against Harman, for the latter, as has been shown, referred fairly to Awdeley's '_small breefe_' or '_old briefe of vacabonds_,' and wrote his own "bolde Beggars booke" (p. 91) from his own long experience with them.