The fraternitye of vacabondes
By: by John Awdeley ... from the edition of 1575 in the Bodleian Library. A caueat or warening for commen cursetors vulgarely called vagabones, by Thomas Harman esquiere, from the 3rd edition of 1567 ... A sermon in praise of thieves and thievery, by Parson Haben or Hyberdyne, from the Landsdowne ms. 98, and Cotton Vesp. A. 25. Those parts of the groundworke of conny-catching (ed. 1592) that differ from Harman's Caueat. Ed. by Edward Viles & F.J. Furnivall.
Contributors: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, joint ed.; Awdelay, John, fl. 1559-1575.; Harman, Thomas, fl. 1567.; Haben.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series.; no IX
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- History -- Sources; Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Early works to 1800; Thieves
Genres: Sources.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: The groundworke of conny-catching.
Notes: With reproductions of original title-pages.
The "Groundworke of conny-catching" has been attributed to Robert Greene, but on slight evidence. cf. p. xiv.
Reprinted in 1880 for the New Shakespeare Society, series VI, no. 7, under the title "The rogues and vagabonds of Shakspere's youth," and again in 1907 for "The Shakespeare library."