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<P>MARTIN MARK-ALL, BEADLE OF BRIDEWELL; His defence and An&s;were to the Belman of LONDON.</P>
<P>Di&s;couering the long-concealed Originall and Regi|ment of Rogues, when they fir&s;t began to take head, and how they haue &s;ucceeded one the other &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely vnto the &s;ixe and twentieth yeare of King HENRY the eight, gathered out of the Chro|nicle of Crackeropes, and (as they terme it) the Legend of LOSSELS.</P>
<P>By S. R.</P>
<Q><L>Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore,</L>
<L>Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae.</L></Q>
<P>LONDON Printed for Iohn Budge, and Richard Bonian. 1610.</P>
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<HEAD>To the courteous Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_GEntlemen, a Preface to a Pamphlet is as fooli&s;h as fancied, and ver&s;es <HI>(in lau|dem authoris)</HI> are farre wor&s;e then a Hor&s;e-cour&s;ers commendation of a Smythfield-Iade, the one too too com|mon, the other friuolous: for mine owne part, if the in&s;ide of my labour cannot winne your content, let the out&s;ide of the &s;ubiect &s;hew his authours intent: I know I &s;hall be contemned of &s;ome for being too forward, controlled of others who perhaps are rub|bed on the &s;ore, and condemned of a third &s;ort for a loo&s;e &s;tile and lame phra&s;e: Indeed Gentlemen this I doe confe&s;&s;e, I &s;hall bring vpon this great Stage of fooles (for <HI>omne &s;ub Sole vanitas</HI>) a peece of folly; if &s;uch as count them&s;elues wi&s;e dare venter the rea|ding of it ouer, I cannot let them, but when they haue peru&s;ed it, and finde therein nothing but folly, let them reprehend neither the worke nor workema|&s;ter, but rather them&s;elues, in that they would &s;pend their time &s;o fooli&s;hly, being be|fore warned of &s;o fooli&s;h and idle a &s;ubiect.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours in loue, <HI>S. R.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>MARTIN MARK-ALL his Apologie, to the Bel-man <HI>of London.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THere hath b&eacute;en of late dayes great paines taken on the part of the good old Bel-man of London, in di&s;couering as h&eacute;e thinks, a new|found Nation and People, Let it be &s;o for this time: hereupon much adoe was made in &s;etting forth their liues, order of liuing, method of &s;p&eacute;ech, and v&s;uall m&eacute;etings, with diuers other things thereunto appertaining. The&s;e volumes and papers, now &s;pread euerie where, &s;o that euerie Iacke-boy now can &s;ay as well as the proude&s;t of that fraternitie, (will you wapp for a wyn, or tranie for a make,) the gentle Company of Cur&s;itours began now to &s;tirre, and looke about them, and hauing gathered together a Conuoca|tion of Canting Caterpillars, as wel in the North parts at the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Where at this day the Rogues of the North part, once euerie three yeeres a&s;&s;emble in the night, becau&s;e they will not be &s;eene and e&s;pied, being a place to tho&s;e that know it verie fit for that purpo&s;e, it being hol|low, and made &s;pacious vnder ground, at fir&s;t by e&s;timation halfe a mile in compa&s;&s;e, but it hath &s;uch turnings and roundings in it, that a man may ea&s;ily be lo&s;t, if hee en|ter not with a guide.</NOTE> Diuels ar&s;e apeake, as in the South, They dili|gently enquired, and &s;traight &s;earch was made, whether any had reuolted from that faithles fellow&s;hip, herupon euery one gaue his verdict, &s;ome &s;uppo&s;ed that it might be &s;ome one, that hauing ventured too farre beyond wit and good taking h&eacute;ede was fallen into the hands of the Magi&s;trate, and carried to the trayning Cheates, where in &s;hew of a penitent heart, and remoar&s;e of his good time ill &s;pent, turned the cocke, and let out all: Others
<PB REF="3"> thought it might be &s;ome &s;pie-knaue, that hauing little to doe, tooke vpon him the habite and forme of an Hermite, and &s;o by dayly commercing and di&s;cour&s;ing learned in time the my&s;terie and knowlege of this ignoble pro&s;e&s;&s;i|on: and others becau&s;e it &s;melt a of a &s;tudy, d&eacute;emed it to be &s;ome of their owne companie, that had b&eacute;en at &s;ome fr&eacute;e-&s;choole, and belike becau&s;e h&eacute;e would be hand|&s;ome again&s;t a good time, tooke pen and inke, and wrote of that &s;ubiect, thus, <HI>Tot homines, tot &s;ententiae,</HI> &s;o many men, &s;o many mindes. And all becau&s;e the &s;pightfull Poet would not &s;et too his name. At la&s;t vp &s;tarts an old Cacodemicall Academicke with his frize bonnet, and giues them al to know, that this inuectiue was &s;et foorth, made, and printed aboue Fortie y&eacute;eres agoe. And being then called, A caueat for Cur&s;itors, is now newly printed, and termed, The Bel-man of Lon|don, made at fir&s;t by one Ma&s;ter <HI>Harman</HI> a Iu&s;tice of Peace in Kent, in Qu&eacute;ene <HI>Maries</HI> daies, he being then a|bout ten y&eacute;eres of age.</P>
<P>At this newes the whole Company of Clapperdudgi|ons, were indifferently well re&s;olued, yet their mindes were not fully &s;atisfied, becau&s;e they knew not by whom this booke was &s;et out, hereupon for this time the Syna|gogue of Sathan was di&s;mi&s;&s;ed, and the whole Regi|ment of Raggamuffins betooke them&s;elues to their v|&s;uall occupations, expecting that this villanous If wil|ler of theirs, at one time or other, would be knowne and brought to light. Not long after, this peruer&s;e per&s;e|cutor of poore Pilgrims, not content with the former iniurie done again&s;t them, but &s;&eacute;eking by all meanes, to roote out and &s;catter them, if it were po&s;&s;ible out of the land, rai&s;es new forces, and per&s;ecutes them, with fire, and &s;word, and deadly warre.</P>
<P>The furie and malice of the Bel-man once again bru|ted abroad, and they not knowing the author of the fir&s;t, now grow outragious, begin to cur&s;e with Bell, booke,
<PB REF="3"> and candle: That if he were to be knowne, they would &s;pare neither co&s;t nor labour for the &s;earch, and enquirie of him forth.</P>
<P>Meane time the Rogues of the North, that had before met at the Diuels ar&s;e apeake, hearing of this vnexpec|ted newes with rage inflamed, trot on their lu&s;tie ten|toes, with bagge and baggage toward the Southerne Regiment, who being entertained with &s;uch welcomes and complements, as are v&s;ed among them&s;elues. They pre&s;ently &s;end to the Beadle of the Hall, to &s;ummon and warne, all of that Company and Fraternitie, to make his per&s;onal appearance at the Swan with fiue necks in Kings &s;tr&eacute;ete as the fitte&s;t place to receiue &s;o ignoble a Court of Crack-ropes.</P>
<P>The Congregation of Caterpillars gathered together, and the Court of Couzoners now &s;et: vp &s;tarts a ragged ouer roa&s;ted Iacke of the Clocke hou&s;e with his crutch in his hand, in &s;tead of a Tip-&s;taffe, makes thr&eacute;e &s;olemne O yes, which done with a fierie face, and filthy Throat, he proclaymes, as followeth.</P>
<P>All maner of people that were &s;ummoned to appeare here this day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Corporall Fize.</NOTE> before Corporall Fize chiefe Commander of the Regiment, and Corporation of good fellowes, and Maunders, let them draw n&eacute;ere, and giue their atten|dance, for the Court is &s;et.</P>
<P>As &s;oone as euer the proclamation was ended, Lord, what a Companie of petitioners pre&s;&s;ed to the barre to preferre their papers of miuries, that were offred and done among them&s;elues, here one complaines that h&eacute;e could not trauell &s;afely, nor cary any money without danger of the vyright man and Tinker, but that they would robbe and &s;poyle them of all that was ought a|bout them, here another that they could not quietly take their ra&s;t in the night, nor k&eacute;epe his Autem, or dorie &s;ole vnto him&s;elfe: but that the Ruffier, padder, or any vp|right
<PB REF="4"> man, would take them away perforce, and others that they could not conuer&s;e, and k&eacute;epe company with tho&s;e that they met, but that in the night they are &s;ure to be Clyd in the night, by the Angler, or hooker, or &s;uch like pilferers that liue vpon the &s;poyle of other poore people. The&s;e were generally the effect of their petitions, but O, if a man were there to heare the noy&s;e, the clamour, and bawling that was there amonge them, you would &s;ure thinke, that all the dogges in Pari&s;h garden were broke loo&s;e, and came thither on purpo&s;e to yawle: yea, I think in my con&s;cience, <HI>Cerberus</HI> that thr&eacute;e-throat hor|rible hel-hound neuer kept a more dolefull, nor horryd noy&s;e, than tho&s;e kennell of <HI>Clapperdugeons</HI> did at that time, but after that proclamation was made for &s;ilence, Corporall <HI>Fize</HI> ch&eacute;efe Commander of that courte, began as followeth.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Corporall Fize his &s;peech to appea&s;e the tumult.</NOTE>My friends and fellowes, our m&eacute;eting h&eacute;ere at this time is not to di&s;cu&s;&s;e and determine of matters be|tw&eacute;ene partie and partie. But our a&s;&s;embly now is to finde out, Iudge, and determine of one that of late hath publi&s;hed two malitious and iniurious Pamphlets: concerning vs and our whole cour&s;e of life. Therefore, I would reque&s;t you forbeare vntill the Court haue ful|ly fini&s;hed and ended this matter: and if we haue any &s;pare time afterward we will be ready to redre&s;&s;e any wronge, you, or any of you haue &s;u&s;tained. At this moti|on the wind was calme, then they proc&eacute;eded to call foorth the Graund Iurie, or Que&s;t of Enquirie: who being called they did appeare, and then the charge was giuen them as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD>The names of the Graund Iurie, or Que&s;t of en|quirie of Crackropes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Graund Inque&s;t of Crackropes.</NOTE></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>ANthonie ap Hugh,</HI> the Aple&s;quire of Ape&s;bury. <HI>Bartholmew Barfilching,</HI> the Bottlemaker of Bri|&s;tow.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Chafelitter,</HI> the Chymney&s;weeper of Kno|ctiuergos.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Demetrius Dingethri&s;t,</HI> the Dor&s;ermaker of Dorneby.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edwin Eue&s;dropper,</HI> the Eele-pie eater of Elton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Friskin Fitz-Fizler,</HI> my Lady <HI>Brache</HI> Gent. V&s;her of Feuer&s;ham.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregory Greenewinchard,</HI> the Gunfounder of Gog|gleton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Haunce Halter&s;icke,</HI> the Harni&s;maker of Hornchurch.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iefferie Iobbernall,</HI> the Ierkin maker of Iorley.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kenericke Coleprophet,</HI> the Cockletaker of Canter|burie.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Leacherous Low&s;icote,</HI> the Larke taker of Lalum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Martin Marke-a-knaue,</HI> the Mil&s;tone cutter of Mar|bury.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nunquam Neuerthriue,</HI> the Nutcracker of Newberie.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Owin Ouerthwart,</HI> the Onion &s;eller of Ockingham.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Peter Poundkarlicke,</HI> the Powchmaker of Pindle burie.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Quinton Corrifauell,</HI> the quack&s;aluer of Quanton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rowland Rinceprichard,</HI> the Ratcatcher of Ram&s;ey.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stephen Stinck-a-pace,</HI> the Sowgelder of Stamford.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Timothy Hol-hazard,</HI> of Tritrace, the Tilemaker of Tonbridge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vincent Veriknaue,</HI> the Vintener of the Vintry.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wilkin wiredrawer,</HI> the Wel&s;h wizard of Wickham.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hextus Sextus,</HI> the Sexton of Sexbury.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Yanikin Yanner,</HI> the Yarne &s;pinner of Yarmouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Chathorne,</HI> the bow&s;ie bag bearer, or Clarke
<PB REF="6"> of the Snap&s;acke,</ITEM>
</LIST> good men in nothing, but true in Vil|lanie, &s;tand n&eacute;ere and heare your charge.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Corporall Fizehis charge to the Iurie.</NOTE>My Ma&s;ters of the Iurie, and you my good friendes; the cau&s;e of our vnexpected and vnaccu&s;tomed m&eacute;eting at this time is not vnknowen vnto you all, how an vp|&s;tart pamphletmaker and a mo&s;t iniurious and Satiri|call Libeller hath of late dayes done as much as in him lieth: not onely to di&s;grace and defame our &s;o auncient and long continuing profe&s;&s;ion: but al&s;o extirpe and o|uerthrow all our cu&s;tomes, acts and ceremonies, which time out of minde haue b&eacute;ene accu&s;tomed, and now are daily in v&s;e and cu&s;tome among vs, The cau&s;e of this his muddie humour, I cannot gue&s;&s;e otherwi&s;e then this, that being wearie of his good name and reputation (if e|uer he had any) is now contented to di&s;burden him&s;elfe thereof: and giues the whole world to vnder&s;tand, that delighting in Rogerie more then hone&s;tie: he would &s;hew him&s;elfe to be little better then a tame Rogue. The mat|ter that he bu&s;ieth him&s;elfe about, fauoureth onely ran|cor and malice: The end whereat he aymeth, tendeth to death and de&s;olation, &s;ubuer&s;ion of our&s;tate and fa&s;hion. And therefore my ma&s;ters, it behooueth you as at all o|ther times, &s;o e&s;pecially at this time, wi&s;ely and con&s;ide|rately to way and ponder of this fact, for it is not an offence again&s;t one or two priuate men: but it toucheth the whole company in generall. And therfore a thing not to be pa&s;&s;ed &s;lightly ouer, you therefore that haue the managing of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, without whom wee of our &s;elues can proc&eacute;ed in nothing, you being our right hand herein, bend all your care for the good of this little Com|mon-wealth. And as you are elected and cho&s;en to &s;ub|orne and vphold this &s;mall Regiment, &s;o I pray you &s;hew your &s;elues, as I hope you will the true &s;upporters and pillers of the &s;ame. But briefely to make an ende, becau&s;e I purpo&s;e not to v&s;e many words, you &s;hall not
<PB REF="6"> n&eacute;ed to enquire and &s;earch for the Author, or his name of this inuectiue, for he is knowen. And in his &s;econd Round as he calles it, hath &s;et to his name: and therefore you may &s;aue that labour, your charge is onely to finde of the &s;launder and &s;candall compri&s;ed in the Indite|ment, or no, if you finde him guiltie, you &s;hall returne on the backe &s;ide of the Inditement that hee is guiltie, and &s;o giue it in Court, that we may proc&eacute;ed again&s;t him accordingly: meane time becau&s;e it is fit to proc&eacute;ed with equitie and iu&s;tice, and not to giue iudgement ra&s;hly and ha&s;tily again&s;t any man, before he haue made his Apologie, or purgation, our Pur&s;euant &s;hall b&eacute;e &s;p&eacute;edily &s;ent to him to bring him before vs, that he may aun&s;were to the obiections and crimes layde again&s;t him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">A me&s;&s;enger &s;ent to call the Bel-man.</NOTE>Straight was a &s;tout &s;turdie and bigbone knaue &s;ent in Emba&s;&s;age to <HI>Senior</HI> the Bel-man to appeare, who a&s;&s;oone as his me&s;&s;age was deliuered (he n&eacute;ed d not to eb bid make ha&s;te) &s;peedily ha&s;tens to the Belmans hou&s;e, where he findes him at home by the fire &s;ide, mumbling a p&eacute;ece of bread and ch&eacute;e&s;e. The Belman &s;&eacute;eing this rude and vnmannerly fellow come in puffing, without any God &s;p&eacute;ed, was ready to choake for feare: but after they had parled on the matter, and deliuered his me&s;&s;age, the Belman lockes fa&s;t his doore, and puts the key vnder the Still, and away they goe together toward the Court of Crackeropes. In the meane time the Iurie gaue vp their verdite, they made not a long harue&s;t of a little corne, but &s;uddenly they laid their knaues heads toge|ther, and concluded that the Belman was guiltie of the &s;launder compri&s;ed in the Inditement: and thereupon deliuered vp againe the Inditement into the Court; and &s;o for that time they all departed to dinner. By this time the Gentlemen of the ragged order, had almo&s;t dined, and now come in all ha&s;te, the Belman and his k&eacute;eper,
<PB REF="7"> who a&s;&s;oone as they were now come; word was carri|ed in to the Ma&s;ters of mi&s;rule, that the Belman was in the hall ready to auouch what he had publi&s;hed: At this word they all &s;traight ro&s;e (although &s;carce well dined) as all moued with a couetous and gr&eacute;edy de&s;ire to &s;&eacute;e the confu&s;ion of the poore Belman.</P>
<P>As &s;oone as the Benchers of the ragged Robes were &s;et, in was called the Belman to make his Apologie, where after he had made his appearance, The chiefe commaunder of Crackropes began thus as followeth.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Corporal Fize his Oration to the Belman.</NOTE>Signior Belman, I maruell what madne&s;&s;e hath be|witched you, or what furie hath made you &s;o fanta&s;ticke thus to raile on vs poore Vagrants, penile&s;&s;e pilgrimes, hath your nightly watchings and continuall di&s;order of your braines &s;o whorried your &s;en&s;es, that you can let flie at none other but on vs, poore forlorne wretches, that trouble you not, no not &s;o much as once in &s;eauen yeares.</P>
<P>Mee thinkes it &s;hould haue b&eacute;ene your part rather to haue tolde of dome&s;ticall affaires and hou&s;hold matters, what good rule is kept among your watch, how here one lies drunke when he &s;hould &s;tand Sentinel, There ano|ther lying along a &s;l&eacute;epe vpon a bench complayning how his back akes, with carrying the Tankard and burthens in the day time; &s;o that he were more fit to haue b&eacute;ene at home in bed a fl&eacute;epe, then bu&s;ied with any &s;eruice for the City abroad at night, how you found this doore left open by Prentizes, either to let in their whores when their Ma&s;ters be a &s;l&eacute;epe, or to purloyn their Ma&s;ters goods to maintaine their Trulls, here to finde out a Knaue pick|ing open a locke by the helpe of his black Arte, and there in a Taylors &s;tall hote luxurie making ryot. The&s;e and many more might you haue bu&s;ied your braine about, and not thus &s;candalou&s;ly and &s;atirically to tyrannize o|uer vs as your Cro&s;biters do ouer their Simplers.</P>
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<P>No, no, Goodman Bel-man, though we are of the con|temned &s;ort, yet we haue &s;upporters, and tho&s;e that will fight in our quarrell were you neuer &s;o &s;trong.</P>
<P>But to the matter, &s;urely you thinke you haue done a noble exploit, thus to de&s;cry and declare to the worlde our manner of liuing and cu&s;tomarie lawes, our Innes, fea&s;ts, and m&eacute;etings: And that herein you haue done the part of a good &s;ubiect, thus to Anatomize and picture out &s;uch kinde of people as you terme ba&s;e, that liue by the &s;weat of other mens browes (as you &s;ay.) This I &s;ent your rea&s;on, In d&eacute;ede I will &s;ay as you &s;ay: But &s;hall I tell you, your prai&s;e had b&eacute;ene much more the greater, if you had &s;earched into the particular enormi|ties, &amp; palpable villanies committed daily in your City: Let vs poore folke liue as wee doe, we doe no man hurt but our &s;elues, nor no mans foe but our owne, we haue nothing but what other men can &s;pare, other mens lea|uings are our refre&s;hings, and if it were not for vs, much good meate would be in danger of Fly-blowing, or ca&s;t to dogges. If there bee any in our vocation or calling, that liue di&s;orderly and out of compa&s;&s;e, what trade can you name that doe not the like. If wee &s;ometimes lie with our neighbours wiues, is it not v&s;uall el&s;e-where? (nay herein by your fauour, we doe be&s;t paint out the fa|mily of Loue, who doe not &s;ticke but to haue all things in common:) If in bow&s;ing we ouer-drinke our &s;elues, doe not &s;ome of the be&s;t in your City do the like? If &s;ome make little con&s;cience in lying, &s;wearing, and &s;tealing, I thinke fewe of your Trades-men goe fr&eacute;e: If then it be all one in City as in Countrey, among the rich as a|mong&s;t vs poore, and generally in all Trades and Oc|cupations deceit and abu&s;es, &s;ith it is &s;o that he that can|not di&s;&s;emble cannot liue: why then &s;hould you bee &s;o &s;pitefull goodman Saun&s;hell to inueigh again&s;t vs poore &s;oules aboue the re&s;t, who of all others, in &s;hifting are the mo&s;t &s;imple&s;t &s;oules in this ouer wi&s;e world.</P>
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<P>But you good &s;ir, like a Spider to entrappe onely the &s;malle&s;t flies, &s;uffer the great ones to flie through, you &s;cowre the ditch of a company of croaking frogs, when you leaue behinde you an infinite number of venomous Toades, you decypher and paint out a poore Rogue, or a Doxie that &s;teale and rob hedges of a few ragged clothes (which you can make but petit larciney.) And neuer &s;peake of tho&s;e Vultures that ruine whole Lord&s;hips, and infect the common wealth, by their vallainous li|uing to the di&s;credit of &s;ome, and ill example to all.</P>
<P>Sir reuerence on your Ma&s;ter&s;hip, good Mas Bel|man, had you &s;uch a moate in your eie, that you could not &s;&eacute;e tho&s;e Fox-&s;urd gentlemen, that harbour more de|ceit vnder their damma&s;ke ca&s;&s;ockes, then is in all the poore Rogues in a countrey, Brokers I meane and V&s;u|rers, that like vultures prey vpon the &s;imple, tho&s;e that are moaths in a Common-wealth, liuing vpon the &s;poile of young gentlemen, as thir&s;tie as a hor&s;e-l&eacute;ech, that will neuer leaue drinking vntill he bur&s;t: A Knaue that hath the intere&s;t in the lea&s;es of fortie bawdie hou&s;es, and a receiuer of lifts, and a di&s;honourable &s;upporter of Cut|pur&s;es, &s;l&eacute;eping with his neighbours pledges all night in his bo&s;ome, and f&eacute;eding vpon forfeits and penalties, as Rauens doe vpon carrion, one that is a bowzie bawdie mi&s;er, good for none but him&s;elfe, and his trugge, the &s;cumme of your &s;eauen deadly &s;innes, and an enemy to all good mindes.</P>
<P>What &s;ay you to the&s;e now, good Senior Bel-man, had you not b&eacute;en better occupied to haue di&s;couered, and layne open the&s;e kinde of Caterpillars then thus at <HI>Ran|dum,</HI> to rayle on vs poore harmele&s;&s;e Pilgrims, the&s;e are within your precinct and libertie, with whom you are dayly conuer&s;ant. But you will verifie the old &s;aying, where the ditch is lowe&s;t, there men goe ouer thicke and thr&eacute;e-fold: but it &s;&eacute;emes you dur&s;t not make any menti|on of the&s;e, becau&s;e they b&eacute;e your good Ma&s;ters and Be|nefactors,
<PB REF="8"> but for my part I care for none of them, no more then they care for me.</P>
<P>The n&eacute;ere&s;t to our profe&s;&s;ion that I knowe, you are mo&s;t like to the whip-iacke, who (as you &s;ay) being an idle fellow, and a fre&s;h-water &s;ouldier, neuer &s;ayling further than Graue&s;-end, will talke and prate of the low Countreys, of this battell, &amp; that &s;kirmi&s;h that he fought in, wheras ind&eacute;ed he neuer dur&s;t &s;ay &s;o much as Boh to a Mou&s;e, &s;o you neuer going further out of town the~ a far|thing candle wil light, you will talke, &amp; prate, &amp; make a flouri&s;h of a number of things done both out of your precinct, and capacitie: &s;ay you are acquainted with all the damned Crew about the Citie, mu&s;t it n&eacute;eds follow that you haue the in-&s;ight and my&s;hery of our calling and prrofe&s;&s;ion likewi&s;e? No good &s;ir, knowe you are wide by the length of your no&s;e, yea, and &s;o wide that you &s;hall neuer know the full depth therof, vntill you haue vnder|taken the &s;ublime habite, and &s;hape of a poore Pilgrim, and humble Heremite. And &s;o <HI>Benedicite.</HI></P>
<P>After this profound Drator had thus be&s;poken, licen&s;e was granted to the Bel-man, to make his an&s;were and purgation, where when he had cleared his throat with a hem, and made him&s;elfe readie for that purpo&s;e, he pro|c&eacute;eded thus.</P>
<P>My Ma&s;ters, and you that are h&eacute;ere pre&s;ent to heare<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Belmans An&s;wer and defence</NOTE> m&eacute;e, I take no care how to an&s;were you, knowing my cau&s;e to be iu&s;t and hone&s;t, it hath b&eacute;ene euer knowne, that tho&s;e that haue guilty con&s;ciences wil thinke, that e|uery thing that is &s;aidis &s;poken again&s;t them&s;elues. And now I finde it too true, that it is not good medling with galled Iades, lea&s;t they winch and kicke. For mine own part, what I haue &s;aide I dare auouch, and I am &s;ully re&s;olued to &s;tand to my tackling, come what tempe&s;t will. And &s;ince you haue giuen me leaue fr&eacute;ely to &s;peak my mind without interruption, I will begin with your liues, and &s;hew you how vilde and ba&s;e it is before God
<PB REF="9"> and the world. For I thinke there be none here but &s;uch as you call Maunders, Clapperdugeons, and a few Pad|ders, and tho&s;e of the meane&s;t &s;ort, al which I may right|ly term you, &amp; giue you this one name drow&s;ie Drones, and low&s;ie Loyterers: and what is a Lopterer or Drone, nothing but a &s;ucker of honie, a &s;poyler of corne, a de|&s;troyer of fruit, a wa&s;ter of mony, a &s;poyler of victuall, a &s;ucker of blood, a breaker of good orders, a &s;&eacute;eker of brawls, a queller of life, a Ba&s;eli&s;ke of a co~mon-wealth, which by companie and &s;ight doth poy&s;on a whole coun|trey, and &s;tayneth hone&s;t minds with the infection of his venome, and &s;o draweth the Common-wealth to death and de&s;truction, and &s;uch is the end of your liues &amp; com|manding: when we &s;&eacute;e a great number of flies in a y&eacute;ere, we iudg it like to be a great plague: and hauing &s;o great a &s;warming of loytering vagabonds, &amp; &s;turdie Rogues readie to brawle and &s;wagger at euery mans dore, doth it not declare a greater infection readie to en&s;ue.</P>
<P>Who therefore can otherwi&s;e d&eacute;eme. But that this pe&s;tilence wherewith this our flouri&s;hing Common|wealth is &s;o plagued with, is aboue all other mo&s;t pe&s;ti|lent, yea and &s;o pe&s;tiferous, that indeede there can bee no more hurtfull a thing to a wel gouerned e&s;tate: and therefore it is not onely mo&s;t odious, but al&s;o pe&s;tilent in that it hath &s;potted the whole Countrey with &s;uch a &s;taine and blot of idlene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>What &s;ay you to a number of Vagabonds, and &s;tur|dy Rogues that after the ouerthrow of the enemy, and breaking vp of the Campe, will &s;warme in euery corner of the Realme, and not only lie loytering vnder hedges, but al&s;o &s;tand &s;turdely in Cities, and begge boldly at e|uery doore, leauing labour which they like not, and follo|wing Idlene&s;&s;e which they &s;hould not? For after wars it is commonly &s;&eacute;ene that tho&s;e that went out hone&s;t, re|turne home againe like Roy&s;ters: and as they were brent to the warres bottome, they haue euer after all
<PB REF="9"> their daies an vn&s;auory &s;macke thereof, and &s;mell &s;till towards day-&s;l&eacute;epers and hedge-tr&eacute;epers, pur&s;e-cutters, padders, quarrellers and blood-&s;hedders.</P>
<P>Is it not &s;&eacute;ene commonly after wars, more robbing, th&eacute;euing, begging and murdering then before? and tho&s;e to &s;tand in high-waies to a&s;ke Almes, whom men are a|frayd to &s;ay nay vnto hone&s;tly, lea&s;t it be taken away from them violently, and haue more cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect their &s;trength, then to pittie their neede: men cannot &s;afely ride in the high-way, vnle&s;&s;e they ride &s;tronge: worke is left at home vndone, and loyterers laze in the &s;tr&eacute;ete, lurke in Ale-hou&s;es, and range in the high-waies: &s;turdy knaues play in Towns, and complaine of n&eacute;ede, who&s;e filchman or &s;taffe, if it be once warme in their hands, or &s;luggi&s;hnes bred in their bo&s;ome, they will ne|uer be allured to worke, according to the &s;aying that you haue among your &s;elues <HI>(If you can Cant, you will neuer worke)</HI> &s;hewing, that if they haue b&eacute;ene rogues &s;o long, that they can Cant, they will neuer &s;ettle them|&s;elues to labour againe. And what more noy&s;ome bea&s;ts in a Common-wealth can there be, then you loy|terers are? Diuers vermine de&s;troy corne, kill pullen, and engines and &s;nares are made for them: but for your &s;elues, although you are made men that &s;hould haue rea&s;on, yet nothing will &s;erue to bridle you, or k&eacute;epe you in compa&s;&s;e, vntill your neck be compa&s;&s;ed with a With or Halter.</P>
<P>And what a griefe is it to an hone&s;t man, to labor tru|ly in youth, and to gaine painefully by labour, where|with to liue hone&s;tly in age, and to haue this (gotten in a long time) to be &s;uddenly caught and rapt away by violence.</P>
<P>Here the Bel-man would haue &s;aid more, and &s;carce hither to could they refraine them&s;elues, but with indig|nation and choler, were ready to teare the poore Bel|man in p&eacute;eces among&s;t them; for the Sunne being in
<PB REF="10"> <HI>Cancer,</HI> and the Mid&s;omer Moone at full: their mindes were imbrued with &s;uch follies, and their heads carried away with &s;uch vanities, that as men of Athens, they would heare no man &s;peake but them&s;elues, and thought nothing well &s;aid, but what came out of their owne mouthes. But after the &s;torme was pa&s;t, and an O Yes was made for &s;ilence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A po&s;t from Don-Purloy|ningo.</NOTE> in comes a Po&s;te and Me|&s;&s;enger in all ha&s;t from <HI>Don-Pourloyningo</HI> of Theuen|gen, to the Ma&s;ters and gouernours of this wicked Ra|blement, in this fa&s;hion:</P>
<P>Roome my Ma&s;ters, I bring you newes, not common tydings of olde matters, but an an&s;were of your letters of complaint,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Me&s;&s;age to the Court of Crack|ropes.</NOTE> &s;ent to my Ma&s;ter <HI>Don-Pourloyningo:</HI> They came to his hands, he hath peru&s;ed them, and &s;ent you his generall protection, to defend you from the handes of the impatient and &s;euere people: now you may be of good comfort, and pull vp your hearts: if you offend againe, you n&eacute;ede feare no puni&s;hment, but &s;wag|ger till your guts cracke: you &s;hall haue all at your own willes to the full: Nay, tis true as I tell you; if you wil not beleeue, you &s;hall &s;&eacute;e his letters of comfort and wri|ting Con&s;olatory, which he hath graunted in fauour to you: di&s;patch, get vp all your trumpery, for the &s;hippes will be ready for you at the next winde. With that he pulled forth of his pocket the protection &s;ent from <HI>Don Purloyningo,</HI> which followeth. But before we goe any further, you &s;hall heare the Copie of the Letter, &s;ent by them to this new found Knight: The Indor&s;ement of which is thus.</P>
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<LETTER LANG="eng">
<SALUTE>To the thri&s;e Renouned Potentate <HI>Don-Purloyningo, cheife Gouer|nour</HI> of the Region of Theuingen.</SALUTE>
<P>CR&eacute;eping at your vnreuerend f&eacute;ete your Suppliants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Corporall Fize his letter to Don Pur|loyningo.</NOTE> the Gentlemen of the ragged Order. That where|as in all places we are daily per&s;ecuted by all &s;ortes of Officers, as Mar&s;hals, Beadles, Sergeants, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, and &s;uch other officers, lying continually as &s;pyes to entrappe and catch vs poore &s;oules, as wee are following our callings in Markels, Faires, frayes, throngs, and a&s;&s;emblies, wherein heretofore we haue li|ued rea&s;onable well, though not with any great credite, yet voyde of &s;u&s;pition or apprehen&s;ion: and being &s;o ta|ken, haue beene carried to places of correction, there wo|fully tormented by Blew-coates, cowardly fellowes, that dur&s;t not let vs haue our hands at liberty; but without al humanity, haue &s;o &s;courged vs, that fle&s;h and blood could hardly endure it. And whereas our prede|ce&s;&s;ours before, for the good of this Common-wealth of ours, tooke great paines in deui&s;ing a new &s;p&eacute;ech or lan|guage, to the end we might vtter our mindes fr&eacute;ely, and &s;peake boldly without controulement one to another, which no doubt was a great helpe to vs and our prede|ce&s;&s;ours heretofore; yet &s;uch is the malice of &s;ome enui|ous il-willer of ours, that hath we know not how, not onely di&s;couered our maners and fa&s;hions, but al&s;o this our language and &s;p&eacute;ech, whereby we are often times ouer-hard, and taken and &s;ent to pri&s;ons and tortures, and onely by our owne confe&s;&s;ions, which we haue vtte|red in this our language, and which haue tru&s;te vn|to
<PB REF="11"> vs boldly, as if wee had beene &s;afe bolted in a Ca&s;tle or &s;trong hold. Now fora&s;much as wee haue not any friend to whom we may haue acce&s;&s;e that will heare or tender our cau&s;es in the&s;e affaires, we know not whe|ther to re&s;ort for aide, but to your good wor&s;hippe, who wee a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues loue and fauour vs, and will &s;tretch your &s;elfe to the vttermo&s;t of your power, for our enlargement and deliuerie from the&s;e perplexities by your mediation to <HI>Papa Belzebub</HI> the blacke Prince: for who&s;e &s;ake we haue endured many bitter &s;tormes, cur&s;ings and reuylings contrarie to our expectation when we fir&s;t began to practi&s;e our trade and occupa|tion.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the lo&s;&s;e of many good booties, as &s;iluer, plate, Iewels, apparrell and &s;uch like things, which when we haue fingred to doe vs credite, haue b&eacute;ene taken as wayfes to our great impoueri&s;hments, when wee haue b&eacute;ene driuen to y&eacute;elde to the officers, by which we find|ing our &s;elues to grow &s;o weake in pur&s;e, dare hardly aduenture to get to di&s;charge our daily con&s;umations and expences: nay although we would, we cannot; for the very vulgar are growne &s;o craftie, that we are kno|wen &s;o well as the beggar knowes his di&s;h, although we di&s;&s;emble our habites and e&s;tates neuer &s;o much.</P>
<P>Therefore pre&s;uming you will vngratiou&s;ly con&s;ider of our hardne&s;&s;e, and &s;p&eacute;edily fetch vs away from the&s;e places which in torture, as to vs more hote then hell: we lie thicke and thr&eacute;e-fold vnder &s;taules, bulkes and hedges, praying for your wor&s;hip, who&s;e good word we make no que&s;tion of, knowing well the pitty remayning in your good head, and often extended in loue to vs, ex|pecting your an&s;were, we leaue you.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours in the ba&s;e&s;t fa&s;hion, <HI>The Derickmans,</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
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<P><HI>Don Purloyningo</HI> at the receit of the&s;e wofull letters, hauing an extraordinary tender care ouer them, as be|ing of one &s;tock and kindred, hath fir&s;t inuented a cour&s;e for their tran&s;portation and conueyance into his Terri|tories and Dominions, con&s;idering how they are likely to decrea&s;e, and their trade like to faile, through the pro|ditions and betrayings of the people which are contrary to them, and of another &s;ex, hath appointed them a place, &s;et and being in the plante Country of Theuingen n&eacute;ere Knaue&s;-borough plaine, for their more quiet and peace|able liuing: which place, and who&s;e manners I thinke good to de&s;cribe, being that it was neuer heard of, vntill of late * daies; to the intent that &s;uch as &s;hall by <HI>Don Purloyningo</HI> his Patent, haue right and title there,<NOTE PLACE="marg">By M. <HI>I.H.</HI></NOTE> in the onfines of the &s;ame land, may make a preparado to haue pa&s;&s;age when the winde &s;hall &s;it faire for that place and voyage.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The de&s;cription of the &s;tate and &s;i|tuation of Theuingen, with the nature and di&s;po&s;ition of the people there INHABITING.</HEAD>
<P>THe land of Theuingen is a Countrey bordering vpon the famous and thrice renouned Citie<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Signifying a clo&s;e &amp; &s;trong place to keepe Trea&s;ure in.</NOTE> Gaza|philatium: it is a Countrie va&s;t, ful of de&s;arts and thick woods: and although the land be mightily repleni&s;hed with al &s;orts of nations and people, yet is it turned to no v&s;e at al, neither for pa&s;ture nor arable, but only am&eacute;ere wilderne&s;&s;e, it hath b&eacute;ene a Countrey inhabited from the beginning, although not di&s;couered &s;o plainly heretofore as of late daies; people from all Countries daily re&s;ort
<PB REF="12"> and flocke thither for ca&s;e and quietne&s;&s;e, as the Prodi|torians, Curtatoriences, <HI>Vacabundi Piratorij,</HI> Ie&s;uites, Seminacies, and generally all of the Popes Sectaries, all murderers, out-lawes and fugitiues, Banckrouts and Brokers to the diuels grace, Para&s;its, day &s;l&eacute;epers, and generally all that haue fought in defence of <HI>Lecheri|tania:</HI> The&s;e are naturally giuen and inclined to idle|ne&s;&s;e and lazie liues, in&s;omuch that it commeth to pa&s;&s;e, that being hungry they will &s;teale one from another, and often cut one anothers throates: They neuer take paines for any thing they haue, and yet they haue all thinges without money. Their B&eacute;ere is of that force, and &s;o mightie, that it &s;erueth them in &s;teade of meate, drinke, fire, and apparrell, which they learne of their neighbour Drinktalians to brew: And they haue the prai&s;e aboue all other, farre beyond the Darbalians, the Labourinvaynalians or the Pymlyconians.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The City Ga|zaphilacium.</NOTE>Clo&s;e vpon this Countrey Ea&s;t-ward, is &s;ituate a goodly, faire, and mo&s;t rich Citie, called, as I &s;aid be|fore Gazaphilacium: this Citie is very &s;trongly defen|ced, for it is inuironed about with a wall of Siluer bea|ten out with the hammer; and yet for all this, the Inha|bitants are very couetous, and fearefull to lo&s;e that which they haue got together. And for that it is &s;o rich and opulent; all the whole world are daylie plot|ting how to &s;upprize the &s;ame, &s;ometimes with polli|cie, and &s;ometimes by force: but aboue all the re&s;t, they are troubled and pe&s;tered with the Theuengers that they are forced day and night to k&eacute;epe continuall watch and yet for all that, doe what they can, they are &s;o pilled and robbed by them, vpon the Sea Coa&s;ts called <HI>Mare Di&s;contentaneum,</HI> that often times they are driuen into great exta&s;ies and perplexities.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The people Melancholy.</NOTE>The&s;e are altogether bent to Malancholy, and giuen much to be malecontent, for that the Sea <HI>Mare Di&s;con|tentaneum</HI> floweth often ouer the banckes of this Coun|trey
<PB REF="12"> at euery full Moone; as al&s;o becau&s;e this land being full of Cr&eacute;ekes and &s;mall Riuers, which runne out and in this Sea, and the Inhabitants v&s;ing to liue there|of; hauing little or no other water for their &s;u&s;tenance and contentation, dooth &s;o worke within their bodies, &s;uch a di&s;temperature, that thereof proc&eacute;edeth a maruei|lous lumpi&s;hne&s;&s;e and melancholy blocki&s;hne&s;&s;e in their willes and di&s;po&s;itions, &s;ome to cruell murthers, others to plot Trea&s;ons, &s;ome to burne hou&s;es, and others to runne mad for reuenge; &s;o that the Inhabitants round about them are wonderfully plagued with them, as the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Not &s;o much with the recited mi&s;de|meanors, as in cou&s;ening and deceiuing them of Victu|als, and Beere, which by long running on the Score, of|ten is &s;eene.</NOTE> Eatealians, the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Not &s;o much with the recited mi&s;de|meanors, as in cou&s;ening and deceiuing them of Victu|als, and Beere, which by long running on the Score, of|ten is &s;eene.</NOTE> Drunkalians,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Making faire promi&s;es but no deedes.</NOTE> Lecheritanians, and e&s;pecially the Foolianders, who oftentimes are cou&s;ened and cheated of &s;o much &s;iluer and riches in an houre, as they haue b&eacute;ene gathering and raking together in tenne yeares before.</P>
<P>They are of a &s;trange Religion, for they feare neither God nor y^e diuel: their fir&s;t father was<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Which is as much to &s;ay, the remem|brance of our great Grand|father Caine who was a run|nagate, for kil|ling his bro|ther Abel.</NOTE><HI>Caine,</HI> fro~ whence proc&eacute;eded the race of Runagates, for after that <HI>Caine</HI> had murdred his brother, I &s;uppo&s;e hee ran away out of his natiue country into this new found land to hide him&s;elf, wherin he liued &s;ome few y&eacute;eres &amp; died, who&s;e po&s;terity from age to age haue po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the &s;ame. And at this day there is a monument, called in times pa&s;t <HI>Canabels</HI><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Now called Canabello quafi, Can and a bel: Becau&s;e Cans with bels are there alto|gether v&s;ed, &s;uch a one is in Houn&s;dich with vs, but it is a Polony Shoe with a Bel, that will not be left for ten pound, be|cau&s;e he hath it by inheri|tance: But Ingle-bels at the vpper end of Whit-cro&s;&s;e-&s;treet, comes very neere this Countrey fa&s;hion.</NOTE> <HI>Py|ramides;</HI> to blot out the remembrance of which, they haue inuented long Cannes and &s;tone pottes, in forme of that monument, &s;till retayning &s;he forme, but altering the matter or &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>They haue an imperiall &s;eate of blacke and brit|tle &s;ub&s;tance, and therefore &s;ubiect to mouldering, as fa&s;t therfore as that con&s;umes away, there are work|men daily appointed to maintain and repaire the &s;ame: there are <HI>7.</HI><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Subperbranes.</NOTE> wi&s;e Ma&s;t. of his councell, the wi&s;e&s;t wherof once in foure &amp; twenty houres, declares him&s;elfe openly
<PB REF="13"> a notorious foole by cu&s;tome: all their councell plotting and deui&s;ing is to &s;urpri&s;e that goodly Citie Gazaphila|tium: their minds are as braue as <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> for their wils mu&s;t &s;tand for lawes: they are po&s;&s;e&s;t with a very hu|merous di&s;po&s;ition of flattery, for they will looke you in the face &s;milingly, and in the meane time picke your pocket: And for their apparell they are &s;o phanta&s;ticke, that to day they will goe in a &s;ute of Sattin, and to mor|row in tottered ragges, to day a pound, and to morrow nere a penny.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Their Lan|guage.</NOTE>They haue a language among them&s;elues, compo&s;ed of <HI>omnium gatherum;</HI> a glimering whereof one of late daies hath endeuoured to manife&s;t, as farre as his Au|thour is plea&s;ed to be an intelligencer; The &s;ub&s;tance whereof, he leaueth for tho&s;e that will dilate thereof, en|ough for him to haue the prai&s;e, other the paines, not|with&s;tanding <HI>Harmans</HI> gho&s;t continually clogging his con&s;cience with <HI>Sic vos non vobis.</HI></P>
<P>Vpon their banners they di&s;play an Owle in an Iuy tr&eacute;e with this Motto proc&eacute;eding out of his mouth, <HI>de&s;ertis de&s;ertus.</HI> Their hou&s;es are made cur&s;ary like our Coaches with foure wh&eacute;eles that may be drawne from place to place, for they continue not long in a place: and although this Countrey be their owne by inheritance, yet now it is peopled and inhabited by the Eatealians, Drunkalians, and people of other nations, who do dwel and haue increa&s;ed marueilou&s;ly &s;ince the late di&s;couery of this Countrey by Ma&s;ter <HI>I.H.</HI> Yea &s;ometimes like to the Snaile they carry their hou&s;es about them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fa&s;hion of their Hou&s;es.</NOTE> like good hu&s;bands which are made and tempered of &s;uch fine &s;tuffe, that when they are hungry they may f&eacute;ede thereof; in&s;omuch oftentimes it comes to pa&s;&s;e, that hauingeaten vp their lodging, they are faine to lie in the &s;trubble for want of featherbeds.</P>
<P>They aboue all other people ob&s;erue that auncient commaund: <HI>Care not for to morrow, for to morrow will
<PB REF="13"> care for it &s;elfe;</HI> imitating the men of the olde world, who taking vpon them the habite of pilgrims and Fryars, earry neither wallet nor &s;cripp, nor yet oftentimes any money in their pur&s;es.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Knaues-borow plaine.</NOTE>In a large and &s;patious plain called Knaue&s;-borough plaine, doth <HI>Don-Purloyningo</HI> k&eacute;epe his Court, which many men of &s;undry nations and trades haue de&s;ired to &s;&eacute;e and to behold; who when they haue had their de&s;ire, and remained but &s;ome &s;mall time there, haue &s;o fa&s;hio|ned them&s;elues to the manners and conditions of tho&s;e people, that many haue from thenceforth turned Turks, &s;melled of the Countrey, and &s;auored of their dete&s;table and vitious kinde of life all their daies after: and mo&s;t of your trauellers hitherto are your vaine and curious Taylors, Myliners, Tyrewoman, Sem&s;ters, <HI>S. Martin</HI> ob&s;eruants, Shuttle-cocke and Farthingal makers, and twenty other occupations, who to fill the world full of vanities and toyes, care not whither they trauell, &s;o they may finde out new fa&s;hions and fooleries to cou&s;en and deceiue the whole Countrey againe.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Diuers villages&punc;</NOTE>In this plaine are &s;ituate diuers petty villages and hamlets, as Filchington, Foy&s;tham, Nymington, Lift|ington, Swearinghampton, the great and the little. The&s;e townes at fir&s;t were made to entertaine and lodge all &s;uch Trauellers as came to &s;&eacute;e that auncient &s;eate of <HI>Don-Purloyningo,</HI> who were &s;o named, as the Pharoes in Egypt, the Ptolomeys in Gr&eacute;ece, the Ce|&s;ars in Rome. Now people &s;trangers finding the Coun|trey very plea&s;ant to inhabite, take vp their aboade and content them&s;elues there to liue and die. The end of their trauell is not &s;o much for curio&s;ity, nece&s;&s;ity or plea&s;ure, as for their experience and learning: The rea|die high way to this pallace; and the chiefe places of a|boade and lodging in this iourney, I will br&eacute;efely &s;et downe as fitting mo&s;t directly for the Latitude of great Britaine, and generally for the whole world.</P>
<PB REF="14">
<P>The fir&s;t day then that they leaue their owne natiue Countrey, &amp; begin to enter the Dominions of <HI>Don-Pur|loyningo,</HI> they pa&s;&s;e along a very faire Meddow, pa&s;&s;ing plea&s;ant to the eye, which is in the confines and vtter|mo&s;t part of Foolania the le&s;&s;e: but after halfe a daies iourney, they come to bogs and quagmyres, much like to them in Ireland, of which vnle&s;&s;e they be very care|full, they may quickly &s;lippe vp ouer head and eares in myre.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t daies iourney.</NOTE>Hauing pa&s;t the pikes of the fir&s;t daies danger, they enter into a goodly faire Pallace, but inhabited by few, hauing this &s;uper&s;cription ouer the gates, <HI>A Ethiopen la|uas,</HI> whereupon our Engli&s;h Trauellers call it the <HI>La|bour-in-Vaine:</HI> here many at the fir&s;t are purpo&s;ed to re|maine and abide: but &s;&eacute;eing the place very &s;patious and without any Inhabitants, and v&s;ed onely as a Tap-hou&s;e for Trauellers, they take it for their lodging the fir&s;t night, and away they ha&s;t in the morning forward on their iourney.</P>
<P>The &s;econd day after thr&eacute;e or foure myle, they a&s;cend very high and craggy Mountaines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;econd dayes iourney</NOTE> farre pa&s;&s;ing the Cl&eacute;e or Mauluern hils in Wales, wher when they come downe againe, at the foote of the&s;e hilles &s;tandeth yet at this day, the Image of the Vicar of Saint Fooles, to which euery pa&s;&s;enger before hee can pa&s;&s;e, mu&s;t offer vpon his kn&eacute;es for his pa&s;&s;e and &s;afe conduct through the Country of Foolania the great (Thirty Bord).</P>
<P>In the middle of this Countrie is built a very faire Citie called <HI>(Vanita)</HI> beautifull to the eye, but of no per|manence, for it is built after &s;uch a &s;light manner,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The City Va|nita.</NOTE> that they are faine to re-edifie their hou&s;es, walls, and Tem|ples euery yeare a new: This Citie is gouerned by a woman called <HI>Madona In&s;tabilita,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Madona In&s;ta|bita. Noting the &s;e|uen deadly &s;innes.</NOTE> &s;itting vpon an Impe|riall Throne, farre excellent beyond the &s;eate of Rome, &s;he weares vpon her head &s;euen Imperiall Diadems: &s;he is of that power and command, that &s;he makes the
<PB REF="14"> proude Pope to be at her obey&s;ance: yea and &s;o rules in his Dominions that his land is altogether gouerned by her and her Councell.</P>
<P>Their Citie walles &s;&eacute;eme to be made of chaungeable Taffety, their hou&s;es of painted papers, of &s;undry cul|lours; they are bu&s;ied all day about nothing but inuen|ting of new fa&s;hions, of Tires, garments, behauiours,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The cities de&s;cription, &amp; the fa&s;hions of the people there.</NOTE> &s;p&eacute;eches, wordes, and Othes: In their apparell phanta|&s;ticall; their hats &s;ometime of the Italian blocke, ano|ther while of the French, and another time of the Spa|ni&s;h: their Dublets with great bellies with the Duch|men, and &s;mall &s;kirts; &s;ometimes with &s;mall &s;kirts, and &s;l&eacute;eues &s;eamed, and quartered, as if they were to put on Armour of proofe, to fight vnder the bloody en&s;igne of the Duke of Shordich: their ho&s;e &s;ometimes Spani&s;h, like to Ship mens ho&s;e, and &s;ometimes clo&s;e to the but|tocke like the Venetian galliga&s;coigne: Lord, it would a&s;ke a whole Reame of paper to di&s;cribe their fa&s;hions; It were tedious likewi&s;e to &s;peak of the variety of their Shooes, and of their Shooe-&s;trings, Garters, Cuffes, Ruffes, Hat-bands, and all things they weare, not one moneth, nay &s;car&s;e a w&eacute;eke doe they continue in one fa|&s;hion: for their liues they are di&s;&s;olute in behauiour, A|pi&s;h, doggi&s;h, and Swini&s;h, according to the di&s;po&s;ition of their bodies, flattering in &s;p&eacute;ech, deceitfull in words, and in Oathes not a diuell can &s;urpa&s;&s;e them: In all &s;in they abound, becau&s;e with them they haue a toleration, like to Rome, <HI>Omnia Venalia Romae.</HI> Our gallants in England come mo&s;t n&eacute;ere them in fa&s;hions and beha|uiour: too n&eacute;ere them, more is the pittie. Through this Citie thou maie&s;t pa&s;&s;e along, but &s;&eacute;e thou tarry not long there, onely marke them and their fa&s;hions, as &s;uperfici|ally as thou art able, lea&s;t too much de&s;iring their com|pany, thou art forced in the end to crie out thus: <HI>O paine thou art compaine too nigh.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Fountain Tribulamenti Fons.</NOTE>Among the re&s;t, this is to be noted, that in the mid&s;t
<PB REF="15"> of this City there i&s;&s;ueth out of the earth, a &s;pring in great abundance, which is walled about with Marble, and &s;erueth the Inhabitants to bathe and wa&s;h them|&s;elues, much like to our bathes here in Europe, onely it is of another operation: The people there call this bath <HI>Tribulamenti fons;</HI> &amp; it runneth from thence with a &s;wift cour&s;e along the fieldes and wayes with a thou&s;and tur|nings and wyndings, vntill it come to a &s;t&eacute;epe promon|tory, that ouerlooketh all the countrey of Theuingen, Lecheritania, and the re&s;t, and there maketh &s;o great and violent a fall, that it &s;preadeth it &s;elfe, and runneth round about the Countries by diuers &s;mall cr&eacute;ekes and Riuers, where m&eacute;eting with other &s;mall Springs of the &s;ame nature, run altogether, as by one con&s;ent into the Sea called <HI>Mare Di&s;contentaneum.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The third dayes iourney.</NOTE>Leauing this City as well as you can, you pa&s;&s;e a whole day along towards Theuingen, cro&s;&s;ing this Ri|uer twenty times ouer &s;trait and narrow bridges, vntil you come to this &s;t&eacute;epe and high Mountaine before &s;po|ken of: vpon the edge whereof, dwelleth an old Hermit called father <HI>Adui&s;all,</HI> a man aged and of long continu|ance, and therefore well experienced in the world: a ha|ter of flattery, and a louer of truth. As &s;oone as you come to that place, this new wel-willer of yours will &s;traight be in hand with you to know from whence you came, whither you meane to goe in &s;o dangerous a place, and in m&eacute;ere loue and pitty wil be Inqui&s;itiue how you dur&s;t trauell without a warrant from the Magi&s;trate of your Countrey, per&s;wading you by all meanes, to returne back, and not venture your life in &s;o dangerous a Coun|trey as that is, telling you that fewe returne backe the &s;ame men they were, when they fir&s;t entred that land, but that &s;ome returne maymed and lame, others &s;icke of one di&s;ea&s;e or other, and others of frenzie and madne&s;&s;e, &s;o contaminat a place, &s;o loath&s;ome the manners, &s;o de|&s;pi&s;ed a Countrey, that a man vnle&s;&s;e he were halfe be|&s;ides
<PB REF="15"> him&s;elfe would neuer once de&s;ire to beholde that place. Thus, and to this effect will he &s;peake, and many good per&s;wa&s;ions will this good old man v&s;e, and many motiues he will vrge you with to retire, but all in vain, for when men f&eacute;ele the Reines of liberty on their necks, and may take a cour&s;e without controlement, &s;uch, who&s;e lu&s;t is law, and who&s;e will mu&s;t not be control|ed for a world, little regarding all wi&s;e admonitions or &s;ayings of the aged, doe with the vntamed Colt, and fat fedde St&eacute;ede, let flie their h&eacute;eles into the ayre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dictis tamen ille repugnat&punc; Pro|po&s;itum&abque; petit Flagrat&abque; cupi|dine currus.</NOTE> and with the extrauagant and erring libertine run headlong into a thou&s;and eminent dangers: then when the blacke Ore hath trod vpon their f&eacute;ete, and haue b&eacute;ene well bea|ten with their owne rodde, in the end they come home by w&eacute;eping cro&s;&s;e, and crie <HI>Pecaui,</HI> when their ambitious conceits gaines them nought but this, to comfort them in their de&s;truction, that when by their a&s;piring braine, they haue procured their owne ouerthrow:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hic &s;itus e&s;t Phaeton currus auriga patern: Quem &s;i non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit au&s;is.</NOTE> men may &s;ay after their deaths, this fellow carried a braue minde and &s;hot at mighty matters.</P>
<P>But to returne, leauing father <HI>Adui&s;all</HI> with his good adui&s;e behinde, and following vice now before you, you mu&s;t downe this hill (you n&eacute;ede no helpe downe) at the bottome whereof, you &s;hall be at a trice. And albeit it be tenne dayes iourney vp, yet &s;o is the &s;t&eacute;epnes thereof, that you &s;hall be conueyed to the bottome in halfe an ho|wer: at the foote of this Mountaine are two great port wayes, the one on the right hand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Two port waies.</NOTE> leading to the Coun|tryes of Lecheritania, Drunkalia and Eatealia, and the other on the left hand, leading toward Theuingen and the neighbour Countries thereabout. To leaue the right hand way for &s;uch as haue trauelled thither to di&s;cour&s;e on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Temple of Ve|nus and her picture.</NOTE> we wil take our iourney toward <HI>Don Purloyningoes</HI> Pallace: this onely by the way; about tenne myles from the foote of this hill in Lecheritania &s;tandeth the Tem|ple of <HI>Venus,</HI> and there is the goodly picture of <HI>Venus</HI> fra|med
<PB REF="16"> of Siluer, naked in her Chariot, drawne by two Swannes and two Doues, her head bound with myr|tle leaues, a burning &s;tarre on her brea&s;t, a Globe re|pre&s;enting the earth in her right hand, and thr&eacute;e golden Apples in her left, behinde her were the thr&eacute;e Graces back to backe, hand in hand, and Apples in their hands: not farre off that place, is likewi&s;e to be &s;&eacute;ene the Storie of <HI>Venus</HI> her originall, liuely painted out, how <HI>Saturne</HI> de|priued his father <HI>Caelus,</HI> of tho&s;e partes which were fit|te&s;t for generation, and throwing them into the Sea by wonderful power, <HI>La. Venus</HI> was made, the blood wher|of falling &s;hort, &s;ell into the land of Theningen. which Countrey we are now about; of which &s;prange fierce, hote, and cruell people, with which at this day the land is mightily repleni&s;hed and pe&s;tered.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The originall of the&s;e peop|ple.</NOTE>Concerning the originall and beginning of the&s;e peo|ple, Hi&s;toriographers doe differ and di&s;agr&eacute;e: <HI>Leo He|breus</HI> out of the auncient Poet <HI>Pronapides,</HI> reports that <HI>Demogorgon</HI> perceiued that a dangerous and perniti|ous tumult was br&eacute;eding in the bowels of <HI>Chaos:</HI> wher|fore of very loue and pitie, he &s;tretched out his hand and opened her womb, whence pre&s;ently i&s;&s;ued forth a mo&s;t deformed i&s;&s;ue called <HI>Litigium,</HI> which no &s;ooner appeared but pre&s;ently it bred brabbles, and made &s;uch a foule &s;turre, that it waxed proude, and &s;troue &s;o mount vp to heauen: but <HI>Demogorgon</HI> &s;ore&s;&eacute;eing what would en&s;ue, threwe him downe with his necke forward into this Countrey.</P>
<P>But others more likely, report that they came of <HI>Nep|tune</HI> and <HI>Iphimedea,</HI> which very well may be, for <HI>Nep|tunes</HI> brood is furious and vnruely, by rea&s;on of the &s;u|perabundant &s;tore of vnbridled humors, and <HI>Iphimedea</HI> is nothing el&s;e but an ob&s;tinate and &s;elfe-wil'd conceit, and de&s;ire; grounded in the minde, and not remoueable: &s;uch are your idle vagabonds, that after war wil betake them&s;elues to no hone&s;t cour&s;e of life to liue in, but bee
<PB REF="16"> robbers by the high waies, cou&s;oners and cony-catchers, that liue by their wits, and wil not betake them to hone&s;t trades, but e&s;pecially &s;editious &amp; rebellious &s;ubiects in a Common-wealth, &s;chi&s;matical and hereticall &s;educers in the Church, as Browni&s;ts, Papi&s;ts, Ie&s;uites and &s;uch like. And for this cau&s;e as there was a Schoole erected for villaines in times pa&s;t called <HI>Cacademica Lycaon,</HI> &s;o called becau&s;e hee was the fir&s;t that did violate the lawes of truce, and league, by killing and &s;acrificing vn|to <HI>Iupiter</HI> a certaine ho&s;trage, &s;ent from the <HI>Mole&s;&s;i,</HI> whereof came the fable, that he &s;et mans fle&s;h before. <HI>Iu|piter,</HI> to trie whether he were a God or no: So the Pope now hath erected another, becau&s;e this was not large enough called <HI>(Sattani Senatus)</HI> wherein is taught the arte of &s;tabbing, poy&s;oning, betraying, periury, trea&s;on in all degr&eacute;es, blowing vp and con&s;uming by Gun-pow|der, Wichcraft and Sorcery, Sodemytry and Bugge|rie, torments for innocents. And in truth for the archieu|ing and bringing to pa&s;&s;e of all mi&s;chiefe: &s;o that now if any be &s;o minded to murder his Prince, Father or Mother, friend, wife or any el&s;e, he &s;halbe here protected, holpen backt, encouraged, and pardons graunted for them and their children for euer.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The fourth dayes Iourney fearefull &s;ights and Mon&s;ters.</NOTE>After a daies iourney, you &s;hall come into de&s;arts and &s;olitary Woodes, wherein you &s;hall &s;&eacute;e very &s;trange and fearefull &s;ights, and apparitions: there will appear to you mon&s;ters that haue faces and bodies come+lylike to women, ready to allure and entice you with them, but their lower partes are vgly and deformed, hauing vpon their handes and f&eacute;ete &s;harpe cla&s;ping clawes, that if they once gra&s;pe you, you &s;hall hard|ly e&s;cape their clutches. And if they &s;eaze on you, they wil bring you out of the way, through di&s;traught and &s;eare, vntill you m&eacute;ete another company more horrid and terrible: Their Haire all
<PB REF="17"> of crawling &s;nakes, their garments down to the h&eacute;eles, clo&s;e girt with a &s;nakie girdle, &s;erpents in the one hand and firebrands in the other, their eyes, face, and t&eacute;eth portending malice and vengeance. the&s;e are the mini|&s;ters of death, they dwell in darke dennes thereabout, their office is to bring &s;uch pa&s;&s;engers as trauell that way to a mo&s;t vn&s;peakeable horryd denne, out of which proc&eacute;edes &s;o noy&s;ome an exhalation, that birds as they flie ouer the &s;ame are poy&s;oned with the very breath and ayze thereof.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Auernus&punc;</NOTE> This is that place which in the old world was called <HI>Auernus,</HI> round about which, and at the en|trance of which Caue, <HI>Virgill 6. Aenead.</HI> placeth a rable|ment, as woe, vengeance, wrath, &s;ickenes, old age, feare, famine, penury, death, labour, &s;l&eacute;epe, warre, di&s;cord and &s;uch like: in the mid&s;t of this Caue, is &s;eated an Imperi|all Throane, whereon &s;ittes the blacke Prince with a crowne on his head, a Scepter in his hand, and his great dogge <HI>Cerberus</HI> betw&eacute;ene his f&eacute;ete, fawning on tho&s;e that to leaue this way, if thou be wi&s;e, take h&eacute;ede of the fir&s;t in&s;inuating flatterers, leaue their pretended friend&s;hip and k&eacute;epe on thy way.</P>
<P>In this Country nothing is worthy of prai&s;e or com|mendation, for in all this &s;olitary trauelling, you &s;hall finde no comfort, but the &s;kriching of Owles, croking of Ratiens, and &s;uch vncoth and balefull Ecchoes, the be&s;t part of your foode will be hearbe Rue, a bitter hearbe to f&eacute;ede on: but after when you haue better looked into your liues and carriages, you wil cal it herb-grace, your drinke is altogether of the water of that Countrey, cal|led throughout <HI>Aqua di&s;contentanea.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The fift dayes Iourney.</NOTE>After two or thr&eacute;e daies thus trauelling, you &s;hall come into a faire plaine, called Knaue&s;-borough plaine, wherein <HI>Don Purloyningo</HI> k&eacute;epes his Court; you &s;hall at the fir&s;t be made very welcome, yet &s;o that they will narrowly &s;pie into your carriage and behauiour: And
<PB REF="17"> although they pretend neuer &s;o greate loue and friend|&s;hippe vnto you, yet will they not &s;ticke to cou&s;en and deceiue you if they can, of all you haue.</P>
<P>And thus much for the de&s;cription of the &s;tate and &s;i|tuation of Theuingen, with the nature and di&s;po&s;ition of the people there inhabiting. And now to giue ouer this tedious Iourney, you &s;hall heare the protection of <HI>Don Purloyningo,</HI> &s;ent to Corporall <HI>Fize,</HI> chiefe comman|der of Rogues, and his A&s;&s;i&s;tantes. The Copy whereof is as followeth.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="grant">
<HEAD>The copie of the Commi&s;sion and Graunt, &s;ent from Don Purloyningo to Corporall <HI>Fize</HI> and his A&s;&s;i&s;tants.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I Don Purloyningo,</HI> great Commander ouer the Pro|uince of Theuingen, haue receiued diuers wofull and pittifull letters from &s;undry nations and people, but e&s;pecially from tho&s;e vnder the gouernment of Corporal <HI>Fize,</HI> ch&eacute;efe commander of the poore per&s;ecuted Pilgrims in Europe, wherein they lay open to mee their wofull &s;orrowes, vexations, and troubles that they endure by &s;undry per&s;ons, in &s;undry places where they abide. Now fora&s;much as it is not onely a Charity, to redre&s;&s;e their fore&s;aid griefes, by &s;ending for them into a Countrey where they &s;hall be at quiet and hearts ea&s;e, but al&s;o a plea&s;ure to people of better fa&s;hion, that cannot by any meanes di&s;ge&s;t their idle and vntoward liues, which may proue hurtfull both to King and people: Be it there|fore knowne, that I haue graunted to all per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer, that will take the benefite of this my Grant and Commi&s;&s;ion, fr&eacute;e leaue and licen&s;e to come and inhabite
<PB REF="18"> within my Countrey of Theuingen, and the profites of my land, to v&s;e and enioy as fr&eacute;ely without contradicti|on, as if they were there bred and borne.</P>
<P>Now for the more &s;p&eacute;edie execution of the &s;ame, we command all Saylers as well within our Iuri&s;diction, as without, that they make pre&s;ent &s;earch for all olde Boates, Hoyes, Shippes and Barkes, which haue long re&s;ted to be ready for this voyage; and that all thinges be in a readine&s;&s;e, to the end that when they are in a good minde, they may be gone, that neuer after any good land be troubled and combred with &s;o filthy and noy&s;om a people.</P>
<P>And that all Carmen, Cochmen, and Carters haue their charge in a readine&s;&s;e at a day, that they may bee carried in pompe to the water &s;ides: and that all Trum|peters, Bagpipers, Fidlers and Drummers be ready with their mu&s;ique to bring them onward of their iour|ney. Moreouer we commaund all Iaylors to open their pri&s;on doores, and let them all out that meane to &s;&eacute;e my Dominions, and that neuer hereafter they once &s;uffer any to come within their hold or Iuri&s;diction: and fur|ther vpon their departure we will all inuentions for pu|ni&s;hments appointed for the torturing of &s;uch per&s;ons be immediately pulled downe, cut in p&eacute;eces, and be made in Bon-fires, for ioy that the land is di&s;burdened of &s;o loath&s;ome a people.</P>
<P>And further we expre&s;ly commaund that the Saylers and Marriners (becau&s;e we know them to be ha&s;ty and &s;urly) to v&s;e them kindly, and not by any means to cro&s;&s;e them, lea&s;t they take &s;nuffe in the no&s;e, and &s;o fall toge|ther by the eares: for they being very cholericke (as we haue heard) are &s;ubiect to di&s;agr&eacute;eing.</P>
<P>And that at their arriuall, they be pre&s;ently placed e|uery one according to his degr&eacute;e, and that with quietnes they receiue the profites of my land, without the let of tho&s;e, that haue b&eacute;ene dead fiue hundred yeares before.</P>
<PB REF="18">
<P>Further that no man mocke or delude them, or &s;o much as bid them farewell, for feare that a little famili|arity cau&s;e them to haue a de&s;ire to remaine and tarry rather then to walke: but let them haue quiet pa&s;&s;ing, becau&s;e they goe to a land better for their turnes, for they de&s;ire only ea&s;e, which there they &s;hall haue, if once they can arriue and get to the borders thereof.</P>
<P>The&s;e our Letters and Commi&s;&s;ion now at your re|que&s;t graunted, our de&s;ire is, that you may doe well, if otherwi&s;e betyde you then well, looke to your &s;elues, and v&s;e your owne di&s;cretions; and &s;o fare you well.</P>
<P>At this newes the whole fraternity of Vagabonds whooted for ioy, as glad at the heart to thinke what a &s;waggering and domin&eacute;ering they &s;hould k&eacute;epe in this new foundland, and wherein they made account to be young Lords and Ma&s;ters: &s;o that the poore hone&s;t Bel|man had licen&s;e without any controlement or contradi|ction to depart: and if he would &s;pit out any more his malice again&s;t them, let him &s;pit till hee were drye for them, for they would little regard what he did, and cared not two chips, becau&s;e they were determined to trauell, and meant to be out of the walkes and dangers of the hone&s;t.</P>
<P>Now Gentlemen (by my troth) I could finde in my heart to haue &s;pent a bottle of Ale, that you had b&eacute;ene there with me, to haue &s;eene the concour&s;e of the&s;e Cat|terpillers, and heard the confu&s;ed noy&s;e of the&s;e cou&s;e|ning Crack-ropes, &s;inging, hollowing and whooping, dancing and whi&s;tling: at this time there you &s;hould haue &s;eene one that had b&eacute;ene lame n&eacute;ere fortie yeares, and gone on his Crowches fift&eacute;ene to my knowledge, throw away his &s;tilts, and daunce the round Morrice: there another that puttes on a foule cloth on his head counterfeiting the falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e, throw it away in a corner, and falles to &s;wagger with his Doxie: here an|ther
<PB REF="19"> with pitifull &s;ore legges and armes to &s;&eacute;e to, can now leape and wra&s;tle as well as the be&s;t, and diuers with &s;calde pates and other di&s;ea&s;es going before double in the &s;tr&eacute;etes, to cau&s;e and moue pitty, can now for ioy &s;tand on their heads, fetch fri&s;kes about the hou&s;e, pull one another by the eares: and ind&eacute;ede what did they not doe? none could perceiue but that they were all youth|full and lu&s;ty.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Hoi&s;t vp &s;ay|lors, the drum+mers and pi|pers are at hand, lay plancks, make ready, they come, they come: A iolly crue, God &s;end they want no &s;hip|ping: A faire company I promi&s;e you, when they are all gone, we &s;hal haue corn good cheape, Ware your pur&s;es hoe,</NOTE><HI>All tooke all plea&s;ure, and all for ioy to be &s;ayling.</HI></P>
<P>Suppo&s;e now by this the greate&s;t part of them are &s;ayling on the blacke Sea, what will become of them, how they arriued, how entertained by the Inhabitants there, and of their pro&s;perous voyage, you &s;hall heare at the next boat-po&s;t. In the meane time, becau&s;e the Bel|man entreateth any that is more rich in canting, to lend him better or more with variety, he will repay his loue double: I haue thought good not only to &s;hew his errour in &s;ome places in &s;etting downe olde wordes v&s;ed fortie y&eacute;eres agoe before he was borne; for wordes that are v&s;ed in the&s;e dayes (although he is bold to call me an v|&s;urper (for &s;o he doth in his la&s;t round) and not able to maintayne the title) But haue enlarged his Dictionary (or Ma&s;ter <HI>Harmans</HI>) with &s;uch wordes as I thinke h&eacute;e neuer heard of (and yet in v&s;e too) but not out of vaine glorie, as his ambition is, but ind&eacute;ede as an experienced &s;ouldier that hath d&eacute;erely paid for it: and therefore it &s;hall be honour good enough for him (if not too good) to come vp with the Reare (I doe but &s;hoote your owne ar|row backe againe) and not to haue the leading of the Van as he meanes to doe, although &s;mall credite in the end will redound to ey&s;her.</P>
<P>You &s;hall know the wordes not &s;et in eyther his Dic|tionaries by this marke &sect;: and for &s;hewing the errour in his words, and true engli&s;hing of the &s;ame and other, this marke &para; &s;hall &s;erue.</P>
<P><LIST TYPE="glossary">
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Abram</HI> madde.</ITEM>
<PB REF="19">
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>He maunds Abram.</HI> he begs as a madde man.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Autem</HI> the Church.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Autem mort,</HI> a married woman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Bung</HI> is now v&s;ed for a pocket, heretofore for a pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Boord</HI> a &s;hilling.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Halfe a Boord,</HI> fixepence.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bow&s;e</HI> drinke.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bow&s;ing ken,</HI> an Ale-hou&s;e</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ben</HI> good.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ben&s;hip</HI> very good.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Buffa</HI> a Dogge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bing a wa&s;t,</HI> get you kence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Budge a beake,</HI> runne away.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Bite, &s;ecreta () mulierum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ca&s;ter</HI> a Clocke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Crackmans</HI> the hedge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Comi&s;&s;ion</HI> a &s;hirt.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To Ca&s;tell,</HI> to &s;&eacute;e or looke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Roome Cuttle,</HI> a &s;word.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Cuttle bung,</HI> a knife to cut a pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Chepemans,</HI> Cheape-&s;ide market.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>To Cut,</HI> to tell or call.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Cut me ben whids,</HI> tell me truth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>To Cut quire whids,</HI> to lie.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cra&s;hing Cheates,</HI> Apples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Chates,</HI> the Gallowes: here he mi&s;takes both the &s;im|ple word, becau&s;e he &s;o found it printed, not knowing the true orginall thereof, and al&s;o in the compound; as for <HI>Chates</HI> it &s;hould be <HI>Cheates,</HI> which word is v&s;ed generally for things, as <HI>Tip me that Cheate,</HI> Giue me that thing: &s;o that if you will make a word for the Gallous, you mu&s;t put thereto this word <HI>Treyning,</HI> which &s;ignifies hanging; and &s;o <HI>Treyning Cheate</HI> is as much to &s;ay, hanging things, or the Gallous, and not <HI>Chates.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Coue</HI> a man.</ITEM>
<PB REF="20">
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Cowch a Hog&s;head,</HI> to lie downe and &s;l&eacute;epe: this phra&s;e is like an Alminacke that is out of date: now the duch word to <HI>&s;lope</HI> is with them v&s;ed, to &s;l&eacute;epe, and <HI>lig|gen</HI> to lie downe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Crancke,</HI> the falling &s;ickene&s;&s;e: and thereupon your Rogues that counterfeit the falling &s;ickenes, are cal|led counterfeit <HI>Crancks.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>To Cly the Iarke,</HI> to be whipped.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Drawers</HI> Ho&s;en.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dudes</HI> Clothes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Darkemans</HI> the night.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dew&s;auell</HI> the Countrey.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dup the gigger,</HI> open the doore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Afflicke</HI> a Th&eacute;efe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fambles</HI> hands.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fambling Cheates,</HI> Kings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Famblers,</HI> a paire of Gloues.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To Filch,</HI> to beate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Filchman,</HI> a cudgell or &s;taffe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Flag,</HI> a groate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To Fence</HI> properly, to &s;ell any thing that is &s;tolne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To Foy&s;t,</HI> to picke a pocket.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Feager of Loges</HI> one that beggeth with counterfeit writings.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gla&s;iers,</HI> eyes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Greenemans</HI> the fields.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gan</HI> a mouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gage</HI> a quart pot.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Granam</HI> Corne.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Glymmer</HI> Fire.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gigger</HI> a doore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Gilkes for the gigger,</HI> fal&s;e keyes for the doore or pick-lockes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Gracemans,</HI> Gratious &s;tr&eacute;ete market.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gentry mort,</HI> a Gentlewoman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gentry Cous ken,</HI> a Gentlemans hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<PB REF="20">
<ITEM><HI>Harman becke</HI> the Con&s;table.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Harmons</HI> the &s;tockes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Iockam</HI> a mans yard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Ian</HI> a pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Iere</HI> a Turd.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ken</HI> an hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stawling ken,</HI> a hou&s;e to receiue &s;tolne goods, or a dwel|ling hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Lugges</HI> eares.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lagge of dudes,</HI> a bucke of clothes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Loges</HI> a pa&s;&s;e or warrant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Feager of loges,</HI> one that beggeth with fal&s;e pa&s;&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lybbeg</HI> a bedde.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lower</HI> money.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lybkin</HI> a hou&s;e to lodge people.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lagge</HI> water or pi&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lightmans</HI> the day.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mynt</HI> gold.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Muggill,</HI> the Beadle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Make</HI> an halfpenny.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Maunding</HI> begging.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>What maund doe you breake,</HI> what kind of begging v&s;e you?</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Ile myll your maund,</HI> Ile &s;poyle your begging.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To nip a Ian,</HI> to cut a pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Nab</HI> a head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Nab cheate</HI> an hat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Numans</HI> Newgate market.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Nigling,</HI> company k&eacute;eping with a woman: this word is not v&s;ed now, but <HI>wapping,</HI> and thereof comes the name <HI>wapping morts</HI> Whoores.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prat</HI> a Buttocke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Your prat whids Romely,</HI> you fart lu&s;tily.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Pecke</HI> meate, <HI>pecke</HI> is not meate but <HI>peckage, pecke</HI> is taken to eate or byte: <HI>as the Buffa peckes me by the &s;tampes,</HI> the dogge bites me by the &s;hinnes.</ITEM>
<PB REF="21">
<ITEM><HI>Ruff peck</HI> Bacon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Peckage</HI> meat or <HI>Scroofe</HI> &s;craps.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To Plant</HI> to hide.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Stow your whids and plant</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>The Coue of the ken can kant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prauncer</HI> an hor&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prigging</HI> riding.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Patrico</HI> a Prie&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pad</HI> a Way.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Padder</HI> an high-way robber or pur&s;e taker.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Quire,</HI> this word is alwayes taken in il &s;en&s;e for naught</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Quire ken</HI> a pri&s;on hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Quire bow&s;e</HI> bad drinke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>VVhat a quire whidding keepe you,</HI> what a &s;colding k&eacute;ep you?</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Quarroms</HI> the body, or armes, or backe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roome vile</HI> a great towne, commonly taken for London.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roome bow&s;e</HI> wine: this word is alwayes taken in the be&s;t &s;en&s;e, to &s;hew a thing extraordinary or excellent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Roome bow&s;in ken,</HI> a Tauerne.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roome mort</HI> a Qu&eacute;ene or Gentlewoman, and &s;o <HI>Roome Coue</HI> a Gentleman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Ruffmans,</HI> not the hedge or bu&s;hes as heretofore: but now the eaue&s;ing of hou&s;es or roofes: <HI>Cragmans</HI> is now v&s;ed for the hedge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ruffian</HI> the diuell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Scrappes, fatte and glorious bittes:</HI> &s;ound blowes and bangings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>The muggill will tip you fat &s;craps and glorious bits,</HI> the Beadle will well bumba&s;t you.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stampes</HI> legges.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stampers</HI> &s;hooes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Slate</HI> a &s;h&eacute;ete.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Scew</HI> a Cuppe or Gla&s;&s;e, a Di&s;h or any thing to drinke in.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Skipper</HI> a barne.</ITEM>
<PB REF="21">
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Salomon</HI> the ma&s;&s;e: Now when many doe pre&s;&s;e the poore rogues &s;o earne&s;tly to &s;weare by the <HI>Salomon,</HI> doe not blame them though they refu&s;e it; for although you know not what it meanes, yet they very well know: Many men I haue heard take this word <HI>Soloman</HI> to be the chiefe commander among the beggers; but to put them out of doubt, this is not he: marry there was one <HI>Solomon</HI> in <HI>K. HENRY</HI> the eights time that was a iol|ly fellow among them, who kept his Court mo&s;t an end at Foxe Hall at the vpper end of Lam beth (if it be true as their Records make mention) who was Succe&s;|&s;our to <HI>Cocke Lorrell:</HI> of him and his &s;ucce&s;&s;ors much is to bee &s;poken if licence may be graunted, and of who&s;e Ruannagate race I could frame a whole trea|ti&s;e: but here enough.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Stander,</HI> he that &s;tands &s;entinel vpon the <HI>Pad</HI> or high|way to robbe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stromell</HI> the &s;traw.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Spreader</HI> butter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&para; <HI>Smellar</HI> a garden, not <HI>Smelling cheate,</HI> for thats a No&s;e|gay.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Treyning</HI> hanging.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Treyning cheate</HI> the gallous.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To tip</HI> to giue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>Tip a make ben Roome Coue,</HI> giue a halfepeny good Gentleman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>To tower or Ca&s;tell</HI> to &s;&eacute;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>To whid</HI> to &s;peake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>A Winne</HI> a penny.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&sect; <HI>VVhittington</HI> Newgate.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Yarrim</HI> pottage or milke.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And thus haue I runne ouer the Canters Dictiona|ry, to &s;peake more at large, would a&s;ke more time then I haue allotted me, yet in this &s;hort time that I haue, I meane to &s;ing &s;ong for &s;ong with the Belman, ere I wholly leaue him.</P>
<PB REF="22">
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Canyzon.</HI></NOTE><HI>TOwre out ben morts &amp; towre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Looke out ben morts &amp; towre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For al the Roome coues are budgd a beake,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And the quire coues tippe the lowre.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The quire coues are budgd to the bow&s;ing ken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As Romely as a ball,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But if we be &s;pid we &s;hall be clyd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And carried to the quirken hall.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Out budgd the Coue of the Ken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a ben filtch in his quarr'me</HI></L>
<L><HI>That did the prigg good to bingd in the Ri&s;ome,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To towre the Coue budge alar'me.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>But now I will &s;hew you what I heard at <HI>Knock-ver|gos,</HI> drinking there a pot of Engli&s;h Ale, two Maunders borne and bred vp rogues wooing in their natiue lan|guage.</P>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Canyzon.</HI></NOTE><HI>O Ben mort wilt thou pad with me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>One ben &s;iate &s;hall &s;erue both thee &amp; me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Ca&s;ter and Comi&s;&s;ion &s;hall &s;erue vs both to maund,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My bong, my lowre &amp; fambling cheate</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall be at thy command.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>O Ben Coue that may not be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For thou ha&s;t an Autem mort who euer that is &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If that &s;he were dead &amp; bingd to his long Libb,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then would I pad and maund with thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And wap and for thee fibb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="22">
<LG>
<L><HI>O ben mort Ca&s;tle out &amp; Towre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Where all the Roome coues &s;lopne that we may tip the lowre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whe~ we haue tipt the lowre &amp; fenc't away the duds</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then binge we to the bow&s;ing ken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thats cut the Robin Hood.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>But O ben Coue what if we be clyd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Long we cannot foi&s;t &amp; nip at la&s;t we &s;hal be &s;pyed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If that we be &s;pied, O then begins our woe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With the Harman beake out and alas,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To VVhittington we goe.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Stow your whids &amp; plant, and whid no more of that,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Budg a beak the Crackma~s &amp; tip lowr with thy prat</HI></L>
<L><HI>If treyning thou do&s;t feare, thou ner wilt foi&s;t a Ian,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then mill, and wap and treine for me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A gere peck in thy gan.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>As they were thus after a &s;trange maner a wooing, in comes by chance a clapper dudgeon for a pinte of Ale, who as &s;oone as he was &s;pied, they left off their rogui&s;h poetry, and fell to mocke the poore maunder thus.</P>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. <HI>Canyzon.</HI></NOTE><HI>The Clapper dugeon lies in the skipper,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He dares not come out for &s;hame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But when he binges out he dus budg to the Gigger,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tipp in my skew good dame.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>And thus hath the Bel man through his pitifull am|bition cau&s;ed me to write that I would not: And wheras he di&s;claims the name of Brother-hood, I here vtterly renounce him &amp; his fellow&s;hip, as not de&s;irous to be re|&s;olued of any thing he profe&s;&s;eth on this &s;ubiect, knowing
<PB REF="23"> my &s;elfe to be as fully in&s;tructed herein as euer he was. But hereof enough, if not more then enough: I meane now to &s;hew the originall and beginning of the&s;e peo|ple, when they began to gather to an head, and how they fir&s;t came vp.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Runnagates Race, or the O|riginall of Regiment of Rogues, when they fir&s;t began to take head, and how they haue &s;uc|ceeded one the other &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely, vntill about the &s;ixe and twentieth yeare of King HENRY the eight, collected out of the Legend of LOSSELS.</HEAD>
<P>AT what time King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixt of famous memo|rie bare rule ouer the Britanes, there was one <HI>Iohn Mendal</HI> (alias <HI>Iack Cade</HI>) an Iri&s;h man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">29. K.H. 6.</NOTE> that named him&s;elfe by the name of <HI>Iohn Mortimer,</HI> cou&s;en to the Duke of Yorke, whereupon hee gathering together a great company out of Kent, a&s;&s;ured and per&s;waded them, that the enterpri&s;e he tooke in hand, was both ho|nourable to God and the King, and profitable to the whole Realme: the Kenti&s;h men moued with the&s;e per|&s;wa&s;ions and other faire promi&s;es, marched to blacke heath, where they lay for a month pilling the Countrey round about.</P>
<P>At the &s;ame time, which was about one thou&s;and foure hundred and fiftie, two vnruly fellowes (the one named <HI>Blewbeard,</HI> the other <HI>Hugh Roberts</HI>) which were lately come ouer from France, who had b&eacute;en &s;ouldiers vnder the Duke of Somer&s;et and the Earle of Shrew&s;bury in the winning and loo&s;ing of Con&s;tance, Guy&s;ons, Roane
<PB REF="23"> and diuers other Cities in France: the which <HI>Blew|beard</HI> in a Commotion, &s;hortly after he came ouer, being made their Captaine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roberts the fir&s;t Com|mander.</NOTE> before he had attempted any thing at all, was taken and executed: But <HI>Roberts</HI> k&eacute;eping in Kent, gathered a number of Rakehels and Vagabonds together to the number of an hundred in that Countrey, to whom likewi&s;e ma&s;terle&s;&s;e men after they heard of his fame, came cluttering on heapes, &s;o that he had in a &s;hort &s;pace to the number of fiue hundred followers.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;turdie Vagabonds ioyning with <HI>Iacke Men|dall</HI> in this rebellion, march toward London, and enter Southwarke, and there lodged at the white Harte for a night or two, prohibiting al from Rape, robery and mur|der, the more to allure the hearts of the people to fauour his enterpri&s;e. After, they come into London, and there they play <HI>Rex.</HI> and returne backe into Southwarke a|gaine, where, after many conflicts betw&eacute;ene them and the Citizens, the Kings pardon was proclaimed: at which hearing, the poore people were &s;o glad, and &s;o rea|dy to receiue it, that without bidding farewell to their Captaines, withdrew them&s;elues euery man towards his owne home.</P>
<P><HI>Iack Mendall</HI> de&s;pairing of &s;uccours, and fearing the reward of his lewd dealings, fled away into the woods. But Proclamation made, that who&s;oeuer could bring <HI>Iacke</HI> aliue or dead to the King, &s;hould haue a thou&s;and Markes for his paines, was after &s;laine by a Gentleman in Kent, and &s;o brought to the King.</P>
<P>But <HI>Roberts</HI> kept him&s;elfe in the woods clo&s;ely a long time after, although not with &s;o great a company as he had before, and there liued by robbing and &s;poyling in the night, and kept them&s;elues clo&s;e in all the day. And thus by the &s;pace of a twelue moneth, they pa&s;&s;ed their time in villany, robbing and &s;poyling the Country peo|ple of their poultry, pigges and other &s;u&s;tenance, where|with they &s;u&s;tained them&s;elues and their families. In
<PB REF="24"> which time he &s;et downe lawes and cu&s;tomes to be kept and ob&s;erued among them, and to k&eacute;epe them in awe and fa&s;hion, who are prone of them&s;elues to liue out of all rule and fa&s;hion.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>1</HI> Fir&s;t he appointed that of euery thing that they got, he had fir&s;t the taking and leauing of the be&s;t thereof at his plea&s;ure.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2</HI> That if any of their fellowes could not purcha&s;e any victuals or nece&s;&s;ities for foode that night, that then they &s;hold be in co~mons with the re&s;t the day following.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3</HI> That no robbery or violence bee v&s;ed vpon any man within foure miles of the wood, or the place of their aboade.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That none be &s;o hardy, as to run to the wood for &s;uccor or rel&eacute;efe, after he hath perpetrated any thing, le&s;t that hugh and crie follow, and &s;o di&s;crie the whole com|pany.</ITEM>
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<P>Thus after a yeare and vpward was &s;pent by them in this &s;ort, they brake vp their Campe, and Proclamati|on was made, to m&eacute;ete there in that place euery thr&eacute;e yeares for a memoriall, if they then liued: In the mea~ne time they &s;pread them&s;elues abroad in the Countrey, &s;ome remaining there, others trauelling North-ward, and ioyne them&s;elues with the Duke of Yorke, and ge|nerally in all Commotions and rebellions. The&s;e in me|mory of there fir&s;t acquaintance and loue to their new found Captaine, called them&s;elues by the name of <HI>Ro|berts-men,</HI> as the &s;eruants of <HI>Hugh Roberts</HI> their Com|maunder.</P>
<P>This <HI>Roberts</HI> liued rouing vp &amp; down the country for the &s;pace of ten years: in which time he kept his Court daies as him&s;elfe li&s;ted, and in which time there came to him diuers new followers, and as &s;ome decay|ed and died, &s;ome hanged &amp; dead of the poxe (for to that end they all come) &s;o others &s;ucc&eacute;eded in their places.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t yeare of <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth, this <HI>Roberts</HI> in
<PB REF="24"> the warres again&s;t <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixt in the North partes (who was depo&s;ed) was there &s;laine, be&s;ides <HI>36776.</HI> per|&s;ons all Engli&s;hmen.</P>
<P>Hereupon pre&s;ently (their late Captaine now dead) all that were left aliue of this company, hye them&s;elues to their wonted place of m&eacute;eting, where, by the generall a&s;&s;ent, they cho&s;e one <HI>(Ienkin Cowdiddle)</HI> to bee their ring-leader.</P>
<P>This <HI>Ienkin Cowdiddle</HI> was a man giuen much to &s;wearing, drunkenne&s;&s;e and lechery:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ienkin Cow|diddle. 2.</NOTE> he was neuer out of England as &s;ouldier or traueller, but from his fir&s;t be|ginning he continued a wandring rogue, he was &s;tout of &s;tomacke, audacious and fierce, hee was knowne to all the damned crew for a boone companion, and therefore cho&s;en as fitte&s;t for their Captaine: hee fir&s;t ordained, that none were &s;o hardy as to haue the vndooing of a maid wanderer, or any thing to do with her, vnle&s;&s;e fir&s;t &s;he were brought to him to be broken vp, or to &s;ome of his a&s;&s;ignes, that could obtain the &s;ame of him by friend|&s;hip or bribery.</P>
<P>Hee commaunded likewi&s;e that all beggers &s;hould &s;pend all their gettings in the day pa&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Cu&s;tome.</NOTE> in good B&eacute;ere or Ale at night, or at the farde&s;t by &s;aterday night: and if any were found or knowne to haue aboue two pence half peny in his pur&s;e on munday morning, he &s;hold for|feit a dou&s;en of b&eacute;ere, to any what&s;oeuer of their compa|ny would challenge it. He exerci&s;ed his commaund about tenne yeares, vntill the time that the great rebel|lion and vprore was in the We&s;tern parts, as Summer|&s;et&s;hire, Wil&s;hire, Dor&s;et-&s;hire and Cornewall, about the crowning of Prince <HI>Edw.</HI> &s;on to K. <HI>H. 6.</HI> who had b&eacute;en all this while in France: and this fell out about the <HI>11.</HI> yeare of <HI>Edw. 4.</HI> then this <HI>Ienkin Cowdiddle</HI> accompanied with <HI>300.</HI> tottered knaues,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Edw. 4.11. yeer 1471.</NOTE> ioyned in battell again&s;t the K. with the we&s;terne men, in which battell at Teuxbury he was &s;laine, and buried there with the re&s;t of the dead bodies.</P>
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<P>The battel ended, the&s;e <HI>Robert-men</HI> (for &s;o they were termed a long time after) hye them to their Kandauow, their v&s;uall and knowne place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spi&s;ing 3.</NOTE> and there with the full con&s;ent of the whole company, They cho&s;e one <HI>Spy&s;ing</HI> to be his &s;ucce&s;&s;our.</P>
<P>And now when as the fea&s;t and &s;olemnizing of this new made &s;quire was newly ended, news was brought to this <HI>Spi&s;ing,</HI> how that one <HI>Thomas Neuell</HI> &s;onne to <HI>Fankenbridge</HI> (who had b&eacute;ene at Sea as a Pirate, and robbed diuers Merchants) was newly arriued in Eng|land, and got a great company of Marriners out of all parts of the land, and many traytors and mi&s;gouerned people to follow him, whereunto as fitly for his turne this <HI>Spi&s;ing</HI> accompanies and enters into league and fa|miliarity, be&s;ides diuers al&s;o forth of other Countries that delighted in theft and robberies.</P>
<P>And now his &s;trength encrea&s;ed daily, for hauing bin at Callice, and brought from thence into Kent many e|uill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, he began to gather his power in that Country, meaning to attempt &s;ome great and wic|ked enterpri&s;e again&s;t King <HI>Edward</HI> and his Kingdome, but his quarrell he pretended, was to haue King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixt out of the Towre, and to re&s;tore him to his Scep|ter againe. Thus accompanied with &s;euent&eacute;ene thou|&s;and men, they marched into London by &s;hippes which lay betw&eacute;ene Blacke wall and Redriffe: and then came <HI>Spi&s;ing</HI> with his hand at Algate, who behaued them|&s;elues &s;toutly, that they wan the Bulwarke there, and draue the Citizens backe within the Port cullis, and en|tred the gate with them to the number of a dou&s;en; but &s;ome of them were &s;laine with the fall of the Port cullis, that was let downe vpon them to k&eacute;epe the re&s;idue out: but tho&s;e that were within the wals was &s;uddenly di&s;|patcht.</P>
<P>To be &s;hort, at la&s;t the Ba&s;tard was vanqui&s;hed and vtterly di&s;paired; for hearing the King comming with
<PB REF="25"> thirtie thou&s;and men, dur&s;t &s;tay no longer, but brake vp and di&s;per&s;ed them&s;elues &s;ome one way, and &s;ome ano|ther. The Ba&s;tard with his Mariners and &s;uch rebels, robbers &amp; wicked per&s;ons, as &s;ought nothing but &s;poile, got them to Ship-board as fa&s;t as they could. Tho&s;e that were left behinde, and tho&s;e of <HI>Spy&s;ings</HI> company lurked a day or two about the Contrey &s;ecretly in woods, vn|till they thought the coa&s;tes to be clear, and after met at their wonted place, where they, as merry as pot and canne pa&s;&s;e their time in villany and robbery.</P>
<P>This <HI>Spi&s;ing</HI> was a man giuen to voluptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e, plea&s;ure, and delight in Bow&s;ing and Venery: He or|dered, that euery one that profe&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe a Wande|rer, and taking vpon him the occupation of begging, &s;hal be &s;tauled to the order of rogues; that is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Cu&s;tome.</NOTE> hee &s;hall bee brought to the chiefe Commander then being, and there he &s;hall &s;hew the cau&s;e of his going abroad, and what Countrey man he is: which done, he payes a dou&s;en of b&eacute;ere as a fine for his fr&eacute;edome and In&s;taulment, and &s;o is permitted to liue and die a rogue: but if he be borne a rogue: that is, if his Grandfather were one, &s;o that con|&s;equently he mu&s;t be one al&s;o, &s;uch a one &s;hall bee fr&eacute;ely di&s;charged from &s;uch en&s;taulement, as being made fr&eacute;e by his fathers copie. This <HI>Spi&s;ing</HI> about the fir&s;t yeare of King <HI>Edward</HI> the fift, committed a robbery and murder (n&eacute;ere High-gate in Middle&s;ex) where after he fledde and tooke &s;anctuary at We&s;tmin&s;ter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. Edw. 5.3, 1483.</NOTE> for the&s;e places in that time were wonderfully abu&s;ed by wicked men: rable|ments of Th&eacute;eues, Murderers and Traytors would thither flocke when they had atchieued any villany, vn|thrifts ryot and runne in debt vpon boldne&s;&s;e of the&s;e places, rich men runne thither with poore mens goods; there they build and there they &s;pend, and bid their cre|ditors goe whi&s;tle, mens wiues runne thither with their hu&s;bands plate, and &s;ay they dare not abide with their hu&s;bands, for feare of beating: Theeues bring in thi|ther
<PB REF="26"> their &s;tolne goods, and there liue vpon them vntill al is &s;pent, and when nothing is left, they againe in the night range abroad to &s;&eacute;eke other booties: there they de|ui&s;e new plots to rob and kill, and then to come in again at their plea&s;ure: &s;o tho&s;e places did not only giue them &s;afegard for their villanies, but a licen&s;e al&s;o to do more. Such a one was this <HI>Spy&s;ing</HI> for a yeare or two before he was hanged; for being taken the &s;econd time at Wom|burne in Stafford &s;hire, for killing a man in a drunken humour, was pre&s;ently apprehended, and carried to the Goale, and after hanged all &s;aue the head: he Domin&eacute;e|red about eleuen yeares.</P>
<P>Not long after, when certaine newes was bla&s;ed a|broad of their Captaines confu&s;ion, they cho&s;e a nota|ble &s;waggering rogue called Puffing <HI>Dicke,</HI> to reuell o|uer them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Puffing Dicke the fourth.</NOTE> who plaid reuell rout with them ind&eacute;ede: in this Squire there were no villanies left vnattempted, but he was &s;till at the one end.</P>
<P>He fir&s;t gaue termes to robbers by the high way, that &s;uch as robbe on hor&s;e-backe were called high lawy|ers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Sorts of robbers by the way. The fir&s;t &s;ort.</NOTE> and tho&s;e who robbed on foote, he called Padders: the difference of the&s;e two &s;orts of villanes is this.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t &s;ort are called Gent. robbers or th&eacute;eues; and the&s;e ride on hor&s;es well appointed, and goe in &s;hew like hone&s;t men: the other robbe on fooke, and haue no other helpe but a paire of light h&eacute;eles and a thicke woode, Concerning the fir&s;t &s;ort, that delight in the credite of a high Lawyer, that with their &s;words fr&eacute;eboote abroad in the countrey like Cauileroes on hor&s;e-backe, are com|monly &s;uch men, that eyther are younger brethren, who being brought vp in idlene&s;&s;e and gaming, when their friends are dead, do fall to this kind of life to maintaine the maine chance: others againe being left well by their friends, hauing no gouernement of them&s;elues, but ban|queting with Whores, and making late &s;uppers, doe greatly impoueri&s;h and begger them&s;elues: and when
<PB REF="26"> all is &s;pent after this manner, and their money wa&s;ted like &s;now again&s;t the Sunne: they for their <HI>Vltimum re|fugium,</HI> as forced to vndertake this wretched and abhor|red profe&s;&s;ion, robbing hone&s;t poore men, and taking all their money from them, yea and often more then is their owne, to the vtter vndoing of their poore man, his wife and children for euer, who when they haue it, wa&s;t it as vain|ly as they wickedly purcha&s;t it. And others, that hauing b&eacute;ene &s;ouldiers when they come from the warres, ey|ther by breaking vp of the Campe, or by running away from their colours to &s;&eacute;e their friends, or what way &s;oe|uer, cannot betake them&s;elues to any hone&s;t trade of life, but louing to liue in idlene&s;&s;e, betake them&s;elues to rob|bing and &s;tealing, vntill they be taken and carried we&s;t|ward there to make their reher&s;all.</P>
<P>The&s;e fellowes fir&s;t that they may not be knowne, be|&s;peake and get &s;uch artificial beards and heads of haire, that although you ride, dine, and &s;up with them from day to day, you &s;hall not be able to di&s;cerne them, nor e|&s;pie their fal&s;hood. And in this practi&s;e all their villany con&s;i&s;ts: for I haue heard and partly know a high-way lawyer rob a man in the morning, and hath dined with the martin or hone&s;t man &s;o robbed the &s;ame day at an Inne being not de&s;cried, nor yet once mi&s;tru&s;ted or &s;u|&s;pected for the robbery.</P>
<P>Their knauery is on this manner; they haue alwaies good geldings and tru&s;ty, which they can make Cur|tailes when they li&s;t, and againe &s;et too large tailes, hanging to the fetlockes at their plea&s;ure, yea and &s;o ar|tificially, that it &s;hall not be perceiued or &s;pied of the O&s;tler that dre&s;&s;eth them: be&s;ides they haue clokes <HI>Tor|mo&s;ant,</HI> as they call them, made with two out-&s;ides, that weare them how&s;oeuer the right &s;ide will bee alwaies outward: now their artificiall beards and heads of haire withall, will make them &s;&eacute;eme to dance in a net a long time ere they be e&s;pied. Now how ea&s;ie it is for
<PB REF="27"> them to e&s;cape all dangers, all Hues and Cries, it may ea&s;ily be perceiued, for the complexion of the man, and his beard, the garments that he weares, and the making of his hor&s;e, thr&eacute;e things which are the e&s;peciall markes whereby notice is taken to make enquiry: which being chaunged and altered, they may e&s;cape as &s;afely as they did the robbery.</P>
<P>The other &s;ort of robbers, that hauing no meanes to relieue them, in &s;tead of &s;wift cour&s;es to e&s;chue danger, flie away vpon their tru&s;tie tenn-toes into woodes and clo&s;e places, there to continue vntill Hue and Crie bee pa&s;t: the&s;e fellows we are counterfeit beards and heads of haire, as the other &s;ort doe, v&s;ing not many words, but <HI>Stand and deliuer:</HI> &s;ome will haue cur&s;t and man kind Ma&s;ties following them, to further and helpe them in this enterpri&s;e: &s;ome vnder the name of the vpright man or &s;ouldier as they goe through townes, begge the chari|table deuotion of people, they will goe al&s;o &s;trongly with thr&eacute;e or foure in a company to a farme hou&s;e, where of|tentimes they are relieued more for feare then deuotion: but when they can come in place where they may con|ueniently take a pur&s;e, it &s;hall goe hard but that they will eyther win the hor&s;e or loo&s;e the &s;addle&punc; although their hardy aduenture be paid home with a cracke of the be&s;t ioynt they haue after.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t cou|&s;oner at dice.</NOTE>But to returne againe to <HI>Puffing Dicke;</HI> this diuell incarnate, as he was bold to attempt any wicked enter|pri&s;e, &s;o he wanted not wit fir&s;t to lay the plot to atchieue it, and to bring it to pa&s;&s;e. He v&s;ed fir&s;t the cou&s;enage at dice, and to inuent for that purpo&s;e fal&s;e dice, whereby he got much money. But as it was ill got, &s;o was it as ill &s;pent in all manner of vice that could bee named, wherein he excelled all before him: yet this by the way, it is reported of him, that he was fr&eacute;e from murder, and commanded, that who&s;oeuer vnder his conduct, was &s;o cruell as to murder any man or woman in the attempt
<PB REF="27"> of robbing them, &s;hould forthwith be di&s;couered to be ap|prehended: he likewi&s;e ordered that all high lawyers, padders, Lifts, Foi&s;ts, Cheaters or Cony-catchers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Cu&s;tome.</NOTE> &s;hal not pre&s;ume to purcha&s;e any landes or reuenues, nor whord vp their money to the hinderance of good fellow|&s;hip, maintenance of good natured dam&s;els, and im|peachment of the fraternity: but that they &s;hall hearti|ly &s;pend it, among good company and fellowes, &s;uch as them&s;elues are, and as they came lightly by it, &s;o lightly to let it flie: he was a man crafty and bolde, yet he died mi&s;erably; for after he had commanded now fully eight years, he had the pyning of the Poxe and Neapolitane Scurffe. And here an end of <HI>Puffing Dicke.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lawrence Crosbiter 5. The fir&s;t in|uenter of crosbiting.</NOTE>In his place was cho&s;en by the con&s;ent of the rable|ment, one not much inferiour in vice to the former, but in regard of manhood a m&eacute;ere crauant, called <HI>Lawrence Crosbiter,</HI> or long <HI>Lawrence.</HI> This <HI>Lawrence</HI> had b&eacute;ene brought vp all his daies a Seruing-man, and now being about fiftie or thr&eacute;e &s;core, at what time Seruingmen are pa&s;t the be&s;t, and commonly grow la&s;ie, was ca&s;t out of &s;eruice, and &s;o was faine to liue among the wicked, &s;ometimes a &s;tander for the padder, &s;ometimes a ver&s;er for the cony-cacher, &s;omtimes a &s;tale for a foy&s;t, but mo&s;t commonly an Apple-&s;quire for a trudging hou&s;e: he fir&s;t v&s;ed that art which now is named Cro&s;biting, and from who&s;e name, this damned art (Cro&s;biting) tooke her fir&s;t call, as of <HI>Lawrence Crosbiter</HI> that fir&s;t inuented the &s;ame. The manner in breefe is thus: Some ba&s;e rogue without the feare of God or man, that k&eacute;epeth a whore as a friend, or marries one to be his maintainer, con&s;ents or con&s;traines tho&s;e creatures to y&eacute;elde the v&s;e of their bodies to other men, that &s;o taking them together, they may &s;trip the leacher of all the money in his pur&s;e or that he can pre&s;ently make.</P>
<P>He commaunded about &s;ixe yeares, and then as he li|ued in filthine&s;&s;e, &s;o was his end, for it was reported that
<PB REF="28"> his bowels were eaten out with the poxe, whil&s;t he was yet aliue, &s;o mi&s;erable was the end of this wretch.</P>
<P>All the&s;e &s;ixe yeares that this <HI>Lawrence</HI> liued in his controulment, he dur&s;t neuer be &s;o hardy as once to aide <HI>Perken VVarbeck,</HI> in the attempting of the Crowne: &s;o &s;laui&s;h was his mind, and giuen to cowardize, for all the time that he bare rule among his companions, which was from <HI>1491.</HI> vntil <HI>1497.</HI> did <HI>Perkin VVarbeck</HI> a&s;&s;ay to win the kingdom, fayning him&s;elue to bee the Duke of Yorke, &s;on to K. <HI>Edw. 4.</HI> decea&s;ed: to the bringing to pa&s;&s;e of which deui&s;e, he a&s;&s;ayed many waies, plotted diuers deui&s;es, and attempted mighty matters, and yet all in vaine, for after almo&s;t &s;ixe yeares (all which time he was bu&s;ied about this enterpri&s;e) he was taken pri&s;oner, af|ter he had taken Sanctuary at Bewdly not farre from Southampton.</P>
<P>To &s;et down the whole &s;tory of this <HI>Perkin Warbeck</HI> it would be long, &amp; be&s;ides from the matter now in hand: but becau&s;e the &s;equell of the &s;tory a little concerneth vs, I will br&eacute;efely runne it ouer: and thus it was.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Perkin War|beck his pede|gree.</NOTE>He was a man ba&s;e of &s;tocke, a Flemin by birth, and prouoked to faine him&s;elfe the &s;onne of K. <HI>Edward 4.</HI> by the Duches of Burgony, &s;i&s;ter to King <HI>Edward 4.</HI></P>
<P>He fir&s;t went into Ireland out of Fraunce, to entice the Iri&s;h to rebell, after called backe by the French King to goe again&s;t King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;euenth then inua|ding Fraunce: after this he lands in Kent, purpo&s;ing to prooue the people, how they were affected towards him: hereupon hee &s;ends &s;ome of his men out of the Shippes to know their minds: but they were &s;udden|ly taken by the Sheriffe of Kent, and railed in ropes like hor&s;es in Carts, were adiudged mo&s;t to be hanged; but <HI>Perkin</HI> hoy&s;ts vp his &s;ails at the&s;e tydings,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sayles into Scotland and marries the Kings kin&s;e|woman.</NOTE> &amp; away &s;ailes he again into Ireland, where he &s;taies not long, being a place not &s;it for his turne, the people being poore &amp; naked, he &s;ayles into Scotland, where after a &s;mooth long Ora|tion,
<PB REF="28"> to the King hee is royally entertained by the &s;aid King: afterward the King to per&s;wade the world y^e all was true, e&s;pou&s;eth the La. <HI>Katharine,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">He goes a|gain&s;t Engl.</NOTE> daughter to <HI>Alex|ander</HI> Earle of Huntley his nigh kin&s;eman, to him: then go they both again&s;t England, wa&s;ting all Northumber|land, &amp; committing many outrages and enormities:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Retyres.</NOTE> but when they &s;aw no aid to come from England they retire; after <HI>Perkin</HI> (vpon the truce betw&eacute;en England and Scot|land) with his wife &s;aile into Ireland again:<NOTE PLACE="marg">After into Cornewall.</NOTE> from thence cuts ouer into Cornwal, wher he gathered to him aboue <HI>3000.</HI> per&s;ons, all promi&s;ing him to take his part, and fol|low him till death.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His three Councellors.</NOTE>Fir&s;t then by the adui&s;e of his Councellours, <HI>Iohn Heron</HI> Mercer, a Bankrout, <HI>Richard Skelton</HI> a Taylor, and <HI>Iohn A&s;teley</HI> a Scriuener, they a&s;&s;ay the winning of Exeter, where for lacke of Munition for Warre, and Ordnance to breake open the Gates, they endeuoured by ca&s;ting of &s;tones,<NOTE PLACE="marg">They a&s;&s;ay to win Exet.</NOTE> lifting with I|ron barres, and kindling of fires vnder the Gates, to bring to pa&s;&s;e their purpo&s;e: much a doo there was heere about this enterpri&s;e: But when hee heard the King comming with his power, hee remooues to Taunton, and the King after him:<NOTE PLACE="marg">He takes San|ctuary at Bewdley.</NOTE> vppon this hee flies to Bewdley, and there takes Sanctuary, but after p&eacute;eldes him&s;elfe to the mercy of the King, who being deliuered to the Kings Guard carefully to be kept, not|with&s;tanding e&s;capeth, and thought to get ouer into Flanders: but the Sea coa&s;ts being all laid that he could not pa&s;&s;e, he was in a great perplexity, came backe to the Prior of Sh&eacute;ene be&s;ides Richmond, and there in|treats the Prior, euen for Gods &s;ake to beg his life of the King: The K. at the reque&s;t of the Prior pardoned him, but was &s;et in the &s;tocks at We&s;tmin&s;t. hal doore a whole day, &amp; &s;o like wi&s;e y^t next day was he &s;et on a Scaffold at the Standard in Cheap&s;ide, with many mocks &amp; reui|lings ca&s;t again&s;t him: being now in hold again by fal&s;e
<PB REF="29"> per&s;wa&s;ions and great promi&s;es corrupted his k&eacute;epers, and would haue fledde away, but his purpo&s;es being knowne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Executed at Tyburne.</NOTE> he was at la&s;t apprehended, taken, and executed at Tiburne, he and his k&eacute;epers. And this is the end of <HI>Perkin Warbecke: Lawrence Crosbiter</HI> now dead, and <HI>Perkin VVarbecke,</HI> with two of his Councellors <HI>Hearne</HI> and <HI>A&s;teley,</HI> fledde to Sanctuary: it booted not the com|pany to &s;tay there,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1497.</NOTE> but their chiefe leaders fledde, euerie one threw away his armour as people amazed, and be|take them&s;elues to their heeles: among the re&s;t <HI>Skelton</HI> a notable knaue, one of <HI>Perkins</HI> Councellors before menti|oned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">H. 7.13.</NOTE> being well knowne among the Ra&s;calitie, was led to the wonted place of m&eacute;eting, and there &s;olemnely was &s;tawled a rogue, and made their generall.</P>
<P>This <HI>Skelton</HI> was &s;ometimes a Taylor in Taunton in Sommer&s;et &s;hire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Skelton 6.</NOTE> who being blowne downe with an vnfortunate bla&s;t, was forc't and ready for any Commo|tion or rebellion: he was of a proude and haughty di&s;po|&s;ition: he liued in this new Gouernment vntill about the fourth yeare of King <HI>Henry</HI> the right, which was in the yeare <HI>1501.</HI></P>
<P>This fellow among other decr&eacute;es and orders confir|med this: That if any one v&s;ing the nece&s;&s;ary helpe of his crutches (although ind&eacute;ede hee hath not any n&eacute;ede or v&s;e of them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A cu&s;tome.</NOTE> but onely to deceiue people therewith) &s;hall at any time for&s;ake them for a time, either to runne for a wager with another, or to play at nine holes, loggets or bowles, or any other game, &s;o that he be &s;&eacute;ene and mar|ked by &s;ome that haue &s;&eacute;ene him el&s;e-where with his crooches halting, and by them &s;o challenged for a coun|terfeit rogue, he &s;hall forfeite for euery &s;uch offence two dou&s;en of b&eacute;ere, as a fine for di&s;gracing &s;o ancient a trade as peregrination.</P>
<P>After him &s;ucc&eacute;eded by the Generall Councell, one <HI>Cocke Lorrell,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cock Lorrell 7 K. H. 8.4.1511.</NOTE> the mo&s;t notorious knaue that euer liued: by trade he was a Tinker, often carrying a panne and a
<PB REF="29"> hammer for a &s;hew: but when he came to a good booty, he would ca&s;t his profe&s;&s;ion in a ditch, and play the pad|der and then would away, and as hee pa&s;t through the towne, would crie, Ha you any worke for a Tinker. To write of his knaueries, it would a&s;ke a long time: I re|ferre you to the old manu&s;cript, remayning on record in maunders hall.</P>
<P>This was he that reduced and brought in forme the Catalogue of Vagabonds or quarterne of knaues called the fiue and twentie orders of knaues:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The quarters of knaues made by Cock Lorrell.</NOTE> but becau&s;e it is extant and in euery mans &s;hop, I pa&s;&s;e them ouer.</P>
<P>And now about this time, when as warres abroade, and troubles dome&s;ticall were ended, &s;warmed in euery part of the land the&s;e Caterpillers, like &s;lies again&s;t a plague: in the northerne partes another &s;ort of Vaga|bonds (at the diuels-ar&s;e-a-peake in Darbi&s;hire) began a new regiment,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aegyptians,</NOTE> calling them&s;elues by the name of Egip|tians: The&s;e were a &s;ort of rogues, that liued and do yet liue by cou&s;ening and deceit, practi&s;ing the arte called le|gerdemaine, or fa&s;t and loo&s;e, whereby they got to them|&s;elues no &s;mall credite among the Countrey people by their d&eacute;epe di&s;&s;embling and deceitfull practi&s;es, f&eacute;eding the common people wholly addicted and giuen to no|uelties, toyes and new fangles, delighting them with the &s;trangene&s;&s;e of the attire of their heads, and practi|&s;ing palmi&s;try to &s;uch as would know their fortunes.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t that inuented this new fellow&s;hip was one <HI>Giles Hather:</HI> he carried about with him his whore cal|led (<HI>Kyt Calot</HI>) which was termed the Qu&eacute;ene of Egip|ties:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kyt Calot.</NOTE> they goe alwaies neuer vnder an hundred men or women, cau&s;ing their faces to be made blacke, as if they were Egyptians: they wander vp and down the Coun|try as it plea&s;eth them be&s;t, with their hor&s;es to carry their ba&s;tards and baggage after them: and when they come into any countrey towne, they pittifully cou&s;en the
<PB REF="30"> poore countrey girles, both of money, &s;iluer and the be&s;t linnen onely in hope to heare their good fortunes tould them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Read of the&s;e in the fir&s;t pag</NOTE>After a certaine time that the&s;e vp-&s;tart Lo&s;&s;els had got vnto a head; the two chiefe Commaunders of both the&s;e regiments met at the Diuels-ar&s;e-a-peake, there to parle and intreate of matters that might tend to the e&s;tabli&s;hing of this their new found gouernment: and fir&s;t of all they thinke it fit to deui&s;e a certaine kinde of language,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Canting, when brought vp.</NOTE> to the end their cou&s;enings, knaueries and vil|lanies might not be &s;o ea&s;ily perceiued and knowne, in places where they come: And this their language they &s;punne out of thr&eacute;e other tongues, <HI>viz.</HI> Latine, Engli&s;h, and Dutch: the&s;e thr&eacute;e e&s;pecially, nothwith&s;tanding &s;ome few words they borrowed of the Spani&s;h and French. They al&s;o gaue names to &s;uch per&s;ons of their company according to the kind of life that he vndertooke: as for ex|ample, A common begger or rogue, they termed a Clap|per-dudgeon, one that counterfeited the falling &s;icknes, they termed him a counterfeit Cranke, for Cranke in their language is the falling &s;ickene&s;&s;e, and &s;o Counter|feit Cranke is the fal&s;e falling &s;ickene&s;&s;e: and &s;o of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>This <HI>Cocke Lorrell</HI> continued among them longer then any of his predece&s;&s;ours before him, or after him: for he ruled almo&s;t two and twentie yeares, vntil the yeare <HI>An. Dom. 1533.</HI> and about the &s;ixe and twenty yeare of K. <HI>Henry</HI> the eight.</P>
<P N="1">1 He made among other,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Orders.</NOTE> the&s;e Statutes among them, that who&s;oeuer he be, that being borne and bred vp in the trade of maunding, nipping and foi&s;ting for the &s;pace of tenne years, and hath not the right dexterity in his fingers to picke a pocket, but is faine to cloy his fellowes, and cowarly to demand &s;crappage; &s;uch a one is to be knowne and brought hither to be fined for his
<PB REF="30"> faint-heartedne&s;&s;e: and it &s;uch a one after venter and be taken vpon the fir&s;t fault, let him know, that he is going the high way to perdition without pitty, as a iu&s;t pu|ni&s;hment for his folly, that he betooke him&s;elfe &s;o &s;oone to the occupation.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. Item,</HI> We thinke it m&eacute;et that none eate meat, as Pigges, Capons, G&eacute;e&s;e or &s;uch like, vnle&s;&s;e he purcha&s;e it by priuie pilfery and cleanely conueyance, neither &s;hal they be merry in euery Bow&s;ing Ken or Alehou&s;e as they li&s;t, but in &s;ome odde out-hou&s;e remote from dwel|lers: a Stawling ken that is knowne of purpo&s;e to be tru&s;ty, yea and that in the night too, lea&s;t they be notifi|ed and &s;u&s;pected, to the &s;candalizing of the profe&s;&s;ion: neither &s;hall they be merry out of mea&s;ure, lea&s;t by their extraordinary noy&s;es, the Con&s;table and Watch men take them, and &s;o carry them to ward, as a iu&s;t puni&s;h|ment for their pre&s;umptuous and vnordinate proc&eacute;ed|ings: for which &s;ome of late daies haue wofully felt the &s;mart.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI>Giles Hather</HI> fir&s;t beganne in <HI>Anno Domini</HI> one thou&s;and fiue hundred twenty and eight: concerning whom, there is nothing made mention of, but of his cou|&s;onage and deceit, for the&s;e kinde of people liued more quietly and out of harme in re&s;pect of the other &s;ort, ma|king them&s;elues as &s;trangers, and would neuer put forth them&s;elues in any tumult or Commotion, as the other &s;ort did: but what vice they exerci&s;ed not one way, they were not inferiour to them in the like, or ra|ther wor&s;e another way; &s;o that what betw&eacute;ene them both, they were two pe&s;tiferous members in a Com|mon-wealth: but I will leaue them both, and pray for a pro&s;perous winde to bring my Barke to the wi&s;hed port of her de&s;ire, which is to be fauoured and well liked of in your &s;ight: which if good fortune fauour me &s;o much, I &s;hall be bouldened once more to play the Merchant ven|turer:
<PB REF="31"> at who&s;e &s;econd arriuall I will pre&s;ent you with things more &s;trange, not farre fetcht but d&eacute;erely bought, and wherein, if licen&s;e may be permitted, I will proc&eacute;ed and &s;et downe the &s;ucce&s;&s;ours from <HI>Cocke Lorrell</HI> vntill this pre&s;ent day, and who at this day beares the greate&s;t &s;way among&s;t them.</P>
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