watched, 51; how he was dressed, 51; his refusal to wash when
bidden, 52; gives the name of Genings, 52; said he had been in
Bethlehem Hospital, 52, which Harman found to be a lie, 53; in the
middle of the day he goes into the fields and renews the blood
on his face, 53; what money he received, 53; at night he goes to
Newington, where he is given in charge, 54; the amount of his
gains, 55; his escape, 55; his recapture, 56, _n._; his punishment,
57, _n._
Cousoners, cheaters, 1
Crashing chetes, teeth, 82
crassinge chetes, apples, pears, or any other fruit, 84
Cross Keys Inn in Cranford (Middlesex) or Crayford (Kent), 77
cuffen, fellow, 86. _See_ Quyer.
Cursetors, 17; explanation of, 27
Curtal, 37
Curtall, one who is next in authority to an upright man, 4
Curtesy man, described, 6
cutte, to say, 84
cutte bene whydds, speak or give good words, 84
cutte benle, speak gently, 84
cutte quyre whyddes, give evil words or evil language, 84
darkemans, night, 84
Dartford, 58
David, a thief, 94, 95
ded lyft, a; last refuge, 34
Dells, rogues’ virgins, described, 75
Demaunder for glymmar, description of, 61; story of one who behaved
courteously to one man and uncourteously to another, 61–65
Deptford, 77
Desmond, Earl of, 82
Devil’s Pater noster, 15
Devonshire, 48
dewse a vyle, the country, 84, 86
Dialogue, between upright man and rogue, 84–87
dokte, fornicated with, 87
Dommerar, description of, 57; of one who was made to speak, and
afterwards punished on the pillory, 58, 59
doson, dozen, 34
Doxes, description of, 4, 6, 73
Draw-the-pudding-out-of-the-fire; a beggars’ inn at
Harrow-on-the-Hill, 77
drawers, hosen, 83
Drawlatches, a class of beggars, 27
Dronken Tinckar, description of, 59
drouselye, drowsily, 76
dudes, cloths, 83
dup the gyger, open the door, 84
Dyng-thrift, description of, 15
Egiptians, description of, 23
Esau, a thief, 94, 95
Esaye, Isaiah, 24
Esen Droppers, eaves-droppers, 15
exonerate, empty (one’s belly), 55
factors, tax-gatherers, 45
fambles, hands, 82; famble, 87
fambling chete, ring on the hand, 82
Faytores, a class of beggars, 27
ferres, 35, ferries
Filtchman, the truncheon of a staff, 4
Fingerers, 7–9. _See_ Cheatours.
for knowing; against, to prevent, being recognized, 71
flagg, a groat, 83, 85
flebytinge, 73
fletinge Fellowshyp, the company of vagabonds, 24
Frater, one who goes with a licence to beg for some Spittlehouse or
Hospital, but who usually robs poor women, 4; description of, 45
Freshwater Mariner, description of, 48
Furmenty, 22
fustian fume, 46
fylche, to beat, to rob, 84
fylthy firy flankard, 29
fynesed, finished, 70
Fyngerer, 8, 9
gage, a quart pot, 83
― of bowse, a quart of drink, 34
gally slopes, breeches, 35
gan, a mouth, 82
gealy gealowsit, good fellowship, 55
gentry cofes ken, a noble or gentleman’s house, 83
gentry morte, a noble or gentlewoman, 84
Genynges, Nicolas, a counterfeit cranke, 50, 87
gestes, guests, 61
Glasyers, eyes, 82
glimmeringe morte, a woman who travels the country begging, saying
her goods have been burnt, 61
glymmar, fire, 61, 83
grannam, corn, 83
Grauesend barge, a resort of vagabonds and knaves, 1
graunt, agree, 53
greffe, grief, 55
Grene Winchard, description of a, 14
_Groundworke of Conny-catching_, 97
grunting chete, or patricos kynchen, a pig, 83
Gryffith, Wylliam, a printer, 17
Gybe, a licence, 4; a writing, 83
gygger, a door, 83, 85
Gyle Hather, description of, 14
gyllot, a whore, 71
Haben, a witty parson, 92
hande charcher, handkerchief, 72
Harman beck, constable, 84
Harman, Thomas, his _Caveat_, 17–91; epistle to the reader, 27; his
old tenant, 30; his copper cauldron stolen, 35; recovered, 35;
notice to tinkers of the loss of his cauldron, 35; his gelding
stolen, 44; in commission of the peace, 60; paid for beggars’
secrets, 74
Harmans, the stocks, 84
Harrow-on-the-Hill, inn at, 77
Hartley Row in Hampshire, 92, 93
Hearing chetes, ears, 82
heauing of the bowth, robbing the booth, 4
Helpers of rogues, 9
Helycon, 28
heue a bough, rob a booth, 84
Hill’s, Mr, Rents, 57
_him_ redundant: leapes him, 43, l. 24
Hoker, or Angglear, description of, 35; anecdote of one who took the
clothes of the bed in which 3 men were sleeping, without awaking
them, 36
Holborn, 54
hollowe hosteler, 63
horse locke, 39
hosen, breeches, 71, 72
hosted, lodged, 57, _n._
hosteries, card-sharpers’ resorts, 9
House of Pity, inn in Northall, 77
hoyssed, hoisted, 20
huggeringe, loitering, 43
Hyberdyne, a parson, 93
hygh, hie, 33
hygh pad, highway, 84
Jacob, a thief, 94, 95
Iarckeman, a maker of counterfeit licences, 5, 60
Iarckes, seals, 4
Iarke, a seal, 83
ich, I, 8
Jeffrey Gods Fo, a liar, 13
Ingratus, an ungrateful knave, 16
in printe, meaning ‘correct,’ 45
Iockam, yard, penis, 87
iompe, jump, plump, exactly, 44
Irishe toyle, a beggar, 5
Irish rogues, 44, 48
Isleworth (Thystellworth), St Julian’s, a beggars’ inn at, 77
Iusticers, Justices, 21
Karle, a knave, 8
ken, a house, 83, 84, 86
Kent, a man of worship in, death of, 22
Kent, mentioned, 37, 43, 48, 61, 63, 66, 68, 77
Kent St, Southwark, 57
Ketbroke, a beggars’ inn, near Blackheath, 77
kinde, nature, 52
Kitchen Co, a boy, 5, 76
― Morte, a girl, 5, 76
Knapsbery (inn near London), 77
Knaues, 25 orders of, 1
―, quartern of, 1
Kynges barne, beggars’ inn in Kent, 77
lage, water, 83
lag of dudes, a bucke of clothes, 83
lap, butter, milk, or whey, 83
lasy Lorrels, 82
lecherous husband cured, 68–73
Leicester, 56
lewed lecherous loyteringe, 31
lewtering Luskes, 82
licoryce knaue, a drunkard, 13
lightmans, day, 84
(Lincoln’s Inn) Fields, 53
London, 30, 42, 49
lousey leuterars, vagabonds, 22
lowhinge chete, a cow, 83
lowre, money, 83, 85, 86
Lubbares, lubbers, 47
luckly, lucky, 19
Ludgate, 57
lybbege, a bed, 83
lybbet, a stick, 26
lykinge, lustful, 21
Lynx eyes, 54. (See Index to Hampole’s _Pricke of Conscience_.)
Lypken, a house to lie in, 83
make, halfpenny, 83
make (think) it strange, 41
makes, mates, 23
mammerings, mumblings, 72
manerly marian, 62
margery prater, a hen, 83
Mariner, one at Portsmouth the maker of counterfeit licences for
Freshwater mariners, 49
matche of wrastlinge, 46
maunde, ask or require, 84, 85
Messenger, Ione, an honest bawdy basket, 65
Milling of the ken, sending children into houses to rob, 67
mofling chete, a napkin, 83
mounched, eat, 72
mounch-present, one who, being sent by his master with a present,
must taste of it himself, 14
myll a ken, rob a house, 84
mynt, gold, 83
Nab, a head, 82, 86
Nabchet, a hat or cap, 82
nase, drunken, 86
Newhaven, 67
Newington, 54, 56
Nichol Hartles, a coward, 13
Northall, beggars’ inn at, 77
nosegent, a nun, 83
nouels, news, 14
Nunquam, a loitering servant, 16
nygle, haue to do with a woman carnally, 84
nyp a boung, to cut a purse, 84
Obloquium, a malapert knave, 13
occupying, holding of land, 38
of, off, 39
oysters of East Kent, 68
Palliards, description of, 4, 44; doings of, 44; list of names of,
81, 82
pannam, bread, 83
Param, milk, 83, _n._
patrico, a priest, 6, 60
paulmistrie, fortune-telling, 23
pecke, meat, 86
peddelars Frenche. _See_ Canting.
pek, meat, 83
peld pate, head uncovered, 34
pelte, clothes, 76
peltinge, ? paltry, contemptible, 20
Penner, a pen-case, 54
pens, pence, 55
pickthanke knaue, 14
pillory in Cheapside, 57
pitching of the barre, 46
pity: it pytied him at the hart, 41
poppelars, porridge, 83
porte sale, ? quick sale, 77
Portsmouth, 49
Poules, St Paul’s, 8
prat, a buttocke, 82
prating knaue, 15
pratling chete, a tongue, 82
prauncer, a horse, 83
Prigger of Paulfreys, a stealer of horses, 4
Proctour, a liar, 14; keeper of a spittlehouse, 45
PROVERBS:
although Truth be blamed, it shall never be shamed, 28
as the begger knowes his dishe, 32
don’t wake the sleeping dog, 73
God hath done his part, 48
out of sight, out of minde, 32
swete meate wyll haue sowre sawce, 72
prygge, to ride, 84
Prygger of Prauncers, description of, 42; a story of a gentleman
who lost his horse by giving it in charge for a short time to a
‘priggar,’ 43
Prygges, tinkers, 59
Prygman, one who steals clothes off hedges, and a robber of poultry, 3
quakinge chete, or red shanke, a drake or duck, 83
quaromes, a body, 82
Queen Elizabeth, 21
quier, nought, 83
Quier crampringes, bolts or fetters, 84, 86
Quire bird, one lately come out of prison, 4
quyer cuffyn, justice of the peace, 84, 86
Quyerkyn, prison house, 84, 86
rabblement, 19
rakehelles, 19
Ratsbane, 44
rechles, reckless, 15
rifflinge, 32
Rince pytcher, a drunkard, 13
Ring chopper, description of, 11
― faller, description of, 10
Robardesmen, robbers, 27. See William of Nassington’s description of
them quoted in _Notes & Queries_ by F. J. F., 1869; and _The Vision
of Piers Plowman_, ed. Wright, ii. 506, 521.
Robin goodfelow, 36
Rochester, 66
Rogeman, a receiver of stolen clothes, 3
Roger, or tyb of the buttery, a goose, 83
Roges, description of, 36; subject to beastly diseases, 37; list of
names of, 80, 81
Rogues, a story of two, who made the acquaintance of a parson at an
ale-house, and afterwards went to his house and robbed him, 37
Rome bouse, wine, 83
Rome mort, the Queen, 84
Rome vyle, London, 84
Rothered in Kent, 77
rowsey, ? rough, or frowzy, 19
Royal Exchange, 8
roylynge, travelling, 31
ruffe, rough, 33
Ruffeler, a robber of ‘wayfaring men and market women,’ 3, 29; a
story of one who robbed an old man, a tenant of Harman’s, on
Blackheath, 30
ruffian cly the, devil take thee, 84
ruffian, to the, 84, to the devil
ruffmans, woods or bushes, 84
ruff pek, bacon, 83
ruysting, roystering, 32
Salomon, an altar, or mass, 83
sawght, sought, 62
Saynt Augustyn, 24
scelorous, wicked, 20
sewerly, surely, 50
Shifters, 1
shotars hyl, Shooter’s Hill, 30
Shreeues, sheriffs, 21
Shrewd turne, ? sharp handling, hard usage, 15
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Countess of, Harman’s dedication to, 19
shrodge, shrugged, hugged, 71
Simon soone agon, a loitering knave, 13
skew, a cup, 83
Skoller, a waterman (and his boat), 54
skower the cramprings, wear bolts or fetters, 84
skypper, a barn, 83
slates, sheets to lie in, 61, 76, 77, 83
small breefe, old briefe of vacabonds, meaning Awdeley’s book, 20
smell feastes, 46
smelling chete, a nose, 82; a garden or orchard, 84
snowte fayre, fair-faced, 61
sod, boiled, 22
Somersetshire, 61
soup, chewed, to produce foaming at the mouth, 51
Spanlles, spaniel-dogs, 33
Spearwort, 44
Spice-cakes, 12
spitlehouse, 45; row in a, 45; the constable wants to take in custody
the roysterers, 46; the good wife of the house intreats him for
her guests, and while so doing the next door neighbours enter the
kitchen, and steal the supper that she was preparing, 46
squaymysh, squeamish, 55
St. George’s Fields, 54
St. Giles’s in the Fields, 54
St. Julian’s (inn in Thystellworth; Isleworth), 77
St. Quinten’s (inn near London), 77
St. Tybbe’s (inn near London), 77
stall, to make or ordain, 84
stalling to the rogue, ceremony of, 34
stampers, shoes, 83
stampes, legs, 82
Statutes, i. Edw. VI. c. iii, p. 20, _n._; xxvii. Hen. VIII. for
punishment of vagabonds, 29
staulinge ken, a house that will receive stolen wares, 32, 83
stibber gibber knaue, a liar, 14
stow you, hold your peace, 84
Stradlynge, an Abraham man, 47
strommell, straw, 83
Sturton, Lord, 48
summer-games, 47
surgeon, who strung up the dumb rogue, 58–9
Swadders and Pedlers, description of, 60
Swygman, a pedlar, 5
tempering, tampering, 70
Temple Bar, 53
‘Thank God of all,’ 67 (cp. Shakspere’s ‘Thank God you are rid of a
knave.’ _Much Ado_, iii. 3.)
the, thee, 55
Thieves, a sermon in praise of, 92
‘Three trees,’ the gallows, 31
tickle in the ear, gammon, 9
Tinkard, a beggar, 5
tiplinge[house], an ale-house, 40
tittiuell knaue, a tale-bearer, 15
togeman, a coat, 77, 82
tortylles, turtle-doves, lovers, 62
towre, see, 84, 85
trashe, goods, 77
trininge, hanging, the end of roges, 37, 84
Troll and troll by, a knave, described, 12
Troll Hazard of Trace, a knave, 12
Troll Hazard of tritrace, a knave,13
Troll with, a knave, 12
Truth, proverb as to, 28
tryninge, hanging, 84
twin’d hempe, rope and gallows, 29 (cp. Bulleyn in _The Babees Book_,
p. 240–3)
_Two Gent. of Verona_, 45
Tynckars, Harman sends notice of the stealing of his cauldron to the,
35
typ, secret, 20
typlinge houses, alehouses, 24
Vacabonde—one being caught, and brought before the justices of the
peace, promised to tell them the names and degrees of his fellows,
on condition that he escaped punishment, which being granted, he
fulfilled his promise, and Awdeley obtained the materials for his
book, 2
Vacabondes, beggerly, 1; ruflyng, 1; ‘the old briefe’ of, 60
Vagabondes, their vsage in the night, 76
Vagabonds, account of the doings of, at the funeral of a man of
worship in Kent, 22
vagarantes, 19
Vngracious, a man who will not work, 15
Vnthrift, a reckless knave, 15
vntrus, to undress, 72
Vpright man, description of, 1, 4, 31
Vpright men, list of the names of, 78, 79, 80
Vrmond, Earle of, 82
walkinge mortes, description of, 67; a story of a trick that one
played on a man who would have had to do with her, and the
punishment he received instead, 67–73
wannion, a curse, 62
wappinge, fornicating, 87
Washman, one who shams lameness, sickness, etc., 5
waste, bynge a; go hence, 84, 86
watch, the constable, 45
watche, person, 61; our watche, us, 86
Welsh rogues, 44, 57
Whistle, anecdote of the, 61–5
Whipiacke, a robber of booths and stalls, 4
Whitefriars, 51, 56
whydds, words, 84, 86
whystell, whistle, 62
whyte money, silver, 42
wilde roge, description of, 41; story of one robbing a man, of whom
he had just begged, 42
wilde roge’s reason for being a beggar, 42
windless, out of breath, 73
windshaken knaue, 66
woode, mad, 14
Wostestowe, a servant of the Lord Keeper’s, 58
wyld Dell, description of, 75
wyn, a penny, 83
yannam, bread, 83, _n._
yaram, milk, 83
yemen, yeomen, 22
ynkell, tape, 65
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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