Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Sermon, &c.; Edited by Edward Viles and Frederick James Furnivall; Authored by John Awdeley (flourished 1559–1577), Thomas Harman (active 1567), and Parson Haben (or Hyberdyne). Published in 1869 for the Early Engli...
¶ The last Sommer, Anno domini .1566, being in familiare talke with a walking Mort that came to my gate, I learned by her what I could, and I thought I had gathered as much for...
7. Part 7++{ As Sommerset shyre, Wylshire, Barke shyre, Oxforde shyre, Harfordeshyre, Myddilsex, Essex, Suffolke, Northfolke, Sussex, } Surrye, and Kent, as the cheyfe and best shyres of...
8. Part 8++A Wilde Roge is he that is borne a Roge: he is a more subtil and more geuen by nature to all kinde of knauery then the other, as beastely begotten in barne or bushes, and from...
3. Part 3‘Because 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 shew h...
13. Part 13I greatly merve[l~l] _tha_t any man wy[l~l] p_re_sume to dysprase theverie, _and_ thynke the dooer_es_ therof to be woorthy of deathe, consyderinge itt is a thynge that cu_m_ith...
2. Part 2“In the 16th year of K. Henry VII. John Ellam alienated it (the seat of Ellam) to Henry Harman, who was then Clerk of the Crown,[10] and {x} who likewise purchased an estate cal...
6. Part 6I thought it good, necessary, and my bounden dutye, to acquaynte your goodnes with the abhominable, wycked, and detestable behauor of all these rowsey, ragged rabblement of rake...
1. Part 1Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Sermon, &c.; Edited by Edward Viles and Frederick James Furnivall; Authored by John Awdeley (flourished 1559–1577),...
9. Part 9“What is the Kepars name of the house?” “Hys name is,” quoth hée, “Iohn Smith.” “Then,” quoth I, “hée must vnderstande of thy dysease; yf thou hadest the same for the tyme thou...
4. Part 4‘A pox o’ these pretenders! to wit, your _Three Cranes_, Mitre and Mermaid men! not a corn of true salt, not a grain of right mustard among them all!’—_Bartholomew Fair_, act i....
12. Part 12Iames Barnard. Iohn Myllar. Iohn Walchman. Iohn Iones. Iohn Teddar. Iohn Braye. Iohn Cutter. Iohn Bell. Iohn Stephens. Iohn Graye. Iohn Whyte. Iohn Rewe. Iohn Mores. Iohn a Farn...
10. Part 10¶ A Demaunder for glymmar came vnto a good towne in Kente, to aske the charitie of the people, hauinge a fayned lycens aboute her that declared her misfortune by fyre, donne in...
5. Part 5A Ryng faller is he that getteth fayre copper rings, some made like signets, & some after other fashio_n_s, very faire gylded, & walketh vp and down the streetes, til he spieth...
14. Part 14PROVERBS: 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...