Thus his s_er_mon beinge endyd, they gaue hy_m_ his money agayne that thay tooke frome hym, _and_ ij^s to drynke for hys s_er_mon.
[_The parts added to_ HARMAN’S CAUEAT _to make_] THE Groundworke of Conny-catching; the manner of their Pedlers-French, and the meanes _to vnderstand the same, with the cunning slights_ of the Counterfeit Cranke. Therein are handled the practises of the _Visiter_, the Fetches _of the_ Shifter _and_ Rufflar, _the deceits of their_ Doxes, _the deuises_ of Priggers, _the names of the base loytering Losels, and_ _the meanes of euery_ Blacke-Art-mans _shifts, with_ _the reproofe of all their diuellish_ practises. _Done by a Justice of Peace of great authoritie, who hath_ _had the examining of diuers of them._
_Printed at London by_ Iohn Danter _for_ William Barley, _and are to be sold at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious streete, ouer against Leaden-hall_, 1592.
[Headnote: THE GROUNDWORKE OF CONNY-CATCHING.]
Gentle reader, as there hath beene diuers bookes set forth, as warnings for all men to shun the craftie coossening sleights of these both men and women that haue tearmed themselues Conny-catchers; so amongst the rest, bestow the reading ouer of this booke, wherin thou shalt find the ground-worke of Conny-catching, with the manner of their canting speech, how they call all things in their language, the horrible coossening of all these loose varlots, and the names of them in their seuerall degrees,
_First,_ _The Visiter._ 2. _The Shifter._ 3. _The Rufflar._ 4. _The Rogue._ 5. _The wild Rogue._ 6. _A prigger of Prauncers._ 7. _A Pallyard._ 8. _A Frater._ 9. _An Abraham man._ 10. _A freshwater Marriner, or Whipiacke._ 11. _A counterfait Cranke._ 12. _A Dommerar._ 13. _A Dronken Tinkar._ 14. _A Swadder, or Pedler._ 15. _A Iarkeman & Patrico._ 16. _A demander for glimmar._ 17. _The baudy Basket._ 18. _An Autem Mort._ 19. _A walking Mort._ 20. _A Doxe._ 21. _A Dell._ 22. _Kinchin Mort._ 23. _A Kinchin Co._
All these playing their coossenings in their kinde are here set downe, which neuer yet were disclosed in anie booke of Conny-catching. { 100}
A new kind of shifting sleight, practised at this day by _some of this Cony-catching crue, in Innes or vitualling houses, but especially in Faires or Markets_, which came to my hands since the imprinting of the rest.