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The Elizabethan underworld; a collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law. / The text prepared with notes and an introduction by A.V. Judges ... ; with 20 illustrations.
LIBRA PR429.R6 J8 1930b
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rogues and vagabonds.
- Criminals--Great Britain.
- Criminals.
- Crime--Great Britain.
- Crime.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--Early modern (to 1700).
- English literature.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- lxiv, 543 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, facsimiles ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930.
- Contents:
- Preface.
- Introduction.
- The highway to the spitalhouse, by R. Copland.
- A manifest detection of dice-play, by G. Walker (?)
- The fraternity of vagabonds, by J. Awdeley.
- A caveat for common cursitors, by T. Harman.
- A notable discovery of cozenage, by R. Greene.
- The second part of Cony-catching, by R. Greene.
- The third part of Cony-catching, by R. Greene.
- A disputation between a he-cony-catcher and a she-cony catcher, by R. Greene.
- The black book's message, by R. Greene.
- The black dog of Newgate, by L. Hutton.
- Luke Hutton's lamentation.
- The testament of Laurence Lucifer (being a part of The black book) by T. Middleton (?)
- The bellman of London, by T. Dekker.
- Latern and candlelight, by T. Dekker.
- O per se O, by T. Dekker.
- Martin Markall, beadle of Bridewell, by S. Rid (?)
- The counter's commonwealth, by W. Fennor.
- The song of a constable, by J. Gyffon.
- Notes to the text.
- Glossary.
- Index.
- OCLC:
- 602620
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