John Awdely, The Fraternity of Vagabonds (1575)
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Date
1575
Author
Sampson (alternate name for John Awdely ) Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Fraternitye of Vacabondes. As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as of beggerly, of women as of men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, with their proper names and qualities. With a description of the crafty company of Cousoners and Shifters. Wherunto also is adioyned the .xxv. Orders of Knaues, otherwyse called a Quartern of Knaues. Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell.
Publication place
London
Publisher
Iohn Awdeley
Transcription source
Bodleian Library; EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Summary
Includes canting language. Entered 1560-61 in the Stationers' Register (Arber I.157). Fragmentary copy survives in 1565.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
number: 3
number: 3
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 47
sample: 5 Chafe Litter. Chafe Litter is he that wyll plucke vp the Fetherbed or Matrice, and pysse in the bedstraw, and wyl neuer ryse vncalled. This knaue berayeth many tymes in the corners of his Maisters chamber, or other places inconuenient, and maketh cleane hys shooes with the couerlet or curtaines.
number: 47
sample: 5 Chafe Litter. Chafe Litter is he that wyll plucke vp the Fetherbed or Matrice, and pysse in the bedstraw, and wyl neuer ryse vncalled. This knaue berayeth many tymes in the corners of his Maisters chamber, or other places inconuenient, and maketh cleane hys shooes with the couerlet or curtaines.
Alston
IX.217-19
Schafer
1561 A
STC
994
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 11868, 11871 (1575). view record
Other editions
1565: STC 993;
1603: STC 994.5
1603: STC 994.5
Facsimiles
The Fraternitye of Vacabondes: as wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as of beggerly, of women as of men, of gyrles as of boyes ... . Westminster: n.p., n.d. view record
Modern editions
Viles, Edward and F. J. Furnivall, eds. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth: Awdeley's "Fraternitye of vacabondes" and Harman's "Caveat". NSS VI.7; Early English Text Society, Extra Series 9. London: Chatto and Windus, 1869, 1880, 1907. 17-91. 1-16. view record
Criticisms
Clark, Sandra. The Elizabethan Pamphleteers: Popular Moralistic Pamphlets 1580-1640. London: n.p., 1982. 42. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. 19-22. Dates this 1561? view record
Judges, A. V., ed. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: n.p., 1930. view record
McPeek, James A[ndrew] S[carborough]. The Black Book of Knaves and Unthrifts in Shakespeare and Other Renaissance Authors. The University of Connecticut Publication Series. Storrs, Conn.: n.p., 1969. view record
Noyes, Gertrude E. "The Development of Cant Lexicography in England, 1566-1785." Studies in Philology 38 (1941 July): 462-79. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. 19-22. Dates this 1561? view record
Judges, A. V., ed. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: n.p., 1930. view record
McPeek, James A[ndrew] S[carborough]. The Black Book of Knaves and Unthrifts in Shakespeare and Other Renaissance Authors. The University of Connecticut Publication Series. Storrs, Conn.: n.p., 1969. view record
Noyes, Gertrude E. "The Development of Cant Lexicography in England, 1566-1785." Studies in Philology 38 (1941 July): 462-79. view record
