Another tract of the same description is noticed in Herbert's Ames (p. 885.) as printed so early as in 1565. A copy of the second edition in the Bodleian Library, possesses the following title:--"_The Fraternitye of Uacabondes. 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. Whereunto also is adioyned the xxv orders of Knaues, otherwyse called a Quartern of Knaues. Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell[CM], &c. Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdeley, dwellyng in little Britayne streete without Aldersgate. 1575._" This, although much shorter than Harman's, contains nearly the same characters, and is therefore thus briefly dismissed. An account of it, drawn up by the editor of the present volume, may be found in Brydges' _British Bibliographer_, vol. ii. p. 12. It may not be amiss to notice in this place, that a considerable part of _The Belman of London, bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the kingdom, &c._ 4to. 1608, is derived from Harman's _Caveat_. Among the books bequeathed to the Bodleian, by Burton, (4to. G.8. Art. BS.) is a copy of the _Belman_, with the several passages so borrowed, marked in the hand-writing of the author of the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, who has also copied the _canting dialogue_ just given, and added several notes of his own on the margin. FOOTNOTES: [BV] In the epistle to the reader, the author terms it "this _second_ impression." [BW] A _ruffler_ seems to have been a bully as well as a beggar, he is thus described in the _Fraternitye of Vacabondes_; (see p. 228.) "A ruffeler goeth wyth a weapon to seeke seruice, saying he hath bene a seruitor in the wars, and beggeth for his reliefe. But his chiefest trade is to robbe poore way-faring men and market-women." In _New Custome_ a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a _ruffler_. See also Decker's _Belman of London_. Sign. C. iv. [BX] "An _upright man_ is one that goeth wyth the trunchion of a staffe, which staffe they cal a Flitchm[=a]. This man is of so much authority, that meeting with any of his profession, he may cal them to accompt, and comaund a share or snap vnto himselfe of al that they have gained by their trade in one moneth." _Fraternitye of Vacabondes._ [BY] This worthy character approaches somewhat near to a shop-lifter. Decker tells us that "their apparele in which they walke is commonly freize jerkins and gallye slops." _Belman._ Sign. C. iv. [BZ] A rogue, says Burton, in his MS. notes to Decker's _Belman of London_, "is not so stoute and [hardy] as the vpright man." [CA] A person whose parents were rogues. [CB] "These be called also _clapperdogens_" and "go with patched clokes." Sign. C. iv. [CC] A _Frater_ and a _Whipiacke_, are persons who travel with a counterfeite license, the latter in the dress of a sailor. See _Fraternitye, Belman_, &c.