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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31343	The catterpillers of this nation anatomized, in a brief yet notable discovery of house-breakers, pick-pockets, &c. together with the life of a penitent high-way-man, discovering the mystery of that infernal society : to which is added, the manner of hectoring & trapanning, as it is acted in and about the city of London.		1659 (1659)	Wing C1490; ESTC R8926	25,952	45

Family though never so Noble suffers a wrent in their honour by partiscipating of the Infamy you suffer which for some ages rest dyed with scandall although never so much innocent of the crime yet those senslesse Catiffes who inherit this death by their transgressions laugh at this heavy curse as at a sport and call it pleasure to be pluck to heaven in a string and thus by the power of Sathan are they prompt onwards to laugh at their own ruine whilst what affrights others with an apprehention of horror doth rather move them with a kind of pleasing joy to delight themselves who think the more they become conformable to the Divel the nearet they approached happines but the same weakness that leads you on in confidence to those so groundless hopes may prompt you one step farther to presume as I found mercy so may you from God and men I wish to you the glorious grace I found but pray consider a particular cannot Compose a general one Swallow makes no summer know that if mercy did extend to wave heavens and earths wrath from me yet grace twice offended tribles the vengeance of a severe just Judg and for your sufferings here by death that 's but a rast of those highly birrer and ever lasting sorrows that are reserved in store for such as defile their lives with so great sinne as makes heaven execute the heat of wrath wrath as the due merit of your hainous sin which to prevent thereis onely one mesnes left and that 's contrition if there remain yet any sparks or likelihood of grace though but so much as may occasion one good thought and if that unto sin you have not made a lasting league of servitude behold your fact with a relenting eie of pity thereby to purchase ease and comfort to your sad disparing souls then happie men not that you have been base but that from sin you have retired the sanctity Times never past to mend better late then never for he that delights to persevere in sin not being able ro appeal to Christ and to his merits but with a willing greedinesse laies hold on his damnation And if no sence of things secular can convict those hardned hearts if not a temporal yet an eternal death must needs move sence of danger the one is but breath the other endlesse everlasting pain which ere it be ended is still renewed in burning lakes of brimstone that never die but burn with cruel tortures for each hainous sin where howls and hollow grones adds to the eternal weight of misery when frosts fires drownings sulphur and other the worst of punishment attend their wretched soules this is the sad period of your waies which if it work not it's desired end plecease to labour to perswade you more But on the contrary if I cannot convert you I could willingly convict you and here I could name both you and your abode but that you have no constant residence but for a night in some by-road and so away either into the West or North or sometimes into the South And as your dwellings you change so do you every day your names so that in shape in being place and name you change with every day like the mutable Camelcon but never into white Innocency And thus to inform were but to put in doubt the Inquisitive and not at all in lighten to your due apprehension CHAP. IV. An Ingenuous discovery of them to each discerning eye by infallible tokens how to know them on the Road and if robbed how surely to track them THe uncertainty of your attire and various disguises with your non-residence and changable names makes me uncapable to do what I would therefore I wil do what I can and in every lineament so pourtract you and your carriages to every man that scriously shal peruse this Treatise that with ease not difficulty he may know you as you ride and by that meanes inable him to provide for his own security or if by you robb'd let him but observe my directions and he need not question to apprehend you when your sences of danger is past and you in your thoughts secure You shall have it may be two or three of them overtake you pretend if they fear'd your strength that they were lately affronted in the Wood by eight or ten stout fellows but they beat the rogues and made them Hie to save themselves and seal this with strong oathes and by your answer sound your spirits whether valiant or no which if they find apt to be danted then they wait an opportunity to act their roguery on you and it may be somtimes they boast in drink what they have done to others as now to you and as a reward for what unwillingly you lend to them they 'l pretend to give you a word that shall protect you from the like affront again far better then your sword as Round-de-la-vera-hay The Moon shines bright or the like but these are chears and no securing powers It 's true when we were ready to seiz a prize spi'd a friend or other company coming near we used some such words to bid our company forbear a while for our own safeties sake which honest Travelers ignorant of any wrong suspected nothing whilst we by these knew what we had to do but else those words we valued not for prize and nothing else could satisfie our mindes that fought for money therefore never believe them but observe dear Country-men my better rules for your security which for your sakes I 'le take the honest pains to write in plain-wise not deceitfully BOOK III Plain instructions for the honest Traveller that he may passe in safety on the way CHAP. I. What he is to take heed unto before he begin his Jonrney DEar Countrie-men that travel on the Road the past-part of my wicked life having been consumed in sin and that sin maintained by the spoile of Passengers I seeing the wretchedness of that state find how much I am bound to satisfie the debt I owe you to the uttermost of my power which reaches to no more satissactory an act then good advise how to avoid the dangers of the road and what I spake herein is the issue of my long finful experience as thus when you carrie a charge about you let secresie conceal your money and the time of your departure in your breast for 't is a cuftome no lesse common then indiscreet when you undertake a journey to blase that undertaking amongst your reputed friends who out of seeming love drink healths to your good Journey and your safe return this glasse of friendlhip exprates the least mistrust of wrong or thought of Ill when by those means I have often known a Son betray his Father a Brother his Brother one friend another in condescending and complotting with some thievs who for his giving notice of the prize shares one quarter or more of that gain he so betrays when but for this fond

pretending to buy several Commodities now while the shop-keeper is busie in reaching down his Ware in the mean time he cleanly conveys somewhat into his codpiece after this disliking either the Commodities or price takes leave and soon finds Stallin-kens to vend his stoln goods in Some have the impudence to slip a piece of ribband or gold buttons into their sleeve looking a man in the face the while Some of them are so ventrous as in a Goldsmiths shop to swallow a gold Ring or any thing else that will but slip down to prevent the severest search in case they are suspected And indeed they seldome enter a shop in which they make not their markets before they depart In the night they stand in some by place and snatch off hats from the heads of those that passe by sometimes cloaks at other times they will when they see but a silly boy in a Godlsmiths shop blow out the candle and so catch what they can If he chance to espy a Ioseph cloak hang in a shop any thing likely to be fil'd it will go hard if it escape him neither shall any thing else that they can but touch with their bird-lime fingers Of a Bung-nibber or Cut-purse OF this sort there be as many women as men especially Whores who when they are wapping will be sure to geld the mans pocket they are excellent good at Hocus for can they put in a mans pocket but a middle and a fore-finger and say passe Praesto be gone the devil a farthing remains in his pocket a Watch they will serve in the same manner But before they nib a bung they jog the pocket either to know whether there be any money there or to jumble it all into one corner thereof that they may make but one diving when trading is bad with them two or three of them will breed a quarrel in the street when there 's a great company gathered of gaping spectators then take they the opportunity to fibb and eloy Their Exchange is Tyburne or any great Show but especially Bartholmow-fair in this last to tell how many pockets were pickt I doubt 't will almost out-passe Arithmetick my reason is by reason that Pick-pockets of late are so much increased These of late have inlarg'd their Trade since gold buttons on Cloaks have been in fashion which they will cut off from behind nay they will cut off even the very tassels of silver Hatbands thus they play at small games rather then sit out A NEW DISCOVERY OF THE HIGH-WAY THEIVES BEING A seasonable advice of one lately converted from them to Gentle-men and Travellers to avoid their Villany c. THE PROLOGUE THey who look either for a fine phrase or a sublime lofty stile from me will come as far short of their expectation as he that seeks for happinesse in this transitory World my theame and my aime being onely truth not curiosity makes me rather industrious to benefit by Instruction then pleasant by delighting the fancy with Rhetorique But as my miscarriages have rendered me odious in my own sight so in fincerity I shall endeavour to make my self hatefull in the eyes of my misdemeanor by shewing its nakednesse to the World that so I 〈…〉 may also abominate me and Inveterate enmity rend our late amity to a perpetuall discord and I become an example to others to stear their action by a scale of pitty l●st doing 〈◊〉 aways expose them as it did me to the greatest exigent Imaginable which divine providence having snatched me from I intended by its assistance to become a friend to my Country by being an enemy to my late Company and Courses which were obnoxious and exorbitant which when I embraced in the armes of an undaunted resolution I thought those my dishonest courses legitimate and far more noble then the esteemed babe of basenesse and sneaking way of borrowing arguing thus though inconsistent with honour that it was far better taking of a purse by violence from a stranger then borrowing not Intending to pay and so with a complement to rob my Friends and familiar acquaintance when the former was usually-repay'd by the Country being lost on the Rode so that many were better able to beare contributing to my wants then one or two or a few when and to which I neither promise nor with a thousand oaths sware to repay them as they that borrow most usually do thus I was and others are poor wretches deluded by Sathan who tels the Quarrellor that to affront a meek Man is noble and the Envious that revenge is sweet representing sin in its false-dresse that so it may neither be unpleasing to the Cautious nor terrible to the Fearfull but conformable to every disposition But the better to stifle and overcome these temptations let us consider first that every action hath its proper end if it be good the end will be answerable for the end though it come last it is first proposed and guideth the whole course thence it is that I giving the raines of my actions to 〈…〉 had well-nigh ended in destruction here which 〈…〉 a greater hereafter these serious thoughts hereof in 〈…〉 a conviction on my conscience that the end 〈…〉 be happy because there remaineth some thing to come after it which the spirit of truth saith is death the due wages of sin and it is want of the thoughts of the end that makes the end of so many wretched The Epicure thinks the only means to make him happy is to indulge to sensuality and pleasures taken up at any rate and the Drunkard imagines it consisteth in aboundance of wine like Bonosus of whom it was said he was not born to live but lived to losse a pot who being out-drank by one he looked on it as an infamy and therefore hanged himself for vexation of whom it was then said in division there hangs a Tankard and no man here is the way and the end Secondly that after an expiration of life there is another being to be expected an eternal state the happiness or wretchednesse whereof consists in the former consideration a due weighing that all our actions Centurin a good end which end it an eternall state the consequence of this opened my eyes to see the vanity of my villany and youthfull exorbitancies In so much that true conviction of spirit and no self end or intrest or hope of favour hath prompume on to this discovery but my wounded conscience that makes me feare the displeasure of a Deity more then death knowing in my retired thoughts that it 's my duty towards God and my Country to un●ould those secrets that may ruine violence and preserve 〈◊〉 ●●ocencie I shall therefore unlock the door and shew you the deceiveing ways acts and offences of the High-way Councels being of that horrid nature that they deserve the punishment both of body and soul CHAP. II. An absolute Defiance of all those that follow my former lewd Courses NOW you lycentious Rebels that