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A18953 A recantation of an ill led life. Or A discouerie of the high-way law With vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders. As also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe. Most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue, and practise. Written by Iohn Clauell, Gent. Clavel, John, 1603-1642. 1628 (1628) STC 5369; ESTC S105018 32,417 82

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it be left in charge with him all night Vnto his roaring Guests he giues a light Who spend full thrice as much in wine and beare As you in those and all your other cheare These inconueniences doe oft arise For want of heed and care be therefore wise ☞ Forbeare to ride vpon the Sabbath day In which God sayes Remember rest and pray As we our seruants oftentimes command When many businesses they take in hand That chiefly one by no meanes they forget Aboue the rest iust thus much in effect Imports the word Remember though our law Be not of force enough to keepe in awe The Sabbath-breaker yet God in the way Oft meets with him and giues him as a prey To high-way theeues that day they rather choose Then any other fittest for their vse For then the roads are quiet and they know None ride but those haue great affaires to doe Which to effect 't is thought they haue about them Great store of Coyne and this makes theeues misdoubt them And as the Cut-purse is in prime of play When men at Church doe most deuoutly pray So are the High-way Cutters for the Deuill Is not content to tempt them to doe euill But teaches them presumption in the Act Which well he knowes doth aggrauate the fact Lastly if you are rob'd on that high day It is not fit that then the Country pay Your money backe againe that remedy The Iudge in conscience will to you deny What reason is it men should leaue to pray To wait vpon your theeues that run away ☞ Noe ride at lawfull times and you shall meet Store of good company for you to keepe Associate though with none vnlesse with those That you finde rather willing for to loose Then haue your company for they that still Presse to be neere you though against your will Are somewhat dangerous but I will show How you shall finde if they be theeues or no Take but occasion for to make some stay Then marke if that they keepe not on their way But slacke their pace or else alight and goe Or if perchance they doe refuse to doe As I haue said iust then before your face Follow some halfe hower after a slow pace If so you ouer-take them then take heed For that 's the very tricke of theeues indeed Next of a theefe the vsuall markes be these Which as you ride you may obserue with ●ase They muffle with their cloakes or else their coate Hides all their clothes that so you may not note What sutes they haue a Handkercher they were About their neckes or Cipresse which they reare Ouer their mouthes and noses with their hand Iust at the time when as they bid you stand Perhaps since here I haue discouered this They will now leaue them off that you may misse Your obseruation be you therefore sure As soone as they come riding somewhat neere To gaze full at their faces you shall see Them turne their heads away as if so bee They had spide something on the tother side Which if they doe then keepe your distance wide But now they will not may be yet may you Haue by these meanes a full and perfect view And know them when you see them next or whither Their great bush beard and face agree together This aboue all I wish you for your good By any meanes shun him that weares a hood Beware of them that whisper and those men That are inquisitiue for surely then They but examine you that they may know By circumstance whe'r you haue coine or no. ☞ You and your friend perchance doe ride together Your company 's increased by another A seeming honest man and you are glad Where 's two to one suspition none is had You call him fellow-trauellor and he Reioyces in your honest companie About some two miles riding there o're-takes Some three of his companions then he shakes Trembles and quiuers and seemes sore afraid And cries directly friends we are way-laid If you haue charge about you let me know That I may cocke my Pistoll as I goe By those and such like words he will soone find Whether or no your Purse be richly lin'd And whil'st you thought there had been three to three Your Iudas is on 't ' other side you see ☞ Had you not need be wary iudge I pray Let me perswade you doe not ride by day With any summe you are afraid to lose But in the night but then take heed of those Base Padding Rascalls for their kill-calfe law I am not priuy to I neuer saw Them nor their actions then I cannot show How to preuent the thing I doe not know But thus much I assure you you are free From any horsmen you shall meet or see For they beleeue that none will ride at night But onely those whose Purses are too light And hardly worth the taking next they must Keepe lawfull howers for feare they through mistrust Be apprehended that 's their chiefest care And then againe I know they hardly dare Aduenture in the darke for they can spie Neither aduantage opportunitie Nor whether you haue Pistolls nor yet know Whether that you be likely men or no And you haue time your money to conuey And much more benefit by night then day But since God hath ordain'd this time to rest And not to trauell in I doe my best So to aduise you that you shall be sure What time so e're you ride to be secure ☞ This is a generall rule and obseruation Your high-way theeues doe alwaies keepe their station Vpon your greatest roads that out of those That do passe by they may both picke and choose And so they cull the likeliest out of many But on your petty By-roads where scarce any Are wont to trauell they nere vse to bee You may be safe from any ieopardie If here you coast which I aduise you to Rather then on your great high roads to go ☞ But aboue all which way so e're you ride A Butts length distance at the least diuide Your selues from one another so keepe on For I assure you they nere set vpon A scattered troope for feare of somes escaping Which may endanger their immediate taking Besides their company they doe diuide And set at seuerall stands and should you ride All in a cluster they will sally out Before behinde and compasse you about Now if that following they attempt you spie Their drift and resolution presently By their deuision and haue time to shun The thing intended ere it be begun Besides they dare not doe but altogether That they may be at hand with one another To helpe where there 's occasion say they should Aduenture desperately they neuer could Bring you together nor aside the way Without much trouble and a greater stay And peraduenture ere halfe this be done Vnto your rescue there are others come Now I coniure you that ride by the while Let neither threats nor faire words you beguile Nor yet diswade from yeelding your