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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81381	The devils cabinet broke open: or a new discovery of the high-way thieves. Being a seasonable advice of a gentleman lately converted from them, to gentlemen and travellers to avoyd their villanies. Together with a relation of the laws, customes, and subtilties, of house-breakers, pick-pockets, and other mecanick caterpillars of this nation. As also, the apprehension and imprisonment of the hang-man of the City of London.		1657 (1657)	Wing D1224; Thomason E927_4; ESTC R207600	25,923	48

Sabbath day HE that expects a blessing from the Father of blessings above must so behave himself in the eyes of Heaven whilst on earth that he must live here as if he were there already and the only way so to do is to stear our actions by Gods command which saith Keep holy my sabbath-Sabbath-day in which wee ought to remember Gods rest from labour and rest our selves from sin for when wee come short of this Gods love and protection goes so far beyond us that wee can feel no joy in that dark night which is out of his presence which made Moses say Except thou O God go along with us let us not go hence thence it is that few which Travell on this day escape the hands of thievs for they know none ride at that time but on great and urgent business and that can scarse be don without great store of Coin so that if they once are seen they sure are robb'd imediately and though the Countrie are injoyned to paie what you shall lose by daie yet not on this because it is a daie of rest and as you are remediless being robb'd so helpless before for there is no Companie to aid the honest Traveller as at other times CHAP IV. How to know a Thief from an honest man BEe sure on the Road to associate with none but such as you find inclin'd rather to leave your company then keep it for such as press to be near you though against your will are very dangerous but I 'le presently inform you how to know if they be Thievs or not Take occasion to make some staie then note whether they staie or keep their pace or else alight and go on foot that you may overtake them follow some half an hour after a slow pace and if you overtake them take heed for that 's the surest symptome of a Thief The other usual marks of Thievs bee these which as you ride you may discern so plain that you need not doubt the truth of what you think They muffle their faces with their cloaks or else their cloak or coat hides all their cloaths they have a hand-kercher or scarfe which with their hand they 'l rear up to their eies over their faces just when they bid you stand And if by occasion of my discoverie they leav off this that you may misse your observation besure so soon as they come somewhat near you fix your eie full in their face and you shall see them turn their faces on one side which if they do then keep you distantce ride from them and mark whether their face and beards agree together are not counterfeit and above all things shun him that rides in a Mountier-Cap and such as whispers oft and are inquisitive after your businesse or what your imploiments are for 't is to know what you have about you CHAP V. Shewing how dangerous it is to grow familiar with any stranger upon the Way WHen you take your Journie whither the occasion calls you with a friend you passe not far before your companie is increased by a third when there is two to one there is no fear of him being alone before you call him fellow-traveller and joie in his company and hee in yours but before you have rid 10 miles together on your way he overtakes some three more of his Company then he shakes and tremble and seems afraid and cries Directly friends we are fore-laid if ye have Charge about you let me know 't wee 'l fight it out if we have nought to lose we were best yield By these like words hee 'l quickly find whether the prize be rich and whilst you thought there had been three to three there 's four to two If they find you armed then one who they find fittest for the work they cloath in Russet like a Country-bore in his high-shoo's with twists of Hay instead of Boots a goad in his hand riding aside upon a saddle made of a wispe of straw who rides cheek by joul with you and causes mirth by his most simple talk you not so much as think he is capable of hurt but when he hath brought you into their snare he seizes one and your new fellow-traveller the other the rest com in and then it is in vain to strive for nothing lesse then your money will ransome you out of their hands CHAP VI How when and where to ride THose so many prodigious ways to rob the Innocent bids every man be warie how and when he rides and where if hee have any charge about him let mee advise you not to ride by day but by night but for those base sheep-stealing punie rogus that hazard their necks for a Noble I am unacquainted with their actions therefore I do not undertake to shew their deceits but for those Cutters on the road I can assure you you are free from any horsman whatsoever for 't is their rule that surely none by night will ride that are worth robbing Next they must keep civill hours for fear that through mistrust they are apprehended therefore it 's their chief care to take their Inn betimes and more they hardly dare adventure in the dark because they cannot see either your dangerous defences or their own advantages or spie pistols or other private weapons and you have time your mony to convey from them and divers other advantages the day denies but since this is ordained for rest I can say no more but 't is my best advice to keep yom from the dangers of the road and 't is a general rule with high-way-men to keep their station upon the greatest roads that of those number which passe by they may select such as they think are richest prize but on your petty rodes where scarc any use to pass they never use to come there you may passe secure which I advise you choos if possible you can rather then on great reads But 't is a foolish custome you have gotten when you ride by any place that commonly speaks danger you bussle up together side by side which is most commonly your overthrow but take my counsel here when e're you ride in fear especially ride far asunder a Buts length at least and then bee sure they will never attempt to rob you when your stragling order will give some of you leave undoubtedly to escape and to raise the Countrie in their pursuit Besides their Company is set in several parties when should you ride in a cluster they will surely sallie out and seiz their purchase when if they should fall upon a stragling partie before they can do any thing it 's strange but rescue comes which easily will make the Cutters flie CHAP. VII If hee bee beset I Have thus trac'd them in every meander of their sinful courses whereby to discover them to you that you may avoid them it shall be my next work to instruct you how to behave your self if unhappily you are beset Look not as if

dark words to that effect that are palpable grounds for to suspect them and then they will ask whose Horse is that and what is the owner that stands there what function is their Master what manner of men whither they travell how far and when So by his answer they surmise which will be the richest purchase And secondly if you note their Clokebags they are empty onely they carry them to make a shew And then thirdly when the Chamberlain has ushured them to their Chamber he strait is sent away but let him hearken and if they are surely Thieves t is ten to one but they fall to share what prize they have got that day and let him prie narrowly into their Chamber and he shall see them share as well as hear the money and every one shall take what is his lot this they never defer if they have had any purchase lest he that hath the purse should cheat the rest this done they hug each other and then they knock in hast complaining at his negligence that should attend and call for Sack and then they want my Hosts company whom with the highest strain of Complement they salute and bid him welcome but if my Host mark their discourse he may conjecture much and know what men they are as also by the saucy carriage of their men and if their severall Names you do inquire injoyn your servants to doe the like and you shall soon perceive they have more Names then one a piece and when they are at supper let some one hastily knock at your gate and bid him that attends observe their carriage then and he shall see them start as in a fearfull maze and stare each other in the face with gastly looks and if you are in the Chamber ask what Officers are those who doe they look for Or if forth from them ask aloud that they may hear what would Mr. Constable have who doth he seek or what is the Constable mad to knock so hastily or the like and if they seem much frighted bid them not fear none shall come up or offer him that wrong to search his house so to disparage him for he has no guests but honest Gentlemen and if they command him he will use his authority that none shall enter there by this you may prie into their private thoughts so far that they will confess something and reply they shall be much ingaged for your succour and then you may use your own discretion And you may see by their needlesse stay their disregard of time what they expect for they but bait to stand and gaze what purchase they can see go by and when they have spied a likely money booty passe by them they pretend immediate businesse calls them to be gone And when they come to take up Inne to lodge they commonly come in divided and come in several companies to frustrate the Hue and Cry as to their number besides if one part be surprized the other may escape and when the residue comes in they seem as strangers and of mine Host they will enquire what their Companions are and what Country-men whether he know them and if they find he hath a jealousie or suspect either of them they will presently will some businesse to be gone with speed but if for honest Travilers you take them as it is like you may in your kitchen they doe meet by seeming chance they as mear strangers one another salute and drinking there together ere they part they become familiarly acquainted and conclude to sup together when if you mark them well you shall find by their behavior that they are not strangers but bosome friends there they imbrace rejoyce and praise their plot and laugh at mine Host that he suspect them not The fairest Innes they usually frequent presuming that they will not so much disparage mine Host as to make search among his guests which commonly are persons of account Thus have I laid open their devises and deceits that so the honest Traveller may escape their hand and they fall into the hands of justice thereby indeavouring to repaire the wrongs my Country hath suffered by indeavouring to prevent others from living in the like sin and so subvert sin that would raise its own dominion by their fall and ruine to which end that it may become effectuall the Lord assist my indeavours to discover and others by this discovery to apprehend them and that apprehension expose them to the Law of justice if they reject the Law of mercy Some very materiall Relations of certain passages concerning those who are lesse noble in their way of villany then the Cutters on the road known by the Names of Housebreakers and Night-robbers with many of their devices laid open by a friend to honesty and an enemy to their deceit BEing by a serious consideration convinced how advatagious to a publick good the discovery of every evill is and finding that of Robberies to be of the greatest magnitude my own thoughts prompt me on readily to set a helping hand to the writing out of so eminent an evill as that practised by such as make a trade of sin whose wages is death if once subjected to Law and Justice and to the stopping of that Torrent whose streams produce a double prejudice Destruction to him that robs whose gain in the end is losse and no small damage to him that is robbed who oft times is thereby undone Therefore I shall indeavour to put a period to both by in deavoring to discomfeit the first and instruct the other so far forth as the best of my inquisitive search can accomplish either by report or History and so to doe I shall first present unto your perusall what my ears presented unto my Intelects the last Sessions in the Old Bayly concerning a Robbery acted within the County of Middlesex which when providence led me thither one afternoon I heard there Examined before that Court of Judicary which was thus The most subtle craft of a notable Thiefe in Robbing a house in Shoreditch in October 1657. ON the Wednsday before the said Robbery was done came unto the house of an ancient couple whose many past careful years had competently provided for their age two or three stout lusty fellows to drink a cup of bear for the said aged people kept a kind of a vitling house whose then in tentions without question were either to act or to prepare for action of a Robbery there as the people did in part mistrust but seeing no advantage answerable to their desires for that time they departed and on the Friday next following they came again diligently noting all particulars and viewed with so strict an observation the strength of the house and asked some such doubtfull questions that the peoples jealousies became downright fears or rather assurances that they intended evill but their just fears made them so observantly to heed their carriages that no opportunity could crown them with their wished for