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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42225	Guzman, Hinde, and Hannam outstript being a discovery of the whole art, mistery and antiquity of theeves and theeving, with their statutes, laws, customs and practises, together with many new and unheard of cheats and trepannings.; Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; W. M. (William Melvin)	1657 (1657)	Wing G211; ESTC R23341	63,892	284

wring their necke with a sad dumpish countenance and a faire shew colour their ambitious designes with godly words And for them it is said in the Proverbe the Divell is behinde the Crosse There are others also who though they wring not the necke nor speake so much of God apply neverthelesse the jurisdiction of their offices in favour of him that giveth them most who being lap 't in long wide gownes making them to bee respected there is not a man that dare to give thē a word nor shew by any signe the evil satisfaction that they have by them but the wretched person that neither hath God in his mouth nor barke wherwith to hide himselfe if he be not very wise prudent all the persecutions of the world hang about him at once all men spit in his face and he is the marke of all the abuses in the world wherfore blame not our Art before you understand it for you should so offend all the world perhaps your selfe sith no man liveth without fault How much more if you knew what sweetnesse there is to gather the fruit where one hath not planted and to find the in gathering in his garner in his cellar himself having neither fielde nor vineyard you would even licke your fingers at it Is this a smal matter I pray you that a man riseth in the morning not having penny nor farthing nor knowing yet whence to have it for to nourish his family and yet ere night he is worth ahundred crownes knoweth not whence they came Is this a small matter in greatest sloth and necessitie to finde apparell cut and slasht without paying either for stuffe or making Is there any such Noblenesse in the world as to be a Gentleman without rents and to have other mens goods so his own as that hee may dispose of them at his will without costing him any more but to take them Doe you thinke it a small matter to be a Marchant without a stocke to gaine two hundreth for nothing without crossing the seas going to faire or market not caring if the Marchant turne banque-rupt if the yeare be barren or plentiful if wares be deare or cheape And if ye will take our trade by way of reputation or credit doth it seeme a small thing to you to finde one who will insure us our life whatsoever wee doe and to have at our becke some Iudges who save us from the lash from the Gallies from torture from the Gallowes only with a single wel-assured promise to satisfie them with the gaine of our next theft And that they do this not only for us but for our friends kindred and acquaintance Abuse not yourselfe and acknowledge that there is no life more assured in this world than ours for instead of one displeasure that wee have there are infinite pleasures and contentments to be enjoyed And lo thus much for my profession and trade * ⁎ * CHAP. IIII. To him the Thiefe relateth the life and death of his Parents and the first disgrace that befell him AS for my race you shall know that I am a man borne of a woman in a town of this world whose name I lost in a sicknesse which I had in the yeare sixe hundred and foure My father was called Peter and my mother Hope people though meane honorable and vertuous of good reputation and praise-worthy manners And as for the goods of fortune they were not so great that they were able to give bribes nor marry Orphans out of their meanes nor so meane that they obliged themselves to aske almes nor to subject themselves to any man but they were people that knew how to live and that had bread to eate and clothes to put on In all the course of their life there was nothing found that they could be reproched for nor whereof they could be reproved because they heeded no other thing particularly my mother but to keepe their honour and the good esteeme which they had gained for which and for the free doome and faire conditions of their proceedings and conversation all the world honored and loved them But as vertue is ordinarily envied and honest people persecuted there was no want of malicious and wicked people who by false and rash calumnies darkned the brightnesse and glistering of their good works the cleannes of their life They were accused I say to have robbed a Church to have spoiled the Vestrie with the ornaments and chalices and which is worse to have cut off S. Bartholomews hand who was upon an Altar which they said was of silver An accusation as malicious as false especially for my mothers part whose devotion towards the Saints was so great that when she went to Church if my father had not pull'd her out by the haire or the Sexton had not shut the doore against her there was no meanes to make her come out of the Church although shee had beene three dayes without meate and her devotion was so knowne to all the people that she never came forth to the streete but a thousand folke praied her to say some Ave Maria for women with child sicke and other afflicted persons having all of them great faith in her prayers But as there are traitors enough to condemne a just man and in this age innocency serveth to no purpose if it be not favoured for so much as the Lawes goe as it pleaseth Kings it came to passe that notwithstanding the reproaches which they gave in against the witnesses more than sufficient to refute the malice of the accusers and to manifest the innocencie of the accused they condemned them to die and together with them a brother of mine and my mothers Nephew Verily the case was strange and scandalous though false and their death unjust but whatsoever the cause I doe not envie them the profit which let them eate with their bread they shall not goe to Rome for penance for there is a God in the world that seeth all things and seeing he punisheth that he will not suffer one haire of the just to perish it belongs to him to avenge the wrong done to his servants for so I may call them yea even Martyrs sith they constantly suffered death for the love of God they being accused of faults which they had not committed A tricke finally that they being poore they were constrained to pay with their life that which they were not able with their goods I only may praise my selfe that I found some mercie with the Iudges in consideration of my young yeares and of the small experience that I had yet the favour they shewed me was a grace with sinne because Iustice left me my life with condition that I shuld be the executioner of these Martyres I was very unwilling and did all I could not to commit so execrable a crime as that is to take away their lives that had given me mine but it was impossible to excuse me but by losing my life

his complices have the third part and the Spies the fift As for the honour and respect which is due to every one there is such an order kept that no wrong is done to any one of the companie every Officer having his ranke and place appointed in all our meetings assemblies and consultations For the first are the Robbers See Cap. 7. next the Stafadours then the Grumets after these the Hobgoblins then follow the wooll-drawers the Mallets follow them and last the Apostles Cigarets Cut-purses and Caterers Over all these a kinde of Theeves beare sway called among us Liberalls whose office is to undertake some strange points as to blacke their faces with inke or kennell durt to hang Garlands of hornes at mens doores libells or such like and these are the wittyest of all the company and those who as it were indued with the best wit and invention weigh and foreseeing all the difficulties that can happen in a dangerous case None of the companie may make any quarrell noise or contentiō with another about any matter whatsoever unlesse it be fained or subtle to avoide any suspition that may be offered We may not eate twice two of us together in one and the same Tavern or vitailling house except it be once in the sev'night to th' end that if any thing come in the way to be stollen there we may breede no suspition amongst them that should see us there We are forbidden also to go together through the city or to speake familiarly one to another unlesse it be to fall a quarrelling to make some false blowe at one another to draw people together that upon the occasion of our quarrell the Cutpurses may make up their hand Every professor of the companie carrieth his badge and secret marke by which he is in an instant known of us all understanding by this order how many there are of an office in every streete part of the town So the Robbers beareal waies a glove handing and made fast by one finger The wooll drawers button their doublet by intercession that is to say Cap 7. ibids they button one and misse the next The Staffadours stroake their mustaches and their beard at every space sometimes thrusting their finger into one of their nostrils The Cut-purses have a little white marke in their hat-bands ibids The Malletes beare their cloake after a certaine fashion and finally every particular office hath its particular token by which it is known among the company When any woman of the companie is married every profession gives her five Crowns to augment her portion keeping neverthelesse such an order that she may not be married but to one of her owne trade that is to say the Daughter of a Robber with a man of the same vocation or calling And if by chance some Cut-purse should marrie his Daughter with a Robber Staffador or Grumet hee is bound to give him a hundred crowns in portion more then ordinarie because his sonne of Law is of greater and higher Office then the father is We make a vow of patience and suffering promising to be couragious and constant against torture though we be seldome put to it because as I have told you all that is salv'd with the fifth part And to the end that all the places of the towne may be sufficiently provided it is enacted that every professour that shall come newly to a place should put there some marke shewing thereby the number of Theeves which are in that part so the first that commeth layth a die in some secret corner and yet well known to those of the companie with the Ace turned upwards The second that commeth turneth the die to the deuse point the third to the trey the fourth to the quater and so the others to the sise and being come to that number the same Office stayeth in the same place because that according to our lawes we cannot be above six in one and the same place and when any one goeth away he turnes the die upon the number of theeves that remaine in such sort that they being six the first that goeth away turnes the Die to the cinque point the second to the quater the third to the trey by which number he that is behinde of the Theeves is knowne We are bound to nourish and sustaine all the creeples blinde sick and those whom their extreame old age excuseth from stealing None of us may weare cloake hat breeches doublet nor any thing else that was stollen nor sell gold silver or jewells in that towne where they were stollen under paine of a great and exemplarie punishment Wee are commanded to carry alwayes a false beard in our pocket with plaisters of sundry sorts to disguise us in an instant when occasiō shall require As concerning Religion wee are halfe Christians because that of the two principall Commandements of Gods Law we keepe one which is to love God but in no case our neighbour because we take from him that he hath Next we receive and allow of the two parts of penance which are Confession because now and then we confesse and Contrition but of the third which is satisfaction or restitution wee not so much as make mention or talke FINIS Imprimatur Thomas Weekes Februarie 5. 1637.