John Awdeley: 2 books

This volume includes complete works by John Awdeley, Thomas Harman, William Hazlitt, and others. The first work, “The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth, itself, is a collection that includes “Fraternitye of Vacabondes,” by John Awdeley, and “Caveat,” by Thomas Harman,...

If the ways and slang of Vagabonds and Beggars interested Martin Luther enough to make him write a preface to the Liber Vagatorum[1] in 1528, two of the ungodly may be excused for caring, in 1869, for the old Rogues of their English land, and for putting together three of the earliest tracts about them....