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A notable discouery of coosenage. : Now daily practised by sundry lewd persons, called connie-catchers, and crosse-byters. Plainely laying open those pernicious sleightes that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion. ... With a delightfull discourse of the coosenage of colliers

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1591.
Call number: 14113
Creator: Greene, Robert (1558-1592)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Wolfe, John, (-1601,)
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A notable discouery of coosenage. : Now daily practised by sundry lewd persons, called connie-catchers, and crosse-byters. Plainely laying open those pernitious sleights that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion. Written for the general benefit of all gentlemen, citizens, aprentises, countrey farmers and yeomen, that may hap to fall into the company of such coosening companions. With a delightfull discourse of the coosnage of colliers
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The second part of conny-catching. : Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. ... R.G
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The blacke bookes messenger. : Laying open the life and death of Ned Browne one of the most notable cutpurses, crosbiters, and conny-catchers, that euer liued in England. Heerein hee telleth verie pleasantly in his owne person such strange prancks and monstrous villanies by him and his consorte performed, as the like was yet neuer heard of in any of the former bookes of conny-catching
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Perimedes the blacke-smith, : a golden methode, how to vse the minde in pleasant and profitable exercise: wherein is contained speciall principles fit for the highest to imitate, and the meanest to put in practise, how best to spend the wearie winters nights, or the longest summers euenings, in honest and delightfull recreation: wherein we may learne to auoide idlenesse and wanton scurrilitie, vvhich diuers appoint as the end of their pastimes. Heerein are interlaced three merrie and necessarie discourses fit for our time: with certaine pleasant histories and tragicall tales, which may breed delight to all, and offence to none
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Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft: : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars; and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise; their flying in the air, &c. To be but imaginary erronious conceptions and novelties; wherein also, the lewde unchristian practises of witchmongers, upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious people in extorting confessions, by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected. Also the knavery and confederacy of conjurors. The impious blasphemy of inchanters. The imposture of soothsayers, and infidelity of atheists. ... The horrible art of poisoning and all the tricks and conveyances of juggling and liegerdemain are fully deciphered. ... Whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c. all written and published in anno 1584. by Reginald Scot, Esquire
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A notable discouery of coosenage. : Now daily practised by sundry lewd persons, called connie-catchers, and crosse-byters. Plainely laying open those pernicious sleightes that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion. ... With a delightfull discourse of the coosenage of colliers

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A disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher, : whether a theefe or a whoore, is most hurtfull in cousonage, to the common-wealth. Discouering the secret villanies of alluring strumpets. With the conuersion of an English courtizen, reformed this present yeare, 1592. R.G

The second part of conny-catching. : Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. ... R.G