The London Guide for Strangers
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The London Guide for Strangers was first published in 1819, under the title (or blurb) of The London Guide, and Stranger's Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers and Pickpockets that abound within the Bills of Mortality; forming a picture of London, as regards active life, collected from the verbal communications of William Perry, and others. To which is added, a glossary of cant terms. By A Gentleman, who has made the Police of the Metropolis, an object of enquiry for twenty-two years.  It really needs no further introduction, except to say, that the methods used by criminals on the unwary had not changed much in the two centuries since Green described them in The Complete Cony-Catching (also on this site); and probably have not changed much in our day, another two centuries later.
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The Complete Cony-catching by Robert Greene

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Robert Greene (1558 - 1592) was an English dramatist, poet, pamphleteer, rake and debauchee. He appears as a minor character in both of Anthony Burgess' Elizabethan novels Nothing Like The Sun (about Shakespeare) and A Dead Man In Deptford (about Marlowe). A graduate of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he eloped with a wealthy woman whom he abandoned after having spent all her money. He then went to London, where he lived by writing, associated with whores, thieves, and low fellows of every kind, and spent money faster than he got it on drunkenness and debauchery. The "Groatsworth of Wit", also available on this site, at https://www.wattpad.com/story/2740484-a-groatsworth-of-wit-bought-with-a-million-of is his best known work, and has the first reference in print to William Shakespeare as a playwright. In addition he wrote six plays, an amount of poetry and numerous pamphlets, mostly love stories and accounts of criminals and swindlers. In the six pamphlets here collected you will learn about the tricks of cony-catchers (swindlers), nips (cutpurses), foists (pickpockets), cross-biters (men who extort money from a prostitute's clients by pretending to be her husband), lifts (shoplifters, and stealers of other unguarded goods), priggers (horse thieves), and courbers (thieves who drag goods out through the window with a long hooked pole). Based on close observation, and illustrated with stories of notable strokes, they give a great insight into the underside of queen Bess's and Shakespeare's London.

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