Coney-catching Robert Greene in a series of 1592 pamphlets, the titles of which included "The Defence of Conny-catching," in which he argued there were worse crimes to be found among "reputable" people, and "A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-catcher and a Shee Conny-catcher." Kirby Farrell wrote a book called "Cony-catching" in 1971. Virginia Woolf mentions "cony catchers" in her book "Orlando". Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice
Coney Weston Coney Weston Coney Weston is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, within the St Edmundsbury district. It is a primarily rural residential town that has dormitory town status. It is north of Ixworth and from Bury St Edmunds Coney Weston has a different meaning to other towns with the name Weston: it is not a true Weston (where the origin is from Old English "west-tun" "western farm, village or estate") but is a hybrid name, from Old Norse "konungr" "king" (cognate with Old English "cyning" "king") and Old English "tun" "farm". The name was recorded as "Cunungestuna" in