The mayor of Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, fared little better at his hands. This gentleman was an implacable enemy to all Mr. Carew’s subjects. He therefore, happening to be in that town, and overhearing the mayor talking to a gentleman in the street, and saying that he was going to dine with Captain Colloway, of Upton, he thought this a proper opportunity for taking some revenge of the mayor, for the many indignities he had put on his subjects. Having soon got intelligence what suits of clothes the mayor had, and understanding he had a good snuff-coloured suit, he went to his house, and informed the lady mayoress that he was a seaman under misfortunes, had met with the mayor, as he was going to dinner at Captain Colloway’s, of Upton, and his honour had sent him to her, giving him orders to receive his snuff-coloured suit of clothes from her; which the good natured gentlewoman hearing, without the least scruple, quickly brought him the coat, waistcoat, and breeches. Thus our hero, by turning his natural ingenuity to account, procured a handsome suit of clothes, while, at the same time, he was revenging himself upon his enemy; fulfilling the old proverb of killing two dogs with one stone. It is unnecessary to say, that our hero departed from Weymouth forthwith.
Mr. Carew being in Bristol, at a time when there was a hot press, wherein they not only impressed seamen, but able-bodied landmen they could any where meet with, which made some flyone way, and some another, putting the city into a great rout and consternation, he, among the rest, knowing himself to have a body of rather a dangerous bigness, he was willing to secure himself as effectually as he possibly could, greatly preferring his own ease to the interest and honour of his king. He therefore set his wife and landlady to work, who with all speed, and proper attention to cleanliness, made a great number of small mutton-pies, plum-puddings, cheesecakes, and custards, which our hero, in the ordinary attire of a female vender of these commodities, hawked about the city, crying, Plum-pudding, plum-pudding, plum-pudding; hot plum-pudding; piping hot, smoking hot, hot plum-pudding. Plum-pudding echoed in every street and corner, even in the midst of the eager press-gang, some of whom spent their penny with this masculine pie-woman, and seldom failed to serenade her with many a complimentary title, such as bitch and whore.
Arriving at Squire Rhodes’s seat, near King’s-bridge in Devonshire, and knowing the squire had married a Dorsetshire lady, he thought proper also to become a Dorsetshire man, and of Lyme, which was the place of the lady’s nativity, and applied himself to the squire and his lady, whom he met both together, giving them to understand that he was lost in a vessel belonging to Lyme. The squire and his lady gave him five shillings each, for country’s sake, and entertained him very well at their own house. This was early in the forenoon, and he wished to put off his time a little, before proceeding upon another adventure.
Going from hence, he went to a public-house,called Malston-cross, about a quarter of a mile from the squire’s; he there fell into company with Squire Reynolds, Squire Ford, Dr. Rhodes, brother to the squire, and several other gentlemen, who were met there to make happy after a hunting-match, in which they had been uncommonly successful, and were much inclined to be jovial. In the afternoon there was a terrific storm of rain, thunder, and lightning, that continued with great violence for several hours: in the midst of this tempestuous weather, he (having a great mind to clear his afternoon’s expenses) stripped off all his apparel, except his nightcap, shoes, and breeches, and went to Squire Rhodes’s. Nothing could possibly look with a more deplorable appearance than this naked and wretched spectacle, in such dreadful weather: the landlord with pity regarding his destitute appearance, fetched him a shirt, as he thought, to cover his nakedness; but upon his endeavouring to put it on, it proved to be a smock belonging to the good woman of the house, which afforded a great deal of diversion to the good squire and his benevolent lady, who happened to be looking from their window enjoying the mistake; when, calling to him, and inquiring from whence he came, he pretended to have been cast away at Bigbury-bay, during the late violent tempest, in a vessel belonging to Poole, and he was the only person on board that had escaped. Squire Rhodes ordered a fine Holland shirt, and a suit of good clothes to be given to him, as also a hearty refreshing dram; and then, kindly giving him five shillings, dismissed him with every mark of commiseration for his unfortunate condition, notin the least suspecting him to be the poor Lyme man, whom both his lady and himself had been so generous in relieving his wants in the morning. Having succeeded so much to his satisfaction in levying two contributions, in one day, on the benevolent Squire Rhodes and his lady, he quickly determined on making another trial upon their good-nature: for which purpose he retired to the nearest house which was frequented by the members of his community, where he dressed himself as a farmer, and speedily returned to the squire’s, to whose presence he was admitted. He stated that he had been a tenant on the estate of Squire H---, (a gentleman between whom and Squire Rhodes he knew there was a disagreement of long standing,) for many years, where he had reared a numerous and happy family in respectability: that about three years ago the squire had seduced his eldest daughter, a handsome girl of eighteen years, who died in giving birth to a still-born son: that his wife had died shortly after of a broken heart, and he was left to struggle through the world with a helpless family of young children: that, through bad crops and bad debts, he had fallen in arrears of his rent; and his cruel landlord had seized upon his whole stock, and turned him out of his favourite home, to become a destitute wanderer—destitute of food, shelter or clothing for himself and family. The benevolent Squire Rhodes whose ear was ever open to the tale of pity—whose heart was ever ready to relieve the unfortunate, after venting many imprecations on the hard-hearted squire, bestowed a guinea on the poor farmer.
Having obtained this third contribution from the unsuspecting squire, he returned to the public-house, where the gentlemen waited for him (for they were the principal occasion of this last adventure); and being informed how he had fared, diverted themselves exceedingly with the stratagem; and shortly after, meeting with Squire Rhodes, they discovered the various impositions that had been practised upon him, and very heartily bantered him thereupon.
Some time after this, Mr. Carew, exercising his profession at Modbury (where squire Rhodes’s father lived), among other houses made his application to Legassick’s, where he by chance was visiting. Mr. Carew knocked at the kitchen door, which being opened, he saw his old friend the squire, who was then alone, and in a careless manner swinging his cane about. As soon as he began to tell his lamentable tale, Mr. Rhodes said, “I was three times in one day imposed on by that rogue, Bampfylde Moore Carew, to whose gang you may very likely belong; furthermore, I do not live here, but am a stranger.” Mean time in comes Mr. Legassick, with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr. Carew a private wink, to let him understand that he knew him, and then very gravely inquired into the circumstances of his misfortune, as also of the affairs and inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to have sailed several times; of all which he gave a full and particular account; upon which Mr. Legassick gave him five shillings, and recommended him as a real object to Mr. Rhodes, who also made the same present; upon which Mr. Legassick burstout laughing; and, being asked the reason thereof, he could not forbear telling him, even in Mr. Carew’s presence; when Mr. Rhodes, finding himself a fourth time imposed upon by the same person, with a great deal of good nature made himself very merry therewith.
Mr. Carew being now advanced in years, and his strength beginning to fail, he was seized with a violent fever, which confined him to his bed for several weeks; on recovering he reflected how idly he had spent his life, and came to the resolution of resigning the Egyptian sceptre. The assembly finding him determined, reluctantly complied, and he departed amidst the applause, as well as the regrets of his subjects, who despaired of ever again having such a king.
Our hero returned home to the place of his nativity, but finding the air of the town not rightly to agree with him, and the death of some of his relations rendering his circumstances quite easy, he retired to the west country, where he purchased a neat cottage, which he embellished in a handsome style, and lived in a manner becoming a good old English gentleman, respected by his neighbours, and beloved by the poor, to whom his doors were ever open. Here he died, full of years and honours, regretted by all.
Having left his daughter a handsome fortune, she was married to a neighbouring gentleman of good family, by whom she had a numerous family of promising children.
We shall now conclude our true history, by observing, that we consider Mr. Carew to have as good a claim to fame and immortality as any ofthe heroes of the present age. We acknowledge he had his faults, but every body knows a perfect character is quite out of fashion, and that the authors of the present age hold it as an absurdity to draw even a fictitious hero without an abundance of faults.
As the Language of the Community of Gipseys is very expressive, and different from all others, we think we shall gratify the curious by publishing a specimen of it.
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ABRAM, naked, without clothes, or scarce enough to cover the nakedness.
Ambi-dexter, one that goes snacks in gaming with both parties; also a lawyer that takes fees of a plaintiff and defendant at once.
Alel-Wackets, blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular punishment among seamen, who sometimes play at cards for wackets, the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games.
Abram Cove, among thieves signifies a naked or poor man; also a lusty strong rogue.
Adam,Tiler, a pickpocket’s associate, who receives the stolen goods.
AirandExercise. He has had air and exercise, i.e., has been whipped at the cart’s tail; or, as it is generally expressed, at the cart’s arse.
Alls, the Five Alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the second a bishop in his pontificals; motto, I prayfor all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: fourth, a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; with the motto, I fight for all: and the fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all.
Amen Curler, a parish clerk.
Anodyne Necklace, a halter.
Arch Rogue, orDimber Damber Upright Man, the chief of a gang of gipseys.
Arch Doxy, signifies the same in rank among the female canters or gipseys.
Ard, hot.
Autumn Mort, a married woman; also a female beggar with several children, hired to excite charity.
Autumn, a church; also married.
Autumn bawler, a preacher.
Autumn cacklersorprick-ears, dissenters of whatever denomination.
Autumn divers, church pickpockets; but often used for churchwardens, overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who manage the poor’s money.
Autumn jet, a parson.
Babes in the Wood, criminals in the stocks.
Back’d, dead.
Badge Coves, parish pensioners.
Balsam, money.
Bam, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug.
Bandog, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a fierce mastiff.
Bandero, a widow’s mourning peak; also a musical instrument.
Baptised, rum, brandy, or any other spirits that have been lowered with water.
Barker, a salesman’s servant that walks before the shop, and cries, coats, gowns, &c., what d’ye buy?
Barking irons, pistols, from their explosion resembling the barking of a dog.
Barnacles, a good job, or a snack easily got; also, the irons worn by felons in gaols.
Barrel Fever, he died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking.
Battner, an ox.
Bawbee, a halfpenny.
Baudrons, a cat.
Beak, a justice of peace, or magistrate.
Beard splitter, a whoremaster, or a beadle.
Beater cases, boots.
Bellows, the lungs.
Belly cheat, an apron.
Bill of sale, a widow’s weeds.
Bing, to go, bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumvilck; shall we go to London.
Bingo, brandy, or other spirituous liquor.
Bingo boy, a dram drinker.
Bingo mort, a female dram drinker.
Bingowaste, get you hence.
Black fly, the greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson.
Bleating rig, sheep-stealing.
Blind harpers, beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
Black box, a lawyer.
Black Indies, Newcastle, from whence the coals are brought.
Black spy, the devil.
Blind cheek, the breech.
Blowen, a whore.
Bluffer, an innkeeper, or victualler.
Boarding school, Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of correction.
Bob, a shoplifter’s assistant, or one that receives and carries off stolen goods.
Bob ken, ora Brownmanken, a well furnished house.
Bone, to apprehend, seize, or arrest.
Bone box, the mouth.
Bone Darkmans, a good night.
Bone setter, a hard-trotting horse.
Booby hutch, a one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle.
Borde, a shilling.
Bouncing cheat, a bottle.
Bracket face, ugly, ill-favoured.
Brown George, an ammunition loaf.
Buck’s face, a cuckold.
Bufe, a dog.
Butt’s eye, a crown, or five shilling piece.
Bung, a purse, pocket, or fob.
Bur, a hanger-on, a dependant.
Bum bailiff, a sheriff’s officer who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a---s. Blackstone says it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour.
Bum brusher, a schoolmaster.
Bus-napper, a constable.
Bus-napper’s kenchin, a watchman.
Bye-blow, a bastard.
Calle, a cloak or gown.
Cank, dumb.
Canniken, the plague.
Cap, to swear.
Captain Queernabs, a fellow in poor clothes.
Caravan, a good round sum of money about a man.
Case, a house, shop, or warehouse.
Cassun, cheese.
Caster, a cloak.
Calfskin fiddle, a drum. To smack calfskin; to kiss the book in taking the oath. It is held by the St. Giles’s casuists, that by kissing one’s own thumb instead of smacking calfskin, the guilt of taking a false oath is avoided.
Canticle, a parish clerk.
Canting, preaching with a whining affected tone, perhaps a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who used that whining manner of expression. Also, a kind of gibberish used by thieves and gipseys, called, likewise, pedlar’s French.
Catamaran, an old scraggy woman; from a kind of float, made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving shipwrecked persons.
Catch Club, a member of the catch club; a bum bailiff.
Chanticleer, a cock.
Charactered, orLettered, burnt in the hand. They have palmed the character upon him, they have burned him in the hand.
Charm, a picklock.
Chates, the gallows.
Chats, lice.
Chanter culls, grub-street writers, who compose songs and carrols for ballad singers.
Cherubims, peevish children, because cherubim and seraphim continually do cry.
Cheat-the-devil, a dicky.
Chife, a knife, file, or saw.
Chosen Pells, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the streets and squares of London; to prevent being followed by the sound of their horses’ shoes on the stones, they shoe them with leather.
Chuck farthing, a parish clerk.
Clank napper, a silver tankard.
Clickman Toad, a watch; also, an appellation for a west-countryman, said to have arisen from the following—a westcountryman, who had never seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which, by the motion of the hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind; and, from its clicking, he named it a clickman toad.
Clowes, rogues.
Cloy, thief, robber, &c.
Cloyes, thieves, robbers, &c.
Cly, money; also, a pocket. He has filed a cly; he has picked a pocket.
Cold burning, a punishment inflicted by private soldiers, on their comrades, for any trifling offences of their mess laws; it is administered in the following manner—the prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as possible; the executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at the bottom of his trowsers—this is repeated to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both.
Cloak, a silver tankard.
Coach wheel, ora fore coach wheel, half-a-crown;a hind coach wheel, a crown.
Cobblecotter, a turnkey.
Collar day, execution day.
Colquarron, a man’s neck.
Comefa, a shirt, or shift.
Commission, a shirt.
Comfortable impudence, a wife.
Cooler, a woman.
Costard, the head.
Court card, a gay fluttering coxcomb.
Cow’s baby, a calf.
Cow-handed, awkward, not dextrous.
Crab shells, shoes.
Cramp word, sentence of death passed on a criminal by a judge:—he has just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed upon him.
Crew, a knot or gang: the canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders:—
Men.
1. Rufflers.
2. Upright Men.
3. Hookers, or Anglers.
4. Rogues.
5. Wild Rogues.
6. Priggers, or Prancers.
7. Pailliards.
8. Fraters.
9. Jarkmen, or Patricoes.
10. Fresh Water Mariner’s or Whip Jackets.
11. Drummerers.
12. Drunken Tinkers.
13. Swaddlers, or Pedlars.
14. Abrams.
Women.
1. Demanders for Glimmer or Fire.
2. Bawdy Baskets.
3. Morts.
4. Autumn Morts.
5. Walking Morts.
6. Doxies.
7. Delles.
8. Kinchin Morts.
9. Kinchin Coves.
Crookmans, hedges.
Coxy, a stupid fellow.
Crook, sixpence.
Croker, a groat, or fourpence.
Croppen, the tail of any thing.
Cucumbers, tailors.
Cuffin cove, a drunken fellow.
Cull, a fellow.
Cut his stick, run away.
Culp, a kick, or blow.
Cup hot, drunk.
Cursitors, pettyfogging attornies.
Cussin, a man.
Darby, ready money.
Dace, twopence;—tip me a dace; lend me twopence.
Dag, a gun.
Damber, orDimber, a rascal.
Dancers, stairs.
Darkmans, night.
Dash, a tavern drawer.
Dawbe, a bribe or reward for secret service.
Decus, a crown.
Degen, a sword.
Diddle, gin.
Diggers, spurs.
Dimber Damber, a top-man among the canting crew; also the chief rogue of the gang, or the greatest cheat.
Dimbermort, a pretty wench.
Doash, a cloak.
Dobin rig, stealing ribbons from haberdashers early in the morning, or late at night, generally practised by women in the disguise of maid-servants,
Doctor, milk and water, with a little rum and some nutmeg; also the name of a composition used by distillers, to make spirits appear stronger than they really are.
Doctors, loaded dice that will run but two or three chances—they put the doctors upon him; they cheated him with loaded dice.
Dodsey, a woman; perhaps a corruption of Doxey.
Downy cove, a smart fellow.
Drumbelow, a dull fellow.
Dunnikin, a necessary, or little-house.
Dunaker, a stealer of cows and calves.
Eriffs, rogues just initiated, and beginning to practise.
Eternity box, a coffin.
Facer, a bumper without lip room.
Families, rings.
Famms, hands.
Fastener, a warrant.
Fawney, a ring.
Feeder, a spoon:—to nab the feeder; to steal a spoon.
Fermerdy beggars, all those who have not the sham sores or clymes.
Ferret, a pawnbroker or tradesman, that sells goods to young spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts them without mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they perish for their debt.
Fidlam Ben, general thieves; called also St. Peter’s sons, having every finger a fish-hook.
Flag, a groat.
Flash, a periwig.
Flaybottomist, a bum-thrasher, or schoolmaster.
Flick, old-fashioned, or sly.
Flicker, a drinking-glass.
Flicking, to cut, cutting; as flick me some panea and cassan, cut me some bread and cheese.
Flute, the recorder of London, or any other town.
Flyers, shoes or boots.
Fogus, tobacco: tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe of tobacco.
Froglanders, Dutchmen.
Frummagemmed, choked, strangled, or hanged.
Furmen, aldermen.
Gaberlunzie, a beggar.
Gan, a mouth.
Gans, the lips.
Gage, a liquor pot, or a tobacco pipe.
George, a half-crown piece.
Gem, a fire.
Gentry cove, a gentleman.
Gibberish, the cant language of thieves and gipseys, called pedlars’s French, St. Giles’s Greek, and the Flash tongue: also the mystic language of Geber, used by chemists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted; iff, it isthefgibberish; ifg, theggibberish; as in the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog?
Gigg, a nose: snitchell his gigg; fillip his nose: grunter’s gigg; a hog’s snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise.
Gipseys, a set of wandering vagrants found in the country. When a fresh recruit is admitted into this fraternity, he is to take the following oath, administered by the principal maunder, after going through the annexed forms:—
First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity:
I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I will in all things obey the commands of the great tawney prince, and keep his council, and not divulge the secrets of my brethren.
I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and keep all the times of appointment, either by day or night in every place whatever.
I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of our mysteries to them.
I will take my prince’s part against all that shall oppose him, or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability: nor will I suffer him, or any one belonging to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company. Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds, margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings.
Gigger, a door.
Globe, pewter.
Glue-pot, a parson; from joining men and women together in matrimony.
Glaziers, eyes.
Glim, a dark lantern.
Glimfenders, hand-irons.
Glim, a candle.
Glimstick, a candlestick.
Gaoler’s coach, a hurdle.
Goose Riding: a goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head; which if they effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living.
Grannan gold, old hoarded coin.
Green bag, a lawyer.
Grig, a farthing.
Gropers, blind men.
Gutter-lane, the throat.
Hammer, a great lie, a rapper.
Halberhead, a silly foolish fellow.
Half nab, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss.
Half-bordesixpence.
Hams, breeches.
Hamlet, a high constable.
Hand-me-downs, second-hand clothes.
Hanktel, a silly fellow, a mere cod’s-head.
Hansan kelder, a jack in the box, the child in the womb, or a health to it.
Harman, a constable.
Harmanbeck, a beadle.
Hawk, a sharper.
Hazel gold, to beat any one with a stick.
Hearingcheats, ears.
Heaver, the breast.
Hell, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage or remnants, which are sometimes very large.
Hempen widow, one whose husband was hanged.
Henfright, those commanders and officers who are absolutely swayed by their wives.
High tide, when the pocket is full of money.
Hocus, disguised in liquor, drunk.
Hodmendods, snails in their shells.
Hoggrubber, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow.
Hop-merchant, a dancing-master.
Hum-box, a pulpit.
Humpty-dumpty, ale boiled with brandy.
Hums, persons at church.
Huskylour, a job, a guinea.
Iron doublet, a parson.
Itchland, Ireland.
Jackrum, a licence.
Jack Adams, a fool.
Jack-a-dandy, a little insignificant fellow.
Jack-in-a-box, a sharper or cheat.
Jack-at-a-pinch, a poor hackney parson.
Jacobites, sham or collar shirts.
Jack, a seal.
Jet, a lawyer
Ken, a house.
Kicks, breeches.
Kill devil, row.
Kinchin, a little child.
King’s pictures, money of any description.
Laced mutton, a woman.
Lag, last; lagging behind, to be hindmost.
Lage, water.
Lage duds, a buck of clothes.
Lambskin men, the judges of several courts.
Lansprisado, he that comes into company with only two-pence in his pocket.
Lantern.A dark lantern, the servant or agent that receives the bribe at court.
Libben, a private dwelling-house.
Libbege, a bed.
Lifter, a crutch.
Lightmans, the day, or day-break.
Line of the old author, a dram of brandy.
Little Barbary, Wapping.
Lop’d, run away; he lop’d up the dancers, he whipped up the dancers.
Loge, a watch.
Louse-trap, a comb.
Low tide, when there’s no money in a man’s pocket.
Lushy cove, a drunken man.
Maik, a halfpenny.
Mannikin, a dwarf or diminutive fellow.
Maunders, beggars.
Maundering breath, scolding.
Meggs, guineas.
Meet, to spend money.
Millclapper, a woman’s tongue.
Mist, a contraction of commission, signifying a shirt, smock or sheet.
Mishtopper, a coat or petticoat.
Moabites, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
Moon-curser, a link-boy.
Mower, a cow.
Muck, money, wealth.
Muttonmonger, a lover of women.
Mutton in long coats, women; a leg of mutton in a silk stocking, a woman’s leg.
Nab, a hat, cap, or head; also a coxcomb.
Ne’er a face but his own, not a penny in his pocket.
Nim gimmer, a doctor, a surgeon, an apothecary.
Nubbing cheat, the gallows.
Nut-crackers, a pillory.
Oak, a rich man of good substance and credit.
Ogles, eyes.
Old flicka knowing fellow.
One in ten, a parson.
Pad-the-hoof, journeying on foot.
Panum, bread.
Panter, a heart.
Pantler, a butler.
Peaches, discovers, informs.
Peeper, a looking-glass.
Peter, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag.
Peg tandrums, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead.
Penance boards, a pillory.
Penthouse nab, a very broad-brimmed hat.
Periwinkle, a peruke or wig.
Philistines, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
Porker, a sword.
Property, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat’s foot.
Prig, a thief.
Quail pipe, a woman’s tongue.
Queer cuffin, a justice of peace, also, a churl.
Rabbit suckers, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of pawnbrokers or tallymen, at excessive rates.
Rattlingcove, a coachman.
Red rag, a tongue;your red rag will never lie still, your tongue will never be quiet.
Regraters, forestallers in markets.
Ribben, money.
Rotan, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but principally a cart.
Royster, a rude roaring fellow.
Ruffin, the devil.
Ruffmans, the woods or bushes.
Rumbeck, a justice of peace.
Rumbo, a prison.
Rumboozling welts, bunches of grapes.
Rumboyled, sought after with a warrant.
Rum clank, a large silver tankard.
Rum degen, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.
Rumdropper, a vintner.
Rum ogle’s, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes.
Rum-strum, a long wig.
Rum-swag, full of riches.
Scab, a sixpence.
School butter, a whipping.
Sconce, to run in debt, to cheat.
Seeds, poor, moneyless, exhausted.
Setters, orsetting-dogs, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters to rook; also a sergeant’s yeoman, or bailiff’s follower; also an excise-officer.
Sharper, a swindler, a cheat.
Sharper’s tools, false dice.
Shot, clapped or poxed.
Shove the tumbler, whipped at the cart’s tail.
Skin-flint, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.
Smearer, a painter, or plasterer.
Smeller, a nose.
Smelling cheat, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.
Smiter, an arm.
Smug, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce.
Smite, to wipe or slap.
Snitch, to eye or see any body; the cub snitches, the man eyes or sees you.
Snout, a hogshead.
Sack, a pocket.
Shanks’s naigs, the feet.
Snacks, full share.
Son of prattlement, a lawyer.
Soul driver, a parson.
South-sea mountain, Geneva.
Sow’s baby, a pig.
Spanish money, fair words and compliments.
Spanks, money, gold or silver.
Specked wiper, a coloured handkerchief.
Spiritual flesh-broker, a parson.
Split fig, a grocer.
Splitter of causes, a lawyer.
Spoil pudding, a parson who makes his morning sermon too long.
Squeel, an informer.
Squirrish, foolish.
Stamps, legs.
Stampers, shoes, or carriers.
Stick flams, a pair of gloves.
Stoter, a heavy blow.
Strapper, a handsome woman.
Strommel, straw.
Strum, a periwig.
Stubble it, hold your tongue.
Suit and cloak, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor.
Supouch, a hostess or landlady.
Swag, a shop.
Swell cove, a man with plenty of money.
Tagmans, a gown or cloak.
Tanner, a sixpence.
Tears of the tankard, drops of good liquor that falls aside.
Thrums, threepence.
Tickler, a knowing fellow.
Tile, a hat.
Tip of the buttery, a goose.
Tip, to give or lend.
Tip’s your flipper, give us a shake of your hand.
Toggery, clothes.
Top diver, a lover of women.
Topping cheat, the gallows.
Topping cove, the hangman.
Topt, to go out sharp, to be upon one’s guard.
To twig, to disengage, to sunder, to break off.
To twig the darbies, to knock of the irons.
Track, to go.
Trees, wins threepence.
Trib, a prison.
Trine, to hang, also Tyburn.
Troch, a drunkard.
Trooper, a half-crown.
Trundles, pease.
Tumbler, a cart.
Turkey merchant, driver of turkeys.
Vampers, stockings.
Velvet, a tongue.
To tip the velvet, to tongue a woman.
Vinegar, a cloak.
Wattles, ears.
Whack, a share.
Whids, words.
Whipshire, Yorkshire.
Whoball, a milkmaid.
Whisker, a great lie.
White wool, silver money.
Whibble, sad drink.
Whiddle, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: he whiddles the whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull whiddled because they would not tip him a snack, the fellow peached because they would not give him a share: they whiddle beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves and we must make off.
Whinyard, a sword.
Whip off, to run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch: he whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow’s hat from his head.
White swelling, a woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
Witcher, a silver bowl.
Wing, a penny.
Womblety cropt, the indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch in wine or other liquors.
Wooden Ruff, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he stood in the pillory.
Word-pecker, one that plays with words, a punster.
Yam, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.
Yarmouth-capon, a red herring.
Yarum, milk, or food made of milk.
Yellow George, a guinea.
Yelper, a town-crier; also one subject to complain or make a pitiful lamentation.
Znees, frost, or frozen.
Zneesy weather, frosty weather.
[12]As it has been long a dispute among the learned and travellers, whether or no there are cannibals or man-eaters existing, it may seem something strange that we should assert there is, beyond all doubt, one of that species often seen lurking near St. Paul’s, in the city of London, and other parts of that city, seeking whom he may devour.
[58a]Hats or caps.
[58b]Pointing to the new made king.
[58c]Constables.
[58d]Justices of the Peace, or churls,
[58e]A Beggar.
printed by william walker,otley.