Poor apple girl, Gay's, 28
Prisoners! Remember the poor, 14
Pronunciation, Cockney, 31, 53, 72, 73, 74, 127-130
Pronunciation (Cockney) London _Globe_, 73
Public "Cryer", 22
Pudding, Hot, 96
Pussy's butcher, Business card of, 65, 120
Queen Anne's time, Chairs in, 108
Queen Elizabeth's time, Chairs in, 108
Rabbits, 98
Railway, Underground, 70
Railways, Inner and Outer Circle, 75
Railways, Metropolitan and District, 73
Randal (Dr.), the orange seller, 52
_Rape of Lucrece_, Heywood's, 24
Rat-catcher, 18
Remember the poor prisoners!, 14
Rolls, Hot, 96
Rowlandson's illustrations, 117
Roxburgh Collection, Cries of London, 25-33
Royal Exchange, Flower girls at the, 68
Ruddle, 16
Rumps and burrs! Buy my, 38
Rush-bearing, 100
Rush-bottomed chairs, 108
Rushes, green, 5
Ryster grene 5
Salesmen of the streets, Facetious, 52
Saloop, 35
Samphire, 98
Sandby's (Paul) London Cries, 31
Scurvy-grass, Ale, 32
Shilling for a newspaper, 68
Shrimps! Stinking, 53
Simpler, Anecdote of a, 32
Simplers, 32
Singing glasses! Buy my, 12
Small coale, Swift's reference to, 10
Smith (J. T.) _Cries of London_, 16
Soot! or Sweep O!, 64
_Spectator_--Colly Molly Puffe!, 12
_Spectator_, Cries of London, 25
Speshill 'dishun, 'orrible railway haccident!, 68
Statutes of the streets, Elizabethan, 51
Steam Launch in Venice, Du Maurier's, 72
Steele's comedy of _The Funeral_, 26
Stinking shrimps!, 53
Stones, Marking, 16
Stop thief!, 16
Street cries, Modern, 62, 64, 67-70
Street music, Regulation of, 52
Sweep your door away, mum?, 53
Swift's _Morning in Town_, 10
Swift's reference to small coale, 10
Tavern sign, Ancient 110
Taylor's _Travels of Twelvepence_, 25
Tempest's Cryes, 6
_The Funeral_, Steele's comedy of, 26
Thieves, Area sneak, 48
_Three ladies of London_ (1584), 96
Tiddy Diddy Doll, 102
Tiddy Diddy Doll's imitators, 104
Tinker, 94
Tormentor for your fleas!, 24, 121-125
Townshend, Marquis--_The Pedlars_, 29
Toy, A nameless, 54
_Travels of Twelvepence_, Taylor's, 25
Tricksters, 47, 48
_Trivia_, Gay's, 26
Troope every one!, 12
Turnips and carrots, O! Dr. Johnson's reference thereto, 43
Turnips, Cream made of, 60
Type seller, 42
Umbrellas, Early, 70
Underground Railway, 70
Under-street Cries, 70
Versification, Specimens of, in London Cries, 111-117
Wardens! Hot baked, 38
Ward's (Ned) _London Spy_ (1703), 38
Watchman, 35
Water for the Buggs!, 29, 125, 126
Waterman, The, 36
"What d'ye ack?", 24
Whistling prohibited after 9 o'clock, 51
White sand and grey sand!, 97
Wigs, The best, 36
Woolsack! I'm on the, 31
York, Cries of, 14
Young lambs to sell!, 105
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[1] On the bough.
[2] Candlewick.
[3] Rushes green.
[4] Mr. J. E. Gardner's collection of prints and drawings illustrating
London, and numbering considerably over 120,000, contains many fine
prints illustrating Old London Cries, including numerous examples of
the alterations here indicated.
[5] "The Cries of London:" Copied from rare engravings or drawn from
the life by John Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British
Museum, 1839. On inquiring at the Print Department of the British
Museum for a copy of this work, the attendant knew nothing of it, and
was quite sure the department had no such book. It turned up on a
little pressure, however, but the leaves were uncut.--_Les morts vont
vite!_
[6] See Appendix.
[7] See page 125.
[8] "The best wigs are those made in Great Britain; they beat the
French and German ones all to sticks." _The Book of Aphorisms_, by a
modern Pythagorean, 1834.
[9] Francis Grose tells us, in 1796, that some trades have from time
immemorial invoked musical assistance,--such as those of pie, post, and
dust men, who ring a bell.
My bell I keep ringing
And walk about merrily singing
My muffins.
[10] "Degeneration amongst Londoners." By James Cantlie, M.A., M.B.,
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[11] Hammersmith.
[12] See p. 29.