Part 17

Nearly every poor man's market does its Sunday trade. For a few hours on the Sabbath morning, the noise, bustle, and scramble of the Saturday night are repeated, and but for this opportunity many a poor family would pass a dinnerless Sunday. The system of paying the mechanic late on the Saturday night--and more particularly of paying a man his wages in a public-house--when he is tired with his day's work, lures him to the tavern, and there the hours fly quickly enough beside the warm tap-room fire, so that by the time the wife comes for her husband's wages, she finds a large portion of them gone in drink and the streets half cleared, thus the Sunday market is the only chance of getting the Sunday's dinner.

Of all these Sunday morning markets, the Brill, perhaps, furnishes the busiest scene; so that it may be taken as a type of the whole.

The streets in the neighbourhood are quiet and empty. The shops are closed with their different coloured shutters, and the people round about are dressed in the shiny cloth of the holiday suit. There are no "cabs," and but few omnibuses to disturb the rest, and men walk in the road as safely as on the footpath.

As you enter the Brill the market sounds are scarcely heard. But at each step the low hum grows gradually into the noisy shouting, until at last the different cries become distinct, and the hubbub, din, and confusion of a thousand voices bellowing at once, again fill the air. The road and footpath are crowded, as on the over-night; the men are standing in groups, smoking and talking; whilst the women run to and fro, some with the white round turnips showing out of their filled aprons, others with cabbages under their arms, and a piece of red meat dangling from their hands. Only a few of the shops are closed; but the butcher's and the coal shed are filled with customers, and from the door of the shut-up baker's, the women come streaming forth with bags of flour in their hands, while men sally from the halfpenny barber's, smoothing their clean-shaved chins. Walnuts, blacking, apples, onions, braces, combs, turnips, herrings, pens, and corn-plasters, are all bellowed out at the same time. Labourers and mechanics, still unshorn and undressed, hang about with their hands in their pockets, some with their pet terriers under their arms. The pavement is green with the refuse leaves of vegetables, and round a cabbage-barrow the women stand turning over the bunches, as the man shouts "Where you like, only a penny." Boys are running home with the breakfast herring held in a piece of paper, and the side-pocket of an apple man's stuff coat hangs down with the weight of halfpence stored within it. Presently the tolling of the neighbouring church bells break forth. Then the bustle doubles itself, the cries grow louder, the confusion greater. Women run about and push their way through the throng, scolding the saunterers, for in half-an-hour the market will close. In a little time the butcher puts up his shutters, and leaves the door still open; the policemen in their clean gloves come round and drive the street-sellers before them, and as the clock strikes eleven the market finishes, and the Sunday's rest begins."

As it was in the beginning of our book and in the days of Queen Elizabeth:--

"When the City shopkeepers railed against itinerant traders of every denomination, and the Common Council declared that in ancient times the open streets and lanes had been used, and ought to be used only, as the common highway, and not for the hucksters, pedlars, and hagglers, to stand and sell their wares in"--

so it is now, in the Victorian age, and ever will be a very vexed question, and thinking representative men of varied social positions materially differ in opinion; some contending that the question is not of class interest but that of the interest of the public at large; some argue in an effective but perfectly legal and orderly manner for the removal of what they term a greivous nuisance; others ask that an industrious and useful class of men and women should be allowed their honest calling. They protest against the enforcement of an almost obsolete statute which conduces to the waste of fruit, fish, and vegetables, in London and large towns, which practically maintains a trade monopoly, and discourages an abundant supply. They claim for the public a right to buy in the cheapest market, and plead for a liberty which is enjoyed unmolested in many parts of the kingdom, and protest against a remnant of protectionist restriction being put into force against street-hawking.

By the side of this temperate reasoning, let us place the principal arguments which are so often reiterated by aldermen, deputies, councillors, vestrymen, and others, when "drest in a little brief authority," and come at once to the _gravamen_ of the charge against the hawkers, which we find to consist in the nuisance of the street cries.

London, as a commercial city, has numbers of visitors and residents to whom quiet is of vital importance. The street cries, it is alleged, constitute a nuisance to the public, particularly to numbers of day-time-alone occupants, to whom time and thought is money. It is the same thing repeated with many of the suburban residents, in what is generally known as quiet neighbourhoods. Discounting duly the rhetorical exaggeration, it is to be feared the charge must be admitted. Therefore, the shopkeepers argue, let us put down the hawking of everything and everybody. But this does not follow at all. Not only so, but the proposed remedy is ridiculously inadequate to the occasion. Admit the principle, however, for the sake of argument and let us see whither it will lead us. At early morn how often are our matutinal slumbers disturbed by a prolonged shriek, as of some unfortunate cat in mortal agony, but which simply signifies that Mr. Skyblue, the milkman, is on his rounds. The milkman, it is evident, must be abolished. People can easily get their breakfast milk at any respectable dairyman's shop, and get it, too, with less danger of an aqueous dilution. After breakfast--to say nothing of German bands and itinerant organ grinders--a gentleman with a barrow wakens the echoes by the announcement of fresh mackerel, salmon, cod, whiting, soles or plaice, with various additional epithets, descriptive of their recent arrival from the sea. The voice is more loud than melodious, the repetition is frequent, and the effect is the reverse of pleasing to the public ear. Accordingly we must abolish fish hawking: any respectable fishmonger will supply us with better fish without making so much noise over it; and if he charges a higher price it is only the indubitable right of a respectable tradesman and a ratepayer. Then comes on the scene, and determined to have a voice--and a loud one, too, in the morning's hullabaloo, the costermonger--Bill Smith, he declares with stentorian lungs that his cherries, plums, apples, pears, turnips, carrots, cabbages, _cow_cumbers, _sparrow_-grass, _colly_-flow-ers, _inguns_, _ru-bub_, and _taters_, is, and allus vos rounder, sounder, longer, stronger, heavier, fresher, and ever-so-much cheaper than any shopkeeping greengrocer as ever vos: Why? "Vy? cos he don't keep not no slap-up shop vith all plate-glass vinders and a 'andsom sixty-five guinea 'oss and trap to take the missus and the kids out on-a-arternoon, nor yet send his sons and darters to a boarding school to larn French, German, Greek, nor playing on the pianoforte." All this may be very true; but Bill Smith, the costermonger, is a noisy vulgar fellow; therefore must be put down. Mrs. Curate, Mrs. Lawyer, Mrs. Chemist, and Miss Seventy-four must be taught to go to the greengrocer of the district, Mr. Manners, a highly respectable man, a Vestryman and a Churchwarden, who keeps:--

PLATE, WAITERS, AND LINEN FOR HIRE. N.B.--EVENING PARTIES ATTENDED.

As the morning wears on we have:--"I say!--I say!! Old hats I buy," "Rags or bones," "Hearthstones," "Scissors to grind--pots, pans, kettles or old umbrellas to mend," "Old clo! clo," "Cat or dog's meat," "Old china I mend," "Clothes props," "Any old chairs to mend?" "Any ornaments for your fire stove," "Ripe strawberries," "Any hare skins,"--"rabbit skins," "Pots or pans--jugs or mugs," "I say, Bow! wow! and they are all a-growing and a-blowing--three pots for sixpence," and other regular acquaintances, with the occasional accompaniment of the dustman's bell, conclude the morning's performance, which, altogether is reminiscent of the "Market Chorus" in the opera of _Masaniello_; and if the public quiet is to be protected, our sapient Town Councillors would abolish one and all of these, dustman included. One of the latest innovations upon the peace and happiness of an invalid, an author, or a quiet-loving resident, is the street vendor of coals. "Tyne Main," or "Blow-me-Tight's," Coals! "C-o-a-l-s, _one and tuppence a underd--see'em weighed_." This is the New Cry. Small waggons, attended by a man and a boy, go to our modern railway sidings to be filled or replenished with sacks containing 56 lbs. or 112 lbs. of coals, and then proceed to the different suburban quiet neighbourhoods, where the man and boy commence a kind of one done the other go on duet to the above words, which is enough to drive the strongest trained one crazy. All the great coal merchants seem to have adopted this method of retailing coals, and have thus caused the almost total abolition of coal sheds, and the greengrocer and general dealer to abandon the latter part of his calling. Our afternoon hours, after the passing of the muffin bell, are made harmonious by public references to shrimps, fine Yarmouth bloaters, haddocks, periwinkles, boiled whelks, and water_creases_, which are too familiar to need description; and our local governors in their wisdom would bid us no longer be luxurious at our tea, or else go to respectable shops and buy our "little creature comforts." Professing an anxiety to put down street cries, our police persecute one class out of a multitude, and leave all the rest untouched. It is not only an inadequate remedy, but the remedy is sought in the wrong direction. The fact is, that the street noises are an undoubted evil, and in the interests of the public, action should be taken not to put them down, but to regulate them by local bye-laws, leaving the course of trade otherwise free. It is a plan adopted in most of the greater towns which have in any way dealt with the subject.

THE DEMONS OF PIMLICO.

[From _Punch_.]

Edwin is a Young Bard, who has taken a lodging in a Quiet Street in Belgravia, that he may write his Oxford Prize Poem. The interlocutors are Demons of both Sexes.

EDWIN (composing). Where the sparkling fountain never ceases-- _Female Demon._ "_Wa-ter-creece-ses!_"

EDWIN. And liquid music on the marble floor tinkles-- _Male Demon._ "_Buy my perriwinkles!_"

EDWIN. Where the sad Oread oft retires to weep-- _Black Demon._ "_Sweep! Sweep!! Sweep!!!_"

EDWIN. And tears that comfort not must ever flow-- _Demon from Palestine._ "_Clo! Clo!! Old Clo!!!_"

EDWIN. There let me linger beneath the trees-- _Italian Demon._ "_Buy, Im-magees!_"

EDWIN. And weave long grasses into lovers' knots-- _Demon in white apron._ "_Pots! Pots!! Pots!!!_"

EDWIN. Oh! what vagrant dreams the fancy hatches-- _Ragged Old Demon._ "_Matches! Buy Matches!_"

EDWIN. She opes her treasure-cells, like Portia's caskets-- _Demon with Cart._ "_Baskets, any Baskets!_"

EDWIN. Spangles the air with thousand-coloured silks-- _Old Demon._ "_Buy my Wilks! Wilks!! Wilks!!!_"

EDWIN. Garments which the fairies might make habits-- _Lame Demon._ "_Rabbits, Hampshire Rabbits!_"

EDWIN. Visions like those the Interpreter of Bunyan's-- _Demon with a Stick._ "_Onions, a Rope of Onions!_"

EDWIN. And give glowing utterances to their kin-- _Dirty Demon._ "_Hare's skin or Rabbit skin!_"

EDWIN. In thoughts so bright the aching senses blind-- _Demon with Wheel._ "_Any knives or scissors to grind!_"

EDWIN. Though gone, the Deities that long ago-- _Grim Demon._ "_Dust Ho! Dust Ho!!_"

EDWIN. Yet, from her radiant bow no Iris settles-- _Swarthy Demon._ "_Mend your Pots and Kettles!_"

EDWIN. And sad and silent is the ancient seat-- _Demon with Skewers._ "_Cat's M-e-a-t!_"

EDWIN. For there is a spell that none can chase away-- _Demon with Organ._ "_Poor Dog Tray!_"

EDWIN. And a charm whose power must ever bend-- _Demon with Rushes._ "_Chairs! Old chairs to mend!_"

EDWIN. And still unbanished falters on the ear-- _Demon with Can._ "_Beer! Beer, any Beer!_"

EDWIN. Still Pan and Syrinx wander through the groves-- _She Demon._ "_Any Ornaments for your fire stoves!_"

EDWIN. Thus visited is the sacred ground-- _Second Demon with Organ._ "_Bobbing all around!_"

EDWIN. Ay, and for ever, while the planet rolls-- _Demon with Fish._ "_Mackerel or Soles!_"

EDWIN. Crushed Enceladus in torment groans-- _Little Demon._ "_Stones! Hearthstones!_"

EDWIN. While laves the sea, on the glittering strand-- _Third Demon with Organ._ "_O, 'tis hard to give the hand!_"

EDWIN. While, as the cygnet nobly walks the water-- _Fourth Demon with Organ._ "_The Ratcatcher's Daughter!_"

EDWIN. And the Acropolis reveals to man-- _Fifth Demon with Organ._ "_Poor Mary Anne!_"

EDWIN. So long the presence, yes, the MENS DIVINA-- _Sixth Demon with Organ._ "_Villikins and his Dinah!_"

EDWIN. Shall breathe whereso'er the eye shoots-- _Six Dirty Germans with_-- "_The overture to Freischutz!_"

Here--EDWIN GOES MAD.

AND OUR WORK COMES TO A TIMELY

END.

INDEX.

Addison, on London Cries, 118

Adelphi Theatre, The, 70

Aldersgate--Aldgate, 17

Ale and Wine, 6

Alexander Gell, 6

Annibale Carracci, 1

Alsatia--Its Notoriety, 26

Archers,--The City, 20

Attic-Poet, The, 146

Babies--Male and Female, 76

Bags of Mystery!, 127

Band-Cuffe-Ruffe, 71

Bankside, 22, 23, 24

Bards of Seven Dials, 161

Barrow-woman, The, 112

Bartholomew Bird, A, 76

" Fair--_see_ Ben Jonson.

Bay Cottage, Edmonton, 137

Baynard's Castle, 25

Beau-Trap, What, 154

Beaumont and Fletcher, 34

Bellman of London &c., 49, 50, 51, 52, 53

Bellman's Merry Out Cryes, 52

" Song, A, 50

" Treasury, The, 52

" Verses, 51, 53, 55

Ben Jonson's:-- Bartholomew Fair, 34, 75, 78 Costard-Mongers, 28, 34 Fish-Wives, 28 London, 16 Orange Woman, 28, 109 Silent Woman, 26, 29

Bennett--The News-cryer, 151

Billingsgate--Bummarees at, &c., 237

Bishopsgate, 17

Blacking Man, 60

Blacking--Day and Martin's, 156

" --Patent Cake, 156

Bookseller's Row, W.C., 203

Boar's Head Tavern, 8

Bridgewater Library, The, 73

Bristle--A Brush-Man, 80

British Museum--London Cries in, 56

Brompton's Chronicle, 232

Broom--Buy-a-Broom Girls, 223

Broom-men, The, 29, 32

Bucklersbury--Simple time, 21, 127

Budget--A Tinker, 81

Burbadge, R. and J. (Actors), 90

Buskers, 9

Butcher's Row, Strand, W.C., 253

Byron, H. J.--A Word-twister, 71

Bow Bells, The sound of, 45

Britton, Small Coalman, 124

Birdman, The, 250

Black Jack--What?, 134

Cannon Street, 7, 8

Canonbury Tower, 135

Canwyke Street, 7

Card Matches--Vendors of, 120

Cardinal Cap Alley, 23

Catch that Catch Can, 99, 101

Catnach--"_Old Jemmy_," 161, 180, 186, 194, 195

Charing, The Village of, 6

Charles 1st, 6, 15, 35

Charles Dickens, 9, 146

Charles Knight's London, 153

Charles Lamb, 131, 4, 6, 8

Charles Mathews, 223

Chaucer, Geoffry, 1

Cheapside Cross, The, 19

Chelsea--Bun Houses at, 207

Churchwarden--Pipes, 134

Chiropodist, The, of to day, 127

City Walls, 18

Clause--A popular Vagabond, 83

Clerkenwell--A Village, 124, 139

Clint--The Liberty of, 23

Coals, a public nuisance, 15

Coalmen--Small, 73, 124

Cocks--_i.e._ Catchpennies, 173

Colebrooke Row, Islington, 132

Coleridge and the Old clo-man, 60

Collier, Mr. John Payne, 89

Colly-Molly--Puff-Pastry-man, 121

Copy of Verses, 164, 173

Corder, Wm. Murderer, 169

Costermongers, 29, 32, 34

Countryman in Lunnun, The, 7

Cow--With the iron tail, 143

Cries of Bologna, 1

Cries of London ever popular, 1

Cries of London--a Collection of, 31, 56, 63, 79, 102, 115

Cries of Rome, _i.e._--London, 64

Curtain Road, 90

CRIES OF LONDON--Ancient and Modern. Alphabetically Arranged.

Almanack--Buy an, 60, 341

Aloes, that blossom rarely, 140

Anchovies--Buy my, &c., 265

Apples--Baked, 127

Apricots--Buy fine, 116

Aqua Vitae, 60, 127

Artichokes, 35, 60, 73, 113

Asparagus--Any ripe, 35, 115

Apple Tarts, Nice hot to-day, 275

Bacon--A Suck of, 239

Baked Potatoes, 259

Ballads--Buy a fine, new, &c., 76

Balm, 115

Balsams, Buy fine, 340

Banbury Cakes, O!, 269

Bandstrings--Buy, 73, 82, 88

Barley-Broth--Here's, 114

Bay--Buy any, &c., 60

Beans--White, Windsor &c., 35, 115, 184

Beads and Laces, 88

Basket, Buy a, 345

Bear's-foot--Buy my, 115

Beef--Ribs, fat and fine, 58

Bellows--Old, to mend, &c., 60

Birds and Hens--Buy any, 62

Black your Shoes, Sir?, 155

Blacking, Buy, 94

Blue--Buy my, 114

Blue Starch, 61

Bodkin--Here's a gilt, 82

Bone-Lace--Buy, 62, 82

Book--Buy a new, &c., 63

Boots--Have you any old?, 13, 14

Bow or Bough-pot (_flower-pot_), 61

Box--Buy my growing, 340

Box--Bonnet or cap, 297

Brass Pot, or an Iron Pot, 126

Bread and Meat, for poor prisoners, &c., 61, 64, 72, 126

Brick-Dust, 119

Briar--Buy sweet, 127-128

Broccoli--Here's fine, 115

Broken-Glasses, 119

Broom--Buy a, 80, 289

Brooms for old shoes, 36

Broom--New green, &c., 13, 58, 80

Brush--Buy long, new, &c., 61, 62, 73

Buns--See Hot-Cross-Buns

Butter--Sixpence a-pound, 116

Buskins--Have you any?, 14

Buttons--Buy any?, 61

Buttons--Hankercher, 73

Cabbage--White-heart, &c., 62, 113

Calf's Feet--Here's fine, 116

Candle-stick--Buy a, 61

Canes--For young and old, 260, 346

Cap Box--Bonnet Box, 297

Capers--Buy my, &c., 265

Carrots--Buy, 62, 115, 277

Case for a Hat--Buy a, 62

Cat's and Dog's Meat, 368

Cauliflowers--Here's, 115

Celery--Buy my nice, 116

Chairs to mend, 73, 114, 126, 371

Cheese and Cream--Any fresh, 62, 117, 139

Cherries--In the rise, _i.e._ stick, 6, 108

" Ripe, 6, 60

" Round and Sound, 113, 183

" Kentish

Chesnuts--Roasted &c., 62, 241

Chickens--Buy alive, 295

Chimney Sweep, 29, 60, 252

Cinquefoil, 115

Clean your Boots, Sir?, 153

Clo! Clo!--Old Clothes, 37, 354

Clothes Pegs--Buy my, 184

Cloth--Scotch or Russian, 126

Clothes Lines--Props, 184, 278

Close-stool--Buy a cover for, 66, 93

Clove Water--Buy any?, 63

Coal--Maids any small?, 60

Cock or a Gelding (_Capon_), 73

Cockles-Ho!, 60, 79, 267

Cod--New, fine-water'd, 61, 116

Codlings--Hot, 62, 73, 113, 183

Codlings--Crumpling, 183

Coife--Buy a fine, 82

Coleworts--Here's green, 115

Cony-Skins--(_Rabbit_), 60, 84

Corn-Poppies--Here's, 116

Corns--Any to cut, pick, &c., 62, 75, 113

Cooper--Any work for a?, 60, 73, 113, 121

Crabs--Come buy my, &c., 116, 343

Cranberries--Buy my, &c., 259

Cream and Cheese, 139

Cucumbers, Ripe &c., 35, 63, 116, 256

Curds, 81

Currants--Here's, 81

Cut Flowers, 255

Dabs--Come buy my, 116, 128

Damsons--Buy ripe, 61

Dandelion--Here's ye, 115

Dog's Meat, 368

Door-Mat--Buy a, 279, 376

Doublets--Any old?, 60

Dragon's-tongue--Here's ye, 115

Dumplings Diddle, diddle, 115

Dust O!, 248

Duck--Buy a, 116

Earthen-Ware--To-day?, 296

Eels--Buy a dish of, 41, 116, 298

Eel Pies--Hot, hot!, 62

Eggs--New laid, 10 a groat, 116

Elder-buds--For the blood, 114

Ells or Yards--Buy, 61

Ends of gold, 60

Featherfew and Rue, 115

Felt Hats, 5

Fenders--I paint, 231

Figs--Buy any?, 61, 116

Filberts--Ripe, Brown, &c., 116, 183

Fleas--Buy a tormentor for, 66, 75

Flounders, 30, 61, 116, 268

Flowers--Buy my, 356

Fowl--A choice, 116

Footstool--Buy a, 61

French Beans--Buy, 116

French Garters, 71

Garlick--Buy any?, 62

Garters for the knee, 61, 82, 88

Gazette, London--Here, 126, 339

Geraniums--Scarlet, &c., 240

Gilliflowers, &c., 115

Gingerbread--Hot, 75, 114, 349

Glass to mend, 61

Glasses--Broken, 120

Golden Pippins--Who'll buy, 290

Gold-end--Have you any?, 60

Goose--Buy a, 116

Gooseberries--Buy my fine, 261

Green Coleworts--Here's, 115

Greens, 2d. a bunch, 355

Green Peas--All hot-hot!, 239, 296

Gudgeons--Fine, &c., 115

Gaudes--Dainty for Sunday, 88

Ground-Ivy--Buy my, 115

Haddocks--Buy my fine, 61, 116

Hair--Maids any to sell?, 113

Hair Brooms, or a Brush, 289

Hair-line--Buy a?, 62

Hang out your Lights here, 46-47

Handkerchief-buttons--Buy, 73

Hare Skins--I buy, 83

Hastings--Young and Green, 115

Hat, or Cap Box?, 297, 356

Hat--Buy a case for, 62

Hats--Fine felt, 5

Hats or Caps--To dress, 62

Hats or Caps--Buy or sell, 38

Hassock for your Pew, 66, 72

Hautboys--Ripe, 115

Hearth-stones--Want any?, 158, 362

Heart's-ease--Buy any?, 115

Herbs--Here's fine of every sort, 115

Herrings--Fine new, &c., 60, 113

Hobby-Horses, 73, 76, 106

Holly--Christmas ho!, 234

Hone, or Whetstone, 73

Hornbook--Buy a, 85

Horns--Shall I mend your?, 114

Hot-Cross Buns, 185, 202, 263

Hot Mutton--Pies, 61, 282

Hot Pudding--Pies, 62

Hot Sheep's feet, 7

Hot Peacods, 6, 127

Houseleek--Here's ye, 115

Holloway Cheesecakes, 117

Hood--Buy a?, 9

Horehound--Buy any, 115

Images--Come buy my, 287, 357

Ink--Fine writing-ink, 59, 104, 126

Ink and Pens, 59

Iron--Old iron I buy, &c., 40, 60

Iron Fork or shovel, 105

Italian Falling Bands, 71

Ivy--Ground-ivy, 115

Jessamine--Pale, &c., 240

Jew's Trumps (_i.e. Harps._), 76

John Apples--Who'll buy, 81

John the Cooper--Any work for?, 60, 126

Kettles to mend, 64, 303

Kentish Cherries, 288

Kitchen-stuff--What have you maids?, 60, 113

Knives to grind, 277, 373

Laces--Long and Strong, 83, 126

Lambs--Young to sell, 185, 293

Lanthorn & Candle, 46, 66, 72

Lavender--Blooming, 115, 270, 372

Lawn, Silk, Velvets, 6

Lights for your cat, 116

Lilies of the Valley, 294

Leeks--Here's fine, 116

Lemons--Fine, 60

Lettuce--Fine goss, 57, 60, 66

Lobsters--Buy, 116, 343

Mackerel--Fine, fresh, 7, 29, 60, 73, 271

Maids--Buy my fresh, 116

Marjoram--Ho!, 115

Marking Stone, 57, 61, 64, 72

Marroguin--Good, 60

Marrow-bones, Maids, 73

Marygolds--Here's ye, 115

Mat--Buy a, 60, 66, 73

Matches--Buy my, 231

Milk--Maids below &c., 60, 139, 183, 344

Mint--Any green, or a bunch, 115, 274

Mops--Maids buy a, 219, 284

Mousetrap--Buy a, 65, 75

Muffins--Buy new, 284

Muffins, Crumpets

Mugwort--Buy my, 115

Mulberries--Here's, 116, 266

Mullets--Buy my, 116

Mussels--Lilly-white, 31, 60, 73

Mutton Dumplings--Hot, 282

Mutton Pies--Who'll buy?, 61

Myrtle--Dark green, 340

Nectarines--Fine, 116, 348

Needles--who buys my, 85

Nettle-tops--Here's ye, 115

New River Water--Here 129, 139

Nosegays--Fine, 115

Nun's Thread, 71

Nuts--Fine, new, &c., 113

Oat-Cakes--Fine, 62

Old Clo! Clo!, 37, 353, 369

Old Cloaks, Suits or Coats, 38

Old Doublets, 60

Old Iron--Take money for, 40

Old Man--A penny a root, 231

Old Satin-taffety, or Velvet, 37

Onions--White St. Thomas', &c., 35, 66, 115

Oranges--China, golden, ripe, &c., 60, 183, 303

Oranges and Lemons--Fine, 60

Oysters--New Wall-Fleet &c., 30, 113, 285, 353

Pail--Buy a new, 231

Paris-thread, 6

Parsley--Heres ye, 115

Parsnips, Buy--Here's fine, 116

Peaches--Buy my fine, 116, 348

Pearmains--Buy my, 81

Pears--Baking, Stewed &c., 85, 61-62, 113, 262

Peas and Beans--Come buy, 184

Pea-Soup--All hot!, 239

Peacods, Hot-hot!, 6, 127

Penknives to grind, 231

Pens and Ink, 59-60

Pennyroyal--Here's ye, 115

Pepper, Saffron and Spice, 6

Peppermint--Nice, 237

Perch--Buy my, 116

Periwinkles--Quick _i.e. live_, 62, 73, 374