A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern

Part 18

Chapter 182,739 wordsPublic domain

Pies Hot, 62, 113

Pigeons--Come buy my, 116

Pike--Fine live, 116

Pins of the maker, 63

Pins and Needles--Who buys?, 85

Pins for Coney-Skins, 115

Pippins--Buy my? &c., 60, 290

Pippin-Pies, 60

Plaice--Buy dish of, &c., 31, 61, 116

Plovers--Come buy my, 116

Plum-Pudding, 4d. a pound, 114

Plum--Buy my ripe, 116, 299

Points--Buy any?, 61

Pomegranites--Fine, 62

Pompeons (Qy. Pumpkin), 62

Potatoes--Fine new, 62, 116, 286

Potatoes--All hot, 359

Pot--Buy a white, 61

Pots and Pans, 231

Pots, Pans, Kettles to mend, 264, 301

Powder and Wash-ball, 121

Pretty Pins--Pretty women?, 126

Primroses--Buy, 228, 246

Props or Lines, 184

Prunes--Buy, 2d. a-pound, 61, 115

Purse--Buy a, 300

Quick (_i.e. live_) Perriwinkles, 62, 73

Rabbits--Who'll buy, 116, 273

Rabbit-skins--Any to sell, buy, 60, 84

Radish--Buy my white, &c., 35, 62, 66, 115

Raisons--Buy any?, 61

Rareee Show--Take a peep, 280

Ribs of beef--Fine, 5

Rice-milk--Here's hot, 114, 127, 347

Rice--New, 2d. a pound, 116

Rings--Powch-posies, 13, 88

Rope-Mats--Buy one, 278

Roses--Buy my fine, 340

Rosemary--Buy my, 60, 115, 257

Rosemary and Briar, 127, 257

Rue--Buy a bunch, &c., 115, 274

Rushes--Green, 7-8, 62

Saffron, Spice and Pepper, 6

Sage--Buy a bunch &c., 115, 274

Salad--Ready picked, 115

Salmon--Fine, Newcastle, &c., 30, 258

Saloop--Hot and good, 116, 127

Samphire--Rock, 60, 72

Sand--Silver sand, 113

Sashes--Ribbons or lace, 179

Satin--Old, 37

Sausages, 56, 61

Save-all--Buy a, 80

Savoys--Here's fine, 115

Scissors ground, 1d. per pair, 277

Screens, from the fire, 73

Scurvy-grass--Any?, 62, 115

Shads--Come buy my, 60, 116

Shirt Buttons--Buy, 272

Sheep's Trotters--Hot, 7, 127

Shoes-Buy--I buy, 14, 61

Shovel and Iron Fork, 105

Shrimps--Fine, New, 61, 116, 374

Silk Velvets lawn, 6

Singing Bird--Buy a fine, 107, 115

Silver Sand--Buy, 113

Small Coals, 73, 116, 124

Smelts--Buy my &c., 31, 62, 116

Socks--Holland socks, 126

Soles--Fine, &c., 62

Songs--A choice of, 83

Songs--Three yards a penny, 187

Southernwood, that's very good, 115

Spice, pepper and saffron, 6

Spice graters, 58

Sprats--Buy my, 61, 116

Spinach--Here's, 116

Starch--Blue, 61

Stocks--Buy fine, 340

Straw--Will you buy any?, 79

Strawberries--Ripe, &c., 6, 62, 108, 115, 185, 276

Steel or Tinder-box, 73

Stopple--For your close-stool, 66

Stomach water, 63

Sweep, 184

Sweet Briar--Buy my, 257, 277

Table-mat--Buy a, 251

Tape--Buy any?, 61

Tarts--All hot, 113

Teal--Come buy my, 116

Tench--Buy my, 116

Teeth--Any to draw?, 81

Thornback--New, 62

Tinder-Box--Buy a, 79

Tinker--Have you any work for a?, 60, 73, 264

Toasting Forks, 58, 61, 99

Toasting-Iron, 61

Toys, For girls and boys, 185

Trap for fleas, 66

Trinkets--Want any?, 291

Tripes--Fine, 116

Troop--Every one, 106

Trotters--Here's, 116

Turnips--Buy bunch, 60, 115, 277

Turbot--All alive, 237

Thyme, Rue, &c., 115

Velvets, Silk, Lawn, 6

Venice Glasses--Come buy, 59

Vinegar--Lilly-white, 126

Violets--Buy my, 128

Violins--Buy, 76

Wafers--Buy any?, 126

Walking-sticks--Buy my, 139, 260

Walnuts, New, crack and try, &c., 62, 115, 241, 242, 243

Warders--Hot (Pears), 127

Wash-Ball--Want any, 58, 62, 291

Watch--Buy of me, 291

Water--Buy spring here?, 129, 139

Water-cresses--Buy fresh, &c., 115, 127

Wax--Buy any?, 126, 281, 353

Wheat--Buy any?, 62, 73

Whetstone--Buy a, 73

Whistle, for your boy, 82

White Scallions (_Shalots_), 62

Whiting--Any new, fresh, &c., 30, 62, 66

Whiting Maps, 61

Widgeon--Come buy my, 116

Wigs--A fine tie or bob?, 126

Wild Duck--Buy a, 116

Windsor Beans, 115

Wine--One penny a pint, 10

Winter-Savoy--Here you have, 115

Wood--Any to cleave?, 15, 62, 124

Wood-sorrel--Here's ye, 115

Worcestershire Salt, 61, 62

Wormwood--Here's fine, 115

Yards and Ells, 61

Yorkshire Cakes, 254

Yorkshire Muffins, 116

Yarmouth Bloaters, 237

Cry--_Much cry, but little wool_, 120

Crying Things in London, 73

Curds--A cheesewoman, 81

Cutler's Poetry upon a knife, 52

Deacon's Music Hall, 131

Decker, Thomas, _alias_ Dekker, 50

Deuteromelia, or Roundelays, 70

Dick Tarlton--Jester, 136

Dick, The Shoe Black, 155

Dimsdale--Mayor Garrett, 199

Ditty--A ballad-man, 80

Dogberry--The Watchman, 49

Drunken Barnaby at Holloway, 117

Duke of Devonshire's drawings, 63

Dumpling Woman--The, 253

Dunstan--Sir Jeffery, 196

" Mayor of Garrett, 197

" Death of, 198

Dustman--The, 249

Dying Speeches, 160, 172

" Albert Smith's, 173

" Ann William's, 163

" Wm. Corder's, 170

" Couvoisier's, 112

" Greenacre's, 171

" Thurtell's, 167

Earl of Ellesmere, 73

Eastern Cheap-Market, 8

Eastwood ho!--A Comedy, 62

Ebsworth--Rev. J. W, 83

Edmonton, 137, 138

Ely Place--The orchards in, 108

Elizabeth--Queen, 35, 64

ELIZA COOK, MISS, POEMS:-- Christmas Holly, 244 Hot-Cross Buns, 210 Old Cries, 244 Young Lambs to Sell, 221

Enfield--Charles Lamb at, 136

Falstaff and Henry V, 8

Faux-Hall, 23

Field Lane and Fagan, 6

Fiddler--The blind, 283

Finsbury, its groves, 139

Flower Girls--Saucy, 128

Flower Pot Man--The, 240

Flying Stationer--The, 159

Fish-Fags, 236

Fish-Wives, 29, 32

Fisherwomen, 234

Fortunes of Nigel, 40

Fortey Mr. _late_ Catnach, 194

Garratt--Mayor of, 197, 200

George Cruikshank, 222

George Daniel--Mr., 133

George Dyer, 133

Gingerbread Lottery, 350

Goldsmith--Oliver, 135

Gravesend and Milton, 10

Grey Friars, 18

Greenacre, 172

Greene Robt,--_Never too Late_, 64

Grim--The Black Collier, 96

Grimaldi--Old Joe, 132

Gum--A tooth drawer, 81

Guy Fawkes--Guy, 226

Halliwell Street, 90

Heath--A broom-man, 80

Hearth Stone Merchant, 158

Herb-wives, unruly people, 35

Herb-wife--The, 274

Herrick, Robert--Pretty Jane

" Hesperides, 50

Heywood, T.--Rape of Lucrece

Hobbyhorse-seller--A, 75, 106

Hogarth's Print of "_Evening_", 131

" "_Enraged Musician_", 32

" Idle 'Prentice, 149

" Pieman, 214

Holborn, 12, 35

" Green Pastures in, 139

Holloway Cheese-cakes, 117

Holywell Street, 203

Hone's Every-Day Book, 132, 155

Hornmen, 150

Hot Codlings--A Catch, 101

Hucksters, 35

Hugh Myddleton, 131

Hyde Park, 20

Inigo Jones' collection of drawings, 63

Iron-Tailed Cow--The, 143

Islington, 131

" Clerks from, 155

" Garland, 131, 135

Jack Drum's Entertainment, 117

"Jerry" the spec builder, 139

Jigs on the Stage, 80

Jin Vin. in Prentices-riots, 41

John Bunyan--A Tinker, 100

John Howard, 126

John Stow's Survey of London, 2

John Taylor--The Water-Poet, 90

Johnson, Dr. on London-cries, 36

Kate Smith--Milkmaid, 241

Kelly--Frances, M., 137

Kempe--A Comedian, 90

Kent--Lambarde's, 10

Lackpenny--_see_ London

Lambeth, 23

Lauron's Cries--see Mauron

Law, Thomas--The Bellman, 53

Lawyer's and Suitors, 11

La Zoon--Partrait Painter, 103

Lettuce Woman--The, 57

Life in London, 8

Light of other Days--The, 63

Liston, W., "London Crier", 220

London, Barrow Women, 112, 222

" Bridge, 25, 26

" Chanticleers, a Comedy, 79

" Labour, 7

" Lackpenny, 2, 3, 10

" Lawyers, 11

" Milk Carriers, 139 to 147

" 'Prentice riots, 42, 45

" Stall Keepers, 11

" Stone--The, 7, 11

" The Three Ladies of, 12

" Wall--The, 17

" Without lamps, 51

Ludgate--Poor Prisioners in, 17, 18

Lupton's London (1632), 234

Luttrell's Collection of Broadsides, 52

Lydgate--A Monk, 1, 2, 7, 9

" his numerous works, 2

" his London Lackpenny, 2, 3, 10

" Cornhill in his time, 9

" Mackerel in his day, 29

Madame Vestris--Her legs, 223

Maria Marten, & Corder, 168

Marylebone, 20

Mauron's-_alias_-Lauron--"Cryes,", 31, 103

Mayhew's, H., London Labour, 7, 152, 165

Mayors of Garratt, 127, 200

Merry Bellman's--Out-Cryes, 52

Merry Drollery--The, 83

Milliner's Girls, 70

Nassau Press--The, 195

Ned Ward--His Time, 124

Nell Gwynne, 57, 109 to 112

New Exchange--Strand, 70

New River--First View of, 130

" And Charles Lamb, 130

News-criers, 150

Newgate, 18

Nightingale--A ballad-singer, 75

Novello--Mr. Vincent, 136

Northumberland House, 25

Milk--London supply of, 142

Milkmaids, 141

Milkman--The Poetical, 147

Milk and water, 139

Milk from the Cow, 244

Miller's Golden Thumb, 92

Milton's Il Penseroso, 50

Misson's Travels, 140

Moorfields, 18

Moorgate, 17

Morely,--A Musical Composer, 70

Morose--A Character, 28, 33

Mother Red Cap--Holloway, 117

Much cry, but little wool, 120

Muffin Man--The, 202

Muffin and Crumpet Company, 201

Murder of Mr. Weare, 165

Okes--A printer (1632), 234

Old clo'--A Jew's monopoly, 39

" And Coleridge, 60

Old Parr's Head--The, 131

Old Stage waggon--The, 21

Oliver Twist, 6

Orange-women, 29, 32, 57

Oranges imported by Sir. W. Raleigh, 109

Orlando Gibbons--Musician, 72

Oyster-wives--unruly people, 35

O Yes--a mad merry ditty, 52

Pammelia--a musical work, 78

Paris Gardens, 90

Pastyme of Pleasure--The, 2

Paul Mr.--And Catnach, 195

Paul's Wharf, 25

Pedlar's French, 64

Pepy's--His collection, &c., 102

Pewter Pots, 8, 197

Pewterer's 'prentice, 28

Phillips--A comedian, 90

Pieman--London The, 211 to 219

Pie Shops--The Penny, 127

Pie-Poudre--A court of, 76

Pimlico--A country hamlet, 21

Pinner-up--Of songs, 193

Pitts--Ballad-monger, 161

Place Maubert, 236

Plate-glass windows, 6

Playford's Select Ayres, 87

Pope Thos.--Famous Clown, 90

Pope's Head--in Cornhill, 10

Porson--on Barrow-woman, 112

Potatoes--In reign of James I., 72

Powder-Watt, 121

Puddle Dock, 25

'Prentice Riots, 44

Prick Song--What!, 52

Queen Anne's--London, 47

Rabbit Man--The, 273

Raddish and Lettuce-woman, 57

Ragg--The Bellman's copy of verses, 52

Ragged School, 157

Rat-catcher--The, 59

Red Barn--Murder at, 168

River Fleet, 17

Robatos--a kind of Ruff, 71

Roger Warde--Printer (1584), 12

Rome mort--Romville, 64

Roxburghe Ballads--The, 71, 80, 89, 113

Rushes--Green, the strewing of &c., 7, 8

Ryle--Mrs. Anne, 194

Saint Fear--Years of, 52

St. Dunstan's Church, 41, 71

St. James' Park, 21

St. Pauls' Cathedral, 43

Salt, sold in the streets, 62

Sausage-Woman The, 58

Second Edition--Sellers, 152

Seven Dials, 164

Shakespeare's London, 16 to 27

Shancke, John--Comic actor, 89

Shoe-Black--The, 155

Shoe-Blacks--Last of the, 153

Shoeblack Society, 157

Shopkeepers--Loud bawling, 6

Shoreditch-church--Fields, 33, 90

Singer--A Comedian, 90

Sir Hugh Myddleton's Head, 131

Songs--3 yards a penny, 187

Sow--Gelder's Horn, 32, 119

Spectacles, first sold, 5

Spectator, The--on London cries, 118

Spring water--Here?, 129

Stall-keepers--The, 11

Statutes of the Streets, 48

Stow's Survey of London, 2, 50

Strawberries in Holborn, 108

Strawberry-Woman--The, 276

Tarlton, Comedian, 20

Tempest's, P. Cries of London, 102

Theatres--Bankside, 23

" The Cockpit, 79

" Covent Garden, 23

" The Curtain, 89, 90, 95

" Drury Lane, 23

" The Globe, 22, 89, 90, 95

" The Hope, 75

" Red Bull, 64, 89, 95

" Sadler's Wells, 130, 132

" The Theatre, 64, 90

" The Swan, 89, 90, 95

Thurtell--John, Murderer, 165

" Hook's verses on, 166

Three Ladies of London, 12, 15

Tiddy-Doll--Vendor of Gingerbread, 148, 264

Tinker--The Jolly, 302

Troop--Every One, 106

Tripe-wives--unruly people, 35

Trotter Yard--The, 7

Turner's Dish of Stuff, 89, 91

Veal, with a _hammy_ knife!, 239

Watchman--The London, 46

Water Carrier--The, 129

Water-Poet--_see_ John Taylor

Walter Raleigh and oranges, 109

Weare Mr.--The Murder of, 165

What do you lack?, 7, 41

Windsor Drollery--The, 87, 101

Wood--Any to cleave?, 15

Wotton, Towns End--Tune of, 89

Wynter, Dr. on our milk supply 142

Yea by cock, 8

Ye Bridge-foot, 234

Year of Saint's Fear, 52

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "The England of Shakespeare," by E. Goadby--Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, E.C.

[2] For the use of the woodcut blocks representing the "Smith Arms," and the Globe Theatre, we are indebted to our friend Mr. John W. Jarvis, author of "Musee-Phusee-Glyptic: A Scrap Book of Jottings from Stratford-on-Avon, and Elsewhere," London, 1875, who introduces them into the pages of his work thus:--

"Not long since, after a pleasing and interesting walk, one fine morning on Bankside, and standing near the still existing Cardinal Cap Alley, with the aid of an artist friend, we drew up a fancy picture of what Bankside was in Shakespeare's day.--Here a small creek with craft and busy life around; a small bridge, with road leading to the Globe, the famous theatre afterwards to be so widely known. The sunshiny time of our literature and life, making a red-letter period in happy old England's history. We were interrupted by a kindly-faced, round-shouldered man of the bargee type, who asked us 'if it was Shakespeare, him as writ plays, we was a torkin' on; if so be it were, he could show us the wery 'ouse he used, least ways, all as is left on it.' After a twisting tramp through Cardinal Cap Alley, we were brought out opposite the public-house known by the name of the 'Smith Arms,' which had just then only escaped entire demolition from fire by a very near chance--(the damage done has since necessitated the rebuilding; so the sketch stands as a bit of rescued old London.)

"Our informant assured us that--'Shakespeare as had a playus nigh there, used to use that wery 'ouse; him as writ the Merchant of Venice, Money, and the Forest of Bondy.' Our kind friend was interrupted by a companion, who said, 'Not Bondy: him didn't write that.' 'I won't give up Money, because the Merchant of Venice is all about Money. You better say he didn't write Richard the Third and Richard the Fourth.'

"We gladly retired before our historic doubts were confirmed by this traditional scholar, about this double Gloucester. His companion, as we thought rather aptly, but churlishly remarked, 'cheese it,' for they were both getting grumpy, and after this duplicate, we were fearful a fifth or a sixth might appear. But the house itself, one among the oldest in Southwark, we considered worthy a sketch, and, as our guide told us, ought to be '_perpetrated_.' He said he could pull a bit, but draw he couldn't; but he did--that is, four-pence for beer."

[3] PRICK-SONG, music pricked or noted down, full of flourish and variety.--_Halliwell._

[4] NOISE.--A set, or company of musicians. "_These terrible noyses, with threadbare cloaks_,"--_Decker's Bellman, of London_, 1608.

[5] _Pie-Poudre._ A court formerly held at a fair for the rough-and-ready treatment of pedlars and hawkers, to compel them and those with whom they dealt to fulfil their contracts. This court arose from the necessity of doing justice expeditiously, among persons resorting from distant places to a fair or market. It is said to be called the court of _pie-poudre, curia, pedis pulverizate_, from the dusty feet of the suitors, or, as Sir Edward Coke says, because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the feet.

[6] _The Tune of Wotton Towns End_, is the same as "Peg a' Ramsey," mentioned by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, and is at least as old as 1589. It is also in "Robin Good-Fellow: His Mad Pranks, And Merry Jests, Full of Honest Mirth, &c., 1628."

[7] The Curtain Road, now notorious for cheap and shoddy furniture, still marks the site of the Curtain Theatre; at the same date there was another playhouse in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, distinguished as "The Theatre," where the Chamberlain's Company had settled. John Stow, in his Survey of London, 1598, speaking of the priory of St. John Baptist, says: "And neere thereunto are builded two publique houses for acting of shews of comedies, tragedies, and histories, for recreation. Whereof is one called the "Courtein," the other "The Theatre;" both standing on the South West side toward the field." In both these James Burbadge may have been interested; his long residence in the parish may fairly lead to the conclusion, that he was a sharer in at least one of them. Richard Tarlton, the famous actor of clown's parts, was a near neighbour of James Burbadge, and a shareholder and performer at the Curtain. Thomas Pope, a performer of rustic clowns, by his will dated July, 1603, left--"All my part, right, title, and interest which I have in the playhouse, called the Curtein, situated and being in Halliwell, in the parish of St. Leonard's in Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex." At what date one or the other of these early Suburban playhouses ceased to be occupied, we have little or no satisfactory evidence.

[8] Stoke's Rapid Plan of Teaching Music.

[9] The Old Parr's Head, in Upper Street, Islington.

[10] BLACK JACK. A huge leather drinking vessel. A Frenchman speaking of it says, "The English drink out of their boots."--_Heywood._

[11] BEAU-TRAP:--A loose stone in the pavement under which the water lodges in rainy weather, which when trodden on squirts it up to the great damage of light-coloured clothes and clean stockings. First invented by Sedan-chairmen, whose practice it was to loosen a flat-stone so that in wet weather those that choose to save their money by walking, might, by treading on the "trap" dirt their shoes and stockings.

[12] Pitts, a modern publisher of love garlands, merriments, penny ballads, &c.

"Who, ere he went to heaven, Domiciled in Dials Seven!" George Daniel's, "_Democritus in London_."

[13] Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott."

[14] The whole market has been rebuilt during these last few years, & Darkhouse-lane abolished.--C. H.

[15] In the glee, "Merrily rang the Bells of St. Michael's Tower," we are told that Richard Penlake had a shrew for a wife, and though she had a tongue that was longer, yet--

"Richard Penlake a crabstick would take And show her that he was the stronger."

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