A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern
Part 18
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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