Category: History - British
Dates, unless in the form of the luscious fruit of Smyrna, are generally dry. It is enough therefore to state that the earliest mention of London Cries is found in a quaint old ballad entitled "London Lyckpenny," or Lack penny, by that prolific writer, John Lydgate, a Benedict...
Here's pennyroyal and marygolds, Come buy my nettle-tops. Here's watercresses and scurvy grass. Come buy my sage of virtue, ho! Come buy my wormwood and mugwort. Here's all fine...
4. Part 4--is obviously copied from the original cry of "Young Lambs to Sell." In addition to a few tools, the stock-in-trade of the travelling chair-mender principally consisted of rush...
1. Part 1Dates, unless in the form of the luscious fruit of Smyrna, are generally dry. It is enough therefore to state that the earliest mention of London Cries is found in a quaint old...
3. Part 3and third rate neighbourhoods. The noisy bell[9] of the privileged muffin-man can hardly be counted; but "dust, O,"--the dustman's bell is almost a thing of the past--"knives an...
5. Part 5The Signs of Old Lombard Street. By F. G. HILTON PRICE, F.S.A., with Sixty full-page 4to Illustrations by JAMES WEST. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.