Part 5
Description of Illustrations, 117-120
"Doing" the public, 47
Door Mats, 94
Doublets, Old, 10
Do you want a lick on the head?, 30
Du Maurier's Steam Launch in Venice, 72
Earliest mention of London Cries, 3
Early green peas, 94
Early matches, 56
Early umbrellas, 70
Elizabethan Statutes of the streets, 51
_Everyday Book_, Hone's, 36, 42, 52, 96, 102, 110, 120
Facetious salesmen of the streets, 52
Fair, Bartholomew, 38, 39, 42
Faux, the Conjurer, 40
Fine tie or a fine bob, sir?, 36
Fleas! Tormentor for, 24, 121-125
Flea trap, 25
Flemish "Buy a broom" criers, 96
Flower girls at the Royal Exchange, 68
"Flowers, Penny a Bunch!" (frontispiece), 119
Frontispiece, "Flowers, Penny a Bunch!", 119
Gardner's Collection of Prints, 7
Gay's poor apple girl, 28
Gay's _Trivia_, 26
_Gazette, London_, 14
Gingerbread, Hot spiced, 102
Green peas, Early, 94
Green rushes, O!, 98
Grose, Francis--_The Olio_, 30, 62
Ha! ha! Poor Jack!, 8
Hackney Coachman, 70
Hanway (Jonas) the philanthropist, 64
Herb gatherers, 32
Heywood's _Rape of Lucrece_, 24
Highest ground in London, 109, 110
Hokey-pokey, 58
Hone's _Everyday Book_, 36, 42, 52, 96, 102, 110, 120
Honest John Newbery, 120
Hot-baked wardens!, 38
Hot cross buns!, 97
Hot mutton trumpery!, 30
Hot pies, 111
Hot pudding, 96
Hot rolls, 96
Hot spiced gingerbread, 102
Hogarth's Idle Apprentice, 104
Hogarth's Laughing Audience, 98
Houndsditch, 47, 50
Humorous characters, 52
Humorous Cries of London, 52, 53, 54
Humorous nonsense, 104
Ices, Neapolitan, 58
Ices, penny, 58
Idle Apprentice, Hogarth's, 104
Illustrations, Catnach, 118
Illustrations, Crawhall's, 119
Illustrations, Description of, 117-120
Illustrations, McEgan's, 120
Illustrations, Rowlandson's, 117
I'm on the woolsack!, 31
Imitators of Tiddy Diddy Doll, 104
Inner and Outer Circle Railway, 75
Inner Circle Railway, 73
Irons! Marking, 42
Itinerant traders, Plates representing (1805), 118
Jack-in-the-box seller, 56
Japan your shoes, your honour?, 44
Jaw-work, up and under jaw-work!, 54
Johnson (Dr.), Turnips and carrots, O!, 43
Jonson's (Ben) _Bartholomew Fair_ (1614), 25
Knives to grind!, 98
Laughing Audience, Hogarth's, 98
Laroon, Capt., 7
Laroon, Marcellus, 6
Lice, penny a pair, boot lice!, 53
Lights--pipe and c'gar, 56
Loftie's _Old London_, 110
London barrow-woman, Cruikshank's, 100
London cats, 64
_London Cries, as they are daily Practised_, J. Harris (1804), 120
London Cries, earliest mention of, 3
London Cries, engraved by Schiavonetti and Wheatley, 42
London Cries, Humorous, 52, 53, 54
_London, Cries of--for the Amusement of Good Children_, 119
London Cries, Sandby's, 31
London Cries, Specimens of versification, 111-117
_London Gazette_, 14
London, Highest ground in, 109, 110
London Lyckpenny, 3
_London Spy_ (1703) Ned Ward's, 38
London street cries, Old, Examples of, 76, 92
_London, The Three Ladies of_ (1584), 96
Lord Mayor's day, 50
_Lower Orders_, Busby's _Costumes of the_, 35
Lower orders, Characteristic sketches of (1820), 117
Lucifer match, The, 56
Lumsden's _Cries of London_, 119
Lyckpenny, London, 3
Lydgate, John, 3
Marking irons!, 42
Marking stones, 16
Marquis Townshend's, _The Pedlars_ (1763), 29
Match, Brimstone, 56
Match, Lucifer, 56
Match-selling, 48
Match, Vesuvian, 56
Matches, Early, 56
McEgan's illustrations, 120
Merry Christ Church bells, 33
Metropolitan and District Railways, 73
Milk below, maids!, 67
Modern boot-black, 44
Modern street cries, 62, 64, 67-70
_Morning in Town_, Swift's, 10
Muffin man, 62
My name and your name, etc., 42
Nameless toy, A, 54
Neapolitan ices, 58
New laid eggs, crack 'em and try 'em!, 54
New laid eggs, eight a groat, 110
Newsman, The, 68
Newspaper, Shilling for a, 68
Nonsense, Humorous, 104
_Notes and Queries_, References to, 36, 121, 122, 125
Novelties from the continent, 50
Newbery, Honest John, 120
O' Clo!, 62
Old chairs to mend!, 106
Old doublets, 10
'Okey-pokey, 58
_Old London_, Loftie's, 110
Old London street cries, Examples of, 76-92
_Olio, The_--Francis Grose, 30, 62
On the bough, 3
On'y a ha'penny!, 54
Orange seller, Dr. Randal, The, 52
Oranges! Oratorio, 53
Ornaments for your fire stoves!, 60
'Orrible railway haccident--speshill 'dishun, 68
Outcries in the night, 51
Panyer Alley, 109
_Pedlars, The_ (1763) List of Cries in, 29
Penny for a shillin' 'lusterated magazine!, 51
Penny ices!, 58
Penny pieman, The, 111
Philanthropist, Jonas Hanway, The 64
Pieman, The penny, 111
Pins, Hone's Reference to, 7
Pipe cleaner--penny for two!, 58
Pipe-lights, 56
Plates representing itinerant traders (1805), 118
Play! Buy a bill of the, 97
Political caricature, Cries the vehicle for, 29
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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FOOTNOTES:
[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., F.R.C.S. One Shilling. The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[11] Hammersmith.
[12] See p. 29.