Index.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.

A dip and a wallop for a bawbee!, 29, 125, 126 Act, Chimney Sweeps’, 64 Addison, Cries of London, 25, 30 Albert Smith’s “Covered Uncertainties”, 111 Ale Scurvy-grass, 32 All my teeth ache!, 30 All the fun of the fair!, 50 Ancient tavern sign, 110 Anecdote of a simpler, 32 Aphorisms, Book of, 36 Area sneak thieves, 48 ’Arry and Emma Ann, 50 Bartholomew Fair, 38, 39, 42 Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson’s (1614), 25 Beating of one’s wife, 51 Beaumont and Fletcher’s Bonduca, 25 Beau pot? Will you buy a, 86 Bellows-mender, 94 Bells, Merry Christ Church, 33 Belman, 20 Blacking, cake, 44 Black sheep, 48 Blowing a horn in the night, 51 Bonduca, Beaumont and Fletcher’s, 25 Book of Aphorisms, 36 Boot-black, The modern, 44 Boot laces—AND the boot laces!, 54 Brickdust, 92 Bridgwater Library, 14 British Museum, Collection of cries in, 16 Buggs! Water for the, 29, 125, 126 Buns! Hot cross, 97 Busby’s Costumes of the Lower Orders, 35 Business card of pussy’s butcher, 65, 120 Buy a beau pot?, 86 Buy a bill of the play?, 97 “Buy a broom” criers, Flemish, 96 Buy a flower, sir?, 68 Buy my rumps and burrs?, 38 Buy my singing glasses?, 12 Cake blacking, 44 Calling price before quantity, 64 Candlewick, 5 Cantlie’s (Dr. J.) “Degeneration among Londoners”, 72 Canwyke Street, 5 Caricature, political, Cries the vehicle for, 29 Catnach illustrations, 118 Cats, London, 64 Caveat against cut-purses, 42 Chairs in Queen Anne’s time, 108 Chairs in Queen Elizabeth’s time, 108 Chairs, rush-bottomed, 108 Characteristic sketches of the lower orders (1820), 117 Characters, Humorous, 52 Charles II., Cries in the time of, 18 Cherryes in the ryse, 3 Chimney Sweeps’ Act, 64 Clean yer boots?, 44 Coachman, Hackney, 70 Cockney pronunciation, 31, 53, 72, 73, 74, 126-129 Cockney pronunciation, London Globe, 78 Colly Molly Puffe! Spectator, 12 Costermonger, or Costardmonger, 46 Costumes of the Lower Orders, Busby’s, 35 “Covered Uncertainties,” Albert Smith’s, 111 Crawhall’s (Joseph) illustrations, 119 Cream made of turnips, 60 Cries—Collection in British Museum, 16 Cries, Old London Street—Examples of, 76-92 Cries, Tempest’s, 6 Cries in the time of Charles the Second, 18 Cries, Under-street, 70 Cries, vehicle for political caricature, 29 Cries of London, Addison’s mention of, 25, 30 Cries of London as they are daily Practised, J. Harris (1804), 120 Cries of London, earliest mention of, 3 Cries of London, engraved by Schiavonetti and Wheatley, 42 Cries of London for the amusement of good children, 119 Cries of London, Humorous, 52, 53, 54 Cries of London, Lumsden’s, 119 Cries of London, Roxburgh collection of, 25-33 Cries of London, Sandby’s, 31 Cries of London (J. T.) Smith’s, 16 Cries of London. Specimens of versification, 111-117 Cries of London, Spectator, 25 Cries of York, 14 Cruikshank’s London barrow-woman, 100 “Cryer,” Public, 22 Cryes, Tempest’s, 6 Cuckoo flowers, 35 Cut-purses, Caveat against, 42 Dead letter act, A, 51 “Degeneration amongst Londoners,” Dr. Jas. Cantlie’s, 72 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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