Note 63 — SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RHYMING SLANG.

The writer, a street chaunter of ballads and last dying speeches, alludes in his letter to two celebrated criminals—Thos. Drory, the murderer of Jael Denny, and Sarah Chesham, who poisoned her husband, accounts of whose trials and “horrid deeds” he had been selling. Here is a Glossary of the cant words:— Thick un, a sovereign. Dowry of Parny, a lot of rain. Stumped, bankrupt. Bossman, a farmer. ⁂ Drory was a farmer. Patter, trial. Tops, last dying speeches. Dies, ib. Croaks, ib. Burick, a woman. Topped, hung. Sturaban, a prison. James, a sovereign. Clye, a pocket. Carser, a house or residence. Speel on the Drum, to be off to the country. All Square, all right, or quite well. [63]