Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a shirt.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: a commission, a shirte.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary A Commission, a shirt.
1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: My Caster and Commission shall serue us both to maund.
1622		Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: To maund on the pad, and strike all the cheats, / To mill from the Ruffmans, Commission and slates.
1637		Dekker ‘Canting Song’ in Eng. Villainies (8th edn) O2: Though I no Caster wore, Nor Commission, no nor Slate.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 48: Commission, A Shirt.
a.1674		‘The Rogues . . . praise of his Stroling Mort’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 19: [as cit. 1637].
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] A Commission, a Shirt.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 198: [as cit. 1637].
1728		Defoe Street Robberies Considered 31: Commission, a Shirt.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 16: CAMESA [...] Ancient cant, commission.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 24/2: Commission, a shirt (prison).
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 290/1: camisa, commision, mish a shirt.