Green’s Dictionary of Slang

best in Christendom n.

[popularized by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–80), who was also responsible for the synon. bull’s eye n. (1); crown of sense under crown n.1 ; kennel n.1 ; target n.]

the vagina; usu. in a toast when drinking.

[UK]H. Nevile Newes from the New Exchange 20: Shee [...] is excellent at the beginning of healths, viz. To the best — in Christendom, [...] for, she fits them all with a baudy Comment.
[UK]Wandring Whore III 3: Lovely and ivory thighes whiter than untrod Snow, with the best red-lip’t C— in Christendom.
[UK]Rochester ‘Satyr on Charles II’ in Works (1999) 85: I’ th’ isle of Britain, long since famous grown / For breeding the best Cunts in Christendom.
York and Albany's welcome to England [broadsheet ballad] The best in Christendom, the Health, / let no Man hang an Arse:.
[UK] ‘The Winchester Wedding’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 49: But Jenkin was reckon’d for Drinking, / The best in Christendom.
[UK] ‘The Winchester Wedding’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy I 23: But Jenkin was reckon’d for drinking, / The best in Christendom.
[UK]T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 31: There was a shopkeeper’s wife retailing out the sight of the best in Christendom, for a half-penny a head, to young Templers, Moorfields sharpers, and old citizens that had taken the opportunity of their wives being abroad; and being ready to run mad themselves, were come to divert themselves with the sight of those that were actually so.
[UK]N. Ward Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 283: The first Health that is begun in the Society, is, To the best in Christendom.
[UK]Life of Colonel Don Francisco 27: When the Bottle was brought up, he drank to the best in Christendom.
[UK]Court Oracle 20: She fancies that she has the finest Eyes, the best best Presence, the evennest Teeth [...] and the, the, the best in Christendom.
[UK]Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 348: [The glasses were] emptied in a trice, to the best in christendom.
[UK] ‘The Best in Christendom’ inMuse in Good Humour 213: ‘Thou who in Wisdom doth excel / relate, nor think me troublesome, / What means the — Best in Christendom? She smiled, she blushed, and with a Grace / Hung down her Head, and veil’d her face, / .
[UK]‘Young D’Urfey’ ‘The Best in Christendom: a Health’ in Ways to Kill Care 88: While there’s liquor before us, / Let’s join in a chorus, / ‘To the best in all Christendom’.
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 69: Best did I say! bar helen’s bum, / He had the best in Christendom.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Best, To the best in Christendom, i.e. the best **** in Christendom, a health formerly much in vogue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.