Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) peas.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) n.p.: Trundlers Pease.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew [as cit. 1674].
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. 1674].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1674].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 116: Pease Truelers [sic].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: trandlers pease.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict. [as cit. a.1790].
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.