Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) swords, watches, jewellery and other valuable objects that can be stolen, won at gambling or otherwise taken away from their owner.

1607		Middleton A Trick to Catch the Old One IV iv: Together with all her cattle, money, plate, jewels [...] moveables or immoveables.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Moveables c. Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toies of value. As we bit all the Cull’s Cole and Moveables, c. we Won all the Man’s Money, Rings, Watches, &c.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.