fiddle, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fiddle n.²

[the victim must ‘face the music’]

a writ of arrest.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Fiddle c. a Writ to Arrest.
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.