Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a priest or parson.

c.1642		T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I i: When the city ran mad after their Russet Levites, Apron-rogues with horn hands. [Ibid.] II iv: You uncivil fellow, you come hither to tell my Lady of her faults, as if her own Levite could not discern ’em?
1660		R. Wild ‘Iter Boreale’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State I 5: They’re sorry toys from a poor Levite’s pack.
1693		Congreve Old Bachelor IV i: I say he is a wanton young Levite.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Levite a Priest or Parson.
1723		C. Walker Authentick Memoirs of Sally Salisbury 143: The Levite was smitten at first sight.
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.