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Thief-Catcher 10: Desperado Bullies keep large Houses and pay considerable Rent.at bully, n.1
Thief-Catcher 10: Desperado Bullies keep large Houses and pay considerable Rent. Thief-Catcher 35: Very many of those Baliffs, and most, if not all their Followers, Live and Cohabit with lewd Women, Bawdy-house Keepers [...] and such like Trading Ladies.at trading dame, n.
Thief-Catcher 27: Another of them who is the Associate (but pretends to be a Stranger) cries Halves, meaning that every man Man has a Right to have a share.at halvers, n.
Thief-Catcher 10: Desperado Bullies keep large Houses and pay considerable Rent.at house, n.1
Thief-Catcher 25: There are another Sort of Rogues called Jacobs; these go with Ladders in the Dead of the Night, and get in at the Windows, one, two or three a pair-of-Stairs and sometimes down the Area.at jacob, n.1
Thief-Catcher 26: There is another Sort of Rascals, who go upon the Kid-Lay.at kid lay (n.) under kid, n.1
Thief-Catcher 10: When any of these Lady Birds are carried before a Justice, the visible Bully is presently sent for, to vouch their Character, swear any Thing, and bail them.at ladybird, n.
Thief-Catcher 10: They begin to walk the Streets [...] picking up drunken, unthinking Men and Apprentices, whom they decoy into Bawdy-houses [...] and often give them the Pox.at pox, n.1
Thief-Catcher 22: There is another Class of Thieves, who travel the Country with Lotteries, Dice-Cloths, and Totum-Boards, and who play at a Game called Pricking at the Belt, and, by such Means, draw in great Numbers of ignorant, unthinking People for divers Sums of Money.at prick the garter (n.) under prick, v.2
Thief-Catcher 14: There is another of the Tribe of Gamblers, who travel from one Fair to another [...] to play at what is called, Thimbles and Buttons. [...] the Thimble-player [...] is very regardless how much he exposes the Button to the View of the Countryman, but in reality, shifts it by a Trick of Dexterity betwixt his Fingers under another Thimble.at thimble-rig, n.
Thief-Catcher 23: There are several other Denominations of Thieves, Rogues, and Cheats [...] some of whom are called Sneaks [...] One of the Accomplices gets into a Chat with the Maid, while the other sneaks in (as they term it) and robs the House.at sneak, n.1
Thief-Catcher 16: There is another Class of these Sort of Gamblers, who are better distinguished by the Name of Sweetners, or Preachers of the Parson [...] they walk about, and soon find a pretence to pick up some wealthy Farmer, Gentleman, or a Clergyman, who has Money.at sweetener, n.1
Thief-Catcher 16: There is another Class of dangerous Rogues, who are known by the Name of Tickers [...] The Trade of this Tribe is to buy Horses, Oxen [...] Cloth, Hops, Malt, Corn, and all other Commodities upon Tick or Credit.at on tick under tick, n.3
Thief-Catcher 22: There is another Set of Rogues, in and about London, known and distinguished by the Name of Trapps.at trap, n.1
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