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Black Dog of Newgate in
(1884)
78: He was content to leave his cloak [...] in pawn for the xx shillings, which the coney-catchers took.at cony-catcher, n.1
Black Dog of Newgate in
(1884)
78: He was content to leave his cloak [...] in pawn for the xx shillings, which the coney-catchers took. Black Dog of Newgate
in (1884) 78: The stranger [...] said they were coney-catching knaves.at cony-catching, adj.
Black Dog of Newgate
in (1884) 79: The coney put down £10, every penny of which was to be paid to the man in the moon.at cony, n.
Black Dog of Newgate in (1884) 77: They wanted neither sherry sack, nor charnico, paligo nor Peter Seeme [...] or any quick-spirited liquor.at peter see me, n.
Black Dog of Newgate in (1884) 79: There is a mischief done, and he fears someone will smoke for it.at smoke, v.2
Chronicles of Newgate 468: An uncle [...] gave him a situation as a ‘barker’ or salesman.at barker, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 520: All three after recapture passed on [...] to Leicester, where they did their ‘bit’ (i.e. sentence) and were released.at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 206: Every roaring blade disdained all heeltaps.at blade, n.
(con. 1730) Chronicles of Newgate 208: Ruffians, bravos, and assassins for any odd job that might turn up requiring physical strength.at bravo, n.
Chronicles of Newgate 75: Knights of the road have already begun to operate [i.e. in 1630s]; they have already the brevet rank of captain.at captain, n.
Chronicles of Newgate 77: The term coney-catching had long been in use to define a species of fraud akin to our modern ‘confidence trick’.at cony-catching, n.
Chronicles of Newgate 210: A few feeble watchmen, the sorely-tried and often nearly useless ‘Charlies’.at charlie, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 5: Unwritten but accepted customs suffered the general body to exact ‘garnish’ or ‘chummage’ from newcomers.at chummage, n.
(con. 1820) in Chronicles of Newgate 447: Come, old cock-of-wax, it will soon be over.at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
Chronicles of Newgate 470: A consignment of cheap ‘righteous’ watches, or such as had been honestly obtained, and not ‘on the cross’.at on the cross under cross, n.1
in Chronicles of Newgate 499: D---n seize you all.at damn!, excl.
Chronicles of Newgate 326: The ‘duffer’ went from door to door [...] offering for sale smuggled tobacco, muslins, or other stuffs, and, if occasion served, passing forged notes or bad money as small change.at duffer, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 468: The trade of fence, or receiver, therefore, is very nearly as old as the crimes which it so obviously fostered.at fence, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 319: Figs, or fig things, were the lowest and meanest class [of counterfeit silver coins] and was confined chiefly to sixpences.at fig, n.2
Chronicles of Newgate 357: By insensible degrees he began to lose his repugnance to their society, caught their flash terms and sung their songs.at flash, adj.
(con. 1730) Chronicles of Newgate 208: A flash captain was kept to fight gentlemen who were peevish about losing their money.at flash captain (n.) under flash, adj.
Chronicles of Newgate 318: Of base silver money there were five kinds; viz. flats, plated goods, plain goods, castings and fig things. The flats were cut out of prepared flattened plates composed of silver and blanched copper.at flat, n.1
(con. 1730) A. Griffiths Chronicles of Newgate 208: Two iron rollers and two private springs, which those who were in the secret could touch and stop the turning [of the faro wheel] whenever they had flats to deal with.at flat, n.2
in Chronicles of Newgate 257: I have flung the old fellow out of another guinea.at fling, v.
Chronicles of Newgate 5: Unwritten but accepted customs suffered the general body to exact ‘garnish’ or ‘chummage’ from newcomers.at garnish, n.
Chronicles of Newgate 96: ‘A spacious hall’ named the ‘Gigger’ (5), after the small grate or gigger in the door.at gigger, n.1
Chronicles of Newgate 519: A widow woman, who gave him ‘bub and grub’ or food and one-and-sixpence for every nine days’ work.at grub and bub (n.) under grub, n.2
Chronicles of Newgate 207: It [i.e. gambling] was fostered and encouraged by innumerable hells.at hell, n.
Chronicles of Newgate 547: Cummings was repeatedly ‘run in’ for the offence of coining.at run in, v.
Chronicles of Newgate 223: John Price, who filled the office [of hangman] in 1718, and who rejoiced in the usual official soubriquet of ‘Jack Ketch’.at Jack Ketch, n.
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