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Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 12 Apr. 4/4: The First of April. Joseph Lamb [...] was charged with assaulting a boy named Cadman. — The boy was sent to defendant’s shop in the morning of this day of wit, for a straight-hook, but by some mistake he was supplied with strap-oil. Chelmsford Chron. 31 Jan. 4/7: The young man charged with robbing [...] Wm. Polley of a £5 note, two half sovereigns, and some bull’s eyes. Chelmsford Chron. 31 Jan. 4/7: It was now all holiday at Peckham with many who were thrown out. Chelmsford Chron. 15 Jan. 3/2: Time was [...] when the public were used more frequently to ride Shank’s mare. Chelmsford Chron. 19 July 3/2: He heard prisoner John say to Henry, ‘We shall be transported as sure as the devil’s in London’. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 5 Jan. 4/2: I know the men [...] and know what they state to be a fact — so stick a pin there. I know ten other men who worked [...] so stick another pin there. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 10 Jan. 3/4: The agreed that ‘they must stick to one tale, or they should get seven pennorth.’ [...] The Learned Recorder addressed Thurgood [and] sentenced him to seven years transportation. Chelmsford Chron. 3 Aug. 3/8: James Hodson, alias Scotchie [was] charged with stealing a ewe. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 2 Sept. 3/4: [She] went to the complainant and found her ‘unsensed’; she was in faints or ‘sterics’, did not know which. Chelmsford Chron. 29 Apr. 3/7: [B]eing able to get through the third part of a pipe of tobacco without any uneasiness except a sort of ‘tissicking’. Chelmsford Chron. 20 Nov. 7/1: Swells in stalls: ‘Encore! Encore!’ —Party in pit: ‘Oncore be blowed!’. Chelmsford Chron. 25 Dec. 10/4: That’s a brimmer. Chelmsford Chron. 21 Aug. 8/2: He at first said he meant to have a ‘doss’ (sleep), and then he said he was after mushrooms. Chelmsford Chron. 17 Dec. 7/1: [from N.Y. Tribune] He is thus addressed: ‘Good bye, old windy; good bye old gaspipe; go home and soak your head in whisky. Chelmsford Chron. 18 Dec. 6/6: I was driving my cart in Leyton when the defendant Grist came behind me and called me ‘— old jellybelly’. Chelmsford Chron. 17 Dec. 7/1: [from N.Y. Tribune] He is thus addressed: ‘Good bye, old windy; good bye old gaspipe; go home and soak your head in whisky. Chelmsford Chron. 25 Dec. 10/4: Hast thou not seen the prosperous knave / Come down a precious thumper. Chelmsford Chron. 17 Mar. 7/1: The formal ‘Madam, your obedient servant,’ before the detestable ‘Ever your Lovey Dovey’. Chelmsford Chron. 6 Oct. 8/2: Even the ‘merry andrews’ wore mackintoshes and other ‘mucking togs’. Chelmsford Chron. 18 Oct. 8/5: The prosecutor and his brothers, inflamed with gin, wanted the prisoner to engage in a pawing match. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 10 May 7/4: The NY Herald says [...] Mr Greenley, as president, would send the country to the dogs. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 24 Dec. 7/5: Doubtless the smutty chieftain never anticipated we were armed [...] I took deadly aim at his broad black chest. Chelmsford Chron. 13 Sept. 8/2: Cheyenne is a place which [...] ten years ago [...] was known as ‘Hell upon Wheels.’ It was then the settlement of navvies [...] Drinking was their chief occupation. Chelmsford Chron. 18 Mar. 5/3: The Black Arts and the Black Gentleman. Our former colleague [...] has been lecturing [...] on the ‘Black Arts’, with esp[ecially reference to [...] ‘raising the devil’. Chelmsford Chron. 8 Nov. 5/2: ‘A Bolt From the Blue’ Parsonical thunders no longer affright [etc.]. Chelmsford Chron. 4 Dec. 2/6: The defendant [...] used bad language, and said he would take the dust out of his jacket. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 10 Mar. 3/3: I sould be ‘small-ganged’ if I went to work for 1s. a day. Chelmsford Chron. 11 Oct. 2/6: Defendant told them that if they did not stop it he would give them one ‘on the kisser’. Chelmsford Chron. 24 May 5/7: he obtained the bottle of beer, which he wanted for a ‘livener,’ [...] from a man named Porter. Chelmsford Chron. (Essex) 21 Aug. 6/5: In the dormitory at night the old fellow ‘cursed and swore all over the shop,’ and kept the other inmates awwake.