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Derby Mercury 10 Oct. 2/3: Great Cry and little Wool — is now become, / The Plague and Proverb of the Weavers Loom. / No Wooll to work on, neither Weft, nor Warp, / Their Pockets empty, and their Stomachs sharp.at wool, n.1
Derby Mercury 10 Oct. 2/3: Great Cry and little Wool — is now become, / The Plague and Proverb of the Weavers Loom. / No Wooll to work on, neither Weft, nor Warp, / Their Pockets empty, and their Stomachs sharp. Derby Mercury 17 Apr. 2/1: [He] saw something black, which put him in a dreadful Panic; however, recovering himself, he gave it so stout a Blow with an Oaken Towel [...] that he fell’d it at his feet.at oaken towel, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] Common Bail, Affidavit Men, Ruffins, Bravoes, Assassins, cum multis aliis.at bail, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] Common Bail, Affidavit Men, Ruffins, Bravoes, Assassins, cum multis aliis.at bravo, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] 12th. A captain, who is to fight any gentleman who is peevish for losing his money.at captain, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] A Flasher, to swear how often the Bank has been stripped.at flasher, n.1
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] An Attorney, a Newgate Solicitor.at Newgate solicitor (n.) under Newgate, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/1: ‘List of Officers attached to Gaming-houses’ [...] 4. Two Puffs, who have Money given them to decoy others to play.at puff, n.
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/2: ‘List of Officers which are established in the most notorious Gaming Houses [...] Common Bail, Affidavit Men, Ruffins, Bravoes, Assassins, cum multis aliis.at ruffian, n.1
Derby Mercury 14 Jan. 3/1: ‘List of Officers attached to Gaming-houses’ [...] 4. Two Puffs, who have Money given them to decoy others to play [...] 6. A Squib is a Puff of a lower rank, who serves at half Salary, while he is learning to deal.at squib, n.1
Derby Mercury 28 Sept. 3/1: A Parcel of thimble-men [...] decoyed him out of about 10l.at thimble cove, n.
Derby Mercury 13 Apr.2/1: ‘What Stuff was it that he took?’ ‘A sort of Julep’.at stuff, n.
Derby Mercury 1 Feb. 2/1: A common Woman of the Town picked up a Country Grasier near Fleet-ditch and robbed him of 100 Guineas .at pick up, v.
Derby Mercury 8 Feb. 2/1: ‘What Cheer Finch?’ ‘Prety [sic] Cheer indeed,’ says I, ‘You have made a fine piece of Work of it! your boy is dead’.at piece of work (n.) under piece, n.
Derby Mercury 7 Nov. n.p.: Sir Robert used to go [...] to the Tavern, order a Supper, and run up a Score of 18 or 20s.at run up a score (v.) under score, n.3
Derby Mercury 18 Dec. 2/1: ’Tis further buzz’d about in that City that Prince Eugene was soon expected there.at buzz, v.1
Derby Mercury 8 Jan. 3/1: Ye warbling Choir that chaunt the Spring.at chant, v.
Derby Mercury 3 July 4/1: The jockey [...] swore the Horse was not worth a shilling; for he was a Roarer.at roarer, n.
Derby Mercury 17 Nov. 2/2: They were attacked by three footpads [...] They were very civil to the Gentlemen. One of them pulled a Bottle of Gin out of his Pocket and asked them if they would please bung their eyes with them.at bung one’s eye (v.) under bung, v.1
Derby Mercury 29 Sept. 2/2: Sir, Please Lay forty Pounds in Money Under Your threstle and Set no watch tomorrow Night [...] If you Setta Watch wee will kill you [...] From Your Bloody Enemey L.B. Never be afraid Boys wee will do this Job a hell-fired Rogue,. Dated the 19 January 1745 [sic].at hell-fired (adj.) under hell, n.
Derby Mercury 6 Apr. 1/1: A Tragi-Comical Farce [...] Written orginally in Hebrew and translated by Solomon Bung Your Eyees, Gent.at bung one’s eye (v.) under bung, v.1
Derby Mercury 4 Dec. 2/3: William Dewell (mention’d in our last to have been hanged at Tyburn, but since come to life again).at Tyburn, n.
Derby Mercury 11 Feb. 4/2: Mrs Catherine Evans who was condemned [...] for poisoning her Husband and whose Execution was respited on pleading her Belly, was to be burnt yesterday.at belly plea (n.) under belly, n.
Derby Mercury 10 July 2/2: They would only require us to believe that the Parings of a Cucumber are a Leg of Mutton, and that a Pot of Piss is a Mug of Strong Beer.at piss, n.
Derby Mercury 3 Feb. 1/2: I am sure we deserved it, for we lived at short Allowance [...] short Allowance of Grog was the worst of all.at grog, n.1
Derby Mercury 1 Feb. 3/1: A Bill will be brought into Parliament [...] to reduce the Numbner of Public Places [...] debauching and corrupting the Morals of the Youth and things of much greater consequence than the pleasing of a Beau, a Fribble or a Flash.at fribble, n.
Derby Mercury 6 Sept. 3: D’ye think, cry’d the Sempstress, I’ll take thee for a Spouse / One whom no one esteems at three Skips of a Louse? / [...] / A Taylor is but the ninth Part of a Man.at ninth part of a man, n.
Derby Mercury 6 Sept. 3: Tho’ small was his Wit, he so acted his Part / That (I know not how ’twas) he cabbag’d her Heart.at cabbage, v.1
Derby Mercury 17 Feb. 1/3: The Lands within the Moratta Ditch all round Calcutta [...] and six hundred Yards all round the Ditch, I will give entirely to the [East India] Company.at Ditch, the, n.1
Derby Mercury 8 June 1/3: Large Stones and smaller Pebbles were flung up [and] the House was thus battered with Beggars Bullets.at beggar’s bullets (n.) under beggar, n.
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