UTILITIE and PROFFYT of hys NATURALL COUNTRYE. Newly Augmented and Imprinted, Anno Domini M.D.LXVII. Viewed, Examined, and Allowed according unto the Queen's Majestye's Injunctions. Imprinted at LONDON, in Flete-street, at the Signe of the Faulcon, by WILLIAM GRYFFITH; and are to be solde at his Shoppe in Saynt Dunstone's Churche Yarde, in the West. XV THE CANTING ACADEMY; OR, VILLANIES DISCOVERED: WHEREIN ARE SHEWN The Mysterious and Villanous Practices of that Wicked Crew, commonly known by the Names of HECTORS, TRAPANNERS, GILTS, &c. With several NEW CATCHES and SONGS. ALSO. A COMPLEAT CANTING DICTIONARY, *ཙྪཱི BOTH OF Old Words, and such as are now most in Use. A Book very useful and necessary (to be known, but estat as not practised) for all People. Printed by F. LEACH, for MAT. DREW; and are to be sold by the Booksellers. N.B. The Dedication is signed R. HEAD. OTHERWISE (VULGARLY) CALLED NEW GATE. Giving an Account of the HUMOURS of those COL- Being very useful to all Persons, either Gentle or Simple, in shewing them the Manner of the ROBBERIES and CHEATS, Committed by Villains on the Nation; whereby they may be the more careful of being wronged by them for the future. LONDON: PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1703. THE SCOUNDREL'S DICTIONARY; OR, AN EXPLANATION OF THE CANT WORDS used by THIEVES, HOUSEBREAKERS, STREET ROBBERS, and PICKPOCKETS about Town. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED Some CURIOUS DISSERTATIONS on the ART of WHEEDLING, AND A Collection of their FLASH SONGS, with a PROPER GLOSSARY. The whole printed from a Copy taken on one of their Gang, in the late Scuffle between the Watchmen and a Party of them on Clerkenwell Green; which Copy is now in the Custody of one of the Constables of that Parish. LONDON: Printed for J. BROWNNELL, in Pater-noster-row. M.DCC.LIV. [Price Sixpence.] b "which they name Canting, but others Pedlars "French, a speache compact thirty years since "of English, and a great number of odde "words of their own devising, without all order or reason; and yet such it is, as none but "themselves are able to understand. The first "deviser thereof was hanged by the neck, as a just reward, no doubt, for his desartes, and a "common end to all of that profession. 66 A gentleman (Mr. Thomas Harman) also "of late hath taken great paines to search out the "secret practizes of this ungracious rabble; and, "among other things, he setteth down and de scribeth twenty-two sorts of them, whose names "it shall not be amisse to remember, whereby " each one may gather what wicked people, they "are, and what villany remaineth in them." For this list see the word Crew.-This was the origin of the cant language; its terms have been collected from the following Treatises: The Bellman of London, bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the kingdom. Profitable for gentlemen, lawyers, merchants, citizens, farmers, masters of households, and all sorts of servants, to marke, |