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Title: The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Subjects: Peddlers and peddling
Publisher: London : J. B. Nichols
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Field Lane, commonly called Food and RaimentAlley, or Thieving Lane, aUas Sheeps Head Alley, with all itscourts and ramifications of Black Boy Alley, Saffron Hill,Bleeding Heart Yard, and Cow Cross, were continually perse-cuting their unfortunate neighbours, to whom they were asoffensive as the melters of tallow, bone burners, ^soap boilers,or cat-gut cleaners. This Food and Raiment Alley, sonamed from the cook and old clothes shops, was in formerdays so dangerous to go through, that it was scarcely possiblefor a person to possess his watch or his handkerchief by thetime he had passed this ordeal of infamy; and it is a fact, thata man after losing his pocket-handkerchief, might, on his im-mediate return through the Lane, see it exposed for sale, andpurchase it at half the price it originally cost him, of themother of the young gentleman who had so dextrously de-prived him of it. Watches were, as they are now in manyplaces in London, immediately put into the crucible to evadedetection.
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NEW ELEGY.Plate XIV. J. HIS figure was drawn and etched by the writer from anitinerant vendor of Elegies, Christmas Carols, and Love Songs.His father and grandfather had followed the same calling. When this man was asked what particular event he recol-lected, his information was principally confined to the Elegieshe had sold. He seemed anxious, however, to inform thepublic that in the year \7^3 the quartern loaf was sold at four-pence halfjjenny, mutton was two-pence halfpenny a pound,that porter was then three-pence a pot, and that the NationalDebt was twenty-four millions. Notwithstanding this mansmemory served him in the above jiarticulars, which perhaps hehad repeated so often that he could not forget them, yet hepositively did not know his age; he said he never troubled hishead with that, for that his father told him if he only men-tioned the year of his birth any scholar could tell it. Hisfather, he observed, cried the Elegy of that notorious magis-trate Sir Thomas de Veil,* whi

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