Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell (1610)

Full Text

EEBO/TCP

Date

1610

Author

S. R. (alternate name for Samuel Rid )

Book title

Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell; His defence and Answere to the Belman of London. Discouering the long concealed Originall and Regiment of Rogues, when they first began to take head, and how they haue succeeded one the other successiuely vnto the sixe and twentieth yeare of King Henry the eight, gathered out of the Chronicle of Crackeropes, and (as they terme it) the Legend of Losseks.

Publication place

London

Printer

Edward Allde

Publisher

John Budge and Richard Bonian

Transcription source

Henry E. Huntington Library 69149 (lacks ¶2)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

canting

Summary

Canting terms

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

E1v-E4v

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Alston

IX.232

Schafer

1610 R

STC

21028.5

Criticisms

Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. 29-32. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 38-43. view record