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The devil to pay; or, the Wives Metamorphos'd. An opera. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. Written by the author of The beggars wedding. With the musick prefix'd to each song.
Coffey, Charles, -1745.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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The grand mistake: or, all men happy if they please. Shewing, I. How beggars may be as happy as kings. II. The sick as easie as the sound. III. The barren woman as contented as the fruitful. By the author of The pleasures of a single life.
Author of The pleasures of a single life.Date: MDCCV. [1705]- Books
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Heads of a bill, for increasing the fund, for the uses and purposes of the corporation, or president and assistants, instituted for the relief of the poor, and for punishing vagabonds and sturdy beggars, in the county of the city of Dublin. Presented by the Right Honourable Thomas Conolly.
Ireland. Parliament.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
Playthings / Alex Pheby.
Pheby, Alex.Date: 2015- Books
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Polly Peachum on fire, The beggars opera blown up, and Capt. Mackheath entangled in his bazzle-strings. ... Wherein also are contained, I. Polly's Description of a Terrible Hairy Monster, lately discovered by her and S-- R---- F----. II. A Dialogue between Polly and Punch William, in the Quaker's Dialect.
Date: 1728- Books
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A letter from a citizen of Dublin, to a Member of Parliament. Containing a political scheme for the relief of the poor of Ireland; for easing the nation of beggars, and other Burthensome Members; and for increasing the Commerce and Strength of His Majesty's Dominions, particularly the British Colonies, in North America.
Citizen of Dublin.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The history of the London club[s] or, The citizens pastime, Particulakly [sic], The lying club, The Yorkshire club, The thieves club, The beggars club, The broken shopkeepers club, The basket VVomans club. With a sermon preach'd to a gang of high-way-men. Part I. By the author of the London spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1709- Books
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London work-house. A true report of the great number of poor, vagrant, and other children, as also of the other grown beggars, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, educated, maintained, and imployed by the President and Governors, for the poor of the city of London, at the work-house in Bishops-Gate-Street, in the year past.
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: 1707]- Books
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The complete vintner; or The delights of the bottle. With the humours of dinner spungers. Cook treasers. Beef beggars. Jill tiplers. Bubble upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Table Whitlers. Drawer biters. Plate twirlers. Spoon pinchers. Pan soppers. And other tavern tormenters. A merry poem. To which is added, a song extempore over a bowl of punch. By the author of the Cavalcade.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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A new dictionary of all the cant and flash languages, both ancient and modern; used by gipsies, beggars, swindlers, shoplifters, Peterers, Starrers, Footpads, Highwaymen, Sharpers, And every Class of Offenders, from a Lully Prigger to a High Tober Gloak. Carefully arranged and selected from the most approved Authors, and from the Manuscripts of Jonathan Wild, Baxter, and Others. By Humphry Tristram Potter, Attorney at Law, Dedicated, Dedicated, by Permission, to William Addington, Esq.
Potter, Humphry Tristram, 1747-1790.Date: [1796?]- Books
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A new dictionary of all the cant and flash languages, both ancient and modern; used by gipsies, beggars, swindlers, shoplifters, peterers, starrers, footpads, highwaymen, sharpers, And every Class of Offenders, from a Lully Prigger to a High Tober Gloak. Carefully arranged and selected from the most approved Authors, and from the Manuscripts of Jonathan Wild, Baxter, and Others. By Humphry Tristram Potter, Attorney at Law, Deceased. Dedicated, by Permission, to William Addington, Esq. ̀̀get Wisdom.''
Potter, Humphry Tristram, 1747-1790.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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La contessina, Or, The proud beggars : a comic opera : to be performed at the King's Theatre, in the Hay-Market. The poetry by Signor Coltellini of Leghorn; poet to Her Majesty, the empress of Russia, &c. Curtailed and directed by C.G. Bottarelli. The music by Signor Gusmann, composer in the service of His Majesty the emperor. The translation by Bottarelli, jun. teacher of languages.
Coltellini, Marco, active 18th century.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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London work-house. A true report of the great number of poor, vagrant, and other children, as also of the other grown and able poor, beggars, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, educated, maintained, and imployed by the President and Governors, for the Poor o f the City of London, at the Work-House in Bishops-Gate-Street, in the Year last past.
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: 1705]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, deceptions, which are daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies, children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads, gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers, jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers, kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps, pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses, pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.
King, RichardDate: [between ca. 1778 and 1805?]- Books
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A Trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The art of walking in St. James's park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with coffee-house politicians, exposed. A dissertation on the craft of the town-beggars, and the monstrous pride and insolencies of women-servants: the humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the day of execution. The horse-guards, prov'd to be better subjects, though worse soldiers than the foot-guards. A remarkable character of Sir Timothy Testy, knight. The real causes of the debaucheries practis'd upon the fair sex; shewing the true reasons why such infinite numbers of fine young creatures are daily forc'd into the service of the publick. People of fashion required to keep their young daughters out of their kitchens. A merry water-ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the miseries of that part of the town described; with some account of a tumult near King Edward's stairs, occasioned by a sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a chamber-pot from a two-pair of stairs window on a decay'd baronet's wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Books
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Proposals for maintaining of the poor, and discouraging of vagabonds, and vagrant and sturdy beggars; humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the Honourable the Lord Provost and magistrates of the city of Edinburgh, and the justices of peace of the shires of Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Haddingtoun [sic]; to the effect, that the whole may be under their cognizance, at the next quarter-sessions.
Date: 1726]- Books
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Woman's revenge: Or, a match in Newgate a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. The third edition. To which is added, a compleat key to the beggar's opera, By Peter Padwell of Padington, Esq;
Bullock, Christopher, 1690?-1724.Date: 1728- Books
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The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars: being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: Giving A Particular Account Of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs of the Gipsies, with the Method of electing their King: and a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars. Being An impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies, with the Method of electing their King. And a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the beggars. Being An impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: Giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies, with the Method of electing their King. And a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the beggars. Being An impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: Giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies, with the Method of electing their King. And a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The Life and adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the beggars: Being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies, to the present time; wherein the motives of his conduct will be explained, and the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe, be related; with his travels twice through great part of America. A particular account of the origin, government, language, laws, and customs of the Gypsies; their method of electing their king, &c.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The Life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars: Being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton school at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gipsies; wherein the motives of his conduct are related and explained: [The] great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe; with his travels twice through great part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies; with the method of electing their king: and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The life and adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars. Being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies; Wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his travels twice through great part of America. Giving A Particular Account Of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs of the Gipsies; with the Method of Electing their King: and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The life and adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars. Being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies; Wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his travels twice through great part of America. Giving A Particular Account Of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs of the Gypsies; with the Method of Electing their King: and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
Date: [1785?]