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indicate that Roma engaged in criminal activities, or those associated with them and with a good knowledge of their language, were using cant, but as a separate vocabulary - Angloromani was used for day to day matters, while cant was used for criminal activities. A thief in 1839 claimed that the cant he had seen in print was nothing like the cant then used by Roma, thieves and beggars. He also said that each of these used distinct vocabularies, which overlapped; the Roma having a cant word for everything, and the beggars using a lower style than the thieves.
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There is doubt as to the extent to which the words in canting literature were taken from street usage, or were adopted by those wishing to show that they were part of a real or imagined criminal underworld. The transmission has almost certainly been in both directions. The Winchester Confessions
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The influence of this work can be seen from the independent life taken on by the "Beggar King Clause", who appears as a real character in later literature. The ceremony for anointing the new king was taken from Thomas Harman and described as being used by
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in 1745, claimed to have been chosen to succeed "Clause Patch" as King of the Beggars, and many editions of his work included a canting dictionary. Such dictionaries, often based on Harman's, remained popular, including
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show high commonality. This record also distinguished between Romany and Cant words and again the attributions of the words to the different categories is consistent with later records.
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which was copied by Thomas Dekker and other writers. That such words were known to a wide audience is evidenced by the use of cant words in
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Ribton-Turner, C. J. 1887 Vagrants and Vagrancy and Beggars and Begging, London, 1887, p. 245, quoting an examination taken at
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Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence
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Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England
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to have been devised around 1530 by two vagabond leaders - Giles Hather, of the
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Vocabulum, or, The rogue's lexicon: compiled from the most authentic sources
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Vocabulum, or, The rogue's lexicon: compiled from the most authentic sources
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Transcription of canting terms from 1736 and published then by Nathan Bailey
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by striking them on their right breast, so that their purse may be stolen
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A caveat or warning for common cursetors, vulgarly called vagabonds.
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A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew
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countries. It is now mostly obsolete and used in literature and
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An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language
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The canting crew : London's criminal underworld, 1550-1700
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he published for performance at markets, fairs and camps.
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of the kind which have always been popular in literature.
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Cant used by various peoples in English-speaking countries
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Princeton, New Jersey. p. 28. 681: 637:Mikanowski, Jacob (5 December 2013). 1083:18th and 19th Century Thieves' Cant 851: 754: 360:- a house that can easily be robbed 247:(1611). It was used extensively in 245:The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cut-Purse 156:, included examples in his account 32:et le Petit. 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Index


Maistre Françoys Villon
Jargon
Ballades
modern times
cant
Great Britain
English-speaking
fantasy role-playing
Cant
rogue literature
Elizabethan era
England
pamphlets
theatre
Samuel Rid
"Egyptians"
The Devil's Arse
Derbyshire
cozenings
knaveries
villainies
Thomas Harman
justice of the peace
A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors
vagabonds
Essex
Robert Copland
Robert Greene
cozenage

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