AND THE CRIES OF TO-DAY WITH Heaps of Quaint Cuts INCLUDING Hand-coloured Frontispiece : BY Andrew W. Tuer, Author of “Bartolozzi and his Works,” &c. [Image unavailable.] 1887. N E W   Y O R K: Published for The Old London Street Company, 728, BROADWAY. [Rights Reserved: Wrongs Revenged! PRINTED AT THE LEADENHALL PRESS, LONDON, E.C. T 4,237.  ...

T HE “Cries” have been sufficiently well received in bolder form to induce the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at a more popular price....

D ATES, unless in the form of the luscious fruit of Smyrna, are generally dry. It is enough therefore to state that the earliest mention of London Cries is found in a quaint old ballad entitled “London Lyckpenny,” or Lack penny, by that prolific writer, John Lydgate, a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmunds, who flourished about the middle of the fifteenth century. These cries are particularly quaint, and especially valuable as a record of the daily life of the time. * * * * * * * “ I love a Balla

From “Notes and Queries.” London Street Cry. —What is the meaning of the old London cry, “Buy a fine mousetrap, or a tormentor for your fleas ”? Mention of it is found in one of the Roxburghe ballads dated 1662, and, amongst others, in a work dated about fifty years earlier. The cry torments me, and only its elucidation will bring ease. Andrew W. Tuer. The Leadenhall Press, E.C. London Street Cry (6th S. viii. 348).—Was not this really a “tormentor for your flies ”? The mouse-trap man would prob

25, Argyll Road, Kensington , W., 24th April, 1885 . Dear Mr. Tuer ,— The Cockney sound of long ā which is confused with received ī , is very different from it, and where it approaches that sound, the long ī is very broad, so that there is no possibility of confusing them in a Cockney’s ear. But is the sound Cockney? Granted it is very prevalent in E. and N. London, yet it is rarely found in W. and S.W. My belief is that it is especially an Essex variety. There is no doubt about its prevalence i