Identifier: criesoflondonexh00smit (find matches)
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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t with a bell; and at every lanes end, andat the wards end, gave warning of fire and candle, and tohelpe the poor, and pray for the dead. It appears from the Bellmans Epistle, prefixed to theLondon Bellman, published in 1640, that he came on atmidnight, and remained ringing his beU till the rising up ofthe morning. He says, I will wast out mine eies with mycandles, and watch from midnight till the rising up of themorning: my bell shall ever be ringing, and that faithfullservant of mine (the dog that follows me) be ever biting. Leases of houses, and household furniture stufi^, were soldin 1564 by an out-cryer and bellman for the day, who retainedone farthing in the shilling for his pains. The friendly Mr. George Dyer, late a printseller of Comp-ton-street, presented to the writer a curious sheet print con-taining twelve Trades and Callings, published by Overton, with-out date, but evidently of the time of Charles the Second, fromwhich engraving the Third Plate of a Watchman was copied.
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WATER-CARRIER.Plate IV. A HE Conduits of London and its emirons, which wereestablished at an early period, supplied the metropoHs withwater until Sir Hugh Middleton brought the New River fromAmwell to London, and then the Conduits gradually fell intodisuse, as the New River water was by degrees laid on inpipes to the principal buildings in the City, and, in the courseof time, let into private houses. When the above Conduits supplied the inhabitants, theyeither carried their vessels, or sent their servants for the wateras they wanted it; but we may suppose that at an earlyperiod there were a number of men who for a fixed sumcarried the water to the adjoining houses. The first delinea-tion the writer has been able to discover of a Water-carrier, isin Hoefnagles print of Nonsuch, published in the reign ofQueen Elizabeth. The next is in the centre of that truly-curious and morerare sheet wood-cut, entitled, Tittle-Tattle, which from thedresses of the figures must have been engraved either

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