 | Francis Grose - English language - 1811 - 244 pages
...it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell. The purse had silver in it ; and he that could...adjudged a judicial nypper : according to their terms of nrt, ajbt/iter was a pick-pocket ; a rypper was a pick purse, or cut-purse. • OBS *J BE JOYFUL. I'll... | |
 | Francis Grose - English language - 1823 - 342 pages
...it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell. The purse had silver in it ; and he that could...judicial nypper: according to their terms of art, a foyster was a pick-pocket ; a nypper was a pick-purse, or cut-purse. NYP-SHOP. The Peacock, in Gray'g-Inn*laue,... | |
 | Francis Grose, Pierce Egan - English language - 1823 - 342 pages
...it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell. The purse had silver in it; and he that could...judicial nypper: according to their terms of art, af oyster was a pick-pocket; a nypper was a pick-purse, or cut-purse. NYP-SHOP. The Peacock, in Gray's-Inn-Iane,... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...had in it certain counters, and was hung round with hawks' bells, and over them hung a little sacting bell.* The purse had silver in it ; and he that could take out a counter without any noise, was allowed to be a public /<ii/«f<-r;t and he thai could take a piece of silver out of... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...in it certain counters, and was hung round •with hawks' bells, and over them hung a little sacring bell.* The purse had silver in it ; and he that could take out a counter without any noise, was allowed to be a public f oyster A and he that could take a piece of silver out of the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 262 pages
...certain counters, and was hung about with hawks'-bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring-bell : the purse had silver in it ; and he that could take out a counter without any noise was allowed to be a public Fbyster ; and he that could take a piece of silver out of the... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...had in it certain counters, and was hung round with hawks' bells, and over them hung a little sacring bell.* The purse had silver in it ; and he that could take out a counter without any noise, was allowed to be a public foytter ;\ and he that could take a piece of silver out of the... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...certain counters, and was hung about with hawk's bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell. The purse had silver in it; and he that could take out a counter without any noise, was allowed to be a publicybys/er; and he that could take a piece of silver out of the pocket... | |
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - London (England) - 1851 - 860 pages
...noise was allowed to be a public Foyster i and he that could take a piece of silver out of the purse without noise of any of the bells was adjudged a judicial Nypper, according to their terms of art. A Foyster was a pick-pocket; a Nypper was a pickpurse or cut-purse.'' — Maitland's London, i. 269,... | |
 | William Gray Fearnside - 1851 - 418 pages
...certain counters, and was hung about with hawk's-bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring-bell; the purse had silver in it: and he that could take out a counter without any noise was allowed to be a public foyster: and he that could take a piece of silver out of the purse... | |
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Purse without Noise of any of the Bells, was adjudged a judicial Nypper, according to their Terms of Art. A Foyster was a Pickpocket, a Nypper was a Pickpurse or Cutpurse. 
