Haggart. Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias Barney M’Coul, written by himself while under sentence of death, curious frontispiece of the prisoner in irons, intermixed with all the Slang and Cant words of the day, to which is added a Glossary of the same, 12mo. 1821.
Hall’s (B.H.) Collection of College Words and Customs, 12mo. Cambridge (U.S.), 1856.
Very complete. The illustrative examples are excellent.
Halliwell’s Archaic Dictionary, 2 vols. 8vo. 1855.
An invaluable work, giving the Cant words used by Decker, Brome, and a few of those mentioned by Grose.
Harlequin Jack Shepherd, with a Night Scene in Grotesque Characters, 8vo. (About 1736.)
Contains Songs in the Canting dialect.
Harman’s (Thomas, Esq.) Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called vagabones, set forth for the utilitie and profit of his naturall countrey, augmented and inlarged by the first author thereof; whereunto is added the tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank, with the true report of his behaviour and also his punishment for his so dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer or reader thereof, newly imprinted, 4to. Imprinted at London, by H. Middleton, 1573.
Contains the earliest Dictionary of the Cant language. Four editions were printed—
| William Griffith, | 1566 |
| ... | 1567 |
| ... | 1567 |
| Henry Middleton, | 1573 |