Autumn cacklers or prick-ears, dissenters of whatever denomination.
Autumn divers, church pickpockets; but often used for churchwardens, overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who manage the poor’s money.
Autumn jet, a parson.
Babes in the Wood, criminals in the stocks.
Back’d, dead.
Badge Coves, parish pensioners.
Balsam, money.
Bam, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug.
Bandog, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a fierce mastiff.
Bandero, a widow’s mourning peak; also a musical instrument.