[31] Breeches and boots.
[32] Gipsy flask.
[33] How he exposes his pistols.
[34] For an account of these, see Grose. They are much too gross to be set down here.
[35] "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle."—Earl of Northumberland's Household Book.
[36] Perhaps the most whimsical laws that were ever prescribed to a gang of thieves were those framed by William Holliday, one of the prigging community, who was hanged in 1695:
Art. I. directs—That none of his company should presume to wear shirts, upon pain of being cashiered.
II.—That none should lie in any other places than stables, empty houses, or other bulks.
III.—That they should eat nothing but what they begged, and that they should give away all the money they got by cleaning boots among one another, for the good of the fraternity.
IV.—That they should neither learn to read nor write, that he may have them the better under command.