As our good friend Maria is fond of singing '...when we count, we begin with 1, 2, 3. When we read we begin with a firm foundation of period sources, research materials and a good bibliography!'

Resources and Bibliography

While not an exhaustive source by any means these are some of our favorites and our 'go to's' when starting. We will add more periodically. We like to read!
most sources can be located through such services as www.archive.org

General Resourses and Reading


Hoyle, Beaufort & Jones. An Epitome of HOYLE. Dublin: R. M. BUTLER, Bookseller, 1791.
Seymour, Richard. The Court Gamester, 4th Ed.: London: E. 1728
Jones, Charles. Hoyle’s Games, Improved. London: Peterborough Court. 1814.
Cotton, Charles. The Compleat Gamester. London: Gun, St. Paul’s Church. 1699. Erdnase, S. W. Expert at the Card Table . U.S.: Pub. by Author. 1902. Steinmetz, Andrew. The Gaming Table: it’s Votaries and Victims. London: Tinsley Brothers. 1870.
Hartman, Thomas. CAVEAT OR WARNING for Common Cursetors. London: T. Bensley. 1814
Collier, Jeremy. An essay upon gaming, in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes. London: George Strahan. 1720
Collier, Jeremy. Essays upon Several Moral Subjects in Two Parts. London: Richard Sare. 1702
Brown, Tom. Amusements, serious and comical, Calculat'd for the merriment of london. London: John Nutt. 1700
Farmer, John. Musa Pedestris, Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes 1536-1896. London: Private Priinting. 1896
Northbrooke, John. A Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays and Interludes with Other Idle Pastimes from the Earliest Edition about A.D. 1577. London: Shakespeare Society. 1843
Bailey, N. The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary. London: William Cavell. 1775
Quinn, John. Gambling and Gambling Devices. Canton, Oh: J. P. Quinn Co. 1912
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. London: Hooper and Wigstead. 1796
Chafetz, Henry. Play the Devil, a History of Gambling in the United States from 1492-1955. New York: Bonanza Books. 1960


From the article "Cant: Language of the Universal Travelers"

Dekker, Thomas. Villanies Discovered by Lanthorne and Candlelight, and the help of a new cryer called O perse O. London. Matthews, Augustine, Printer. App. 1622
Bailey, N. A Collection of the Canting Words and Terms, both ancient and modern, used by Beggars, Gypsies, Cheats, House-breakers, Shop=Lifters, Foot-Pads, Highway-Men &c. London. L. Quinn 1737
Resistance and non-resistance stated and decided: in a dialogue betwixt a hotspur high flyer, a canting low churchman and a B—f censor of Great Britain
The Canting Academy, or the Devil’s Cabinet opened wherein is shown the mysteries and villainous practices that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age possibly Richard Head, 1684(?) Awdely, John. Fraternitye of Vacabondes, London, Awdely: 1561 Moore-Carew, Bampfylde. An Apology for the life of Bampfylde Moore-Carew, commonly called the King of Beggars. Londoin, Goedby, 1765 Viles, Edward. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth. London, Chalto and Windua, 1907 J.S.F. Demonology, or Natural Knowledge Revealed. London, Bumpus, 1827 Marsh, Adrian. "The Origins of the Gypsy People: Identity and Influence in Romani History". Fall/Winter 2003 Vol 1 No. 9 www.domreseaqrhcenter.com/

From the article "Colonial Dumping Ground"

Vaver, Anthony. Bound With an Iron Chain. Pickpocket Publishing, 2011.
SMITH, ABBOT EMERSON. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776. University of North Carolina Press, 1947.
Ekirch, Roger. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. New York: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1987
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 January 2020), Ordinary of Newgate's Account, February 1760 (OA17600211).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 January 2020), May 1745, trial of John Simmons* (t17450530-14).
Johnson, Samuel Boswell’s Johnson, Vol. II, pg. 312; Penny Cyclopaedia, XXV. 138
Memoirs and Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, ed. T.J. Randolph, London, 1829 Vol. 1 p. 406
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 4, July 1, 1750, through June 30, 1753, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 130–133.

DeFoe An Effeectual Scheme for the Immediate preventing of street Robberies
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Vol. 4, 1739-1741 published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London

From the article "Quack...er...Cracked No More"

Agarwal, A., and R. Agarwal. “Education for Health - the Practice and Tradition of Bonesetting.” Education for Health, Wolter Kluwer, Apr. 2010, www.educationforhealth.net/downloadpdf.asp?issn=1357-6283;year=2010;volume=23;is sue=1;spage=225;epage=225;aulast=Agarwal;type=2. Grundhauser, Eric. “The Rapid Rise and Spectacular Fall of London’s Greatest Bonesetter.” Atlas Obscura, 28 Nov. 2017, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crazy-sally-mapp-bone-setting. Joy, Robert. “THE NATURAL BONESETTERS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SWEET FAMILY OF RHODE ISLAND: A Study of an Early Phase of Orthopedics.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 28, no. 5, 1954, pp. 416–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44443890. Limbird, J. “Eccentric Biographies: Mrs. Mapp, the Bonesetter, or Shape Mistress.” The Cabinet of Curiosities, or Wonders of the World Displayed, Stamford Street, A. Applegath, 1824, pp. 187–90. Google Books, www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cabinet_of_Curiosities/2Y4AAAAAYAAJ?hl=en. “Mapp, Mrs Sarah (Crazy Sally).” Epsom and Ewell History Explorer, 25 July 2019, eehe.org.uk/?p=25029. The Theatre. “Lavinia Fenton.” The Theatre: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts, vol. 20, 1892, p. 168. ProQuest, www.proquest.com/docview/7910683. Walton, Geri. “Bonesetters: Joint Manipulators and Musculoskeletal Fixers.” Geri Walton, 14 June 2020, www.geriwalton.com/bonesetters-joint-manipulators-and-musculoskeletal-fixers. Wikipedia contributors. “Hans Sloane.” Wikipedia, 25 May 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sloane. Wikipedia contributors. “Sally Mapp.” Wikipedia, 8 May 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Mapp.

From the article: "Life on the Wicked Stage: an Introduction to the Roaring Girl and the German Princess"

Whibley, Charles A Book of Scoundrels gutenberg.org 2006 Vol. 10 No. 1 Clark, Sandra. "Hic Mulier, Haec Vir, and the Controversy over Masculine women" Studies in Philology. 82.2 (Spring 1985): 157-183 Unwin, T. Fisher Lives of Twelve Bad Women, Illistrations and Reviews of Feminine Turptitude set forth by Imperial Hands. London, 1897 Bernbaum, Ernest Mary Carleton Narratives 1663-1673 A Missing Chapter in teh History of the English Novel London: Oxford University Press, 1914 Carleton, John The Ultimate Vale of John Carleton of the Middle Temple London, by John Carleton, 1663 Carletoin, Mary The Case of Madam Mary Carleton Lately Stiled the German Princess, Truely Stated: With an Historical Relation of Her Birth, Education and Fortunes: in an appeal to His Illustrious Highness Prince Rupert by the Said Mary Carleton, London, 1663 Kirkman, Francis, The counterfeit lady unveiled, Being a full account of the birth, life, most remarkable actions, and untimely death of Mary Carleton, known by the name of the German Princess, London: Printed for Peter Parker, at the Leg an dStar, over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1673

From the article: "An Opera for a Beggar"

Statutes of the Realm 1712: 10 Anne c.20: An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anonymous, A Proposal for a National Reformation of Manners, John Dunton, London 1694 Defoe, Daniel. A True & Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the late Jonathan Wild, Not made up of Fictions and Fable, but taken from his Own Mouth and collected from PAPERS of his Own Writing. London, 1725 Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 March 2020), January 1741, trial of Mary Young , alias Jenny Diver Elizabeth Davis , alias Catherine the Wife of Henry Huggins (t17410116-15) Umwin, Fisher T. Lives of Twelve Bad Women, Illustrations and Reviews of Feminine Turpitude set forth by Impartial Hands. London. 1897 Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 March 2020), June 1728, trial of Mary Webb (t17280605-9 Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 March 2020), January 1741, trial of Mary Young , alias Jenny Diver, Elizabeth Davis , alias Catherine the Wife of Henry Huggins (t17410116-15) Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 March 2020), Ordinary of Newgate's Account, March 1741 (OA17410318) Defoe, Daniel. The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes. London, 1724 Defoe, Daniel. A Narrative of all the Robberies, Escapes &c. of JOHN SHEPPARD, Applebee, 1724