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During the course of editing Pascal Bonenfant's Memoirs I have necessarily needed to do a considerable amount of research into life in 18th Century Britain in general and London in particular.
There is a very similar, although not identical, list produced as part of the 1891 London Census.
Strictly speaking, a distinction should be made between general slang terms and terms only used by the London underworld.
BRITISH SLANG
Dictionary of English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, Yorkshire slang ... if it's spoken in the British Isles it's here.
The traveller's guide through Ireland - Joseph Robertson (of Edinburgh.) - Google Books