Thomas Mount's flash language (1791)

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Tue Jun 25 06:05:50 UTC 2002


   I was going through the online Alaska libraries, checking for Alaska slang
books.  I came across the _Confessions of Thomas Mount_ (1791).  This
supposedly contains a list of flash words.  However, when I ran "T(homas)
Mount" through the NYPL and LOC catalogs and through the online OED, nothing
came up.  Has anyone seen this work and recorded any of the flash words?
What words are they?



Title:      The confession, &c. of Thomas Mount, [microform] : who was
executed at Little-Rest, in the state of Rhode-Island, on Friday the 27th of
May, 1791, for burglary.
Author:     <A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=au&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Mount%2C+Thomas%2C">Mount, Thomas, 1764-1791.</A>
Publisher:      [Newport, R.I.] : Printed and sold by Peter Edes, in
Newport., [1791?]
Subjects:   <A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Mount%2C+Thomas%2C">Mount, Thomas,</A> <A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Mount%2C+Thomas%2C+1764%2D1791%2E">1764-1791.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Flash+Company%2E">Flash Company.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Burglary">Burglary</A>--<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Burglary+Rhode+Island%2E">Rhode Island.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Crime%2E">Crime.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Criminals%2E">Criminals.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Executions+and+executioners">Executions and executioners</A>--<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Executions+and+executioners+Rhode+Island%2E">Rhode Island.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Organized+crime%2E">Organized crime.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Crime">Crime</A>--<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Crime+Slang%2E">Slang.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Criminals">Criminals</A>--<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Criminals+Slang%2E">Slang.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Slang%2E">Slang.</A>
<A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=su&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Songs%2E">Songs.</A>

Description:    21, [1] p. ; (4to)
Notes:      Includes an account of the Flash Company, a confederation of
thieves, together with a list of Flash words and phrases, the Oath, and
several Flash songs.
Editor's preface signed: William Smith. Newport, May 20, 1791.
Imprint from colophon.
Title vignette.
Signatures: [A]4 B4 C4(-C4) (C3 verso blank).
Evans 23773
Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1259
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American
imprints. First series ; no. 23773).

Other Name:     Smith, William,

Series Title:   <A HREF="http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/A3qg7dfl.001?servers=aml&index=ti&material_filter=&language_filter=&location_filter=&location_group_filter=all&date_filter=&query=Early+American+imprints%2E">Early American imprints. no. 23773.</A>



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