"Buy pens, pens, pens of the best, Excellent pens and seconds the least; Come buy good ink as black as jet, A varnish like gloss on writing 'twill set." The twelfth and last is a woman with a basket of Venice Glasses, such as a modern collector would give a great deal to get hold of:-- "Come glasses, glasses, fine glasses buy; Fine glasses o' the best I call and cry. Fine Venice-glasses,--no chrystal more clear, Of all forms and fashions buy glasses here, Black pots for good ale I also do cry; Come therefore quickly before I pass by." In the same collection, is a series of three plates, "Part of the Cries in London," evidently belonging to the same set, though only one has got a title. Each plate contains thirty-six criers, with the addition of a principal "Crier" in the centre. These were evidently executed abroad, as late, perhaps, as the reign of Charles II. No. 1 (with the title page) is ornamented in the centre with the "Rat-Catcher," carrying an emblazoned banner of rats, and attended by a boy. The leather investment of the rat-catcher of the present day is a pleasant memorial of the banner of the past. Beneath the rat-catcher, the following lines occur:-- "Hee that wil have neither Ratt nor Mowssee Lett him pluck of the tillies And set fire of his hows." Proving, evidently that the rat-catcher courted more to his banner than his poetry. Then follow the thirty-six cries, some of which, it will be seen, are extremely curious. The names are given beneath the cuts, but without any verse or peculiarity of cry. Cooper Ende of Golde Olde Dublets Blackinge man Tinker Pippins Bui a Matte Cooles Chimnie swepes Bui Brumes Camphires Cherry ripe Alminake Coonie skine Mussels Cabeches Kitchen stuff Glasses Cockels Hartti chaks Mackrill Oranges, Lemens Lettice Place Olde Iron Aqua vitæ Pens and Ink Olde Bellows Herrings Buy any Milke Piepin Pys Osters Shades Turneps Rosmarie Baie Onions.