Here is a short list of words and expressions used in Elizabethan's London.
Argent, bit, cross, lowre - coin, cash
abroad - out of doors
amulet - omelette
artificer - skilled workman
Barbary - North Africa
bellman - nightwatchman
blue-coat - a servant
brabble - quarrel
bong, bung - purse, pocket
broadsword - heavy old-fashioned sword for slashing
cant, peddler's french - criminal slang
cullis - meat broth
cuttle - knife
derrick - a hangman
foister - a pickpocket
french marbles - venereal disease
garnish - a bribe given to a prison officer green goose - goose under four months old
higgler - pedlar
jakes - a privy
kickshaw - fancy snack, from French quelquechose (something)
laystall - a dung-heap or midden
napery - table linen
nipper - a cutpurse
nunchion - snack between meals
ordinary - eating house, with the fixed price, set mealpaled - fenced
pippin - apple grown from the seed
potboy - youth employed to clear away in a tavern
poor John - salted hake
rear-banquet - late night snack
sack - sherry
shoulder-clapping - arrest
stew - a brothel
sucket - sweet e.g. sugar-plum
traffic - whore
trull - person of low character
ware-bench - shop counter
winchester goose - whore
zany - a clown
