worklads

Updated: May 22, 2025

There were so few people abroad that the way was clear enough, and yet there were some apprentices or worklads on their way home; while in that neighbourhood, just on the edge of Spitalfields, a lower colony of petty thieves and receivers kept up the trade of two or three disreputable taverns, where dogs, birds, and pigeons were exchanged or betted on.

Thomas Archer - Miss Grantley's Girls: And the Stories She Told Them