The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Rushers * RustyNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes