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AFFIDAVIT-MEN,

Knights of the Post: mercenary and abandoned Wretches, who used to frequent the Temple and other Inns of Court, in order to be in Readiness to swear any thing that was proposed to them.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ABRAM
ABRAM-COVE
ABRAM-MEN
ACADEMY
ADAM TILER
AFFIDAVIT-MEN
ALSATIA the Higher
ALSATIA the Lower
ALSATIANS
ALTEMAL
AMBIDEXTER

Nearby:

Affidavit Men in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).