The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ’s cross prefixed before and after the twenty-four letters.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
To Chouse * ChristeningNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes