(at Cambridge,) the followers of the Rev. Charles Simeon, fellow of King’s College, author of Skeletons of Sermons, and preacher at Trinity church; they are in fact rank methodists.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Silver Laced * SimkinNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes