{"id":936,"date":"2012-03-01T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/types-of-vagabonds-1566\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:05:00","slug":"types-of-vagabonds-1566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/types-of-vagabonds-1566\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of vagabonds, 1566"},"content":{"rendered":"

Types of vagabonds, 1566<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The following is a list of the “23 Types of Vagabonds” as identified in a 1566 book by Thomas Harman<\/a> called “A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds.” These “types” were the chapter titles and a decade later compiled into a list in William Harrison’s book “Description of Elizabethan England, 1577<\/a>” I’m not sure why “male beggar children” are categorized as “Of Womenkind” unless it’s being suggested that they should be under the care of their mothers. From Lists Of Note:<\/p>\n

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1. Rufflers (thieving beggars, apprentice uprightment)<\/p>\n

2. Uprightmen (leaders of robber bands)<\/p>\n

3. Hookers or anglers (thieves who steal through windows with hooks)<\/p>\n

4. Rogues (rank-and-file vagabonds)<\/p>\n

5. Wild rogues (those born of rogues)<\/p>\n

6. Priggers of prancers (horse thieves)<\/p>\n

7. Palliards (male and female beggars, traveling in pairs)<\/p>\n

8. Fraters (sham proctors, pretending to beg for hospitals, etc.)<\/p>\n

9. Abrams (feined lunatics)<\/p>\n

10. Fresh-water mariners or whipjacks (beggars pretending shipwreck)<\/p>\n

11. Dummerers (sham deaf-mutes)<\/p>\n

12. Drunken tinkers (thieves using the trade as a cover)<\/p>\n

13. Swadders or peddlers (thieves pretending to be peddlers)<\/p>\n

14. Jarkmen (forgers of licenses) or patricoes (hedge priests)<\/p>\n

Of Womenkind:<\/p>\n

1. Demanders for glimmer or fire (female beggars pretending loss of fire)<\/p>\n

2. Bawdy baskets (female peddlers)<\/p>\n

3. Morts (prostitutes and thieves)<\/p>\n

4. Autem morts (married harlots)<\/p>\n

5. Walking morts (unmarried harlots)<\/p>\n

6. Doxies (prostitutes who begin with upright men)<\/p>\n

7. Dells (young girls, incipient doxies)<\/p>\n

8. Kinchin morts (female beggar children)<\/p>\n

9. Kinchin does (male beggar children)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“The 23 Types of Vagabond<\/a>” (Thanks, Randall de Rijk!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Types of vagabonds, 1566: The following is a list of the “23 Types of Vagabonds” as identified in a 1566 book by Thomas Harman called “A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds.” These “types” were the chapter titles and a decade later compiled into a list in William Harrison’s book “Description of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-f6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}