Elizabethan beggers

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  • Created on: 28-08-17 20:32
bawdy baskets
baskets on arms with pins and silk,steal clothes of hedges and when thier mistress is out steal food to sell.
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spinners
didn't beg just worked for littlee money
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counterfeit cranks
pretended to be ill, **** soap to fake epileptic fits
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rogue
crawls as if they have no strengh in legs, tattered clothes (sell any other) hoped people to pity them
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clapper dudgeons
lay crowfoot and salt on body then put linen cloth on- ripped off made wounds, traveled to diffrent markets and begged
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abraham man
walks with sheet around body, pretends to be mad.
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upright man
carries staff, doesnt beg but demands money, helps himself to vagrants thier money and woman.
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doxy
carries all stolen things in pack, as she walks she knits and baits chickens with the wool, huck and bread
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Card 2

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didn't beg just worked for littlee money

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spinners

Card 3

Front

pretended to be ill, **** soap to fake epileptic fits

Back

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Card 4

Front

crawls as if they have no strengh in legs, tattered clothes (sell any other) hoped people to pity them

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

lay crowfoot and salt on body then put linen cloth on- ripped off made wounds, traveled to diffrent markets and begged

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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