Monthly Archives: June 2009

conjuring up

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

AND be it also further enacted by the auctority aforesaid, That all persons calling themselves Schollers going about begging, all Seafaring-men pretending losses of their Shippes or Goodes on the Sea going about the Country begging, all idle persons going … Continue reading →

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Googlespeak

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

Was just looking for the full text of the “Act for punishment of rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars” (39 Eliz.) on Google, and the Revd. Spellchecker kindly suggested I might mean ‘study beggars’. A new term, I say, fresh out … Continue reading →

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