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County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series
… Hodgkins of Drury Lane, constable, for not punishing vagrants; paid 2s. 6d. for his offence. Respited: William …
A History of the County of Oxford
… those employed by the university, should be punished as vagrants. 6 In the late 17th century many city waits also …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… laws, and flooded the adjoining counties with undesirable vagrants, to provide for and deal with whom quite overtaxed … and if found again wandering, hanged. Three relapsed vagrants found wandering in the parish of St. Giles were … should be adopted. The best method of dealing with the vagrants was considered to be the institution of a house of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the peace, rigidly enforced the statutes against vagrants, the report from Oxfordshire was frequently: 'All … justices was the issue of orders for the transference of vagrants from one parish to another, and the decision of … and in the castle gaol occur: thieves, sheep-stealers, vagrants, 'idle incorrigible and dissolute persons,' who had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Mimms churchyard 45 and the two major roads also brought vagrants and other unwanted fugitives 46 from plague-stricken …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of £40 a year by the county authorities for passing vagrants. 28 Frequent petitions were made by the constables …