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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to Sir Robert Cecil. 1601, April 18. Upon a watch set for vagrants, by reason of the number of them lately increased in … was at a fair at Waltham upon Thames and fell in with 18 vagrants who professed to be soldiers. Sundry of them in a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of the States and the service at Ostend. Besides such idle vagrants intended by your letters, there is about the city a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… people to work. Inconveniences (2) The ymployment of the vagrants be good or bad, they must still have their wages. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of poor artizans that would and cannot work, and of idle vagrants that may and will not work, whose increase threatens …