...Domestic — Elizabeth, vol. Ixxvii., No. 60, p. 410). The well-known Poor Law Act, 39 Elizabeth, cap. 4, which was passed in 1596, contains, in the second...p'tending themselves to be Egipcyans or wandering in the Habile Forme or Attyre of counterfayte Egipcians." These are all the Acts which were specially directed...

...Domestic — Elizabeth, vol. lxxvii., No. 60, p. 410). The well-known Poor Law Act, 39 Elizabeth, cap. 4, which was passed in 1596, contains, in the second...Fellons, wandering and p'tending themselves to be Egipeyans or wandering in the Habite Forme or Attyre of counterfayte Egipeians." These are all the...

...Elizabethan Poor Law (1596) the frame of reference had been extended to include all persons 'pretending themselves to be Egipcyans or wandering in the Habite Forme or Attyre of counterfayte Egipcians'.97 The category had become diluted and broadened, itself an acknowledgement that distinctions...

...'rogues' in the statute books. Declared as rogues and vagabonds "...all tynkers wandering abroade...and all such p'sons, not being Fellons, wandering and p'tending themselves to be Egipcans or wandering in the habile Forme or Attyre of counterfayte Egipcians". An Act against vagrancy...

...from the justices (Mayall 1988: 189). By 1596 all 'tynkers wandering abroade,' as well as 'p'sons ... wandering and p'tending themselves to be Egipcyans...Habite Forme or Attyre of counterfayte Egipcians,' were declared rogues and vagabonds under one Poor Law Act (Mayall 1988: 189). Any differences or similarities...