Excerpt from Vagrancy Laws and Vagrants: A Lecture, Delivered to the Members of the Salisbury Literary and Scientific Institution, at Their Request, on Monday, March 23, 1868There are no data from which we can estimate the number of the mendicants and vagrants of this period of our history but In the reign of Henry VII. It became so great as to excite the alarm of the Government and the nation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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