An Act against vagrants, and wandring, idle, dissolute persons. : At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, anno Domini, 1656.

Observations upon the vagrant laws : proving that the statutes in Queen's Elizabeth's time are the most proper foundation for a law of that nature and that all alterations that have been made since, have been for the worse.

An act against vagrants, and vvandring, idle, dissolute persons. : At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, an. Dom. 1656.
Published: (1657)

An Act against vagrants, and vvandring, idle, dissolute persons. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, an. Dom. 1656.
Published: (1657)

Observations on the vagrant act, and some other statutes, and on the powers and duties of the justices of the peace /
by: Adolphus, John, 1768-1845

An act for punishing of such persons as live at high rates and have no visible estate, profession or calling answerable thereunto : at the Parliament begun at Westminister the 17th day of September, Anno Domini, 1656.
Published: (1657)

Whereas complaint hath been made to this court by the master and wardens of the Company of Merchant-Taylors and several citizens and inhabitants of the ward of Portsoaken : that great numbers of idle, vagrant, loose, and disorderly persons, have of late, and do still continue to assemble ... in or near Little Tower-Hill, leading towards Rosemary-Lane : and in a tumultuous manner, without lawful authority, continue a sort of market or fair for the buying and selling of old rags and cloths ...

An Exposure of the various impositions daily practised by vagrants of every description.
Published: (1842)

An Exposure of the various impositions daily practised by vagrants of every description.
Published: (1842)

By the mayor, to the alderman of the ward of [blank] : whereas divers good laws have been made, and are still in force, for the suppressing and punishing of vagrants, vagabonds, and other idle persons ...
Published: (1687)

By the King. Whereas in Nouember last, by our proclamation vvee commanded from Court all idle persons ...
Published: (1619)

An act for punishing of such persons as live at high rates and have no visible estate, profession or calling answerable thereunto : at the Parliament begun at Westminister the 17th day of September, Anno Domini, 1656.
Published: (1657)

An act for punishing of such persons as live at high rates and have no visible estate, profession or calling answerable thereunto : at the Parliament begun at Westminister the 17th day of September, Anno Domini, 1656.
Published: (1657)

Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police /
by: Nicolazzo, Sal
Published: (2020)

A letter to a member of Parliament, on the impropriety of classing players with rogues and vagabonds in the vagrant act /
by: Author of The Vagrant act in relation to the liberty of the subject
Published: (1824)

By the King. A proclamation, for the due observation of certain statutes made for the suppressing of rogues, vagabonds, beggers, and other idle disorderly persons, : and for relief of the poore.
Published: (1661)

By the mayor : the right honourable the lord mayor of the City of London, taking especial notice of inordinate liberty now used by vagrants and common beggars to wander about and pester the streets and common passage of this city ... and His Lordship deeply resenting the great fault and neglect of constables and other officers in not performing their duty to clear and free the streets and publick places from this living nuisance ...
Published: (1676)

A proposal for relief and punishment of vagrants : particularly such as frequent the streets and publick places of resort, within this kingdom.

Minutes of the evidence taken before the committee appointed by the House of Commons : to inquire into the state of mendicity and vagrancy in the metropolis and its neighborhood /

Masterless men : the vagrancy problem in England 1560-1640 /
by: Beier, A. L.
Published: (1985)

Vagrant nation : police power, constitutional change, and the making of the 1960s /
by: Goluboff, Risa Lauren, 1971-
Published: (2016)

Vagrants and vagabonds : poverty and mobility in the early American republic /
by: O'Brassill-Kulfan, Kristin
Published: (2019)

Don Francisco Driget, marques de Malespina, del Consejo de su Majestad, intendente de marina ... : instruccion que el rey ha mandado expedir por la Secretaria del Despacho Universal de la Guerra, para que persigan, y recojan las justicias todos los bagabundos, y malentretenidos, y se apliquen à la tropa, y reales arsenales, en consequencia de lo que està prevenido por leyes del reyno, con el fin de establecer la quietud en los pueblos, y seguridad en los caminos.
Published: (1751)

Public nusance [as printed] considered : under such heads of complaint as are most notorious within the city and suburbs of London : with useful hints for a speedy remedy, and a plain scheme for paving the streets without making it a jobb : to which is added, some thoughts on the great grivance of vagrants and desperate poor, with a proposal to preserve us from robbery and murder /

Orders, resolutions, report, and proposals for, and relating to, the passing vagrants in the county of Surry.
Published: (1760)

An Act of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, for the relief, and imployment of the poor, and the punishing of vagrants and other disorderly persons, within the City of London and liberties thereof : Whereby is constituted a corporation, or body politick, consisting of a president, deputy, treasurer, and assistants for the due ordering and putting in execution the said Act.
Published: (1650)

The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor : With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work.
by: Bush, Rice
Published: (1649)

Public nusance [as printed] considered : under the several heads of bad pavements, butchers infesting the streets, the inconveniences to the publick, occasioned by the present method of billetting the foot-guards, and the insolence of houshold-servants ... /

By the King. A proclamation for the ease of the citty of Oxford, and suburbs, and of the county of Oxford, of unnecessary persons lodging or abiding there
Published: (1643)

Advertisement by the sheriff-deput of Aberdeen shire, undersubscryveing : Whereas, by the foresaid proclamation, the Lords of their Majesties most honorable Privy Councill, doe strictly require and command obedience to the former proclamation and this, for setling of maintenance for the indigent and necessitous poor, and suppressing of vagabounds and sturdie beggers, ...
by: Fraser, Andrew, of Kinmundie
Published: (1693)

[By the] Lo[rd Mayor] of the city of Dublin : whereas great numbers of foreign beggars and idle vagrants of late have, and still do resort to this city from most parts of this kingdom, to the great scandal of the government of this city, and annoyance and prejudice of the inhabitants thereof ...
Published: (1682)

Orders and directions, together with a commission for the better administration of iustice, and more perfect information of His Maiestie : how, and by whom the lawes and statutes tending to the reliefe of the poore, the well ordering and training vp of youth in trades, and the reformation of disorders and disordered persons, are executed throughout the kingdome: which His royall Maiestie hath commanded to be published and inquired of, by the body of his Priuie Councell, whom he hath made principall commissioners for this purpose.
Published: (1630)

Act appointing the inhabitants within the city of Edinburgh to give up lists of all persons lodging within their houses ilk night.
Published: (1685)

Defining and punishing vagrancy in the District of Columbia.
Published: (1941)

Defining and punishing vagrancy in the District of Columbia.
Published: (1941)

Defining and punishing vagrancy in the District of Columbia.
Published: (1941)

Defining and punishing vagrancy in the District of Columbia.
Published: (1941)