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	XVI. And be it also further enacted by the auctority aforesaid, That the presente ACte shallbe proclaimed in the next Quarter Session or Sessions in every Countye, and in such other Marcket Townes or Places as by the more part of the Justices of the Peace in the said Sessions shalbe agreed and appointed. This Acte to endure ''to the ende of the'' first Session of the next Parliament.</big>		XVI. And be it also further enacted by the auctority aforesaid, That the presente ACte shallbe proclaimed in the next Quarter Session or Sessions in every Countye, and in such other Marcket Townes or Places as by the more part of the Justices of the Peace in the said Sessions shalbe agreed and appointed. This Acte to endure ''to the ende of the'' first Session of the next Parliament.</big>
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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==

	<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin, "poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."		<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin, "poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
	<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin, "poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."		<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin, "poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
	<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin,~~</big>~~ "~~<big>~~poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."		<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin, "poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."

	The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds,~~</big>~~ "~~<big>~~Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.		The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds, "Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.
	=="An Acte for the Punishment of Vagabondes, and for the Relief of the Poore and Impotent” (1572)==		=="An Acte for the Punishment of Vagabondes, and for the Relief of the Poore and Impotent” (1572)==
	II. [Persons above the age of 14 taken begging, shall be com- mitted to Gaol until the next Session.]		II. [Persons above the age of 14 taken begging, shall be com- mitted to Gaol until the next Session.]
	V. And for the full expressing what persone and persones shalbe intended within this Braunche to be Roges Vacaboundes and Sturdye Beggers, to have and receave the punyshement aforesaid for the said lewde maner of Lyef ; It ys nowe publyshed declared and set foorth by the Aucthorytie of this present Parlyament, That all and every suche persone and persones that be or utter themselves to be Proctours or Procuratours, goinge in or about any Countrey or Countreys within this Realme, without sufficyent Aucthoritye deryved from or under our Soveraigne Ladye the Queene, and all other ydle persones goinge aboute in any Countrey of the said Realme, using subtyll craftye and unlawfull Games or Playes, and some of them fayninge them- selves to have knowledge in Phisnomye Palmestrye or other abused Scyences, whereby they beare the people in Hand they can tell their Destinyes Deathes and Fortunes, and suche other lyke fantasticall Imaginacions ; And all and everye persone and persones beynge whole and mightye in Body and able to labour, havinge not Land or Maister, nor using any lawfull Marchaundize Crafte or Mysterye whereby hee or shee might get his or her Lyvinge, and can gyve no reckninge howe hee or shee dothe law- fully get his or her Lyvinge ; and all Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree ; all Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen ; whiche said Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes Mynstrels Juglers Pedlers Tynkers and Petye Chapmen shall wander abroade and have not Lycense of two Justices of the Peace at the leaste, whereof one to be of the Quorum, wher and in what Shier they shall happen to wander;		V. And for the full expressing what persone and persones shalbe intended within this Braunche to be Roges Vacaboundes and Sturdye Beggers, to have and receave the punyshement aforesaid for the said lewde maner of Lyef ; It ys nowe publyshed declared and set foorth by the Aucthorytie of this present Parlyament, That all and every suche persone and persones that be or utter themselves to be Proctours or Procuratours, goinge in or about any Countrey or Countreys within this Realme, without sufficyent Aucthoritye deryved from or under our Soveraigne Ladye the Queene, and all other ydle persones goinge aboute in any Countrey of the said Realme, using subtyll craftye and unlawfull Games or Playes, and some of them fayninge them- selves to have knowledge in Phisnomye Palmestrye or other abused Scyences, whereby they beare the people in Hand they can tell their Destinyes Deathes and Fortunes, and suche other lyke fantasticall Imaginacions ; And all and everye persone and persones beynge whole and mightye in Body and able to labour, havinge not Land or Maister, nor using any lawfull Marchaundize Crafte or Mysterye whereby hee or shee might get his or her Lyvinge, and can gyve no reckninge howe hee or shee dothe law- fully get his or her Lyvinge ; and all Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree ; all Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen ; whiche said Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes Mynstrels Juglers Pedlers Tynkers and Petye Chapmen shall wander abroade and have not Lycense of two Justices of the Peace at the leaste, whereof one to be of the Quorum, wher and in what Shier they shall happen to wander;

	And all Comon Labourers being persons able in Bodye using loytering, and refusinge to worke for suche reasonable Wages as ys taxed and comonly gyven in suche partes where such persones do or shall happen to dwell ; and all counterfeytures of Lycenses Passeportes and all users of the same, knowing the same to be counterfeyte ; And all Scollers of the Universityes of Oxford or Cambridge that goe about begginge, not beinge aucthorysed under the Seale of the said Universities, by the Comyssarye Chauncelour or Vicechauncelour of the same ; And all Shipmen pretendinge Losses by Sea, other than suche as shalbe hereafter provided for ;~~</big>~~		And all Comon Labourers being persons able in Bodye using loytering, and refusinge to worke for suche reasonable Wages as ys taxed and comonly gyven in suche partes where such persones do or shall happen to dwell ; and all counterfeytures of Lycenses Passeportes and all users of the same, knowing the same to be counterfeyte ; And all Scollers of the Universityes of Oxford or Cambridge that goe about begginge, not beinge aucthorysed under the Seale of the said Universities, by the Comyssarye Chauncelour or Vicechauncelour of the same ; And all Shipmen pretendinge Losses by Sea, other than suche as shalbe hereafter provided for ;

	And all persones delivered out of Gaoles that begge for their Fees or do travayle to their Countreys or Freendes, not having Lycense from two Justices of the Peace of the same Countye where he or shee was delyvered; shalbee taken adjudged and deemed Roges Vacaboundes and sturdy Beggers, intended of by this present Act, togeather with all and everye suche other persone and personnes as shalbe hereafter for altering and breaking of such good Orders as in the second parte of this presente Acte shalbe establyshed for the Releef of the aged and ympotent poore people, set forth and declared to bee Vacaboundes.		And all persones delivered out of Gaoles that begge for their Fees or do travayle to their Countreys or Freendes, not having Lycense from two Justices of the Peace of the same Countye where he or shee was delyvered; shalbee taken adjudged and deemed Roges Vacaboundes and sturdy Beggers, intended of by this present Act, togeather with all and everye suche other persone and personnes as shalbe hereafter for altering and breaking of such good Orders as in the second parte of this presente Acte shalbe establyshed for the Releef of the aged and ympotent poore people, set forth and declared to bee Vacaboundes.

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	<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin,</big> "<big>poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."		<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin,</big> "<big>poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."

	~~<big>~~The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds,</big> "<big>Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.~~</big>~~		The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds,</big> "<big>Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.
	=="An Acte for the Punishment of Vagabondes, and for the Relief of the Poore and Impotent” (1572)==		=="An Acte for the Punishment of Vagabondes, and for the Relief of the Poore and Impotent” (1572)==
	II. [Persons above the age of 14 taken begging, shall be com- mitted to Gaol until the next Session.]		II. [Persons above the age of 14 taken begging, shall be com- mitted to Gaol until the next Session.]

	V. And for the full expressing what persone and persones shalbe intended within this Braunche to be Roges Vacaboundes and Sturdye Beggers, to have and receave the punyshement aforesaid for the said lewde maner of Lyef ; It ys nowe publyshed declared and set foorth by the Aucthorytie of this present Parlyament, That all and every suche persone and persones that be or utter themselves to be Proctours or Procuratours, goinge in or about any Countrey or Countreys within this Realme, without sufficyent Aucthoritye deryved from or under our Soveraigne Ladye the Queene, and all other ydle persones goinge aboute in any Countrey of the said Realme, using subtyll craftye and unlawfull Games or Playes, and some of them fayninge them- selves to have knowledge in Phisnomye Palmestrye or other abused Scyences, whereby they beare the people in Hand they can tell their Destinyes Deathes and Fortunes, and suche other lyke fantasticall Imaginacions ; And all and everye persone and persones beynge whole and mightye in Body and able to labour, havinge not Land or Maister, nor using any lawfull Marchaundize Crafte or Mysterye whereby hee or shee might get his or her Lyvinge, and can gyve no reckninge howe hee or shee dothe law- fully get his or her Lyvinge ; and all Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree ; all Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen ; whiche said Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes Mynstrels Juglers Pedlers Tynkers and Petye Chapmen shall wander abroade and have not Lycense of two Justices of the Peace at the leaste, whereof one to be of the Quorum, wher and in what Shier they shall happen to wander;		V. And for the full expressing what persone and persones shalbe intended within this Braunche to be Roges Vacaboundes and Sturdye Beggers, to have and receave the punyshement aforesaid for the said lewde maner of Lyef ; It ys nowe publyshed declared and set foorth by the Aucthorytie of this present Parlyament, That all and every suche persone and persones that be or utter themselves to be Proctours or Procuratours, goinge in or about any Countrey or Countreys within this Realme, without sufficyent Aucthoritye deryved from or under our Soveraigne Ladye the Queene, and all other ydle persones goinge aboute in any Countrey of the said Realme, using subtyll craftye and unlawfull Games or Playes, and some of them fayninge them- selves to have knowledge in Phisnomye Palmestrye or other abused Scyences, whereby they beare the people in Hand they can tell their Destinyes Deathes and Fortunes, and suche other lyke fantasticall Imaginacions ; And all and everye persone and persones beynge whole and mightye in Body and able to labour, havinge not Land or Maister, nor using any lawfull Marchaundize Crafte or Mysterye whereby hee or shee might get his or her Lyvinge, and can gyve no reckninge howe hee or shee dothe law- fully get his or her Lyvinge ; and all Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree ; all Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen ; whiche said Fencers Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes Mynstrels Juglers Pedlers Tynkers and Petye Chapmen shall wander abroade and have not Lycense of two Justices of the Peace at the leaste, whereof one to be of the Quorum, wher and in what Shier they shall happen to wander;

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
	<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin,</big> "<big>poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed~~</big><big>~~."~~</big>~~		<big>These two acts (the first from 1572, the other 1597) are commonly labeled as the Vagabond Acts, as they describe the legal category of a vagabond and detail how the state should punish these individuals. They also prescribe steps the state must take to provide for improvised people who do not fall under the category of vagabonds. According to the law these are two sides of the same coin,</big> "<big>poore aged and ympotent personnes should as necessarylye be provided for, as the said Roges Vacabondes and Sturdye Beggers repressed."

	<big>The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds,</big> "<big>Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.</big>		<big>The law is often cited by early modern theater historians since it labels as vagabonds,</big> "<big>Comon Players in Enterludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree." This law then formalized and necessitated the patronage system within the theatrical world, requiring all theater companies to secure a patron if they wanted to avoid being arrested. Alongside actors, the law criminalizes all sorts of other professions that tend to make money while traveling, such as "Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen (repairperson)." The seems to define all labor that isn't localized and stationary as illegal.</big>