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Just being a vagrant was a crime in Tudor times. The authorities believed that people who did not work should be punished for their idleness. ... The punishment for heresy was being burned at the ...
- Introduction
- Who Were Vagrants?
- Policing
- Punishments
- Vagrant Contractors
- The Crisis of The 1780s
- Introductory Reading
- Online Resources
- Footnotes
The eighteenth century inherited from the sixteenth and seventeenth a body of statute law that saw in vagrancy and vagabondage a powerful social threat deserving of serious punishment, and a category of offence that was distinct from the issue of settled poverty. As the system of legal pauper settlement evolved between the 1660s and the 1690s the o...
Following a centuries-old tradition of associating vagrantswith a series of specific occupations and activities, the 1744 Vagrancy Act simply listed who could be prosecuted under the law. The list was a long one that owed as much to tradition as to eighteenth-century occupational categories, and included: 1. Patent gatherers, gatherers of alms unde...
Policing vagrancy - or more accurately arresting aggressive beggars and prostitutes - was the responsibility in the City of London of City Marshal, who worked through the wards to direct the constables and nightwatchmen; and in Middlesex fell to the beadles and constables directly. From 1662 a reward of two shillings per arrest was offered. This wa...
Besides listing the categories of people who might fall within the definition of a vagrant, the 1713 and 1744 Acts divided vagrants into three broad classifications: 1. Idle and Disorderly Persons 2. Rogues and Vagabonds 3. Incorrigible Rogues A different punishment was specified for each. For the Idle and Disorderly, essentially the settled but un...
Because the removal of vagrants fell to the county after 1700, there gradually developed a sophisticated system of contracting out the task of transportation out of the county. In Middlesex up until 1757, vagrants were passed directly by parish constables, who then claimed a mileage allowance, but from that date, and for the rest of the century Mid...
The impact of the system of punishment and removal of vagrants is difficult to assess. Up until the 1780s the implementation of the provisions of the Vagrancy Acts was haphazard and subject to periodic bursts of carceral enthusiasm. The rise of the use of more informal passes (and friendly passes in London and Middlesex), meant that the number of i...
Beattie, John. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.Eccles, Audrey. The Adams' Father and Son, Vagrant Contractors to Middlesex 1754-94. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 57 (2006), pp. 83-91.Hitchcock, Tim. "You bitches... die and be damned": Gender, Authority and the Mob in St Martin's Round-House Disaster of 1742. In Hitchcock, Tim, and Shore, Heather, eds, The Streets of London: Fro...Innes, Joanna. Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford, 2009.1 For the now classic work on the evolution of the laws against vagrancy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, see A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 (1985). ⇑ 2 11 William III c. 18. ⇑ 3 13 Anne c. 26. ⇑ 4 17 George II c. 5. ⇑ 5 23 George III c. 88; and 27 George III c. 11. For a discussion of the 1787 Act...
Vagrants and vagabonds were treated harshly in Tudor times. Laws were passed to punish vagrants in various ways. At first beggars and vagrants were all treated the same. However, over time ...
Jun 28, 2022 · 28 Jun 2022. Rough sleeping is on the rise. Image: Blodeuwedd/Flickr. The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act that criminalises rough sleeping is no more. The controversial law, which has already been repealed in Scotland, makes rough sleeping and begging a criminal offence in England and Wales. Since early 2021, the Westminster government has pledged to ...
Aug 28, 2020 · According to official legislation, The Vagrancy Act is summarised as “An Act for the Punishment of idle and disorderly Persons, and Rogues and Vagabonds, in England.”. If you think the language sounds kind of archaic, you’d be right: created in the early 19th century, the law means, in today’s terms, that it is an offence in England and ...
Aug 20, 2022 · The Police, Crime, Sentencing Courts Act provides for the 1824 Act to be repealed in full in England and Wales. This includes repealing section 3 of the Act, which currently makes begging an ...
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Jan 23, 2023 · Cultural meanings came to be attached to be attached to the vagrant, who was mostly viewed as masculine, even though, in reality, many vagrants were women. ... In histories of crime and punishment ...
