Fear of the vagrant arose from the more general threat to the social order that they represented.
Some of the clans eventually settled down again, while others remained permanently or temporarily vagrant.
The small number of unidentified birds, wintering migrants and vagrants outside their known breeding range were ignored.
A swelling army of masterless men and landless, or nearly landless, vagrants became a growing concern for elites.
Most unions only had a policeman to hand in the evenings when the vagrants were being admitted.
In a very few instances, those removed out of the parishes were notorious rogues or vagrants.
No wonder, then, that its hard-pressed neighbours to the east encouraged vagrants to walk a little further before seeking a bed for the night.
Its indiscriminate round-up of refugees led to their being lumped together by the press alongside ex-convicts and vagrants.
