All fencers, bearwards, common players in interludes and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of the realm or towards any other honourable personage of greater degree … which … shall wander abroad and have not license of two justices of the peace … shall be judged rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars.

--Vagrancy in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England

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May not be pre-17th century, but fun or interesting to sing

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