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R you must imagine and know that they had aboue two hundred roagues and
vagabonds in a Regiment: and although they went not altogether, yet
would they not be aboue two or three miles one from the other, and now
they dare no more be knowne by the name of Egiptians, nor take any other
name vpon them then poore people. But what a number were executed
presently vpon this statute, you would wonder: yet not withstanding all
would not preuaile: but still they wandred, as before vp and downe, and
meeting once in a yeere at a place appointed: sometimes at the Deuils
arse in peake in Darbishire, and otherwhiles at Ketbrooke by
Blackeheath, or elsewhere, as they agreed still at their meeting. Then
it pleased Queene _Elizabeth_ to reuiue the Statute before mentioned, in
the twentith yeare of her happy raigne, endeauouring by all meanes
possible to roote out this pestiferous people, but nothing could be
done, you see vntill this day: they wander vp and downe in the name of
Egiptians, cullouring their faces a