Show beggary in old england queen elizabeth put down her royal foot and the golden age of begging v as halted before the passage of the statute of 1572 thousands of vaga bonds most of them able bodied scalps scamps baade a living by wandering the length and breadth of england begging stealing and pestering householders as they went in great corn panics they swarmed from shire to shire at that time the profession numbered about 10 roving beggars who throve on the indiscriminate char ity distributed at monasteries before their dissolution at weddings or oth er countryside feasts and at the great haron lal homes |