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or one cutting of your sow's side, no bigger than my arm ; or one piece of your salt meat to make poor Tom a sharing-horn ; or one cross of your small silver, towards a pair of shoes ; well and wisely, give poor Tom an old sheet to keep him from the cold ; or an old doublet and jerkin of my master's ; well and wisely, God save the king and his council. " Such is a history drawn from the very archives of mendicity and imposture ; and written perhaps as far back as the reign of James the First : ...but which prevailed Tom o' Bedlams. 313 Sir "Walter Scott first obligingly suggested to me that these roving lunatics were out-door pensioners of Bedlam, sent about to live as well as they could with the pittance granted by the hospital. The fullest account that I have . Obtained of these singular persons is drawn from a manuscript note transcribed from some of Aubre^-'s papers, which I have not seen printed. " Till the breaking out of the civil wars, Tom o' Bedlams did travel about the countr}^ ; they had been poor distracted men, that had been put into Bedlam, where recovering some soberness, they were licentiated to go a begging ; i.
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