- boothaler - marauder, plunderer
- diver - fig. a pickpocket
- footpad - one who robs pedestrians
- silk-snatcher - one who steals bonnets
- stewsman - probably a brothel keeper - "since the words stew and stewholder both mean a bawd, I'm guessing that a stewsman would be a brothel-keeper as well. Whether bawdry counts as a criminal activity varies at different times and places."
- thimblerigger - a professional sharper who runs a thimblerig (a game in which a pea is ostensibly hidden under a thimble and players guess which thimble it is under)
Friday, March 2, 2012
What did People do in a Medieval City?
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