The word rogue, a cultural icon of villainy and criminality, was first recorded in print in Thomas Awdeley’s "Fraternity of Vagabonds" (1561), and then in Thomas Harman’s "Caveat for Common Cursitors". The 1572 Vagabond Act defined a rogue as a healthy person who has no land, no master, and no legitimate trade or source of income; it included rogues in the class of idle vagrants or vagabonds. If a person was apprehended as a rogue, … Wikipedia
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