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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8104542" data-attributes="member: 6777737">For those struggling with 18th century spelling, this:[excerpt]All vagabundis, fulis, bardis, ſcudlaris, and ſiclike idill pepill, ſall be brint on the cheek, and ſcourgit with wandis, except thay find ſum craft to win thair living.[/excerpt]Translates to:[excerpt]All vagabonds, fools, bards, scudlars, and suchlike idle people, shall be burnt on the cheek, and scourged with wands, except they that find some craft to win their living.[/excerpt]It's also worth knowing that lords wanted their peasants to work the land because then they could sell the crops, which meant taxes, tariffs, paid rent, and so on. The production of goods from the land was how lords made money, so they made laws that made wandering around and not working the land as illegal as feasible. The lords didn't like this sort of person because they didn't make the lord money. I'm not so sure the same would be true for the average person.I mean, if you're going to make a claim it's generally considered good form to back it up. It's your job to present your arguments and evidence, not the job of your audience. I do agree that simply saying "citation needed" is kind of rude, but it's not like this was sealioning or something.And yet they changed the name of "thief" to "rogue" because people inferred that thieves had to steal stuff all the time. And there are still people who thing the word "ranger" is somehow related to archery; it's so widespread that it's common for video games to have the ranger class specialize in archery and have no wilderness or travel skill at all.</blockquote>

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