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Abraham-men
The Abraham-men (alternative spellings: Abram-Man or Abraham Cove) were a class of lunatics allowed out of restraint, in the Tudor and Stuart periods, to roam about England and beg; in reality, they were a set of impostors who wandered about the country pretending to be mad.
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