...the newly passed Vagrancy Act (5 Geo. IV., c. 83, s. 4). Under section four of the new act, 'persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose' were to be considered as 'rogues and vagabonds', punishable with three months' hard labour, or by a...

...rogues and vagabonds after the Napoleonic Wars, partially superseded it with a clause stating that: 'Every person pretending or professing to tell Fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's Subjects . . . shall on conviction be kept to hard labour for three months.'160 Yet the 1735 Act continued to...

...Geo.FV. c. 83,s.4), along with the almost obsolete Witchcraft Act ( 1 736). Under the new act 'persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose' were to be considered as 'rogues and vagabonds', punishable with three months' hard labour, or by a...

...from the reign of George II (1727-1760); or the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which read in part: "Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond. " Apparently...

...have already been given amply prove the conclusion at which he arrived, that when the statute says " every person " pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose " upon any of His Majesty's subjects," the statute meant that if you did those things, not in order...

...5th Act of George IV., c. 63, it is, among many other things, enacted that " every person pretending to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means,...device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon" any British subject shall be liable to apprehension, and, on conviction, to be committed to prison,...