Beggars’ Badges - A Talk By David Dunlop (Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society)
Thursday 24th April 2025 - Armagh County Museum
Event: Beggars’ Badges - A Talk By David Dunlop
Date: Thursday 24th April 2025
Time: 8.00pm
Location: Armagh County Museum, The Mall East, Armagh BT61 9BE
Price: FREE
More Info: Telephone 028 3752 3070
Beggars’ Badges
A TALK BY DAVID DUNLOP
THURSDAY APRIL 24 | 8.00pm | ARMAGH COUNTY MUSEUM
Beginning in the early fifteenth century in Great Britain and Ireland, beggars' badges were badges and other identifying insignia worn by beggars. They served two purposes; to identify individual beggars, and to allow beggars to move freely from place to place.
David Dunlop’s talk will examine the use of these badges, placing them in their historical and social context.
ALL WELCOME
Extract from the minutes of a meeting of Mullavilly, Co Armagh, Parish Vestry, September 1820:
"Agreed that copper badges inscribed with Mullavilly be adopted for the purpose of badging the poor and that a description of the person receiving each badge be inscribed on the badge they received and that it be procured properly engraved same as the badge.
Resolved that it be recommended to the inhabitants of the district of Mullavilly not to assist beggars in future unless they produced a badge as the badges are now ready for delivery on application to the Revd Lake and Church Wardens.
Resolved that it is most strenuously recommended to the inhabitants not to harbour beggars permanently and particularly to those having cottars under them to use their influence to that effect."
Signed by order of the Committee, Geo Trotter.
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