Just Some Beggar?

The cobbler’s wife thought of this stranger as some foreign beggar. So, she suggested leaving the woman with Mr.Hill, the parish Overseer of the Poor, the in charge of arresting all ‘common beggars… rogues and vagabonds.’ It was a law to send such people was prison workhouse or they could be transported in the irons of Australia. Mr. Hill wasn’t convinced of her being a beggar rather he too was mystified by her charms.