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jarkmen

jark +? -man

jarkman (plural jarkmen)

(obsolete) A forger of counterfeit seals, licenses or other documents.
(obsolete) A writer of begging letters.
- Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1
  And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.

1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. Quoted in plural (jarkmen)

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