Priggers and Palliards, Autem Morts and Doxies - great names for medieval miscreants
...
10. Fresh-water mariners or whipjacks (beggars pretending shipwreck)
11. Dummerers (sham deaf-mutes)
12. Drunken tinkers (thieves using the trade as a cover)
13. Swadders or peddlers (thieves pretending to be peddlers)
14. Jarkmen (forgers of licenses) or patricoes (hedge priests)
...
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/23-types-of-vagabond.html