A felon who brought two buyers or receivers to justice was to be pardoned. He felt that he was branded as a felon. I didn't relish being conveyed from place to place, like a felon changing prisons, at somebody else's expense. If one is caught again begging, he shall be deemed a felon. More @Wikipedia
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