pedester

It is not very long since we were addressed in Water Street, Blackfriars, by a middle-aged man in a garb of seedy black, who handled his broom like one who played upon a strange instrument, and who, wearing the words _pauper et pedester_ written on a card stuck in his hat-band, told us, in good colloquial Latin, a tale of such horrifying misery and destitution, that we shrink from recording it here.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 Various 1836