"Demaunders for glimmer."
As found in Thomas Harman's "Warning for Common Vagabonds." 1567
"These demunders for glimmer (fire) be, for the most parte women; those goe with fayned lycences and counterfayted wrytings, having the hands (signatures) and seals of suche gentlemen as dwelleth nere o the place where they fayne themselves to have been burnt, and their goods consumed with fyre. They will most lamentabl demaunde your charitie, and wyll quickly shed salte teares, they be so tender harted. They wyll never begge in that shire where their losses ( as they say) was. The upright men be familiare with these kynde of women, and one of them helpes another."