 Irish vagrants travelled in bands like a circus, and often assumed the title "gypsies" which was affected.There is little evidence of gangs of aggressive beggars roaming Elizabethan England, except in as much as "gentlemen of the road" and other soubriquet are mentioned in Shakespeare's legendary works.Informative though it was, much of the literature was based on the romanticism of the Robin Hood, as the lawless vagabond and thief.