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What is a beadsman?

What is a beadsman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.
  2. A man employed in praying; especially one who prays for another.
  3. (historical, England) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
  4. (Scotland, historical) A public almsman; one who received alms from the king, and was expected in return to pray for the royal welfare and that of the state; a licensed beggar.
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What can be better touched than the figures of the beadsman and the old nurse Angela?
Henry followed the beadsman, who hurried on towards Falconcleugh.
Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God.
A beadsman, it is scarcely requisite to remark, is an individual who is bound to pray for the person by whom he is supported.
A beadsman was an inmate of an almshouse who was bound to pray for the founders of the house.

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