| During the early modern period, ballad-mongers and ballad-writers were classified along with actors, beggars, and street peddlers as vagabonds. |
| Quacks or quack salvers are named from quicksilver ointment peddlers who treated syphilis in the 16th century. |
| Prices were partly determined by the efficiency of merchants, traders, and peddlers, as we will see in the next section. |
| The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night. |
| Sometimes women worked as cooks or as itinerant peddlers of small goods on the street. |
| Itinerant peddlers took rags and bones from customers in trade for manufactured goods. |
