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Chapmen: no, that's true, for you are no men: neither chapmen nor chopmen, nor chipmen nor shipmen; but if ye be chappers, choppers, or chippers, ye are but chapboys; and, chapboys, ye are double.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Petty Chapmen and Pedlars wandering abroad without a Licence 9.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick

Therefore take my rede, and abide till the Chapmen wend thither from Higham, who ride many in company.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

Fleets of Merchantmen are so many Squadrons of floating Shops, that vend our Wares and Manufactures in all the Markets of the World, and find out Chapmen under both the Tropicks.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Of the others, some were but lads, and of the Chapmen were three old men, and more than one blencher besides.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William