Obs. [f. BEDLAM + -ER1.] A lunatic; spec. a Bedlam-beggar.

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c. 1675.  W. Blundell, Crogsby Rec., 137. A gentleman who passed as a Bedlamer.

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a. 1733.  North, Lives, I. 287. This country was then much troubled with Bedlamers.

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