beadsmen

  (Well do I ween the only virgin there)   From crimes as numerous as her beadsmen be;

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

The betters are the factious noise of the alley, or the gamesters beadsmen that pray for them.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Beseeching your good mastership, for the love of Christ's passion, to help to the preservation of this poor monastery, that we your beadsmen may remain in the service of God, with the meanest living that any poor men may live with, in this world.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Indeed, solicitude did not terminate with them: the munificence of his disposition having spread itself through every county in which he owned a rood of land, as many prayers ascended for the repose of his spirit as ever petitioned Heaven from the mouths of "monkish beadsmen" in favor of power and virtue.

Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

The apparitor general, two sextons, two virgers, and eight beadsmen, walked before the King (as on ipreat occasions they usually do before the Bishop); the Lord in waiting (Earl of Oxford) on the KingV right hand, and the Bishop in his lawn on the left.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812