Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a beggar.

1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: Drinking there a pot of English ale, two Maunders borne and bred vp rogues wooing in their natiue language.
1611		Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: I am no such nipping Christian, but a maunderer upon the pad.
1622		J. Fletcher ‘Maunder’s Initiation’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 19: Cast your nabs and cares away, / This is maunder’s holiday.
1647		New Merry Letany 1: From a disguized Thiefe, and a maunders milling [...] Libera nos.
c.1661		A Beggar I’ll Be in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 26: A Craver my Father, a Maunder my Mother, / A Filer my Sister, a Filcher my Brother, [...] A Litter my Aunt, and a Beggar my self.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 3: He is admitted into their ragged society, administered by the principal Maunder, or Roguing Stroler.
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Mawnders, rogues, Beggars.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Maunders Beggers.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 196: Duds and Ruffpecks romboil’d by Harmanbecks, / and won by Maunders feats [Which the Constable after us hies, / our Tricks us away purloin].
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 100: [as cit. c.1661].
1749		B.M. Carew ‘The Oath of the Canting Crew’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 50: Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish toyle, or other wanderer.
1754		‘The Beggar’ Muses Delight 133: [as cit. c. 1661].
1821		W.T. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry II vi: Cadges make holiday, / Hey, for the maunder’s joys, / Let pious ones fast and pray, / They save us the trouble, my boys.
1834		H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1864) 183: Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 53: manderer [sic] A beggar.
1929		Advertiser (Adelaide) 25 Oct. 32/8: No ‘maunderer’ (tramp) nor ‘fencer’ (door to door hawker) need ‘clem’, (starve), or do without ‘chow chow’ (food) if he follows the many ‘patterans’ (private marks) which tramps make on or near the doors of generous householders.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 158: mounder A beggar.