Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sir Thomas Overbury” in chapter 1 of The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6.:

...and most depraved classes of English society. The estimation in which the tinker and his occupation were held, in the seventeenth century, may be learned from the quaint and humorous description of Sir Thomas Overbury . The tinker, saith he, is a movable, for he hath no abiding in one place; he seems to be devout, for his life is a continual pilgrimage, and sometimes, in humility, goes barefoot, therein making nece...
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