1736 Canting Dictionary / A / AUTEM-DIVERS [rogue]
Church-Pick-pockets; also Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Autem Divers in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).