On 28 August 1695, Peter Lawman was sentenced to death for walking around Islington claiming to be an Egyptian for two days, and then later saying he was German not Egyptian. To DEATH. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t16950828-53&div=t16950828-53 …
What I find interesting about the way Egy and Egyptian are mobilized in the period is the way they can only reference the classical or antique past. They are not talking about Arab or Muslim Egyptians even though that’s what they were.