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A History of the County of Hampshire
… it is said, from having been the gathering-place of beggars who waited there until the city gates should be …
The Environs of London
… good fashion and esteem, besides a great number of common beggars, have perished and died, 1649; (collected 15s.). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… clerk and sexton. 67 The corporation also paid a beadle of beggars and provided him with red and blue livery: his duties … chamberlains paid for minimal scavenging by the beadle of beggars and for cleaning gutters and the watercourse in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Bishops of Ely and Winchester to wash the feet of 39 beggars, first in warm water, and afterwards with wine, which …