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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… posture as to be able to cover Exuma and protect the salt rakers from the depredations of the Spaniards of Baracoa (the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a commission from Governor Woods Rogers to protect the rakers of salt at Exuma. We have been attended frequently by …
A New History of London
… the water-side, make not their lay-stalls where the common rakers of this city use to repose and lay all their soilage, … away by them with their dung boats; and that the said rakers shall lay their said dung, carried in their said …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… Nashe farmer of Finsbury for his pains yearly to see the rakers and others resorting to the laystall (laystow) there …
A New History of London
… sink or fewer, but be kept in tubs or baskets until the rakers came: that the scavengers should fee the streets … imposed, and that the dirt was daily taken away by the rakers. For the safety and peace of the city, all inhabitants …
Charles II, 1662: An Act for repairing the High wayes and Sewers and for paving and keeping clean of the Streets in and about the Cities of London & Westminster and for reforming of Annoyances and Disorders in the Streets of and places adjacent to the said Cities and for the Regulating and Licensing of [Hackey] Coaches and for the enlarging of several strait & inconvenient Streets and Passages.
Statutes of the Realm
… Provided alwaies That the respective Scavingers Rakers or ( 9) Undertakers shall have liberty by the approban … of Countrey Carts returning empty And the said Scavengers Rakers or other Undertakers shall have liberty to passe … be it further Enaed by the Authority aforesaid That the Rakers Scavengers or other Officers thereunto appointed every …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1670
… to ship one whole culverin, 12 demi-culverins, and 10 rakers on board a vessel which is to be sent to transport …