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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… to [the Council]. Has called together the scavengers and rakers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and other parishes, and finds that the rakers are the only persons to blame for the non-cleansing of … neglect, to have the work done, and charge the cost on the rakers. Has committed two rakers for their neglect. March 28. …
Memorials of London and London Life
… preceding ones, are omitted here. The Pool of the Thames. Rakers; the street-sweepers of those times. Dung-boats. Or …
Petitions to the Westminster Quarter Sessions, 1620-1799