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Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… 10 Annual acts as to bread, &c.; acts as to regraters, beggars, and weapons in booths, [ Ib. fol. 1056.] 11 November … 49 4. Payment of prebendaries; mending ports; acts as to beggars, [ Ib. fol. 21, 22.] 49 14. Nightly watch to be kept, … coal and candle furnished to lords of session; act as to beggars and the poor, [ Ib.] 51 September 4. Repair of wells; …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… of the laws [ Ib.], 38 May 31.Order for removal of beggars; house in St. Mary's Wynd to be fitted up for a … [ Ib. fol. 90],. 67 Mar. 19.Orders to be taken for sturdy beggars and leper folks [ Ib.], 67 1578. Page Mar. 28.Dingwall house to be prison for beggars; expense of bailies to Stirling; payment to soldiers …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… be given to certain poor failed fol.ks sustained by alms. Beggars without such tokens to be banished, [ C.B. Adv. Lib., … of the Incorporation of Websters.] 203 1521, May 13. Beggars, able to work, to leave the town; filth to be …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… of the Incorporation of Cordiners] 78 October 7. What beggars shall be allowed to remain in the town, [ C.R. Adv. … 88 16. Acts made in preparation for entry of the Queen: Beggars to be kept within their bounds and closes; red to be … the Cross to be completed; causeway to be kept clean; beggars found in the burgh to be scourged; certain persons …
The Environs of London
… a child, she gained great applause by acting Polly in the Beggars' Opera, in Madame Violante's Lilliputian Company. Her …