Some Account of the Hospital And Parish of St Giles in the Fields Middlesex
Some Account of the Hospital And Parish of St Giles in the Fields Middlesex
John Parton
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14 for levelling the ground and digging the sewer. ('*) In 1744, Thomas Leaper made a proposal to the parish, which was ac- cepted, to pave the parish for 21 years at £. 22 per annum. The places to be paved and kept in repair are named as follows : " In Tottenham-court road> and at the Pound ; before St. Giles's church, and the round house ; before the almshouses ; before the watchhouse in Holbom j and before the two sides of the church in Bloomsbury. " N. B. — The first appointment of commissi...oners for paving was in 1771. Cleansing. — Scavengers are spoken of as part of the parish establishment Cleansing. As early as 1638, but no act of Parliament for regularly cleansing it appears to have been obtained until after the Restoration, when we find the following entry relative to it in the churchwardens accounts : — 1661. — P*" to the messengers in the House of Lords, when -1 we petitioned Parliament for an act for cleansing the streets, I £. 1. 8 s. And for printing the petition - - - - - -J The partial cleanings, or removal of nuisances from particular parts of the parish, which took place before, seem from an entry before quoted to have been directed by special orders from government ; the landlord of the Black Beare in Black Beare-yard being required in 1639 to open and cleanse a well in the street at the Black Bear-yard, " according to an order from the Privi/ Council.
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