ANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT.

_The Streets to be kept Clean._

First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered, that every
householder do cause the street to be daily prepared before his
door, and so to keep it clean swept all the week long.

_That Rakers take it from out the Houses._

That the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carried away by the
rakers, and that the raker shall give notice of his coming by the
blowing of a horn, as hitherto hath been done.

_Laystalls_[85] _to be made far off from the City._

That the laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the city and
common passages, and that no nightman or other be suffered to empty
a vault into any vault or garden near about the city.

_Care to be had of Unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of Musty Corn._

That special care be taken that no stinking fish, or unwholesome
flesh, or musty corn, or other corrupt fruits, of what sort soever,
be suffered to be sold about the city or any part of the same.

That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked unto for musty and
unwholesome casks.

That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or conies, be
suffered to be kept within any part of the city, or any swine to be
or stray in the streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded
by the beadle[86] or any other officer, and the owner punished
according to the act of common council; and that the dogs be killed
by the dog killers appointed for that purpose.

ORDERS CONCERNING LOOSE PERSONS AND IDLE ASSEMBLIES.

_Beggars._

Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of
rogues and wandering beggars that swarm about in every place about
the city, being a great cause of the spreading of the infection,
and will not be avoided[87] notwithstanding any orders that have
been given to the contrary: it is therefore now ordered that such
constables, and others whom this matter may any way concern, take
special care that no wandering beggars be suffered in the streets
of this city, in any fashion or manner whatsoever, upon the penalty
provided by law to be duly and severely executed upon them.

_Plays._

That all plays, bear baitings,[88] games, singing of ballads,
buckler play,[89] or such like causes of assemblies of people, be
utterly proh