Author: ACT OF PARLIAMENT
Title: An Act for the better enlightening the open Places, Streets, Lanes, Passages, and Courts, and for the better regulating the Nightly Watch and Bedels within the Parish of Christ Church in the County of Middlesex
Description: London, printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1738 [2], 779-790pp 32x21, disbound extract Edges browned and slightly chipped, very good thus for fragile item. The Act established the power to charge rates to pay for the various improvements in the relatively new parish of Christ Church in Spitalfields, and sets out the reliefs and penalties to be applied to non-payers, as well as setting out the duties of the watchmen and beadles in this rapidly urbanising part of London.

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