SCAVENGER  , now one who cleans the streets, removes refuse, generally a workman employed by the See also:

• LOCAL

local public See also:

• HEALTH

health authority (see PUBLIC HEALTH) . The name is properly " scavager " or " scaveger " (the n being intrusive as in " passenger " and " messenger "), an See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official who was concerned with the See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt of See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom duties and the inspection (scavage) of imported goods . The " scavagers " are found with such officials of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City of See also:

• LONDON

London as aleconners, beadles, &c., in the See also:

• LIBER

Liber Albus (Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, ed . See also:

• RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1853– )

Riley) . These officials seem to have been charged also with the cleaning of the streets, and the name superseded the older rakyer for those who performed this See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty . See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat takes " scavage " to be a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French corruption of " showage," spelled variously as schewage, See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage, &c., and, therefore, to be derived from " show," to exhibit for inspection . ' The view that he was See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul again in Io8 is disproved by See also:

• BLOCH, MARK ELIEZER (c. 1723–1799)

Bloch (see See also:

• BIBLIOG

bibliog.) . SCAVENGER'S DAUGHTER (corruption of Skevington's or Skevington's Daughter), an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of See also:

• TORTURE (from Lat. torquere, to twist)

torture in use during the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . It was invented by See also:

• SIR

Sir W . Skevington, See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant of the . See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower in the reign of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry VIII . It consisted of a wide See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron hoop which by means of screws was tightened See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the victim's See also:

• BODY

body until the See also:

• BLOOD

blood was forced from the See also:

• NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

nose and ears, and sometimes even from the hands and feet .