Early Street cleaning

‘That the common gutter and other gutters in the strets of the towne shuld be kept cleane and scowrid evry wyk the Friday nyght begynyng at the uppend fist and so downeward, this order is also not kept, but s’tayne swepe it downe before there neybors dores and so let it ly, and some carie away nothing at all.’
Presentment made in the local Portsmouth court, 1562