It  was  necessary,  in  the  ninth  year  of  the  king's
reign  to  pass  an  Act  of  Parliament  for  the  better
paving,  cleaning,  lighting,  and  watching  of  the
streets  and  lanes  of  Windsor,  and  for  putting  an
end  to  the  intolerable  nuisances  and  annoyances
there.  The  Act  permitted  the  corporation  to  pay
the  wages  of  six  able-bodied  men  to  serve  as
watchmen  and  constables,  and  put  an  end  to
obstructions  in  the  streets,  and  call  on  their  owners
to  keep  their  pigs  in  their  styes.  Those  pigs  seem
always  to  have  been  a  trouble,  but  this  piece  of
legislation  stopped  the  nuisance.
Many  things  show  that  Windsor  was  not  the  most
orderly  place  in  England.  In  1780  a  great  riot
happened  at  Windsor.  The  militia  quartered  in  the
town  and  the  people  fought  savagely,  and  the
fight  could  not  be  stopped  until  the  cavalry  were
called  out.
The  king  was  greatly  annoyed  to  find  that  the
magnificent  castle  had  been  allowed  to  fall  into
such  a  state.  He  called  on  Mr.  John  Wyatt,  the
great  architect  of  the  day,  to  make  the  castle  all


254     THE  STORY  OF  ROYAL    WINDSOR.
