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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… a sufficient number, amused himself by drenching them with buckets of water. 52There is a curious passage in one of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the township of Presteign an engine with twelve leathern buckets, for extinguishing fires in the town; and also, in …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… to the depth of nine feet. At the bottom were two buckets with their iron chains, and several other things. On …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1573 the city council ordered each parish to keep leather buckets in case of fire, and in 1582 forbade the use of … 17th century. 86 The corporation's own stock of leather buckets, acquired from new freemen as a condition of entry, …
A History of the County of Essex
… firefighting a long ladder, 2 iron hooks, and 20 leather buckets, kept in the moot hall. The 12 town parishes each kept 2-10 buckets in their churches, and from 1614 also ladders, … engines. It bought a carriage engine with 40 leather buckets in 1812, 12 and in 1819 paid for boards to show the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… burning houses were mentioned in 1541-2 and 1556-7. 39 Buckets and fire hooks were ordered to be bought in 1666 and 1674, on the latter occasion 24 buckets and four hooks, half to be provided by the … was evidently that given by a Mr. Fotherby in 1725, and buckets were bought the next year with money given by the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… as 1585, and in 1630 the bench laid down the number of buckets, spades, and shovels to be provided by different …