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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… 20 to the corporation, 12 s. to the chamberlain for buckets and scoops, 2 s. 6 d. to the town clerk and 2 s. each …
A History of the County of Sussex
… traces of enlightened social service. Grappling-hooks and buckets had long been provided against fire, 197 but by 1726 … Suss. Arch. Coll. xl. 259. The Town-book shows 12 leather buckets, as well as fire-hooks, in 1577 (fol. 19 v.), 25 buckets in 1646 (fol. 77), and 30 in 1702 (fol. 136). …
A History of the County of Warwick
… principal means of dealing with fires were the leathern buckets which members of the corporation and the wealthier … also to enforce the obsolete order regarding fire buckets; 78 and this was again revived in 1731. 79 The first … of Orders, 1603, 1612, 1665. Aldermen had to provide two buckets and burgesses one each. In 1603 and 1612, 6 other …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… to the corporation and the gift of one or more leather buckets. The corporation soon acquired a handsome collection … the freedom had to pay 5, giving in addition 'two leathern buckets and a very good treate.' 131 There was bitter …
A History of the County of Warwick
… were taken. Thomas Oken had provided twelve leather fire buckets to be 'in some place always in readiness'. 32 In a … removal of thatched dwellings and the provision of fire buckets and lights in sconces was frequently ordered by both …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… 32. 21 Nov. to my lord mayor in consideration of one dozen buckets to him due and being thereof provided beforehand … 23 Aug. to Robert Aplebye saddler for four dozen leather buckets at 26s.8d. the dozen 5.6s.8d.; summa 6.13s.4d. 33. …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… 18 Aug. to Robert Appleby saddler for four dozen leather buckets whereof delivered to my lord mayor half a dozen and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Warwick
… Lawrence's Chapel was used for storing the drapers' fire buckets in 1612. Cal. Pat. 1385-9, 516. This probably became …
A History of the County of Leicester
… it was ordered that the aldermen should keep two leather buckets in their houses and the members of the Forty-eight …