According to His Majesties especial command to me signified for avoiding the great dangers happening by fire. That all persons having lodgings within His Majesties palace at Whitehal, should have so many leather boquetts, as there are chimneys within their respective lodgings; and that the same be kept there in readiness upon all occasions. Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1602-1671. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B26470 of text R206340 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B26470 Wing M389A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.10[63] ESTC R206340 ocm99883406

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 eng Fire prevention -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century. eebo According to His Majesties especial command to me signified for avoiding the great dangers happening by fire. : That all persons having lodgings withi Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1602-1671. 1662 1 771 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT

ACcording to His Majesties especial Command to Me signified for AVOIDING the great Dangers happening by FIRE . That all persons having Lodgings within His Majesties Palace at Whitehal , should have so many Leather Boquetts as there are Chimneys within their respective Lodgings ; and that the same be kept there in readiness upon all occasions .

These are therefore to require , that all and every the respective Persons in the List here under written , do within Ten days after the Date hereof , provide themselves with so many Boquetts as in the said List are expressed , upon their respective Names , according to the number of Chimneys within their respective Lodgings , And that the Rules and Orders here under written , be duly observed upon pain of incurring His Majesties Displeasure .

And to the end the Persons in the said List mentioned , may with more Conveniency be provided at hand , and at the best Rates , Care is taken , and James Gourlaw Yeoman of the Buttery , is Ordered to provide the Boquetts , and cause the same to be marked according to the said List , with the Names and Figures for all the respective Persons and Offices , to whom the said Persons may accordingly send for the same , paying for them at the Price they cost .

ORDERS and Rules to be observed within His Majesties Palace at Whitehal , in case of Fire happening there , and for prevention of Danger thereby . I. THat in case of any Fire happenning within His Majesties said House , every Person do forthwith send by his Servants , or other Persons to the Ayd therein , his Boquetts wherewith he stands charged , full of Water . II . That no person make use of any his said Boquetts for any Ordinary or private use . III . That after any Fire whereat the Boquetts shall be made use of , such as shall be left about the Place be gathered in by the Yeoman and Officers of the Pitcher-house , and carried to the Buttery , and sorted together , ready to be delivered to the Owners , within Three days at the farthest , who is to send for the same within that time to the said Office . IV . That if any Boquetts shall be impaired , made unserviceable or destroyed in the Fire , the same shall be repaired and made good , or others supplied by the respective Owners . V. That no Person presume to change or detain the Boquetts belonging to another upon penalty of 20 s VI . That on Thursday in Easter-week yearly every Person Respectively upon penalty of five shillings for his Default , do cause to be sent into Scotland-yard all the Boquetts he is charged withall , full of Water , to be called by the List , and viewed by the Officers appointed to search and try whether the same be sound and in sufficient repair , who are thereupon to give notice to the Gentleman-Usher daily Waiter , of any defaults that the same be reformed . VII . That List of every Person , and the number of Boquetts he is charged to keep , with the figure or mark of distinction , be kept by the said Gentleman-Usher . VIII . And to the end that no Person may pretend Ignorance of his Duty , touching the matters before directed , every Person shal cause to be pasted up , or hung up in a Table , the said Orders and Directions in some convenient place in his Lodgings . IX . That care be had by the Possessors of any Lodgings in keeping their respective Chimneys duly swept . X. That in case any Chimneys shall happen to be on fire , within any Lodgings , so as to be discovered above the top , the owner of the Lodgings shall forfeit 10 s . to be paid upon demand to the Clerk of the Works , to be distributed amongst such Labourers as shall be imployed for the quenching the same . XI . That in case any Chimney shall happen to be on fire , It is Ordered that they do not fire any Guns up the Chimneys , but rather clap a wet sheet very close against the Mantle and Jambes , that no Ayre draw in , which will readily extinguish . MANCHESTER .