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<HEAD>SEASONABLE ADVICE,<LB> For preventing the Mi&s;chiefe of Fire, that may come by negligence, Trea&s;on, or otherwi&s;e.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Ordered to be Printed by the Lord Major of <HI>LONDON.</HI><LB>
And is thought very nece&s;&s;ary to hang in every mans Hou&s;e, e&s;pecially in the&s;e dangerous Times.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>Invented by WILLIAM GOSLING, <HI>Engineer,</HI></BYLINE>
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<HEAD>How many &s;everall wayes, Hou&s;es, Townes, and Cities, have beene &s;et a-fire.</HEAD>
<P>SOme hath been burnt by bad Harths, Chimnies, Ovens, or by pans of fire &s;et upon boards: &s;ome by Cloaths hanged again&s;t the fire: &s;ome by leaving great fires in Chimnies, where the &s;parkes or &s;ickles breaking fell and fired the boards, painted Cloaths, Wain&s;cots, Ru&s;hes, Matts, as hou&s;es were burnt in <HI>Shoreditch:</HI> &s;ome by Powder, or &s;hooting off Pieces: &s;ome by Tinder or Matches: &s;ome by &s;etting Candles under &s;helves: &s;ome by leaving Candles neere their beds: &s;ome by &s;nuffes of Candles, Tobacco-&s;nuffes, burnt papers, and &s;ome by drunkards; as many hou&s;es were burnt in <HI>Southwarke:</HI> &s;ome by warming Beds: &s;ome by looking under Beds with Candles: &s;ome by &s;leeping at worke, lea|ving their Candles by them, &s;o many have been burnt of &s;everall Trades: &s;ome by &s;etting Candles neere the thatch of hou&s;es: &s;ome by &s;nuffes or &s;parks falne upon Gunpowder, or upon matts, ru&s;hes, chips, &s;mall-coale, and in chinkes; &s;o <HI>Wimbleton</HI> was burnt: &s;ome Townes were burnt by Mault|kills: &s;ome by Candles in Stables: or by foule Chimnies: &s;ome by Candles among&s;t hempe, flaxe, and ware-hou&s;es: &s;ome by Candles falling out of their Candle&s;tickes: &s;ome by &s;ticking their Candles upon po&s;ts: &s;ome by Lincks knockt at &s;hops, &s;talls, &s;ellers, windowes, ware-hou&s;es, dores, and dangerous places: &s;ome by carrying fire from place to place, where the winde hath blowne it about the &s;treets, as it did burne St. <HI>Edmondsbury:</HI> &s;ome by warme Sea-coale &s;inders put in baskets, or woodden things, as did burne <HI>London-Bridge:</HI> And &s;ome have been burnt without either fire, or Candle, as by wet hay, corne, &s;traw, or by mills, wheeles, or &s;uch like: all which hath been by carele&s;ne&s;&s;e. And &s;ome have been fired a purpo&s;e by villany or Trea&s;on.</P>
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<HEAD>Orders to be Ob&s;erved that fire may not happen,</HEAD>
<P>IS that every hou&s;e-keeper, either him&s;elfe, or one by his appointment that &s;hould be la&s;t up, to &s;ee to the fire and Candle, and to &s;hut the Seller|windowes, dores, ca&s;ements, garret-windows, and to &s;top holes, and &s;inkes, that fire may not come in by Trea&s;on, or otherwi&s;e: To prevent Trea|&s;on that may come by wilde-fire, is to &s;top the wilde-fire &s;imples, where they are &s;ould: Seeke to prevent fire at the beginning, and by the &s;ight of &s;moake, to looke to it, for divers fires have been &s;o prevented: Some have been prevented by &s;melling old wood, linnen, or woollen burne: and &s;ome by hearing the crackling of &s;ticks, coales, or &s;parkes of fire, have prevented mi&s;chiefe thereby: if you will u&s;e Candle all night, let your Candle&s;tick be a pot of water brim full, and &s;et it where it &s;hall &s;tand, and then light a Candle and &s;ticke a great pin in the bottome of the Candle, and let it &s;lowly into the water, and it will burne all night without danger if the wood under the harth of a Chimnie be a fire, then take heed you doe not open it too &s;uddenly, before you ca&s;t water upon it, for the ayre getting in, the fire will bur&s;t forth, therefore &s;till throw water, and open it by degrees. And that the Bricklayers &s;hould look better to the foundations of harths, and ovens, to prevent the hurts of fire: if Chimnies be a-fire, either wet hay, or &s;traw, or a wet blanket, or a kettle of water hung over, or bay-&s;alt ca&s;t into the fire, or a Piece &s;hot up into the chimnie, will helpe it. And that the Watch might be from day-light to day-light, at &s;uch a di&s;tance that they may &s;ee and heare from one Watch to the other; that &s;ome might be upon Gates, Towers, or Churches, if need be, to give notice to the Watch below, upon any occa&s;ion, to prevent both enemy and fire.</P>
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<HEAD>Orders that if fire &s;hould happen, either by wilde-fire, or other wayes, to prevent the mi&s;eries thereof.</HEAD>
<P>THen the Bells going backward, doth give notice of fire: and that all Officers and others, mu&s;t keepe the &s;treets or lanes ends, that the rude people may be kept from doing mi&s;chiefe, for &s;ometimes they doe more harme than the fire: and &s;uffer none but the workers to come neere, and all the &s;treets from the fire to the water, may have double rowes or rankes of men on each &s;ide the &s;treet, to handy emptie pales, potts, or buckets, to the wa|ter, and to returne full to the fire, by the other row or ranke of people, on the &s;ame &s;ide the &s;treet: &s;o as the &s;treets affords, you may have divers ranks: and by this order, water may be brought to quench it, or earth to choake it, and &s;moother it, with that &s;peed and plenty, as need requires.</P>
<P>All tho&s;e of higher or levell ground, &s;hould throw downe water, to run to the place where the fire is, and there to &s;top it: and others to &s;weep up the waters of kennells towards the fire. If water-pipes run through the &s;treets, you may open it again&s;t the hou&s;e that is a fire, and &s;et another pipe in that upright, and two or three foot lower then the height of the head of the &s;ame water, &s;et in &s;ome gutter, trough, or pipe unto the upright pipe, to con|vay the water to the fire, for under the fore&s;aid height, it will run it &s;elfe from high ponds, or from Sir <HI>Hugh Middletons</HI> water, or Conduit-heads, or from the Water-hou&s;es, without any other helpe, into the fire, as you will have it: you may keepe great Scoopes or Squrts of wood in hou&s;es; or if you will, you may have in the Pari&s;h a great Squrt on wheeles, that may doe very good &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Where milde fire is, milke, urine, &s;and, earth, or dirt, will quench it: but any thing el&s;e &s;et a-fire by that, will be quencht as afore: if there be ma|ny hou&s;es &s;tanding together, and are indangered by a mightie fire, before it can be quencht, or choaked with earth, then you may pull downe the next hou&s;e oppo&s;ite to the winde, and then earth and rubbi&s;h being ca&s;t upon the fire, and round about it, will choake the violence of the fire: be&s;ides the water you may get to doe the like. Al&s;o it is nece&s;&s;ary that every Pari&s;h &s;hould have Hookes, Ladders, Squrts, Buckets, and Scoopes in a readine&s;&s;e upon any occa&s;ion.</P>
<P>O the mi&s;eries of Cities, Townes, Villages, and particular hou&s;es, that have been burnt, where &s;ome could not recover their lo&s;&s;es in thirtie yeares after, and &s;ome never, which have been lamentable &s;pectacles unto us, when many men, women, and children, have been burnt in their hou&s;es; and multitudes of people utterly undone, that &s;aw all their wealth burned before their eyes. Be&s;ides, many have been hurt, many kild, aud many burned, that came but to helpe to quench the fires. What lamentable cryes, frightings, and amazements, there was to all &s;orts of people, &s;ome &s;icke, &s;ome in child-bed, and &s;ome great with childe, to the terrour of them all: and all was through the mi&s;eries of fire, that came by carele&s;ne&s;&s;e and wilfulne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Therefore let the very &s;ight of fire and Candle, put us in minde to prevent the like mi&s;eries that have come by fire, both in <HI>London,</HI> and the parts of <HI>England:</HI> for great winds may ri&s;e &s;uddenly, and enemies furies, may doe mi&s;chiefe. To ma&s;ter the Elements, is either to increa&s;e or decrea&s;e any of them; for as ayre makes fire increa&s;e; &s;o earth will choake it; and water will quench it.</P>
<P>Preventions of fires, would &s;ave the often Collections of money in all Churches in <HI>England;</HI> all which is for the profit and &s;afetie of the Common|wealth. As good order, and care, prevents our feare of fire; &s;o a good life, prevents the wayes to &s;inne. And every one, mend one; then all will be mended. The Lord commandeth us, to have care of our neighbours goods, <HI>Deut. Chap.</HI> 22. For the love of our neighbour fulfilleth the Law, <HI>Rom. Chap.</HI> 13.</P>
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<P>Printed for <HI>H. B.</HI> At the <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> in <HI>Corn-hill.</HI> 1643.</P>
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