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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<P>_ACcording to His Maje&s;ties e&s;pecial Command to Me &s;ignified for AVOIDING the great Dangers happening by FIRE. That all per&s;ons having Lodgings within His Maje&s;ties Palace at <HI>White|hal,</HI> &s;hould have &s;o many Leather Boquetts as there are Chimneys within their re&s;pective Lodg|ings; and that the &s;ame be kept there in readine&s;s upon all occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>The&s;e are therefore to require, that all and every the re&s;pective Per&s;ons in the Li&s;t here under written, do within Ten days after the Date hereof, provide them&s;elves with &s;o many Bo|quetts as in the &s;aid Li&s;t are expre&s;&s;ed, upon their re&s;pective Names, according to the number of Chimneys within their re&s;pective Lodgings, And that the Rules and Orders here under written, be duly ob&s;erved upon pain of incurring His Maje&s;ties Di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>And to the end the Per&s;ons in the &s;aid Li&s;t mentioned, may with more Conveniency be provided at hand, and at the be&s;t Rates, Care is taken, and <HI>James Gourlaw</HI> Yeoman of the Buttery, is Ordered to provide the Boquetts, and cau&s;e the &s;ame to be marked according to the &s;aid Li&s;t, with the Names and Figures for all the re&s;pective Per&s;ons and Offices, to whom the &s;aid Per&s;ons may accordingly &s;end for the &s;ame, paying for them at the Price they co&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>ORDERS and Rules to be ob&s;erved within His Maje&s;ties Palace at <HI>Whitehal,</HI> in ca&s;e of Fire happening there, and for prevention of Danger thereby.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. THat in ca&s;e of any Fire happenning within His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Hou&s;e, every Per&s;on do forthwith &s;end by his Servants, or other Per|&s;ons to the Ayd therein, his Boquetts wherewith he &s;tands charged, full of Water.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. That no per&s;on make u&s;e of any his &s;aid Boquetts for any Ordinary or private u&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. That after any Fire whereat the Boquetts &s;hall be made u&s;e of, &s;uch as &s;hall be left about the Place be gathered in by the Yeoman and Officers of the Pitcher-hou&s;e, and carried to the Buttery, and &s;orted together, ready to be delivered to the Owners, within Three days at the farthe&s;t, who is to &s;end for the &s;ame within that time to the &s;aid Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. That if any Boquetts &s;hall be impaired, made un&s;erviceable or de&s;troyed in the Fire, the &s;ame &s;hall be repaired and made good, or others &s;upplied by the re&s;pective Owners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. That no Per&s;on pre&s;ume to change or detain the Boquetts belonging to another upon penalty of 20 <HI>s</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. That on Thur&s;day in <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-week yearly every Per&s;on Re&s;pectively upon penalty of five &s;hillings for his Default, do cau&s;e to be &s;ent into <HI>Scotland</HI>-yard all the Boquetts he is charged withall, full of Water, to be called by the Li&s;t, and viewed by the Officers appointed to &s;earch and try whether the &s;ame be &s;ound and in &s;ufficient repair, who are thereupon to give notice to the Gentleman-U&s;her daily Waiter, of any defaults that the &s;ame be reformed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. That Li&s;t of every Per&s;on, and the number of Boquetts he is charged to keep, with the figure or mark of di&s;tinction, be kept by the &s;aid Gentleman-U&s;her.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. And to the end that no Per&s;on may pretend Ignorance of his Duty, touching the matters before directed, every Per&s;on &s;hal cau&s;e to be pa&s;ted up, or hung up in a Table, the &s;aid Orders and Directions in &s;ome convenient place in his Lodgings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IX. That care be had by the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of any Lodgings in keeping their re&s;pective Chimneys duly &s;wept.</ITEM>
<ITEM>X. That in ca&s;e any Chimneys &s;hall happen to be on fire, within any Lodgings, &s;o as to be di&s;covered above the top, the owner of the Lodgings &s;hall forfeit 10 s. to be paid upon demand to the Clerk of the Works, to be di&s;tributed among&s;t &s;uch Labourers as &s;hall be imployed for the quenching the &s;ame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XI. That in ca&s;e any Chimney &s;hall happen to be on fire, It is Ordered that they do not fire any Guns up the Chimneys, but rather clap a wet &s;heet very clo&s;e again&s;t the Mantle and Jambes, that no Ayre draw in, which will readily extingui&s;h.</ITEM>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>MANCHESTER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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