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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49001	An Act for Preventing and Suppressing of Fires within the City of London, and Liberties Thereof	City of London (England).	1676 (1676)	Wing L2856A; ESTC R39349	4,573	13

have speedy notice thereof by several Messengers to be dispatched from the Constables upon the first Discovery XV. Item That at all such times the Lord Mayor be attended with all his Officers with the Marshalls and all their men as also the City Workmen and their Labourers the Bridg-Master with the Bridg-house Officers and Workmen and their Labourers who are all upon notice of any Fire forthwith to repair to the Lord Mayor and to observe such directions as shall be given them the Sheriffs also to be attended with all their Officers upon pain to them of forfeiting Three pounds in default of such their Attendance XVI Item That the several Companies of Carpenters Bricklayers Plaisterers Painters Masons Smiths Plummers and Paviers do yearly for each Company elect two Master-Workmen four Journey-men eight Apprentices and sixteen Labourers to be ready upon all occasions of Fire to attend the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for quenching the same XVII Item That all Workmen and Labourers belonging to any publick Water-works within the City the Seacoal-meters Porters Blackwel-hall Porters Leaden-hall Porters Ticket-Porters and Package-Porters do constantly attend the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs in such Services and that a List of all the Names of the afore-mentioned persons with the places of their Aboad be brought yearly in a Table to the Lord Mayor elect upon the first day of October to be placed in the Hall of the said Lord Mayor to publick view and that henceforth the admittances of all such persons may be upon the same Condition XVIII Item That all persons unless such as are imployed or allowed by the Lord Mayor or Sheriffs Aldermen Deputies or Common-Council-men do keep during the time of any Fire within their own Dwellings until they are summoned to give their Aid that so Disorder and Confusion in the Streets may be prevented XIX Item That all the Constables and Watch-men of the Ward where any Fire happens assemble immediately at such place and there attend on the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs and follow their Directions XX. Item That all Brokers on the Exchange according to their Obligation at their Admittance do attend in order to take care for such Goods and Houshold-stuff as may be removed XXI Item That yearly there be chosen some able Citizen and skilful Engineer to attend the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs or any of them upon such Accident who by their Advice is to give his Assistance and to blow up by their Directions such Houses whereby the increase of the Fire may be most probably prevented and that Labourers be appointed to attend such Engineer XXII Item That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs Deputies Common-Council-men Engineer and all persons appointed and required by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs to be aiding in suppressing and extinguishing the Fire by blowing up or pulling down Houses shall be indempnified by this Court XXIII Item That all persons whose Houses shall be blown up or otherwise demolished for the prevention of the increase of Fire shall have such Damages as the Common-Council shall award and that all persons labouring therein shall be awarded as by Order of the Court of Aldermen shall be appointed and that a Rate be laid by the Common-Council on the remaining Houses of the City and Liberties for satisfying thereof XXIV Item That once a Quarter the Deputy and Common-Council of every Ward return Certificates to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the Numbers and Condition of their Buckets Engines Ladders and all other Necessaries of that nature and the Engineer to examine the same that on all occasions they may be found in readiness and that the Certificates of Michaelmas Quarter be returned as well to the Lord Mayor elect as to the Lord Mayor XXV Item That such quantities of Powder as shall be thought fit by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be provided by the several Wards and the several Companies of this City respectively and laid up in such convenient places as the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall from time to time direct and appoint and that the principal Engineer make trial of all such Powder that being satisfied of the strength and goodness thereof he may the better use it accordingly XXVI Item That no person whatsoever he henceforth permitted at any time to make or cause to be made any sort of Fire-works or to fire or cause to be fired any such Fire-works within the City or Liberties thereof except such persons only as shall be thereunto appointed by His MAJESTY or any lawful Authority under him XXVII Item That no Gun-powder be kept within the Walls of the City except as aforesaid but in such secure places as shall be allowed and approved by the Court of Aldermen XXVIII Lastly That no person lay Hemp Flax Wax Gun-powder Pitch Tarr Brimstone Rosin or the like combustible Commodities in any Cellar Ware-house or other place on that side next the Street which by the shaking of Links Torches or casting in of other Fire at the Windows next the Street may be in danger of such Fire And it is farther Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Peins Penalties and Forfeitures which shall be forfeited or incurred by virtue of this Act shall be obtained levied and recovered either by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in the name of the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in the KINGS MAJESTY's Court holden in the Chamber of the Guild-hall of the said City before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said City for the time being it which no Esloign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed for the Defendant and the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in all Suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act against any Offender or Offenders shall recover the ordinary Costs of Suit to be expended in or about the prosecution of them or any of them And that all such Peins Penalties and Forfeitures the Charges of Suit for Recovery thereof being first deducted shall be divided into two equal Parts one Moiety whereof to be paid unto the Treasurer of Christ's Hospital for the time being to be imployed toward the Maintenance of the poor Children harboured and kept in the said Hospital and the other Moiety to him or them that will sue for the same any other Act or Ordinance to the contrary thereof notwithstanding AVERY Printed by Andrew Clark Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON M.DC.LXXVI

AN ACT For Preventing and Suppressing OF FIRES WITHIN THE City of London AND LIBERTIES thereof Printed by Andrew Clark Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON M.DC.LXXVI Commune Concilium tent ' in Camera Guilhald ' Civitatis London die Veneris decimo quinto die Novembris Anno Domini 1667. Annóque Regni Domini nostri CAROLI Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. decimo nono coram Willielmo Peak Milite Majore Civitatis London Thoma Aleyn Milite Baronetto Aldermanno Johanne Laurence Thoma Bloudworth Willielmo Bolton Willielmo Turner Willielmo Hooker Militibus Aldermannis Francisco Asty Armigero Aldermanno ac Dionysio Gauden Thoma Davis Militibus Aldermannis Vicecomitibus ejusdem Civitat ' nec non majore parte Communiariorum de Communi Concilio ejusdem Civitat ' tunc ibidem assemblat ' WHereas the late fierce and outragious FIRE which happened in this City continuing violently to the great Astonishment of all Beholders more than the space of four Days and four Nights burnt destroyed and consumed the greatest part of the Churches and Dwelling-houses rendring very many of the Inhabitants calamitous and much impoverished by the great Losses they sustained and is by all justly resented as a most sad and dismal Judgment of Heaven For the Prevention Avoiding and Suppressing as much as Human Prudence is capable of the like deplorable and still too too visible Events and dreadful Danger of Fire for the future within this City and Liberties thereof Be it ordained Enacted and Established by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in this Common-Council assembled and by the Authority of the same in manner and form following that is to say I. That the City and the Liberties thereof shall be divided and appointed into four equal Parts or Quarters and the East Part or Quarter to contain these Wards following viz. Portsoken Aldgate Tower Billingsgate Bridg Langborn and Lime-street the West Part or Quarter to contain Farringdon within Farringdon without Casile-Baynard Cheapside and Aldersgate the North Part or Quarter to contain Cornhil Broadstreet Colemanstreet Bassishaw Bishopsgate and Cripplegate and the South Part or Quarter to contain Queenhith Bread-street Vintry Cordwainer Dowgate Walbrook and Candlewick-street II. Item That every of the said Quarters shall be furnished and provided at or before the Feast of the Birth of our Lord God next ensuing of Eight Hundred Leathern Buckets Fifty Ladders viz. Ten Forty two Foot long Ten Thirty Foot long Ten Twenty Foot long Ten Sixteen Foot long and Ten Twelve Foot long as also of so many Hand-Squirts of Brass as will furnish two for every Parish Four and twenty Pickax-Sledges and Forty Shod Shovels III. Item That every one of the Twelve Companies provide and keep in readiness Thirty Buckets One Engine Six Pickax-Sledges Three Ladders and Two Hand-Squirts of Brass IV. Item That all the other inferior Companies provide and keep in readiness Buckets and Engines proportionable to their Abilities of which those least able to provide portable Engines to carry up Stairs into any Rooms or Tops of Houses the number of which Buckets and Engines to be from time to time prescribed and allotted by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermens Direction V. Item That every Alderman who hath passed the Office of Shrievalty provide Four and Twenty Buckets and One Hand-Squirt of Brass and all those who have not been Sheriffs Twelve Buckets and One Hand-Squirt of Brass to be kept in their respective Dwellings and all other principal Citizens and Inhabitants and every other person being a Subsidy-man or of the degree of a Subsidy-man shall provide and keep in their Houses a certain number of Buckets according to their quality VI. Item That the several Inhabitants and Furniture of each respective Quarter shall remain and abide within their own Quarters and not go out farther excepting only such serviceable persons of other Quarters fit to take pains in that behalf who may be called to yield their help as need shall require and none other Persons or Furniture without special Order of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the time being VII Item It is farther Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That in every of the said Quarters or parts of this City by the Advice of the Aldermen and Common-Council of each several Ward within that Quarter there shall be chosen retained and appointed for each Ward one honest and sufficient person dwelling within the same to be Bell-man there who shall from henceforth every Night from the Feast of St. Michael until the Annunciation of St. Mary diligently walk up and down within the same Ward from Ten of the Clock in the Night till Five of the Clock next Morning Their Wages or Salaries to be levied within their respective Wards according as the same shall be assessed by the Common-Council of the same Ward or the greatest part of them VIII Item That every Housholder upon any Cry of Fire shall place a sufficient man at his Door well armed and hang out a Light at his Door if in the Night-time upon default whereof every party offending shall forfeit Twenty shillings IX Item That every Housholder shall during the time of any Fire have Water in a Vessel ready at his Door to quench and suppress all farther increase of the Fire X. Item That in every of the said four Quarters or Parts of this City a noted Bell be rung from Lady-day to Michaelmas at Ten of the Clock every Night and at five of the Clock every Morning and from Michaelmas to Lady-day at Eight of the Clock every Night and Seven of the Clock every Morning at which respective Hours the Watch shall punctually sit and rise who as soon as they are met together one out of every Watch shall be sent the Rounds into every part of the Ward and at his return another shall be sent out and so successively all Night long without intermission for Prevention of Fire Robbing or other Inconvenience XI Item That every Inhabitant prepare some secure place in their Dwellings not under or near any Stair-case to lay in their Sea-coal Ashes Embers or any other sort of Fire-Ashes and that the said Ashes be quenched with water every Night before they go to Bed and that all Constables make inquiry of the Security of Hearths Ovens and Stoves and places for laying Fire-Ashes in twice every year XII Item That Plugs be put into the Pipes in the most convenient places of every Street whereof all Inhabitants may take notice that breaking of the Pipes in disorderly manner may be avoided XIII Item That as many Wells as can be found may be provided in every Street with Pumps placed conveniently for furnishing of Water especially in Frosty weather when other Water may be scarce XIV Item That the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs as also the Deputies and Common-Council-men of such Ward where any Fire shall happen