8. The third and last necessary Trade for the support of Mans Life, is the Beer-Brewer, an Occupation very needful, if the Fruit of their Labours were not much abused by intemperate persons, such as care not which End goes first so they can get Drink: and though the Wife and Children Starve at Home, they will be full abroad.
Coopers hatchet
LXV. He beareth a Coopers Hatchet.
This was the old way of shaping it.
Coopers hatchet
LXVI. He beareth a Coopers Hatchet.
This is the modern way of proportioning it, and is much more agreeable to the truth of a right drawn Hatchet belonging
to a Cooper than the foregoing.
Coopers axe and drawing board
LXVII. He beareth a Coopers Axe
and a Drawing Board Charged with its
Iron. This is the old way of Drawing their
Axe, and is thus used without any alteration, in the
Coopers Coat of Arms to this time.
Gimblet
LXVIII. He beareth a Wine Piercer.
This goeth under several
names, as a Gimblet, a Nail Piercer, an Hand Bit: It is only to make Holes in the Heads and Sides
of Barrels and such Vessels, to give Vent to the Liquors
contained in them, or to draw the same out into other
things.
Coopers mallet
LXIX. He beareth a Coopers Mallet.
This Instrument they used in former times to drive
on the Hoops of their Vessels, but now is wholly laid
aside as useless, in room whereof they employ the
Addice.
Gauge
LXX. He beareth a Gage, or Raising Stool.
This is a kind of Instrument composed of Hoops and
upright Stands or Feet, to hold them at a distance; into
which Hoops the new Barrel Boards are placed (after they
are paired or backed) to hold them up together, till
one end of them be hooped with the raising hoops. This
they term raising a Barrel.
Barrel
LXXI. He beareth on a Mount or Hill in
Base a Barrel erected; fire issuing
out of it. Some only term it a Barrel fired,
and a Barrel firing for the driving on of the Hoops;
for after this manner they use to heat their Barrel
Staves with a Flame, to make them pliable, and bow to
the Hoops.
Tun
LXXII. He beareth a Tun with a round
Bung. This hath several terms according to the
Persons or Occupations which bear it, as a Tun, an
Hogshead, a Terce, a Barrel, a Firkin, or a
Rundlet.
Related text(s) Liquid measure
Tuns
LXXIII. He beareth 2 Tuns standing upright, (or erected, or turned an end, as the Vintners term them).
Related text(s) Barrel parts
Cooper's driver
LXXIV. He beareth a Coopers Driver,
within a Barrel Hoop.
[Cf. Chapter 7, no. 114]
Hoop
There are two sorts of Hoops, as,
White hoops, made of Ash cloven.
Barrell Hoops, made of Hassel Staves cloven, and
Twigged together.
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