Water bowget
LXXV. He beareth a Water Bowget.
This is the form of the Bowget in ancient times, and
was called a Water Budget, or Water Baggs;
and for a distinction may be termed Horse Water
Bowgets, by reason Water was at first carried on
Horse Backs, before that poor People carried it in Tankards, or in Leather Bags or Buckets, which the
Bowgetts do signifie. These were also of old termed
Oges or Gorges.
Water bowget
LXXVI. He beareth a Water Bowget.
This is another way of our Fore-Fathers making
the Horse Bags, or Bowgets, as is seen in several old Monuments, and other Draughts of Coats of
Arms. These may according to our modern terms be
called the Horse Water Bags, because carried on
Horses Backs. See those now in use chap.7 numb.
123.125.
Gorge
LXXVII. He beareth a Gorge, (or Budge,
or Bowget). This is the Water Bowget now
in use by our modern Heralds, and is the representation
of no other thing than two Leather Bags or Buckets hung at a piece of Wood, cut with a semi circle in
it to go about a Man or Womans Neck, so resting on
the Shoulders; by means whereof the Bags are born and
carried with much more ease than otherwise by the
strength of Arms and Hands; and the Staff through the
middle, is to keep the Baggs from Swagging or Flying
out in the Carriage. These in our modern time may
be termed Water Budgets, because carried by Men
or Women as aforesaid. See Leighs Accidence, pag.127.
176. See also chap.20. numb.33.
Bowgett
LXXVIII. LXXIX. These are two other sorts of
Bowgetts, in which Foot people carried Water, and
was the old manner of Drawing them; though some
good Arms Painters and excellent Workmen, do to this
day delineate the Water Bowgers according to the form
of the first of these two. Some called them Bowges.
... Vessels made of
Leather or such matter to carry Water in, for an Army, or other Domestick uses.
Bowgett
Water bags
LXXX. He beareth two Water Bags
Hooped together.
by the help of this
Ring or Hoop put about the persons neck, the Bags
were carried with much more ease, than by the strength
of Hands.
Water bags
LXXXI. He beareth two Water Bags
fixed to an Annulet.
Well bucket
LXXXII. He beareth a Bucket.
This is termed for a distinction, a Well Bucket, or and Hooped Bucket. See
chap.16. numb.102.
Fire bucket
LXXXIII. He beareth a Fire Bucket, (or a
Leather Bucket). This is also called a Syphon, which is a kind of Vessel made of Tanned Hydes
to carry Water in, to quench Fire that is raging amongst
Dwelling Houses.
Tub
LXXXIV. He beareth a Tub or Runge,
Hooped.
Runge
LXXXV. A Runge with a Pipe on the side of it.
Brewer's mash and scoop
LXXXVI. He beareth a Brewers Mash
surmounted of a Scoop.
These are two Instruments belonging to the Trade
of Brewing, the one to stir up the Malt in the Combe,
while it is soaking in the Liquor, which is termed Mash
it up, and the Pole is termed a Mash-Staff or Pole,
or a Mashing Staff; and the Scoop is to lade the
Liquor from one Vessel to another, till from Water it
is made Beer, as before I have shewed in the Beer-Brewers Terms of Art.
Brewer's dish
Image from published plateIn the Base of this quarter, is a Brewing Dish or bowle, it is of Wood, with which the Sort is stirred about when it is working in the Combe.
Tankard
LXXXVII. He beareth a Tankard, (or a
Water Tankard): In the Sinister chief a
Pump or Water-sucker, and in dexter Base a Clack.
These are all used about Water Works, the two
last being least known. I shall inform you what they are.
Sucker
The Sucker, is an Instrument fixed in a round
Pipe or Pump, to draw or suck up Water into it; and
is nothing else but a round piece of Wood with a hole
through it; on the top a piece of Leather nailed on the
side over the hole, having a piece of Lead fastned on the
same to make it lie close, so that neither Air nor Water
can pass the hole downwards; but what comes through
the hole upward, hath liberty to come in, by reason it
raiseth the Leather up, one side thereof being not close
Nailed to the Wood.
Clack
The Clack, is the term of the foresaid square or
round piece of Leather, with the Lead fixed on it. Some
term the Sucker thus prepared, a Bucket for a Pump.
Pump
LXXXVIII. He beareth on a Hill
a Pump.
The Pump, is an Instrument wherewith Water is
drawn out of a deep Well to the surface or superficies
of the Earth, in which to make it a compleat Drawer is
contained these parts or members.
The Pump tree, is that part as stands above the earth, or top of the Well.
The Lead pipe, or the Bottom Trees, are pieces of Timber boared through, and set one in an other, so long as will reach to the bottom of the Well.
The Suckers, are as aforesaid numb.87. which be set in the bottom of the pipe, or tree, or near the same, to suck the water in, as it is drawn up the Pipe.
The Bucket of the Pump, is the like Sucker fastned to an Iron rod, which is moved up and down by the help of the Sweep or Swafe, or Handle.
The Sweep, is the handle of the Pump, which is made of Iron: the Pump Brake, by which people pump up water.
The Water Passage, is the pipe by which the water runs out of the Pump into other Vessels.
Pump bucket
On the Dexter side of the Pump, is the Bucket of
the Pump, which is a round piece of wood with a hole
through it to the middle, and then open on both sides
with a long slit; At the bottom of the open slit is fastned a Clacke upon the hole which goeth through the
bottom of the Wood. The Wood is Leathered about
that it fit the hole of the Pump tree that neither Air
or water come between them.
Water forcer
In the Sinister side is a Water forcer, which is only
a round piece of wood fixed to an Iron rod; having
leather about it to fit the hole of a Pipe. By the motion
of this in a pipe, water is forced to any height the
Pipe is of length.
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