Courteous Reader, I have added a Plate more to this Chapter, because I was wanting therein in the two former, to which I desire these following may be added.
Butcher's stan
XCVI. In this quarter is set down the shape of four
Butchers Instruments all lying in Pale; I shall begin with the highermost and so proceed to the lowest.
The first is termed a Stan; it is only a Stick about an Inch in Diameter with two sharp ends cut with shoulderings, and serveth to keep open a Beasts Belly, and stretch out its Legs when it is slain, till it be cold, and ready to be cut down, or cut into Quarters.
Butcher's pick
The second is called a Pick; this is a strong thick
Staff near 3 or 4 Inches in Diameter, Hooped with Iron
at both ends; into one is fastned a long Pin or Iron
pick, and the other a small Pickell grains; with this
Instrument the Dead Beast while it is in Fleaing is supported, so that it lyeth streight on its back with its Feet
upwards; and this is done by sticking the grains into its
side, and the pick into the ground.
Raising prick
The third is a raising Prick; it is all Iron, with a
sharp point, and a round Eye at the thicker end of it;
with this the Flesh of a Beast is pricked, to make the
Hide part from it the better.
Beast tree
The fourth is a Beast Tree, that is a Tree, or thick
Arm or Post of Wood, with a snag on it at one end,
and diverse holes through it at the other end, with a pin
to put therein; It is to hang and draw a Slaughtered
Beast up aloft while the Butcher is taking out the Belly;
by means of the holes and pin; the hinder Legs may
be opened to what distance it shall please the Slaughter
Man.
Shamble hook
XCVII. A Shamble Hook between an Axe and a Cleaver.
The Hook is a thing known by every one seeing
they are so common in all Shambles (and other private
places) to hang their Meat upon.
Butcher's axe
The Axe, which is the right form of the Butchers
Knocker Down is thus made; it is to strike down
great Beasts when the Butcher is to Blood them and
tickle them out of their Lives, and with the sharp end
Bones and Joints are to be cut into pieces.
Butcher's cleaver
The Cleaver is in a manner for the same use as the
Axe; only with this difference, it is used to cut the
small Bones, and the Axe for the cutting of the great and
large Bones, being it hath weight and substance in it,
whereas the other is light and slender, and the Handle
Iron, of one and the same piece with the cleaving part.
Skewers
XCVIII. He beareth two Skewers or Flesh
pricks between two Dutch
Cleavers or Chopping Knives.
Cleavers
These I
call so [Dutch Cleavers or Chopping Knives] because they are generally thus drawn by the
Dutch and German Heralds; yet for distinction sake, if
the higher be termed an Hatchet like Cleaver, or a
Chopping Knife of an Hatchet shape, it were not
much wide of the mark.
And the other an Hulch or round Backed Cleaver; Those that have the Backs bending inwards, are
termed down (swaid, or broken) Backt Cleavers.
Drag hooks
XCIX. Here are two sorts of Drag Hooks, the one
for high places, the other for low Rooms, the one having a long shank in a Twirle, and the other a short,
with a double hook at the bottom; upon these are
hung two Veals or Muttons at a time in their Cambrills.
Butcher's rope
C. Is a Butchers Rope, with a Noose at one
end, and the other pendant; with this great Beasts are
held or tyed to a Post, while they are Knocked on the
Head, or stricken down to be Blooded.
Treble hook
The second thing in this quarter, is a Trebble Hook
fixed all in order upon one Stem or Bar; some call
it a Kril Hook, but for what use it is, I understand not
yet, except to hang Spits on in Kitchins; or Arms, as
Muskets and Pikes on, as in Noblemens and great Persons Halls, and then the hooking part is to be erected.
Screw candlestick
Image from proof plateCI. He beareth a Screw Candlestick, with double sockets. This is a kind of Iron Candlestick set on a round hoop, stand, or foot, the main Stem being an Iron Rod with a screw on the middle, on which is screwed a Female screw with two Candle sockets, each side of it; so that by the help of the Screws the sockets are raised or lowered according to pleasure; see another kind in chap.19. plate. 2. [Not identifiable]
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