Payments by Freemen in the City of Oxford
1590
Hit is agreed that everie one that cometh in to be free of this cytie , beinge an apprentice within this cytie with a freeman, shall fynde and provide at his owne charges one leather buckett for to carrie water, when mysfortune of fyre shall heppen within this cytie or suburbes thereof; and that everie one that cometh in free as a forriner shall fynde and provide one leather buckett or more as this howsse shall thincke goode; and the same bucketts to be brought in to the use of this cytie, to be safelie kepte and to be in a readenes when nede shall require frome tyme to tyme; and the said bucketts to be brought in by the parties aforesaid before they shall use any trade within this cytie.