Meaning of tackle-house | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“On the 25th of April, 1659, there happened a dreadful fire at Southwold, which, in the space of four hours, consumed the town-hall and market house, prison, granaries, warehouses, and 238 dwelling-houses, besides the fish-houses, tackle-houses, and other out-houses ; and the greatest part of the moveable goods, nets, and tackle of the inhabitants, with all their corp, fish⟳, coals, and other commodities; the loss of which amounted to upwards of 40,000 £.”

“An act of common council of the 15th of August 1579, which recited that certain parties had been appointed to give⟳ “ their opynions touchinge the establishinge of a certeyn order⟳ for the nomber of tackle-houses for porters, and chieflye shoulde consider⟳ whether it be necessarye that the companyes latelye erected shoulde so continue⟳ or not."”

“In the Act of common council of 26 march⟳ 1607, the distinction betwen porter packers and street porters is still preserved, and it is provided that no one shall be admitted in any of the tackle-houses of the city, as a master or fellow porter, unless he be a freeman, and be admitted thereunto by the master, wardens and assistants of the company to which the tackle-house belongs;”

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