"The third is called Clarkes well, or Clarkenwell,[7] and is curbed about square with hard stone, not farre from the west ende of Clarkenwell Church, but close without the wall that incloseth it; the sayd Church tooke the name of the Well, and the Well tooke the name of the Parish Clarkes in London, who of old time were accustomed there yearely to assemble, and to play some large hystorie of holy Scripture. And, for example, of later time, to wit, in the yeare 1390, the 14 of Richard the Second, I read the Parish Clarks of London, on the 18 of July, playd Enterludes at _Skinners well_, neare vnto _Clarkes well_, which play continued three dayes togither, the King, Queene, and Nobles being present. Also the yeare 1409, the 10 of Henrie the 4. they played a play at the _Skinners well_, which lasted eight dayes, and was of matter from the creation of the worlde. There were to see the same, the most part of the Nobles and Gentiles in England, &c. [Sidenote: _Skinners well._] [Sidenote: _Wrestling-place._] "Other smaller welles were many neare vnto Clarkes well, namely _Skinners well_, so called for that the Skinners of London held there certaine playes yearely playd of holy Scripture, &c. In place whereof the wrestlings haue of later yeares beene kept, and is in part continued at _Bartholomew tide_. [Sidenote: _Fagges well._] "Then was there Fagges well, neare vnto _Smithfield_ by the _Charterhouse_, now lately dammed vp, _Tod well_, _Loders well_, and _Rad well_, all decayed, and so filled vp, that there places are hardly now discerned. "Somewhat North from _Holy well_ is one other well curbed square with stone, and is called _Dame Annis the Cleare_, and not farre from it, but somewhat west, is also one other cleare water called _Perillous pond_[8], because diuerse youthes by swimming therein haue beene drowned; and thus much bee said for Fountaines and Wels. "_Horse poole_ in _Westsmithfield_, was sometime a great water, and because the inhabitants in that part of the Citie did there water their Horses, the same was, in olde Recordes, called _Horspoole_, it is now much decayed, the springs being stopped vp, and the land waters falling into the small bottome, remayning inclosed, with Bricke, is called _Smithfield pond_. [Sidenote: _Poole without Cripplegate._] "By S. Giles Churchyard was a large water, called a _Poole_. I read in the year 1244 that Anne of Lodburie was drowned therein; this poole is now for the most part stopped vp, but the spring is preserued, and was cooped about with stone by the Executors of _Richard Wittington_." [Footnote 1: The name of this church has been Latinized as "Sancta Maria de Ossibus"!] [Footnote 2: Swollen.] [Footnote 3: The real quotation in Orosius is "þa wearð Tiber seo eâ swa fledu."] [Footnote 4: A bag, or purse, a fold of a garment; a bay, bight, or gulf.]