The French, too, have a cognate term, especially in Norman towns, as Barfleur, Honfleur, Harfleur, &c., which were originally written Barbe_flot_, Hune_flot_, and Hare_flot_: and these were sometimes written Hareflou, Huneflou, and Barfleu, which latter comes very near to the Latin _flevus_, called by Ptolemy _fleus_, and by Mela _fletio_. Again, in Brittany many names end in _pleu_, or _plou_, which seems to be very much like the Greek [Greek: pleô]: _full_, _swollen_, which corresponds to our Anglo-Saxon Flede; Dutch Vliet. But it has another, and a very pretty name, "THE RIVER OF WELLS," from the number of small tributaries that helped to swell its stream, and from the wells which bordered its course; such as Sadler's Wells, Bagnigge Wells, White Conduit, Coldbath, Lamb's Conduit, Clerkenwell--all of which (although all were not known by those names in Stow's times) were in existence. Stow, in his "SURVEY OF LONDON" (ed. 1603, his last edition, and which consequently has his best corrections), says-- [Sidenote: "_Riuer of Wels._] [Sidenote: _Decay of the Riuer of the Wels._] [Sidenote: _Parliament Record._] [Sidenote: _Riuer of Wels bare ships._] [Sidenote: Patent Record. _Mils by Baynards Castel, made in the first of King John._] [Sidenote: _Turnemill Brooke._] That the riuer of Wels in the west parte of the Citty, was of olde so called of the Wels, it may be proued thus, William the Conqueror in his Charter to the Colledge of S. Marten le Grand in London, hath these wordes: I doe giue and graunt to the same Church all the land and the Moore, without the Posterne, which is called Cripplegate, on eyther part of the Postern, that is to say, from the North corner of the Wall, as the riuer of the Wels, there neare running, departeth the same More from the Wall, vnto the running water which entereth the Cittie; this water hath beene long since called the riuer of the Wels, which name of riuer continued, and it was so called in the raigne of Edward the first; as shall bee shewed, with also the decay of the saide riuer. In a fayre Booke of Parliament recordes, now lately restored to the Tower,[6] it appeareth that a Parliament being holden at Carlile in the yeare 1307, the 35 of Edward the I. Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne, complayned that whereas, in times past the course of water, running at _London_ vnder _Olde bourne_ bridge, and _Fleete_ bridge into the Thames, had beene of such bredth and depth, that 10 or 12 ships, Nauies at once with marchãdises, were wõt to come to the foresaid bridge of Fleete, and some of them to Oldborne bridge: now the same course by filth of the Tanners & such others, was sore decaied; also by raising of wharfes, but specially by a diversiõ of the waters made by them of the new _Temple_, for their milles standing without _Baynardes Castle_, in the first yeare of King _John_, and diuers other impediments, so as the said ships could not