Thames water, conveyed into men’s houses by pipes of lead from a most artificial forcier standing near unto London bridge, and made by Peter Moris, Dutchman, in the year 1582, for service of the city, on the east part thereof. Conduits of Thames water, by the parish churches of St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Nicolas Colde Abbey near unto old Fish street, in the year 1583. One other new forcier was made near to Broken wharfe, to convey Thames water into men’s houses of West Cheape, about Powle’s, Fleete street, etc., by an English gentleman named Bevis Bulmer, in the year 1594. Thus much for waters serving this city; first by rivers, brooks, bourns, fountains, pools, etc.; and since by conduits, partly made by good and charitable citizens, and otherwise by charges of the commonalty, as shall be shown in description of wards wherein they be placed. And now some benefactors to these conduits shall be remembered. In the year 1236 certain merchant strangers of cities beyond the seas, to wit, Amiens, Corby, and Nele, for privileges which they enjoyed in this city, gave one hundred pounds towards the charges of conveying water from the town of Teyborne. Robert Large, mayor, 1439, gave to the new water conduits then in hand forty marks, and towards the vaulting over of Walbrooke near to the parish church of St. Margaret in Lothbery, two hundred marks. Sir William Eastfield, mayor, 1438, conveyed water from Teyborne to Fleete street, to Aldermanbury, and from Highbury to Cripplegate. William Combes, sheriff, 1441, gave to the work of the conduits ten pounds. Richard Rawson, one of the sheriffs, 1476, gave twenty pounds. Robert Revell, one of the sheriffs, 1490, gave ten pounds. John Mathew, mayor, 1490, gave twenty pounds. William Bucke, tailor, in the year 1494, towards repairing of conduits, gave one hundred marks. Dame Thomason, widow, late wife to John Percivall Taylor, mayor, in the year 1498 gave toward the conduit in Oldbourne twenty marks. Richard Shore, one of the sheriffs, 1505, gave to the conduit in Oldbourne ten pounds. The Lady Ascue, widow of Sir Christopher Ascue, 1543, gave towards the conduits one hundred pounds. David Wodrooffe, sheriff, 1554, gave towards the conduit at Bishopsgate twenty pounds. Edward Jackman, one of the sheriffs, 1564, gave towards the conduits one hundred pounds. Barnard Randulph, common sergeant of the city, 1583, gave to the water conduits nine hundred pounds.[27] Thus much for the conduits of fresh water to this city. FOOTNOTES: [19] “This water hath been since that time called Turne mill brooke; yet then called the river of the Wells, which name of river,” etc.,--_1st edition_, p. 11. [20] Parliament record. [21] Patent record. [22] “In an old writing book.”--_1st edition_, p. 14. [23] Liber Custom. [24] This precise definition of the nature of the performances of the parish clerks, “some large hystorie of Holy Scripture,” does not occur in the first edition of the _Survey_.