XIV - APPENDIX

Summary

LAND AT NINE WELLS, SHELFORD, AND ELSEWHERE, IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEW RLVER, 1834.

In, or shortly before, the year 1610, the University and the Town paid for the conveyance into Cambridge of

one running stream or current of water arising or running from the springs or fountains commonly called the Nine Wells, situate in or near the bounds of Trumpington…down to the ford commonly called Trumpington Ford, and from thence by a watercourse ditch or channel newly and lately made, partly in the fields, and partly in the Town of Cambridge, and through the…common drain or sewer called the King's Ditch, into the river and high stream there, to the end as well for the cleansing…of divers and sundry drains and watercourses belonging to divers and sundry colleges and halls and houses of students within the University as also to scour and cleanse the drain or ditch abovementioned by the water running continually or for the most part through the same.

This indenture further states that Mr Thomas Chaplyn, lord of the manor of Trumpington aforesaid, had

demised to [the same parties] all the soil of the new channel or watercourse which was parcel of his soil…and also for the necessary use of cleansing and scouring the said new channel ditch or watercourse and for the better amending and repairing of the banks thereof…six feet of the soil, if there be so much, in every place on each side immediately adjoining such channel ditch or watercourse…