Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Author's Note
- Contents
- PLATES
- Chapter I The Open Watercourses in the Streets of Cambridge
- Chapter II The Nine Wells, and the Watercourse down to the Conduit Head
- Chapter III The Distribution of the Water from the Conduit Head
- Chapter IV The Elizabethan Proposals
- Chapter V The Ancient King's Ditch
- Chapter VI The Water brought down Trumpington Street to the King's Ditch
- Chapter VII The Water brought to the Market Hill
- Chapter VIII The Water brought to Emmanuel and Christ's Colleges
- Chapter IX Thomas Hobson, the Carrier
- Chapter X Other Benefactors of the Conduit
- Chapter XI The Constitution of the Trust
- Chapter XII Roman and Medieval Waterworks and the New River from Ware to London
- Chapter XIII Technical Skill in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter XIV Cambridge Water Supplies, Past and Present
- Chapter XV The Medieval Water Supply of Trinity College
- Chapter XVI The Old Account Books of the Trust
- Chapter XVII The More Recent History of the Conduit
- Appendices
- I Two Epitaphs on Thomas Hobson, one by John Milton of Christ's College, and one anonymous from the Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Rev. William Cole
- II The Spectator of 14 October 1712. Article by Richard Steele: so much as relates to Thomas Hobson
- III Letter from Dr Perne, Vice-Chancellor, to Lord Burghley, Chancellor of the University, written 18 January 1574/5
- IV Order of a Court of Sewers, dated 23 April 1634: so much as relates to Hobson's River
- V The Trustees in 1937 of Hobson's Conduit Trust
- Index
III - Letter from Dr Perne, Vice-Chancellor, to Lord Burghley, Chancellor of the University, written 18 January 1574/5
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Author's Note
- Contents
- PLATES
- Chapter I The Open Watercourses in the Streets of Cambridge
- Chapter II The Nine Wells, and the Watercourse down to the Conduit Head
- Chapter III The Distribution of the Water from the Conduit Head
- Chapter IV The Elizabethan Proposals
- Chapter V The Ancient King's Ditch
- Chapter VI The Water brought down Trumpington Street to the King's Ditch
- Chapter VII The Water brought to the Market Hill
- Chapter VIII The Water brought to Emmanuel and Christ's Colleges
- Chapter IX Thomas Hobson, the Carrier
- Chapter X Other Benefactors of the Conduit
- Chapter XI The Constitution of the Trust
- Chapter XII Roman and Medieval Waterworks and the New River from Ware to London
- Chapter XIII Technical Skill in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter XIV Cambridge Water Supplies, Past and Present
- Chapter XV The Medieval Water Supply of Trinity College
- Chapter XVI The Old Account Books of the Trust
- Chapter XVII The More Recent History of the Conduit
- Appendices
- I Two Epitaphs on Thomas Hobson, one by John Milton of Christ's College, and one anonymous from the Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Rev. William Cole
- II The Spectator of 14 October 1712. Article by Richard Steele: so much as relates to Thomas Hobson
- III Letter from Dr Perne, Vice-Chancellor, to Lord Burghley, Chancellor of the University, written 18 January 1574/5
- IV Order of a Court of Sewers, dated 23 April 1634: so much as relates to Hobson's River
- V The Trustees in 1937 of Hobson's Conduit Trust
- Index
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- Hobson's ConduitThe New River at Cambridge Commonly Called Hobson's River, pp. 126 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1938