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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The monk Fitzstephen, who wrote a graphic account of London in the twelfth century, which is printed separately by Stow in his Survey, tells us that there are “on the northern side, in the suburbs, excellent springs, the water of which is clear, sweet, and salubrious, amongst which Holywell, Clerkenwell, and St. Clement's well are of most note, and most visited, as well by the scholars from the schools as by the youth of the city, when they go out to take the air in the summer evenings”; and Stow, who materially extends the list, mentions the religious plays performed by the parish clerks at Clerkenwell and at Skinners' well hard by, where in 1409 they gave a dramatic performance which lasted eight days.
page 252 note a In Dr. Murray's New English Dictionary the first meaning of conduit is given as “an artificial channel or pipe for the conveyance of water,” and, except when quoting from others, I have used the word only in that sense. It afterwards came to mean “a structure from which water was distributed or made to issue.” In this paper generally I apply the term “conduit-head” to the structure in which the water was gathered near the source before passing into the main pipe, and “conduit-house” to the building in which it was stored before its final distribution.
page 253 note a Some account of Domestic Architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry VIII. (Oxford, 1859), part i. 26, 27.Google Scholar
page 256 note a Domestic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p. 94.
page 256 note b Vol. liii. 161–170.
page 257 note a Drawings of this are given in The Builder for 8th August, 1885, vol. xlix. p. 186.
page 257 note b Vol. xv. 313–317.
page 257 note c It is in the latter part of a volume consisting of 120 leaves of paper, and marked Vitellius, F. XII.
page 258 note a Vol. i. 112, 125.
page 258 note b In the Latin, “Willielmus Taylour, sartor domini Henrici regis.”
page 262 note a Edition of 1756, ii. 1316.