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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
The history of the old systems of water supply in London is of considerable interest, and much of it remains untold, the material evidence being largely hidden below ground, but from time to time some important fact comes to light. This was the case ten years ago, when in a paper read before the Society and printed in Archaeologia, Mr. Norman succeeded in proving that the water supply for the convent of the Grey Friars, or Friars Minors of the Franciscan Order, in London was largely drawn from a conduit-head which still contains water and is to be seen in the garden of a house numbered 20, Queen Square, Bloomsbury.
page 347 note a Vol. lvi. 251–266.
page 347 note b The account of the Grey Friars' water system, which is in Latin, is given in the preface to A Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, edited by John Grough Nichols, F.S.A., and printed for the Camden Society in 1852. This chronicle really forms the last portion of the register. In 1722–23 Captain John Stevens had already extracted part for his additions to Dagdale's Monasticon.
page 351 note a Tomlins, T. E., A Perambulation of Islington (London, 1858), 162.Google Scholar
page 356 note a This house was sold by auction for £2,610 in June, 1909.
page 356 note b Archaeologia, lviii. 293–312Google Scholar. In his paper Mr. Hope explains the word “cesperill,” which in some Christ's Hospital minutes is corrupted into “ces-pools,” giving a totally wrong impression. This word is a misspelling of “suspiral,” a vent or breathing hole to avoid the danger of the pipe being burst by the pressure of air or water, the late Latin equivalent being susperaculum.