"Then was there Fagges well, neare vnto _Smithfield_ by the _Charterhouse_, now lately dammed vp, _Tod well_, _Loders well_, and _Rad well_, all decayed, and so filled vp, that there places are hardly now discerned.
"Somewhat North from _Holy well_ is one other well curbed square with stone, and is called _Dame Annis the Cleare_, and not farre from it, but somewhat west, is also one other cleare water called _Perillous pond_[8], because diuerse youthes by swimming therein haue beene drowned; and thus much bee said for Fountaines and Wels.
"_Horse poole_ in _Westsmithfield_, was sometime a great water, and because the inhabitants in that part of the Citie did there water their Horses, the same was, in olde Recordes, called _Horspoole_, it is now much decayed, the springs being stopped vp, and the land waters falling into the small bottome, remayning inclosed, with Bricke, is called _Smithfield pond_.
"By S. Giles Churchyard was a large water, called a _Poole_. I read in the year 1244 that Anne of Lodburie was drowned therein; this poole is now for the most part stopped vp, but the spring is preserued, and was cooped about with stone by the Executors of _Richard Wittington_."
[Footnote 1: The name of this church has been Latinized as "Sancta Maria de Ossibus"!]
[Footnote 3: The real quotation in Orosius is "þa wearð Tiber seo eâ swa fledu."]
[Footnote 4: A bag, or purse, a fold of a garment; a bay, bight, or gulf.]
[Footnote 5: I cannot find this quotation in "Boedoe Historia Ecclesiastica," &c., in any edition I have seen, but in 1.33. I do find Amfleet, and in John Smith's edition (Cambridge, 1722) as a note to Amj-leor he says "Vulgo Ambleteau or Ambleteuse, about 2 miles north of Boulogne"]
[Footnote 6: The Records were kept in the Tower, and at the Rolls Office, in a very neglected state, until they were removed to the present Record Office in Fetter Lane.]
[Footnote 7: This is the only one left whose position is a matter of certainty.]
[Footnote 8: Afterwards known as "Peerless Pool," an unmeaning cognomen.]
London, for its size, was indeed very well supplied with water, although, of course, it was not laid on to every house, as now, but, with the exception of those houses provided with wells, it had to be fetched from fixed public places, which were fairly numerous. When the waters of the Fleet, and Wallbrook, in the process of time, became contaminated, Henry III., in the 21st year of his reign (1236), granted to the Citizens of London the privilege of conveying the waters of the Tye-bourne through leaden pipes to the City, "for the poore to drinke, and the rich to dresse their meate." And it is only a few years since, that close by what is now called "Sedley Place," Oxford Street, but which used to be the old hunting lodge of bygone Lord Mayors, some of these very pipes were unearthed, a fine cistern being uncovered at the same time.