OLD FOREST OF WALTHAM. JS 



Appendix. 

 Mr. B. G. Cole has been good enough to send me the 

 following extracts bearing upon the question of water-pipes, 

 from Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England. London, 

 MDCLXV. : — 



"In his .[Kin<; Henry VIII. 's] thirtieth year (1538-0) tlic manner of casting 

 Pipes of Lead for conveyance of water under ground, without using of Soder, M'as 

 first invented by Robert Brocke, Clerk, one of the King's Chaplains, a profitable 

 Invention ; for by this, two men and a boy will do more in one day than could 

 have been done before by many men in many daj-s : Robert Cooper, Goldsmith, 

 was the first that made the Instruments, and put this invention in practice." 



1612-14. "About this time a memorable Act was performed by Mr. Hi/gh 

 Middleton, Citizen and Goldsmith, of London, and born in Denbighshire, who 

 having an Act of Parliament for his Warrant, with infinite cost and indefatigable 

 labour, brought Water to the City of London, from two great Springs of Chad- 

 well and AunaeU, in Hertfordshire, having cut a Channel from thence to a place 

 near LsUngton, whither he conveyed it to a large Pond, and from thence in Pipes 

 of young Elms to all places of the City." 



In the Illustvated London Neivs volume for the second half of 

 the year 1856 there is an article on the New River Water Works 

 (pp. 521-3). It is there stated that the Service Reservoir in 

 Claremont Square was originally called the High Pond, and that 

 *' in excavating for the new reservoir, some curious remains of 

 the old system of wooden piping and plugs were found embedded 

 in the mud, and were the contrivances by which the water was 

 let out of the pond many years since." 



THE LIMITS OF THE OLD FOREST OF 

 WALTHAM FOR FAUNISTIC PURPOSES. 



By V/. COLE. 



{With Sketch-Map.) 



IN my paper on '* Area of Epping Forest for Faunistic 

 Purposes" (Essex Nat., vi. 10) I considered only that 

 portion of Waltham Forest which is commonly called " Epping 

 Forest," and the accompanying map was so delimited. But 

 when engaged in settling the extent of the collections for the 

 Forest Museum, I decided to include the whole of the Forest of 

 Waltham asset out in the last Perambulation (that of the 17th 

 year of Charles I., 1641) as an excellent basis for collecting 

 operations. This district includes the site of Hainhault, and 



