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The proceedings which took place in 1357, to be referred 

 to later, and the coincidence in period of the construction of 

 the conduit by Helias with the probable date of the grant 

 made by Gerard, make it appear possible that the two supplies 

 were established at the same time. 



The White Friars, situated, according to Fosbroke, with- 

 out the Lower North Gate, not far from Brook Street,' appear 

 to have taken water from another source, for also among the 

 Records of the Corporation is an Agreement, dated July i, 

 1347, between the Prior of the Hospital of St Bartholomew 

 and Brother John, Provincial of the Order of St Mary of 

 Mount Carmel (White Friars), by which the Prior granted to 

 the Friars the use for ever of the 



" aqueduct running through a leaden pipe from the spring called 

 ' Gosewhytewell ' to their enclosure, the said pipe being covered in the 

 ground in the Hyde, which extends from the King's highway called 

 ' Kangestrete ' on the east to the land of the Abbot and Convent of St 

 Peter's on the west, and in breadth between the footpath leading from 

 the cross called ' Kangescroice ' towards Brokcstretc on the South 

 . on condition that the Friars make good any damage caused 

 by their digging up the said pipe for purposes of repair. "^ 



The " Kangestrete " here mentioned would be the road to 

 Kingsholm, now known as Worcester Street, while " Broke- 

 strete " was between the Postern Gate and Morin's Mill, 

 which was by the North Gate. The spring called Gosewhyte- 

 well was probably near the " Goswite-Mill " mentioned in the 

 list of freeholders and copyholders in King's Barton, temp. 

 Edward L, given in the Cartulary of the Abbey of Gloucester. ' 

 The " Gooseditch " occurs in Cole's Rental of Gloucester, 

 1455, from which one gathers that it lay beyond the Eastgate. 

 The Postern Gate was at the market end of St Aldate Street. 

 The next record extant relating to water-supply in Glou- 

 cester is a copy of a licence from King Edward III., dated 

 June 4, 1355, granted at the request of Edward the Black 

 Prince, 



" for the Guardian and Convent of the Friars Minor (the Grey Friars) 

 to carry water to their house at Gloucester by an underground leaden 

 pipe from the aqueduct of the Abbot and Monastery of St Peter at 

 Breresclyf, in the fields of Mattesdon, the said pipe being a third of the 

 the size of the pipe of the aqueduct."* 



1 Fosbroke, " History of Gloucester" (1819), p. 300. 



2 " Calendar," p. 343. 3 " Hist, et Cart.," vol. iii., pp 67-76. 4 " Calendar." p. 350. 



