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used in the garden. The beautiful conduit 

 shown in the garden scene from " The Romance 

 of the Rose," with its marble basin and runnel of 

 water in a marble channel, shows its use in the 

 mediaeval garden. The Rev. Samuel Pegge, 

 who wrote an account of Bolsover Castle in 

 1785, mentions that at Leigh Priory there used 

 to be a fountain in brick "of several stories," 

 and probably dating from the time of Henry 

 VIII. At Nonsuch there was a marble foun- 

 tain with a pelican carved above it, and foun- 

 tains were made at Theobalds and Greenwich 

 for James I. The fountain at Kenilworth had 

 an octagonal basin 4 feet high, and large enough 

 for carp, in the centre of which were two 

 athletes of white marble, standing back to back, 

 and carrying a ball " 3 feet over," with the 

 bear and ragged staff at the top. The sides of 

 the basin were carved with Neptune, " Thetis in 

 her chariot, drawn by her dolphins, there Triton 

 by his fishes, here Proteus herding his sea-bulls, 

 then Doris and her daughters, solacing on sea 

 and sands," and with " whales and whirlpools, 

 sturgeons, Tunnys, conchs and wealks." In 

 the seventeenth century the ingenuity of the 

 designer was spent in practical jokes — such as 

 fountains which drenched you with water if you 

 stepped on a hidden spring. The copper-tree 

 at Chatsworth is a bad instance. But besides 

 these, water-toys were much in fashion. Both 

 Solomon and Isaac de Caux invent-ed various 



