38 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
had a nolvt to the use of the water from the springs in 
th. Park, and the history of their privilege is recorded 
e a stone which stands above “the Dell vt on the north- 
: ' of the bridge across the end of the Serpentine. The 
• . ... option states that a supply of water by a conduit was 
u ranted to the Abbey of Westminster by Edward the 
Confessor, and the further history of the lands, which 
passed into Henry VIII.’s hands at a time when all church 
property was in peril of seizure, is neatly glossed over as 
the “ manor was resumed by the Crown in 1536,” The 
use of the springs,, however, was retained by the Abbey, 
and confirmed to them by a charter of Elizabeth in 1560. 
] .0, r • the ; h-cho- was and : n 1663 the 
O • : - ; pr . ■;■ ; si! ? he 
r. 
ppo'sitc 
tolphE 
h * basaa of 
; v v. to , ;a,vde in 1061 on the 
abandoned two years 
ed that this sunk garden was 
onwont of d;.- h of Cromwell's time, one small 
one having be- . 0 here, but the history of the Chelsea 
Waterworks reservoir must have been unknown to those 
who believed the ■ edition. It contained a million and a 
C gallons 1 o.er, and was protected by a wall and 
. -c :• were once said to have been frequent. 
'hx e was made by Queen Caroline, Con¬ 
or- v n had to be paid to the Waterworks 
t .V.v?n party. 
hi this r L - experiments in • plant growing, when 
\merican wr-iw Low with enthusiasm on the wonders 
2 WAT 3 QYH ,FTIATHUCH WimJOCl 
