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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
grounde of the said Walter in Sheepstor als Shatstor and for 
passinge bringinge and conveyinge the Ryver of Mewe als Mevey 
through the landes of the said Walter Elforde and for the absolute 
purchase* of all his grounde there digged and broken for the 
bringinge and conveyinge thereof to the said Mayor & Coialtie & 
their successors." 
There is no trace of the causes which would have induced the 
Corporation to accede to Elford's claim any more than to Wise's if 
the indenture had been fully carried out. The same obscurity 
exists here as in relation to the controversy with Thomas Drake, 
and the two incidents were perhaps associated. 
Many of the persons mentioned in this award were more or less 
intimately connected with Plymouth. Walter Elford, as we have 
seen, subsequently became a freeman. Trenaman lived at Jump, 
named after him half a century later "Trenaman's Jump." Chris- 
topher Coplestone was a freeman of the town. Walter Pepperell 
was mayor in 1575-6 and 1590-1. Kempe, the schoolmaster, 
was a freeman. Nicholas Slanning was town clerk in 1552, 
member in 1558, mayor in 1564-5. John Trelawny was mayor in 
1597-8. Peter Silvester and Martin White were freemen. William 
Hawkins, brother of Sir John, was mayor in 1578-9 and 1587-8. 
John Sparke was mayor in 1583-4 and 1591-2. George Baron 
was town clerk, and subsequently mayor in 1594-5. A remarkable 
and hitherto unsuspected fact suggested by this document, read in 
connection with the recovered Receivers' Accounts, is, that the first 
water money taken by the Corporation was apparently for the 
supply of water outside the borough — to Silvester and to Kemp. 
This is most important evidence of complete ownership, especially 
in relation to recent litigation. 
A noteworthy point, and one hitherto unknown, in connection 
with the association of Drake with Plymouth is that he was made 
a freeman in the mayoralty of Gregory Cocke, 1570-1, probably, 
from the position of his name, in the former year. Drake was 
then so far from having attained to note that no distinctive appella- 
tion is affixed to his name. When his brother, Thomas Drake, 
was made a freeman, in the mayoralty of William Hawkins, 
* "Absolute purchase" is also the language of the compensation deed. 
Note here also, as elsewhere, that it is the Mayor and Commonalty who are 
the principals in the work. 
