416 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
letters ‘‘I. M. 1701.” Who was this enterprising Plymothian of 
Queen Anne’s time? Was it John Munyon, chosen Mayor of 
Plymouth in 1692, and again in 1696? 
But the finest house in Plymouth of the Queen Anne period is 
the one in Notte Street, on the opposite side to that of the Eliza- 
bethan house, and set back from the line of the street. The front 
is entirely of Portland stone, and the details are exceedingly good. 
It is probably the best built house in Plymouth of the last century. 
Here lived for many years Cookworthy, of china clay and Plymouth 
pottery fame. Can you not picture him ?—the quiet Quaker in his 
drab suit, seated in his wainscoted parlour before the (yet remain- 
ing) fireplace with its blue and white Dutch tiles, thinking, it may 
be, very seriously over the difficult problems he has determined to 
solve in chemistry; or, as his eye rests on the glazed tiles with 
their rude delineations of sacred incidents, proposing to himself 
some higher adaptation of the ceramic art. In an excellent brick- 
fronted house in Howe Street, ornamented by some good moulded 
work, also in brick, lived the famous admiral, Lord Howe, and Lady 
Howe. The late President of the Royal Academy, Sir Charles 
Eastlake, was born in a corner house on the Parade, now occupied 
by Mr. Tucker. Such facts should be recorded on tablets placed 
outside these houses. They surely give interest to a locality, and 
the memory of illustrious Plymothians should ever be cherished. 
The history of Plymouth during a large part of the last century 
was very much written on the rain-water pipes. These things are 
now mostly made to a few patterns, and you may see ten thousand 
of them all alike in any county of England, and you know exactly 
from what cast-iron foundry they all come. It was not so a hun- 
dred years ago. ‘There was a great deal more individuality shown 
then in these little things. The cistern head of a rain-water pipe 
outside a well-known house of business in Southside Street has 
‘“J. C. 1782” stamped on it ; another in the same street, ‘1773’; 
and one outside a good brick house on the Barbican, 41770.” In 
Exeter Street is an important house with an open central court 
(formerly occupied by Messrs. Treeby), the date of which is deter- 
mined by the stamped figures on a lead pipe under the eaves—1768. 
The rain-water pipes in Ham Street tell us when some of the houses 
were built there—1784 ; and others also in and near Green Street, 
when some of the houses there were erected—1786. 
There are several reasons why the houses of the last century are 
