SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE PLYMOUTH CORPORATION. 461 
was his servant. Whether Rattenbury was sent, or sent for, is 
not clear, nor the exact nature of the business ; but immediately 
after this we find the Corporation engaged on the work. 
Itm pd to Thomas Burden for ij horses hire to 
mevye for vewe of the water : xx4 
Itm pd att the Church howsse of mevye for wine 
& milke : : ‘ ; by nat vj 
This is all we learn about Burden and his connection with the 
undertaking, but it was evidently in some’ way advanced, for 
shortly after we read 
Itm pd Peter Vosper to goe to Buckeland to knowe 
when the Judges did Come ; oe ti i4 
That is to say when the judges would come. The compensation 
under the Act payable to owners and tenants and millers was to be 
assessed by the Judges of Assize; and from his position Drake 
was qualified to say when they might be expected. This and the 
entry concerning Rattenbury are all that in any way connect 
Drake with the water works until he entered into an agreement 
with the Corporation. The judges do not seem to have arrived 
then; for the only other entry concerning them is under the 
following mayoralty (1590-91) :— 
Itm paied to Peter Sylvester for a tonne of wyne wh 
was given the Judges for theire paines and _ helpe 
touching the water Course : : epee 
The judges were Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of 
the Common Pleas, and Mr. Baron Stroud ; and if the compensa- 
tion was assessed before the work was begun (there was power, 
however, in the Act to postpone this) they must have visited 
Plymouth shortly after Michaelmas, 1590. 
The next series of entries which I have to quote is singularly 
interesting. We learn the name of the real engineer of the leat 
—the man who laid it out and saw to its execution, as appears by 
entries made when the work was completed. It is highly 
probable that Robert Lampen, whom we find employed also 
subsequently by the Corporation as a surveyor on the town 
defences, was the ancestor of one of the founders of this 
Institution, the Rev. Robert Lampen who delivered the address at 
