SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE PLYMOUTH CORPORATION. 477 
Work must also have been done on the Conduits, and private 
supplies granted. The lead pipe already mentioned was of suffi- 
cient length to bring a stream from the leat into Old Town, whence 
or from the Conduits it was allowed to flow in channels through 
the streets down to the water at Sutton Pool. The first payments 
for water were made in 1592-3 by Peter Silvester, a man of active 
business habits, who appears to have had something to do at one 
time with the Pool, and William Kempe, the schoolmaster, who 
farmed the vicarage, 
Itm rec of Peter Silvester for water mony xxx* of Mr 
Kympe for the like xv® . : : Vict xlvs 
The same year the first three Conduits were completed, at the 
sole cost of the Corporation. 
Itm pd for buyldinge of three Cundytts and bringinge 
of the water to the Guyldhalle in ledd_ . me cxnxyryi¢ 
Next year a Conduit was made at the Southside, the lead pipe 
being bought of John Welles of Exeter; and in 1595-6 £8 were 
paid to John Burden for bringing the water to ‘the old Conduit,” 
while various small repairs were done to the leat; in 1596-7 the 
Conduit at Church Style was paved; in 1597-8 the water was 
brought “in pipes at the Foxehole,” and a Conduit made there, at 
a cost of £48; in 1598-9 the leat was ‘‘amended” and “ ridded ” 
[7.e. cleansed], and the leat “‘made” by the middle mill; in 1599- 
1600 the “bridge at Mawdlyn” was repaired ; and in 1600-1 we 
have the first definite entry of water rents, which after a few years 
merge into the ordinary town rents. The payments by Silvester 
and Kempe may have been in the nature of fines for grants.* 
Itm receaued of W™ Neelde and Richard Jooye Col- 
lectot® of the Rents yerelie to be pd to the Towne 
by suche as haue the water brought and Converted —__ 
[turned] into theire houses into Cocks : mati el 
In this year, too, the Council made an order that no one should 
take water from the great pipe without leave on penalty of £40; 
and in the ensuing mayoralty N. Downeman, who owned a quay, 
* The ordinary charge was 4s. a year, and in 1608 thirty-eight persons 
were supplied. John Waddon paid 10s. for the Mill Leat; and the horsepool 
formed without what was afterwards Frankfort Gate—the margin of which 
was planted with elms as a public walk in the last century—was also 
rented. 
