478 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
was actually fined £20 for not suffering the Conduit water to pass 
to the Cock and Conduit on Southside. In 1602-3 a Conduit was 
built in Bilbury Street, towards which £22 6s. 10d. was collected ; 
and the Conduit without Old Town or North Gate was erected at 
considerable cost—it had a leaden cistern, and was ornamented 
with carvings of arms. ‘Two years later Walter Mathew commem- 
orated his mayoralty by giving the town a Conduit by the “ Great 
Tree at Brittayne side.” 
M° that the Condet w'out the Eastgate by the Tree was buylte 
at- the pper Coste and Charge of M* Walter Mathewe then 
maior.* 
Drake did not compound with all the owners of property in 
connection with the leat, and the Corporation had to defray what 
was left unpaid after his death. The entries will explain them- 
selves :— 
1603-4 Itm given to M* Walter Elforde his 
Freedome and one hundred of deale bordes 
in regarde of the inheritance of the weare 
heade of the water that cometh hither to 
Plymouth, wher the maior and his brethren 
do vsuallie ride once a year.  iiiy! peraays 
[In the margin it is written] “This some of 
£4 14s. was repaid againe in the account 
following to the next Receuot and the bordes 
are yet owing vnto M* Elford.” 
The debt however did not long remain unpaid, for we have in 
1607-8 : 
Itm geuen to M* Walter Elford one hundered of 
deale Boardes w°h are delive'd and also his 
freedome for y°® absolute inheritance of the 
hedd weare in the Ryver and the water leate 
of the water of meawe als meavy that 
runneth thorough his lande towards Ply- 
mouth wh Boards cost : siya ee 
There is a peculiar interest in the first of these entries, because 
it shows that “The Fyshynge Feaste” originated in one sense 
practically with the leat, in the periodical survey of the water, 
which was no formal or feasting matter when the Corporation had 
* He had previously given houses to the “ vse of poore fatherless children.” 
