SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE PLYMOUTH CORPORATION. 479 
~ to maintain their rights against an ever-ready band of encroachers 
like Crymes and his associates. 
The second payment recorded is, oddly enough, for land at the 
other end of the leat. The entries are :— 
1604-5. Itm p? for an Ordynarie to Bentley vppon 
the Comyssion betweene the Towne and St 
Thomas wyse ; xVijiexs 
1605-6. Itm p? for a dynner for St Toms ae 
knight [Lord of Stoke Damerel] and others 
w came aboute the water Course 5 Xvlij® 
Itm p‘ to Robte Trelawney for three hoggesheds of 
Clarett wyne geuen to St Thomas wise 
kneight for the soyle in the leate in his 
Orcharde at Stoke Damfell thorough w’h the 
Towne Water is Conveyed, and for his right 
in the wast grounde & Key by the Barbican. xiiji x8 
1606-7. Item p? for two hoggesheds of Clarett 
wyne sent to S* Thomas wyse kneight in 
full payment of the Composition betweene 
hym and the Towne for the soyle of his lande 
in the water Course and his right in the 
grounde & soil of the southside key . sieviij# 
Neither Drake, therefore, though he received £100 to compound 
with the landowners, nor his brother and heir, Thomas Drake, after 
him—paid for the land for the most important part of the works, 
and the Corporation had to spend upon Elford and Wise no less 
than £27 4s. We do not know the value of the land at the 
Barbican, but as a set-off to that we have Elford’s freedom, a 
matter of very real money value in these days of exclusive trading 
and trade privilege.* 
The Conduits, by the way, were kept in repair by contract, and 
40s. extra were given to the contractor in 1607-8, for mending the 
lead pipes burst by “the laste great froste being an extraordinarie 
charge.” 
* People were made to pay for ‘‘inhabitinge within the towne,” not being 
free, and were not suffered to trade. Thus in 1585-6 one Glanville, of 
Tavistock, was fined 20s. for buying and selling in the town, not being free. 
In 1594-5 Nicholas Glanville, of Tavistock, probably the same, had to pay 
£6 for a “fine of linen cloth bought in the borough by his man of a Burton 
seized by the Town as foreign bought and sold.” In 1633, one “Eliot of 
Exon” was fined £3 for buying tallow of an Irishman, “ being a straunger and 
making breach of the priviledges of the towne.” 
