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A24384	The London almanack, or, A compendium of the year 1673 referred particularly to the meridian of the most famous city of London : together with some antiquities relating to that ancient and honourable corporation, not commonly known to the worthy inhabitants thereof / by Mercurius Civicus.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing A1925; ESTC R33076	21,837	48

Hertfordshire to the City of London with a limitat●…on of ten years time for the performance thereof But the expiration of her royal life sooner came then any such matter would be undertaken Also our late gracious Soveraign King James was pleased to grant the like Act but without date of time for the same effect and when all else refused Sr. Hugh Middleton undertook it to bring his intended River from Chadwel and Amwel to the North side of London neer Islington where he builded a large Cistern to receive it The work began the 20 day of February Anno D●…m 1608 and in five years space was fully accomplished Concerning the conveyance of it along to London from Chadwel and Amwel I my self saith Stow did divers time ride to see it and diligently observed that admirable Art pains and industry were bestowed for the passage of it by reason that all grounds are not of a like nature some being Ozie and very Muddy others again as St●…ff Craggy and Stony The depth of the Trench in some places descended full 30 foot if not more whereas in other places it required as sprightful Art again to mount it over a valley in a Trough between a couple of Hills and the Trough all the while borne up by wooden Arches some of them fixed in the ground very deep rising in height above 23 foot Being brought to the intended Cistern but not as yet the water admitted entrance thereinto on Michaelmas day Anno 1613. being the day when Sr. Thomas Middleton Knight Brother to the said Sr. Hugh Midd'eton was elected Lord Mayor of London for the year ensuing in the afternoon of the same day Sr. John Swinerton Knight and Lord Mayor of London accompanied with the said Sr. Thomas Sr. Henry Montague Knight and Recorder of London and many of the worthy Aldermen rode to see the Ci●…ern and first issuing of the River thereinto which was performed in this manner A Troop of Labourers to the number of 60 or more well apparalled and wearing green Monmouth caps all alike carried Spades Shovels Pickaxes and such like instruments of laborious imployment marching after Drums twice or thrice about the Ci●…ern presented themselves before the Mount where the Lord Mayor Aldermen and a worthy company beside stood to behold them and one man in behalf of the rest delivered this Speech LOng have we labour'd long desir'd and pray'd For this great works perfection and by th' ayd Of H●…aven and goodm●…ns wishes 't is at length Happily conquered by Cost ●…rt a●…d St●…ength And after five years dear expence in dayes Travel and Pains beside the infinite wayes Of Malice Envy false suggestions Able to daunt the spirits of mighty ones In wealth and courage this a work so rare Only by one man's industry cost care Is brought to bless'd effect so much withstood His only aime the Citie 's general good And where before many unjust complaints Enviously seated caused oft restraints Stops and great crosses to our Masters cha●…ge And the work 's hindrance favour now at large Sp●…eads it self open to him and commends To admiration both his pains and ends The Kings most gracious love perfection draws Favour from Princes and from all applause Then wo●…thy Magistrates to whose content Next to the State all this great care was bent And for the publick good which grace requires Your loves and furtherance chiefly he desires To cherish these proceedings which may give Courage to some that may hereafter live To practice deeds of goodness and of fame And gladly light their actions by his Name ` Clark to the wo●…k reach me the Book to shew ` How many Arts from such a labour flow First her●…'s the Overseer this tride man An antient Soldier and an artizan The Clark next him Mathematitian The Master of the Timber-work take place Next after these the Measurer in like case Brick layer and Engineer and after those The Borer and the Pavior Then it showes The Labourers next keeper of Amwel head The Walkers last so all their Names are read Yet these but parcels of six hundred more That at onetime have been imploy'd before Yet these in sight and all the rest will say That all the week they had their royal-pay Now for the fruits then flow forth precious spring So long and dearly sought for and now bring Comfort to all that love thee Loudly sing And with thy christal murmurs strook together Bid all thy true wel-wishers welcome hither At which words the flood-gates flew open the stream ran gallantly into the Cistern Drums and Trumpets sounding in triumphant manner and a brave peal of Chambers gave full issue to the intended entertainment Thus much for waters serving this great City first by Rivers Brooks Bourns Fountains Pools c. and since by Cenduits partly made by good and charitable Citizens and otherwise by charges of the Commonalty and lastly by this New-River water brought from Amwell more chargable then almost all the rest To conclude as I have treated of all the several Waters that are serviceable to this great City and also of the several Conduits c. it may be somwhat wondered at that I have been so sparing in my discourse or description rather of the most famous River in the Western world viz. the Thames a River so great and spacious that without it London could not subsist although it had the advantage of all the others and twice as many more to furnish it with water That any wonder of this kind may the more easily abate I shall refer my Readers for satisfaction unto my next years London Almanack in which I intend by Gods permission to treat thereof by it self at large and shew them its Original and sundry passages untill I have pursued it into the Ocean into which all Rivers Naturally run and so end my book for this year Advertisements AN Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions for Ten years yet to come with Domifying Tables for sundry Latitudes viz. London York c. in England and for New-York in New England c. as also for Port-Royal in Jamaica and the Bridg-Town in the Barbadoes A Philosophical Essay touching Petrification in the greater world shewing the Origen of all Bodies to proceed from water and seeds c. By Thomas Shirley Physitian in ordinary to the Kings most excellent Majesty sold by William Cademan at the sign of the Popes-Head in the New Exchange The Fiery Trigon revived by 〈◊〉 oppositions of the two superiour plane●… Saturn and Jupiter in the years 1672. a●… 1673 declaring the manyfold miseri●… they menace to the Dutch Nation bei●… now in their grand climacterical year 〈◊〉 Thomas Trigge Gent. student in Physic●… and Astrology Sold by Josiah Robinso●… at his shop at Lincolns-Inne-Gate n●… Chancery-lane Also an Ephemeris or Almanack 〈◊〉 Jamaica particularly calculated with t●… Nativity of that Noble Island done 〈◊〉 an hundred and eighty years both p●… formed by John Gadbury student in 〈◊〉 sick and Astrologie and Printed for t●… Company of Stationers FINIS Note that the Glorious Planet Venus is our bright Evening Star from the beginning of the year until the 19. 〈◊〉 of June but from hence being acquit of his occidentali●… becomes Oriental and so our pleasant Morning Star all 〈◊〉 rest of the year after This table is easily understood Fo●… look but your Sum 〈◊〉 he first Collumn to your left hand and your time at the ●…op ●…nd in the Angle of meeting is the Sum of your Interest de sired It is so plain it needs no example Kings are Terrestrial Gods And govern here As Jove himself above the glittering Sphear To him bright Stars and Angels homage give Who grutches it he sends to Hell to Live By their Example let 's give CHARLES his due For hee 's our dr●…d and gracious Soveraign too Omnis Potestas â Den est Thus are the chiefest Law●…ys to be found In th' English Nation for the whole year round But for this City we need no such care Great London hath its Term-time all the year 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

of the water it was much frequented by young Schollars and other youths in the Summer Evenings but now saith my Authour is decay'd and spoiled with filth purposely layd here to raise the ground all thereabout the better for Garden-plots 6. Clements-well is a little North from St. Clements Church in the Strand and nigh unto an Inne of Chancery called Cl●…ments-Inn●… the water is sweet serviceable and plentiful and is yet handsomely preserved with free-stone round about it it being of great use to all the Neighbourhood thereabouts 7. Clerks-well or Clerken-well as it is now called is scituate not very far West of Clerken-well Church adjoyning to the wall that encloses it The said Church took its name of the Well as history mentioneth and the Well took its name from the Parish-Clerks in London who in old times were wont thereabout to meet and Dramatique-wi●…e to act some large History of Scripture at which recreations sundry Kings and Nobles have been present for their encouragement This Well is furnished with plenty of good water and is of great use to the inhabi●…ants adjoyning round about even unto this day 8. S●…inners-well was neer unto Clerken-well and was so named of the Worshipful company of Skinners in London for that they held thereabouts certain yearly interludes in place whereof saith Stow the wrestlings have been of late years kept and is in part continued by the Lord Mayor and A'dermen at the Feast of S. Barthol●…mew in the moneth of August at which time there is both Shooting of several sorts Wrestling and Cudgel-playing by the ablest men for skill and strength in these Exercises in the City before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen who reward the Victors and Victored also but unequally preferring strength to weakness c. The other lesser Wells or Rivers are almost all of them decay'd Howbeit I shall mention something of them for information to my ingenious Reader Fla●…s-well was scituate neer unto West-smith-fi●…ld by the Charter-house now lately saith Stow damned up that scarcely any Prints thereof remains Tods-wel Loders-wel and Rad-wel are all of them decay'd and now so filled up that the ●…laces where they were are hardly now to be discerned Dame-Annis the Cleer is not far from Holy-wel and remaineth still as may be seen by any that walk between Holy-Wel and More-fields and somewhat West thereof is another cleer water called Perilous-Pond because divers youths by swiming therein have been drowned Horse-pool is in West-smith-field and hath been sometimes a very great water and was so called from the use that was made thereof viz of watering Horses therein This is now also much decay'd the Spring thereof being stopped up and the land-Water as saith Sto●… falling into the small bottom remaining here enclosed with b●…ck is now called Smith-field Pond Crowders-wel is scituate by St. Giles's Church-yard without Cripple-gate and was formerly a large water and fed with sundry springs It is now for the most part stopped up but the chief spring thereof is preserved and was cooped about with Stone by the Excecutors of one Richard Wittington Citiz●…n of London as saith mine Author Besides these several advantages of Water this great and populous City was blessed withal by Nature Art hath not been wanting to give assistance herein unto it also by the generous charity of sund●…y Persons that bore affection unto her And so we may in History that Gilbert Sandford to do this glorious City service obtained from King Henry the Third his Majesty a Patent to convey water from the Town of Teybourn whence the place of executing offenders Monethly at the West end of the Subburbs neer Hide-Park corner is named by pipes of Lead into this City Then is it also furnished with divers curious Conduits which do not only eminent service to the several prime parts of the City but serve for Ornament and glory unto it of which I think not amiss to speak a little The first Ci●…lern of Lead enclosed or castellated to use Stows word with Stone in the City of London was called the great Conduit in West-cheap or Cheap-side and began to be builded in the year 1285. The Conduit in St. Mary Aldermanbury near the Church and the Standard or Conduit in Fleet-street neer St. B●…ides Church were made and finished Anno 1471. by the Excecutors of one William East-field Citizen of London The Conduit in Grass-streer or Grace Church-street opposite to London Bridg was built Anno Christi 1491. The Conduit at Oldb●…urn Cross now called Hol●…ourn Conduit was built Anno Christi 1498. and tebuilt by one Mr. William Lamb Anno 1577. The little Conduit by the Stocks market at the lower end of Cheap-side was first built Anno Christi 1500 and having bin tuined with the City it self by the la●…e dreadful conflagration of London ●…as rebuilt at the charges of the Honourable Sr. Robert Viner Kt. and Baronet with the true and lively Portraicture of his present sacred Majesty King CHARLES the second on horse-back upon whose happy Birth and Restauration-day Anno 1672. viz. May 29 it ran Wine for many hours together at the charge of the said Sr. Robert Viner as a signal Testimony of his loyalty to our said soveraign Lord. The Conduit at Bishops-gate was built in the year of our Lord 1513. The Conduit at London wall almost against Coleman street end was built in or about the year 1528. The Conduit at Aldgate without was built about the year of Christ 1535. The Conduit in Lothbury about the middle thereof was built Anno Christi 1546. The Conduit in Coleman-street adjoyning to the Church was built about the same year The Conduit at Down-gate vulga●…ly Dow gate was built Anno Christi 1568. The Conduit in Alders-gate-street without the gate was built An. Dom. 1610 by Mr. Thomas Hayes and water then conveyed unto it Besides these several Conduits and Aqueducts replenished with curious springs by which the City of London is happily served there are other Aquatical advantages belonging thereunto viz. Two other Conduits served by the water of the River Thames the one of them scituate by the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen and the other adjoyning to the Parish Church of St. Nicholas Cole abby both neer unto Old fishstreet and built Anno Christi 1583. But that which was as eminent almost as all these Conduits c. was the excellent contrivance of S●… Hugh Middlet●…n Kt. and Baronet who fi●…st attempted and brought to pass that admirable work of conveighing the New River water as now called from Chadwel and Amwell to London which becau●…e it was and is and is like to be of such great service to that eminent City I will transcribe the story thereof in brief from Stow which take a●… followeth The good Queen Elizabeth minding the good of this great City in or about the tenth year of her Raign granted to her Citizens power by Act of Parliament for cutting and conveying a River from any part of Middlesex or