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NOTES AND QUERIES.

9 th S. II. AUG. 6, '

ham (Vivian's 'Visitations of Cornwall,' i. 327).

"1688/9, Feb. 11. Render Molesworth, Esq., of Westminster, Widower, about 50, and Mary Linch, Widow, about 22 ; alleged by Sir Charles Lyttelton, K', of Richmond, Surrey ; at S' Martin in the Fields, or S' James, Westminster." 'Mar. Lie. Faculty Office,' Harl. Soc. pub., p. 192.

Her daughter Philadelphia was married the same year :

" 1689, Nov. 18. Thomas Cotton, of Combermare, co. Chester, Esq., Bach r, about 17, and M rs Philadel- phia Linch, of Westminster ; alleged by John Tench, of S* Giles in the Fields, Midd., Gent." [This entry unfinished.] ' Mar. Lie. Vic.-Gen. of Abp. of Cant.,' Harl. Soc. pub., p. 126.

He succeeded later as second baronet, and she inherited all her father's extensive pro- perty in Jamaica. For many extracts from parish registers and wills and M.I. relating to this family of Lynch, see Dr. Howard's Misc. Gen. et Her., New Series, iv.

V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill, Berks.

CARDINAL WOLSEY'S LEADEN WATER- PIPES (8 th S. xii. 267). The following, headed 'An Ancient Water Supply,' from the Surrey Comet (Kingston), may be of interest to M.B.LoND. :

"As long ago as the sixteenth century, Coombe was noted for its fresh-water springs, and when the great Cardinal Wolsey built Hampton Court Palace he determined to bring his supply of drinking water from Coombe. An elaborate and very successful method was employed for collecting the water from the various springs on the hill. There were three principal conduit houses, which still exist : one on the estate of Sir Douglas Fox, which is called from this circumstance 'Coombe Springs,' and two others on or adjacent to the estate of Mr. Middleton Campbell. By means of a number of underground carriers or feeders, the water was conveyed from the springs to these conduit houses, whence it flowed in separate pipes to a point not far from Norbiton Station, where a junction was effected. From this point the water was taken direct to the Palace through a lead pipe 2J inches in diameter, which ran, at a depth varying from 3 feet to 6 feet, in front of what is now St. Peter's Vicarage, across the Cambridge Road, and in a straight line to the Fail-field, which it crossed, proceeding thence through Knight's Park, beneath the Hogg's Mill stream, and through Woodbines Park to the river. Here a considerable dip was necessary to take thepipe under the Thames, after which it was an easy matter to lay it through the Home Park to the Palace. The water from Coombe formed the sole domestic supply for Hampton Court Palace for nearly 350 years, and was only discarded about 30 years ago. There were two circumstances which chiefly influ- enced the authorities in abandoning the Coombe supply. The increase of building on Kingston Hill had the effect of polluting some of the sources of the supply, and it was anticipated that, with a considerable addition to the number of houses in the future, there would be further pollution.

Another difficulty was that the barges which came up to Kingston, when they dropped anchor in the Thames, used frequently to grapple and damage the lead pipe, which led to the occasional failure of the supply. Consequently a new supply of drinking water for the Palace was obtained from a branch of the river Colne, formerly known as the Cardinal's river, but now known as the Queen's river. The intake is at Hampton, where the water undergoes filtration, and is thence pumped to the Palace. By order of the Commissioners of Works, the old lead pipes between Coombe and Hampton Court Palace, which have been buried ever since the year 1520, have recently been taken up. It says much for the honest workmanship of. our ancestors that these pipes were found to be in perfect condition, and very few of them had any trace of wear and tear. They included some of enormous length, as much as 200 feet being found without a joint. These old pipes are of great value, because they were made at a time when the method of extracting the silver from the lead had not been discovered, and the substantial nature of the pipes may be gauged from the fact they average about 11 Ib. to the foot lineal. Owing to the great development of building on the route of the pipes, it has been of course impossible to recover the whole length that passes through Kingston, as a good deal of it is covered with bricks and mortar ; but the undertaking has proved a decidedly profitable one for the Commissioners of Works, who will be some hundreds of pounds in pocket by it. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the old red-brick plug- house, which for so many years was an eyesore to people crossing the foot- bridge from Grange Road to Denmark Road, has now oeen demolished." Surrey Comet, May 7, p. 5, col. 4.

THOMAS J. JEAKES. Tower House, New Hampton.

' THE CAUSIDICADE ' (9 th S. ii. 8). The title of the poem is :

"The Causidicade. A Pane - gyri - Satiri - Serio- Comic-Dramatical Poem on the Strange Resignation and Stranger Promotion. By Porcupinus Pelagius. Fourth Edition. London : Printed for M. Cooper in Paternoster Row, 1743. (Price One Shilling.)

Thirty-four lawyers of the last century were quizzed in this amusing satire. Many extracts from the poem, and notes thereon, will be found in C N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. x. 412, 453, 496. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

"HORSE-MARINE "(9 th S. ii. 26). The quota- tion your correspondent gives is such a mere fragment that, taken by itself, it is impossible to suggest any interpretation that can have more value than a mere guess. The following anecdote, however, may be worthy of record, not as a solvent of the mystery, but as acting guidepost-wise by directing the inquirer towards the regions in which knowledge may possibly lie concealed.

A legal friend of mine who knows our Lincolnshire dialect well, and speaks it, as the old grammars say, " with ease, elegance,