OLD FOREST OF WALTHAM.
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Appendix.
Mr. B. G. Cole has been good enough to send me the
following extracts bearing upon the question of water-pipes,
from Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England. London,
mdclxv. :—
" In his [King Henry VIII.'S] thirtieth year (1538-9) the manner of casting
Pipes of Lead for conveyance of water under ground, without using of Soder, was
first invented by Robert Brocks, Clerk, one of the King's Chaplains, a profitable
Invention; for by this, two men and a boy will do more in one day than could
have been done before by many men in many days: Robert Cooper, Goldsmith,
was the first that made the Instruments, and put this invention in practice."
1612-14. "About this time a memorable Act was performed by Mr. Hugh
Middleton, Citizen and Goldsmith, of London, and born in Denbighshire, who
having an Act of Parliament for his Warrant, with infinite cost and indefatigable
labour, brought Water to the City of London, from two great Springs of Chad-
well and Amwell, in Hertfordshire, having cut a Channel from thence to a place
near Islington, whither he conveyed it to a large Pond, and from thence in Pipes
of young Elms to all places of the City."
In the Illustrated London News volume for the second half of
the year 1856 there is an article on the New River Water Works
(pp. 521-3). It is there stated that the Service Reservoir in
Claremont Square was originally called the High Pond, and that
"in excavating for the new reservoir, some curious remains of
the old system of wooden piping and plugs were found embedded
in the mud, and were the contrivances by which the water was
let out of the pond many years since."
THE LIMITS OF THE OLD FOREST OF
WALTHAM FOR FAUNISTIC PURPOSES.
By W. COLE.
(With Sketch-Map.)
IN my paper on "Area of Epping Forest for Faunistic
Purposes" (Essex Nat., vi. 10) I considered only that
portion of Waltham Forest which is commonly called "Epping
Forest," and the accompanying map was so delimited. But
when engaged in settling the extent of the collections for the
Forest Museum, I decided to include the whole of the Forest of
Waltham as set out in the last Perambulation (that of the 17th
year of Charles I., 1641) as an excellent basis for collecting
operations. This district includes the site of Hainhault, and