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A Dictionary of London
… the distributing base one or more miles distant. Numerous conduits (q.v.) were erected in the City to receive the … from cocks or taps by the citizens as required. These conduits continued in use until the 16th century, when a …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… as they were able to perform so far as the water of the conduits would satisfy. The grant to Morice had passed under … granted for the use of Essex House. The water in the conduits becoming very low, and the poor very clamorous in … regret that, on account of the frequent failure of the conduits to supply sufficient water to the City, by reason …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in the metropolis by the mid-sixteenth century, with conduits or pipes from Tyburn (1236), Highbury (1438), …