Springs Streams And Spas of London History And Associations
Springs Streams And Spas of London History And Associations
Alfred Stanley Foord
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Citizen. Marry ! where they stand runs a Spring called Dame Annis le Cleare, after the name of a rich London Widow, Annis Clare, who, matching herself with a riotous Courtier in the time of Edward I. , he vainly consumed all her wealth : there she drowned herself, being then but a shallow ditch or running water. " Ben Jonson's Comedy of ** Bartholomew Fair"^ contains a reference to this spring. In Act lii. , Scene i, one of the characters, Captain Whit, delivers himself thus : "A delicate show-...pig, little mistress, with shweet sauce, and crackling, like de bay-leaf i' de fire, la ! tou shalt ha' de clean side o' de table- clot, and di glass vashed with phatersh (waters) of Dame Annesh Cleare. " Among the surveys taken by the Parliament in 1650, the well is stated to have lain upon waste lands *' late belonging to * Charles Stuart, ' sometime King of England " — in other words, Crown lands — and was environed with a brick wall. The well was 18 feet deep, and the waters were said to be valuable in ^ " Bartholomew Fair " was produced at the Hope Theatre on the Bank-side (Southwark), October 31, 16 14.
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