Little Conduit by the Stocks Market

Little Conduit by the Stocks Market
   Erected about 1500 (S. 18). In Walbrook Ward. Removed after the Fire 1666 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. i. 28).
   Strype describes it as a little postern of stone set up with a cesterne of lead inside it, 1 H. VIII. opposite the south-east corner of the Stocks Market (ib. II. 195).
   Called the "pissing Conduit" (S. 184) from its running a small stream of water (Halliwell, s.v.).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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