The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good — A History of London’s Water

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Notes

1 Rudden, Bernard, The New River : A Legal History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985); Tomory, Leslie, The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017); Ward, Robert, London’s New River (London: Historical Publications, 2003); Matthews, William, Hydraulia, an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water Works of London: And the Contrivances for Supplying Other Great Cities, in Different Ages and Countries (London, Simpkin, 1835).

2 I have followed the convention that ‘City’ capitalised refers to the area governed by the Corporation of the City of London and ‘city’ in lower case refers to the whole conurbation.

3 Jenner, Mark, ‘From Conduit Community to Commercial Network? Water in London, 1500–1725’, in Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 250–72; Harding, Vanessa, ‘The Population of London, 1550–1700: A Review of the Published Evidence’, The London Journal, 15.2 (1990), 111–28 <https://doi.org/10.1179/ldn.1990.15.2.111>