A·D 1800

WILLIAM BOUND CHURCH
JOSEPH BIRD WARDENS.

For the better accommodation
of the Neighbourhood,
this Pump was removed to
the Spot where it now
Stands.

The Spring by which it is
supplied is situated four
Feet eastward, and round
it, as History informs us,
the Parish Clerks of London
in remote Ages annually
performed sacred Plays.
That Custom caused it to be
denominated Clerks - Well,
and from which this Parish
derives its Name.

The Water was greatly
esteemed by the Prior and
Brethren of the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem, and
the Benedictine Nuns
in the Neighbourhood.

N.B. The Situation of the Pump is marked with a Star.

Drawn by H. Gardner

Engraved by B. Howlett

CLERKS-WELL.

A View of the PUMP near Clerks Well - Ray Street in the Parish of Clerkenwell - with its descriptive Iron Tablet - as it appeared in 1822

Also a plan of the Site and Vicinity.

It was near this Well that the Parish Clerks of London in the year 1409 the 10th of King Hen. 4th are said to have acted for 8 days successively a Play which "Was matter from the creation of the World"-in the presence of most of the Nobility and Gentry of England

London - Published 1st May 1822 by Robert Wilkinson 125 Church Street. 164