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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2013
    19 January 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139162784
    9781108042444
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162784
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.24kg, 184 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, General
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, General
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    It is a peculiarity of Cambridge that in one of the principal streets, Trumpington Street, there is a runnel of fresh water, called Hobson's Conduit, on either side of the road (a similar stream in St Andrew's Street was covered over in the 1990s.) These streams form part of a system of water supply named after Thomas Hobson (1545–1631), the Cambridge carrier, from whom we get the expression 'Hobson's Choice', and for who the young John Milton wrote two verse epitaphs, reproduced in this work. For 250 years, Hobson's Conduit provided the principal supply of drinking water for the centre of the city, after Andrew Perne (1519–89), Vice-Chancellor of the University, persuaded a number of patrons, including Hobson, to subscribe towards the project. First published in 1938, this history of Cambridge's ancient urban watercourse was written by W. D. Bushell, one of the trustees of the Hobson's Conduit Trust.

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