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282 TALLIs's ILLUSTRATED LONDON J
persons, and the same was called the Tnn-upon~Cornb.il],
because it was in the shape of that vessel. In 1401 the
tun was converted into a cistern for sweet water, conveyed
by leaden pipes from Tyburn, and thenceforth cailed the
Conduit-on-Cornhill. "Then was the wall planked over,
and a cage with a pair of stocks placed therein for the
confinement and correction of immoral characters; on the
top of the cage was fixed a pillory for the punishment of
fraudulent bakers, for millers stealing corn at the mills,
for scolds, and other feminine offenders." Of the origin
of the Standard in Cornhill, so long the ideal point by
which the suburban mile-stones measured their distances
from the city, an ancient local historian gives the follow-
ing account.—"In 1582, Peter Morris, a Dutchman,
having contracted with the city for the construction of
an engine under London Bridge to force water into the
eastern parts thereof, erected at the east end of Cornhill,
in the middle of the high street, where four ways part, a
water standard at the charge of the city, which standard
had four spouts that ran plentifully with every tide four
ways to Bishopsgate, Aldgate, the Bridge, and to Wal-
brook, or Stocks Market. This being at the same time sup-
posed to be the highest ground in the city." Passing from
the western extremity of Cornhill, the outlets on the left-
hand side are not of sufficient interest to demand distinct
notice. The first opening on the right-hand side is Pqpefs
Head-alley, which communicates with Lombard-street.
Here some ancient chronicles relate, that King John once
owned a palace, and possibly the celebrated but igno-
minious scene which passed between him and Pandulph,
in which the diadem of England was prostrated before the
representative of the Pope, was acted or planned here. It
might be that from this event a building afterwards rose
in honour of the Pope, called Pope's Head, which was a
place of considerable importance, and built of stone. It
certainly had been inhabited, if not by royalty, at least
by some very considerable personage, and adorned with
the arms of England, such as they were seen before the
persons, and the same was called the Tnn-upon~Cornb.il],
because it was in the shape of that vessel. In 1401 the
tun was converted into a cistern for sweet water, conveyed
by leaden pipes from Tyburn, and thenceforth cailed the
Conduit-on-Cornhill. "Then was the wall planked over,
and a cage with a pair of stocks placed therein for the
confinement and correction of immoral characters; on the
top of the cage was fixed a pillory for the punishment of
fraudulent bakers, for millers stealing corn at the mills,
for scolds, and other feminine offenders." Of the origin
of the Standard in Cornhill, so long the ideal point by
which the suburban mile-stones measured their distances
from the city, an ancient local historian gives the follow-
ing account.—"In 1582, Peter Morris, a Dutchman,
having contracted with the city for the construction of
an engine under London Bridge to force water into the
eastern parts thereof, erected at the east end of Cornhill,
in the middle of the high street, where four ways part, a
water standard at the charge of the city, which standard
had four spouts that ran plentifully with every tide four
ways to Bishopsgate, Aldgate, the Bridge, and to Wal-
brook, or Stocks Market. This being at the same time sup-
posed to be the highest ground in the city." Passing from
the western extremity of Cornhill, the outlets on the left-
hand side are not of sufficient interest to demand distinct
notice. The first opening on the right-hand side is Pqpefs
Head-alley, which communicates with Lombard-street.
Here some ancient chronicles relate, that King John once
owned a palace, and possibly the celebrated but igno-
minious scene which passed between him and Pandulph,
in which the diadem of England was prostrated before the
representative of the Pope, was acted or planned here. It
might be that from this event a building afterwards rose
in honour of the Pope, called Pope's Head, which was a
place of considerable importance, and built of stone. It
certainly had been inhabited, if not by royalty, at least
by some very considerable personage, and adorned with
the arms of England, such as they were seen before the