r dwelling
house situate standing and being in Small Street within the parishes of
St. Walburgh and St. Leonards or one of them within the said city of
Bristol wherein Richard Streamer Esq. (who died in 1680) formerly dwelt
and wherein Sir William Poole, Knt. (no trace of him can be found in
local records) afterwards dwelt and now (1723) the dwelling of and in
the possession of the said Sir Abraham Elton (First Baronet) (where also
Sir Abraham Elton, the grandson, successively dwelt, and, after that,
William Thornhill, surgeon) and fronting forwards to the street called
Small Street and extending backwards to a lane called St. Leonard's Lane
and bounded on the outside thereof with a messuage in the holding of
William Donne, Ironmonger, and afterwards (1746) John Perks, Tobacconist
(now 1905, known as No. 6 in Small Street and actually adjoining the
Post Office) and on the other side thereof with a messuage in the tenure
of William Knight, Cooper (and afterwards of Richard Lucas, Cooper) (now
1905, known as No. 8 Small Street and last occupied by Messrs. Bartlett
and Hobbs, Wine Merchants), together with all and singular Cellars,
Sellars Vaults, Rooms, Halls, Parlors, Chambers, Kitchens, Lofts,
Lights, Basements, Backsides, pavements, court yards and appurtenances
whatsoever"--for one whole year, yielding and paying therefor the rent
of a peppercorn on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel (if the same
shall be demanded). Signed and sealed, Robert Cann. In the Abstract of
Title it is noted that William Knight, who occupied the house on the
"other side," was succeeded in the tenure by Richard Lucas, cooper. On
the 14th August, 1746, Sir Abraham Elton (3rd Bart.) and assignees
leased the premises as before described to Dr. Logan, of the city of
Bristol, doctor in physick, for 5s., as in the case of Christopher
Shuter. The house of William Donne, ironmonger, adjoining, was in this
deed mentioned as occupied by John Perks, tobacconist. The property
appears to have been sold by William Logan, of Pennsylvania, Esq., and
nephew and heir of the above-mentioned Dr. Logan, doctor of physick, of
the city of Bristol, to the "Small Street Company (Richard Reynolds,
Edward Garlick, Richard Summers, James Harford, William Cowles, James
Getly)" on the 27th May, 1772. In the year 1847 the property was leased
to the Bristol Water Works Company, and purchased by the company in
1865.

The several owners and occupiers of this "great house"