[13] “Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense,” ed. Hardy, Rolls Series, 1875, vol. i. p. 507.
[14] “Itinerary,” ed. L. T. Smith, vol. v. p. 144.
[15] Certificates of Chantries, quoted in “English Gilds, the Original Ordinances from MSS. of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” ed. Toulmin Smith. E. E. T. S., 1870, p. 249. Gilds in Rochester, Bristol, Ludlow, &c., did the same.
[16] Text of the time of Edward IV, but “copied from laws still older.” “English Gilds,” as above, pp. 374, 411.
[17] “Archæologia,” vols. xxvii. p. 77; xxix. p. 380.
[18] “Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby,” edited by J. C. Atkinson, Durham, Surtees Society, 1881, vol. ii. p. 401. The original of the Rosels contract is in Latin.
[19] Skeat’s edition, Text C, pas. x. l. 29, et seq.
[20] Most of the French ones were dedicated to St. Nicholas, patron of travellers.
[21] Fleet bridge outside Ludgate, Oldbourne (Holborn) bridge, both of stone. Fleet bridge had been repaired by the mayor, John Wels, in 1431, “for,” says Stow, “on the coping is engraven Wels imbraced by Angels.” “Survey of London,” ed. Kingsford, Oxford, 1908, 2 vols., vol. i. p. 26. The “Survey” had appeared in 1598, and been reprinted, with important additions in 1603.
[22] “The earliest proof [of the existence of a timber bridge] is in the record of the drowning of a witch at ‘Lundene brigce’ in King Edgar’s time.” Kingsford, Stow’s “Survey,” as above, vol. ii. p. 273.