[60] Mentioned by Leland: “High Bridge hath but one great arch, and over a pece of it is a chapelle of St. George” (“Itinerary,” ed. L. T. Smith, i. 29), which chapel had been first dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury, but had apparently just been rebaptized, when Leland saw it, Henry VIII having decided by a proclamation of November 16, 1538, that other saints might be saints, but this one was not.
[61] See a sketch of it, above, p. [21].
[62] “History of Chester,” London, 1819, vol. i. p. 285.
[63] Dugdale, “Warwickshire,” 1730, ii. 724.
[64] J. G. Wood, “The Principal Rivers of Wales,” London, 1813, vol. ii. p. 271.
[65] The Countess of Norfolk complains to Parliament that, contrary to their franchise, her tenants have been compelled to contribute towards the building of the bridge at Huntingdon. “Rolls of Parliament,” 1 Ric. II, year 1377.
[66] See F. Stone, “Picturesque Views of the Bridges of Norfolk,” Norwich, 1830. Rough sketches of more than thirty old English bridges appear in a curious engraving by Daniel King (seventeenth century), bearing as a title: “An orthographical designe of severall viewes vpon ye road in England and Wales,” and as a subscription: “This designe is to illustrate Cambden’s Britannia, that where he mentions such places the curious may see them, which is the indeavour, by Gods assistance, of
“Y. S. Daniell King.”
A copy is bound in the MS. Harl. 2073, as fol. 126. Catterick Bridge (supra p. [54]) is among the bridges there represented.
[67] “The Itinerary of John Leland,” ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith, London, 1907, 5 vols., iv. p. 137.