[68] “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. i. p. 48, 18 Edward I, A.D. 1289.
[69] Ibid., vol. i. p. 424; 18 Edward II, 1324.
[70] Ibid., vol. i. p. 314; 8 Edward II.
[71] “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. iii. p. 598; 7 and 8 Henry IV. In the same way as for bridges, taxes were sometimes levied but misapplied. See, in C. T. Flower, “Public Works in Mediæval Law,” 1905, i. p. 25, how William Caldecote of Aylesbury had been duly authorized to levy a tax of one penny or one half-penny on carts of various sorts, and one farthing on “every horse carrying goods for sale that should pass along Walton street which leads from Walton to Aylesbury for the maintenance of the said road, and that whereas the said William so received in 11 Rich. II over and above the sum spent on the repair of the road 24s. which remain in his hands, the road is flooded and dangerous by his default.”
[72] Grandson and great-grandson of the two Despensers who had been executed in 1326 by order of Queen Isabella, their estates being confiscated.
[73] Ed. Siméon Luce, vol. i. p. 257.
[74] Royal Itineraries show, for instance, that in the 28th year of his reign, Edward I changed seventy-five times his place of abode, that is about three times each fortnight. “Liber quotidianus Garderobæ,” London, 1787, p. lxvii.
[75] McKechnie, “Magna Carta,” 1905, p. 357.
[76] “Chronica monasterii de Melsa,” ed. E. A. Bond; Rolls Series, 1868, London, vol. iii. preface, p. xv.
[77] Patent Roll, 27 Edward III, in Rymer (ed. 1708), vol. v. p. 774. See as to the repair of this same road in 1314, thirty-nine years earlier, “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. i. p. 302 b.