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spot so maney Years since
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I pound noting further upon the subject from the last date untile
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about the 32d. or 33d. of King Heny. the 8 when an order was given by Sr
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Brown (Master of the Horse to the said King Heny.) dereded to the King's woodward
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Stating, that the Bridge called
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Hounslow Heath
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. being Built of
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Wood, was in a Ruienous State, and that it was expected the King's Highness
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would pass that way is Hunting, and also the Bridge at
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was in the
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same case very much decayed. and must be repaired and that he should call
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a sufficient quantity of the King's Timber then Growing in Perry saks for
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the repair of Baber Bridge.
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In the 2d. year of the Reign of James the 1st. the Earl of Northum-
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berland became Possessed of the Manor or lodship of
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in Fee; and in or
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about the Year 1617 the said Earl. was presented, for not reparing
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The Stone Bridge at
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, the long Bridge at
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, and a Bridge
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called perry field Bridge near
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, but it was found he had nothing to do
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with these Bridges, in their repairs consequently was acquitted
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this circumstance to sken, that Baber Bridge was then in good repair or that
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the Earl of Northumberland was considred to have nothing to do with its repairs
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The Duke or Northumberlands river called
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mill river.
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is a cut from the river Coln, made in the Reign of King Henr. the 7th. and
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at that King's Expence) as well for the conveniency of his Hawking. as to sorve
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the Abess or
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with water for a corn Mill which river runs under the said
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Bridge; It will be a natural quarter to ask nath he nothing to do with
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that Bridge in consequence of his river which a little above Joins the river
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cran, and runs under it together I will venture to say no; as there was
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a necessiety to have a Bridge there for the Publick use, long before the
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mile
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streem was made, and supporting and repairing the small Bridge, at the Eastend
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thereof Implys a compensation for the use of the other And what is remar
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the Duke of Northumberland neither, as Lord of the Manor moras Proprietor
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of
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mile river, repairs, or up holds andy Bridge for carriage or otherwise
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over or to any place where the Crainford streem and
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are united.
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but
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