Note 156 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

Jurors find in 1375 that the bridge in the midst of the causey between Brant Broughton and Lincoln was primarily made “by a certain hermit after the first pestilence,” and consisted “in a board placed above the ford” which had to be waded through: “Jurati dicunt supra sacramentum suum . . . quod pons predictus post primam pestilenciam ibidem primo per quendam heremitum factus fuit, ponendo tabulam ultra quoddam vadum in medio calceti predicti.” Complete text in C. T. Flower, “Public Works in Mediæval Law,” Selden Society, 1915, i. 263.