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of Sisters, in place where now standeth the East part of 

 S. Mary Overees Church above the Queer, where she was buried, 

 unto which house she gave the oversight and profits of the 

 Ferry. But afterward, the said house of Sisters being converted 

 into a college of Priests, the Priests builded the Bridge of Timber 

 as all other the great Bridges of this Land were, and from time to 

 time kept the same in good reparation, till at length, considering 

 the great charges which were bestowed in the repairing the same, 

 there was (by ayd of the Citizens and others) a Bridge builded 

 with stone. The arches, chappell and Stone Bridge over the 

 Thames at London having been 33 yeers in building was in the 

 year 1209 finished. . . . Peter Colechurch, Priest and chaplain 

 (by whom the bridge a few years previously — 1163 — had been not 

 only repaired but new made of timber) was buried in the chapel 

 of S. Thomas on the Bridge in the year 1205." (Stowe's " Survey," 

 Edit. 1633, p. 27.) 



York. — Chapel of S. William on Ouse Bridge. 



Reading. — Chapel of the Holy Ghost on Caversham Bridge. 



Bedford Bridge.— Chapel of S. Thomas — William Averbury, 

 chaplain in 1343. To it pertained 2 messuages, 17 shops, 3 acres 

 of ploughland, and seven shillings rent in Bedford. (2 Pat. 

 16 Ed. III.) 



Worcester. — Chapel of S. Clement on the olil Bridge. 



At Gloucester, Walred, a chaplain, began to construct a bridge 

 in the time of Henry H. 



Droitwich. — "Churches of Derbyshire," iv., 102. 



Ravenscross - bourne Hermitage. — Matthew Danthorpe 

 hermit, rebuilt the chapel i Henry IV. The king gave him the place 

 of the hermitage w"" the chapel with wreckage of the sea and waifs 

 and other advantages for "trias leucas "* round about that place, 

 reserving to the chief lords of the fee the profits of fishing and 

 royalties there. Rot. pat. i Hen. IV. 



Wareham, a chauntry within the hermitage of S. Guthlac. 



* " Leuca," " Leuga." — A measure of i.Sooyards or paces (Du Cange). So 

 the hermit would have a sea-board or coast of more than five miles upon which 

 he might exercise his claims. 



