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deponent verily believes, and was credibly informed tbe very next day, by 

 the boatmen who carried them over ; when this deponent, upon the report 

 of the accident, went down to the said passage to enquire into the truth 

 thereof ; and this deponent saith that he hath heard, and been informed, 

 and believes, that the said passage was afterwards put down, by Oliver 

 Cromwell on that occasion." 



CoxE (p. 16) says Southbrook Chapel, on the west bank of 

 the river, near the New Passage, probably belonged to a 

 large mansion, now no longer in existence, for in the twelfth 

 century John Southbeooke is mentioned as being entitled to 

 house-boot and hey-boot, from the Conquest, for his house at 

 Southbrooke. (Deed on the Chase of Wentwood.) 



Within the memory of several persons living when Coxe 

 wrote, Southbrooke Chapel was used for performing service. 

 As his "Monmouthshire" was published in 1801, if we go back 

 40 or 50 years, we shall make the date of its being in a perfect 

 condition 1750 or 1760. 



