THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MONK’S BRIDGE. 41 
Fic. 2.—ARcH ON DERBYSHIRE SIDE SHEWING THE 
EGGINTON REPaIR. 
the 137 years between, I can find no record. There was 
an act passed 22 Henry VIII termed “The Statute of 
Bridges,” enacting that counties shall repair bridges, but it 
only seems to have put into force the old Common Law, 
which states that of common right the whole county must 
repair bridges. 
“35 Chas. II. Martimas Session.—It is ordered that £44 be 
1683. raised and collected in this County, £40 thereof 
for the making of a stone arch of 21 feet in 
length in the little Monk’s Bridge, next Derby, 
and that the other £4 to be paid to Thomas 
Newton, of Burton-on-Trent, in compensation 
of damage done him by stone and mortar laid 
on his ground when the great Munk’s Bridge 
was last repaired. 
