THE GREAT BRIDGE OF BURTON-ON-TRENT. 8 
[1327, October] 1, Edward IIT, part 2, memb. 6 :— 
“To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer. Order to cause 
‘Simon, son of Simon de Holand, to be discharged of a fine of 20 
‘“‘marks. The said Simon was of the household of Thomas late Earl 
‘of Lancaster, and was armed in his company, at the BRIDGE OF 
‘‘ Burton, against the late King, and made fine with the late King in 
‘the above sum for that trespass.” 
Molyneux says, in commemoration of this victory Edward built 
a Chapel over the gateway on the bridge. I can find no confirma- 
tion of this. Shaw mentions this Chapel, and says it was similar to 
the one on Wakefield Bridge, in Yorkshire, which was erected by 
Edward IV in memory of his father, Richard Duke of York, and 
other of his friends who were killed, near that place, in the battle of 
1449. May we not reasonably suppose the one at Burton was built 
on a similar occasion, Any way, there is no doubt there was a Chapel 
on the Gate, for the old illustration in Vol. X XI. of the Gentle- 
man’s Magazine shows it. This is here reproduced. It was taken down 
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in 1777 and an Inn and tenements erected on its site. The Chapel 
stood parallel to the river and was built of solid masonry carried down to 
the basement line of the bridge and incorporated with it. It hada 
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pointed arched doorway leading on to the Hay, also several windows 
of the same form, and had evidently been a place of great strength. 
So says Molyneux in the “Burton News and General Advertiser,” 
December 1876. 
