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This Horton made divers fair houses of stone in Through-bridge 
toun. 
One Lucas, a clothier, now dwellith in Horton’s house in 
Bradeford. 
Horton left no children. 
Al the toun of Bradeford stondith by clooth making. 
Bradeford Bridge hath 9 fair arches of stone. . 
These be the names of the notable stone bridges apon Avon 
betwixt Malmesbyri and Bradeford :— 
Malmesbyri Bridge. 
Christine Maleford Bridge about a 5 miles lower. 
Caisway (Kelloway’s) Bridge aboute a 2 miles lower. 
Chippenham, a right fair bridge, about a mile lower. 
Chippenham toun is on the farther ripe towards London, and 
cumming from London men cum to it not passing over the bridge. 
- Khe Bridge (at Lacock) about a mile and an half lower. 
About a 4 miles lower is 
Staverton Bridge, wher is the confluence of Thrugh-bridge 
water with Avon. 
Bradeford Bridge a 2 miles lower. 
Bath Bridge of V. fair arches, a V. miles lower. 
Bristow Bridge a 10 miles lower. 
A 2 miles above Bristow was a commune Trajectus by Bote, wher 
was a chapelle of 8S. Anne on the same side of Avon that Bath 
stondith on, and heere was great pilgrimage to S. Anne.1 
the poor, &c. These parish gatherings, for the provocation of a livelier charity, 
were conducted with certain festivities. The parish kept at this house a regular 
cookery establishment, stores of malt, and other appropriate materials, The 
malt was brewed, and the liquor consumed ‘ pro bono publico.” The greater 
the consumption, the more profit to the public purse. This continued for days 
or weeks; accompanied by ‘‘diversions,” such as bull-baiting, fighting, 
dancing, &e. 
1 “St. Anne.” Near Brislington: founded by one of the Lords Delawarr. 
The site of this chapel, long since a ruin, is in a nook of the county Somerset, 
opposite Crew’s Hole in the parish of St. George’s in Gloucestershire, from 
which it is divided by the Avon. It is on the /eft bank of the river. Bath, 
in Leland’s time, was on the other. 
