264 Maud Heath’s Causey. 
The Trustees also had five Exchequer Bills of £100 each, a 
balance in the hands of the Treasurer of £130 3s. 9d., and there 
were arrears of rent £72 5s. 8d., making a total of £702 9s. 5d. 
The property was the same as that described in 1711, except 
that one of the houses described in 1711 as in Cook Street is in 
the conveyance of 1825 described asin Embry. Embry (Ave-Mary) 
closely adjoins Cook Street. 
The money in the hands of the Trustees had arisen from savings, 
the excellent state of the causey requiring little to keep them 
in repair. About 1811 the Trustees, finding that they had sufficient 
funds for the purpose, raised a footway, on a chain of about 60 
arches over the river Avon and meadows adjoining, to allow persons 
on foot and horseback to pass during the highest winter or summer 
floods, conceiving this to be strictly within both the letter and 
spirit of the charity at the time it was established. An earlier set 
of Trustees had widened Kellaways Bridge, and lowered and im- 
proved the road at Wick Hill. A salary of £5 a year was allowed 
to a Surveyor for taking care of the causey. 
The property of the Trust is likely to increase in value. In the 
years 1852 and 1853, the Trustees completed that part of the 
causey which had never been made, at Pew Hill, and also built 
a new stone bridge with iron balustrades, and a footpath on one 
side, over the Avon. This bridge was opened December 9th, 1853. 
Mr. Henry Law, the Civil Engineer; Messrs. Rigby, Contractors. 
The present Trustees are The Marquis of Lansdowne; The Earl 
of Shelburn; Viscount Wellesley; Rev. Robert Ashe, of Langley 
Burrell; Rev. Robert Martyn Ashe, ditto: Rev. Charles Grey Cotes, 
Stanton St. Quintin; Rev. Robert Vanbrugh Law, Rector of 
Christian Malford; Rev. George Thomas Marsh, Vicar of Sutton 
Benger; Rey. Walter Long, Rector of Tytherton Kellaways; Rev. 
Henry Drury, Vicar of Bremhill; Rev. Robert Kilvert, Rector of 
Hardenhuish; Edmund Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq., of Hardenhuish ; 
and Walter Coleman, Esq., of Kington Langley. 
J E. J. 
July, 1854. 
