128. How to mend a road. 8 1 



the holowe places. And if all the holowe and voyde 

 36 places wyl not be fylled and stopped, than secure the 

 olde dyche, and cast it vp newe, and to fyll with erthe all 

 the voyde places. And if soo be these trees wjll not 

 reche in euerye place to make a sufficyent defence, than 

 40 double quicke-set it, & diche it new in euery place that 

 is nedeful, and set a hedge thervpon, and to ouerlay the 

 settes, for eatynge of shepe or other cattel. 



128. ^ To mende a hye-waye. 

 Me semeth, it is necessarye to shewe mine opinion, Howto 

 howe an hye-way shulde be amended. And fyrste and ">ad. 

 pr}ncypally, se that there be noo water standynge in the 

 4 hye-waye, but that it be alwaye currante and rennynge. Let no 



water stand 



nor haue none abydynge more in one place thanne in an- <»» it- 

 other. And in somer, whan the water is drj'ed vp, than 

 to get grauell, and to fyll vp euery lowe place, and to 

 8 make thevm euen, somewhat dyscendynge or currante, [Foi. 56.] 

 one waye or other ; and if there be noo grauell nor Fill np the 



holes with 



Stones to gette, yet fyll vp with erthe in the begyn- gravel, 

 nyge of somer, that it maye be well hardened with 

 1 2 carj-age and tread}'nge vppon, and it shall be well 

 amended, if the water maye passe away from it; the 

 whiche wolde be well consydered, and specially aboute 

 London, where as they make moche more coste than About 



London 



1 6 nedeth ; for there they dyche the}T hye-wayes on bothe t^ey mend 

 sydes, and fyll vp the holowe and lowe places with erthe, putting in'' 



■'■'': r ' earth before 



and than they caste and laye grauell alofte. And whan the gravel, 

 a greatte rayne or water commeth, and S}-nketh thorowe 

 20 the grauell, and commeth to the erthe, than the erthe 

 swelleth and bolneth and waxeth softe, and with 

 tread}-nge, and specyally with carvage, the grauell Then the 



gravel sinks, 



synketh, and gothe downewarde as his nature and kynde and the road 



■'is like a 



24 requyreth, and than it is in maner of a quycke-sande, qnicksand. 

 that harde it is for any thynge to goo ouer. But yf they 



