ABSTRACT
Cumberland, at the rental then paid into the Treasury by the sheriff of that county.' A commission was issued in 1314-15, upon petition from inhabitants of Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely, to take evidence on oath in presence of the Bishop of Ely, upon a question whether he was not bound to repair and maintain the causeway (calcetum) of Horheth, then broken and impassable, the petitioners alleging that this great injury to them and their neighbours had happened through the bishop's default, although he levied on vessels passing under the bridge a toll properly applicable for repairs of the bridge and causeway.2 A petition in 1321-25, from Thomas Wake, lord of Lydell, prayed the King to order his burgesses of Hull not to make any new road upon the petitioner's land, and to disuse any roads they had made there while he was under age. This petitioner was told that he must resort to the common law for his remedy.3 A curious complaint was made, in 1320, by the master and brethren of St. Bartholomew's Hospital: that whereas Henry I I I . granted to them, for the support of poor people, two fish out of every load passing over London Bridge, the sheriffs of London, Nicholas Pyket and Nigel Drury, exacted a toll of one-tenth upon these fish.
