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days warnyng' eftir ye Indent 'e makes mencion y* yane ye saides Nich' and his felaws sail' pai yame yair wage daly to ye tyme y' yai haue yair cou^ntz fultilde . mor our ye saides Thomas John And Rob't sail' mak ye pliers of ye forsaid brigge Als substanciell' in lenth and bred' has te was acorded' wyth' ye forsaid Joh'n Garett be a Indent'e trip'tit be tweiie ye saide Nicholas And hyme made if ye counsell of ye forsaid Nicholas And his felaws acord yaim y'to ; To ye wyttnesse of quilk thinge ye p'ties aboven nevend' has sett yair seals Wrytyli atte Catrike in ye fest of seint hillar' ye zere of our lord kyng' Henri' ye fift eftir ye ye" conquest ye nyend'.' Endorsed, — Endetura de cat'k brig'. * It will be found, on comparing this document with the church contract, that the phraseology and peculiar terms are so closely similar, that it may fairly be concluded they were both indited by the same hand, an interval of nine years only having intervened. The contracting parties are here more numerous, the bridge being a matter of general interest to the neighbourhood, since the passage of the Swale at this spot, on the ancient line of Roman way, must at all times have been of importance. At this period it appears that two bridges existed, the old stone bridge and the new wooden bridge (" ye New brigg' of tree ")." Sir William Lawson has kindly given us certain particulars relative to the persons here named. Nicholas de Blakburne, the first contracting party, was probably one of the family settled at Blackburne Hall, on the north side of the church-yard at Grinton, previously the property of the Hillarys. The Blackburnes, as Whitaker informs us, were an old family in Swaledale.* Christopher Conyers was of Hornby Castle ; he married Elena, d. & heiress of ... . Ryleston. Their monument is in Hornby Church ; it records her death in 1444, the date of Christopher's decease is obliterated. William de Burghe, of Burghe or Brough, was son of John de Burghe and Katerine, d. of Roger de Aske. She was the principal party in the contract for building Catterick church, before mentioned. He espoused Matilda, d. of ... . Lascelles, of Sowerby, and died Nov. 4, 1442; his wife died Nov. 12, 1432, and both were interred in " Our Lady's porch " in Catterick Church. The de Barton family held lands in Hornby, but no particulars of John de Barton have been ascertained.' Roger de Aske was the representative at that time of the very ancient family of Aske, of Aske near Richmond, now the seat of the Earl of Zetland. Conan, his son, married Isabella, d. of Christopher Conyers, before named. Of William Frank nothing is known ; ' Sic. ^ January 13, 14§i. stone." He speaks also of" dysshes of tree; ^ This contract is here printed literally ; condyte pypis be made of ledde, tree or the contractions, majuscule letters and punc- erthe," &c. The old wooden bridge over tuation being accurately retained. A stop, the Thames, in London, had disappeared written with an upright stroke between two long before Horman wrote ; he lived t. points, is expressed by a colon ; a stroke with Hen. VIII, one point, by a semicolon. " Hist, of Richmondshiro, under the manor

• Of tree, or treen, adj., an archaism signi- of Giinton. It was gi-antcd by Elizabeth to

fying wooden. Thus, Ca.tton says, in his Sir Francis Fitoh, in l.'Syt); then it came to " Boke for Travellers," speaking of platters, Hillary, and next, by what means Whitaker dishes, and trenchers, " these thinges shall ye had not learned, to the Blackburnes. fynde of tree " (hoiz, Fr.) Horman, in his ' Ric. de Barton held a carucate in Hornby, Vulgaria, has a phrase still more pertinent,— in Kirkby's Inquis. The name occurs re- " I wolde he that made the tree brydge peatedly in Gale's " Regii^trum." (suMicio ponte) of the temis, had made it of