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A History of the County of Hampshire
… when the bailiff and men of the town received a grant of pontage for one year 5 towards its repairs in consideration …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… knight's fee of 5 hides in Eversden for suit of court and pontage. 39 In 1279 Eversden was held of Lord Latimer as 1 … was held of the Scalers fee c. 1230 for suit of court and pontage by Richard and Philip le Rous. 113 The overlordship …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… to Burford. The Thames is crossed by Radcot Bridge, pontage for the repair of which was granted in 1312 to Robert …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… oak for the works. 71 To ensure its good repair grants of pontage were continually given, at first to the Earls of … given by their various periods of disgrace, as grants of pontage from 1353 to 1405 were made to the 'good men' of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the 13th century. 10 In 1284 a Wheatley man was granted pontage for two years to enable him to repair the king's … local stone from a Wheatley quarry. 11 A similar grant of pontage was made to two men in 1307. 12 In the 16th century …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the repair of which the Abbot of Merevale had a grant of pontage in 1332. 1 The boundary then runs up the Innage Brook …
A History of the County of Somerset
… corporation under the 1616 charter, known as wheelage and pontage, proved unpopular among the inhabitants of the … borough. In 1637 four boatmen prosecuted for nonpayment of pontage claimed that those dwelling within the town were … repair the town's bridges. 483 Thereafter the levying of pontage seems to have been suspended, for c. 1687 it was …
A History of the County of Northampton
… free warren, view of frank-pledge, freedom from pontage, tolls, sheriff's aids, etc., in Lilford. 31 John de …
A History of the County of Warwick
… were given free transit by the bridge of Marton, quit of pontage. 4 In 1414 the bridge was rebuilt in stone by John …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… into bad repair it became the custom for the king to grant pontage for varying terms of years to the men of Redbridge. … This was done as early as 1276, when the king granted them pontage for five years, charging them to apply it, by view of … repair of the bridge, 72 and the king accordingly granted pontage for five years to the inhabitants of the place. 73 …