Reference
Z191/1
Title
An Act for Repairing the Highway between Fornhill in the County of Bedford and the Town of Stony Stratford in the County of Buckingham
Date free text
6 Ann.
Production date
From: 1706 To: 1706
Scope and Content
A printed copy of the Act of Parliament dated 1706 for "Repairing the Highway between Fornhill in the County of Bedford, and the Town of Stony-Stratford in the County of Buckingham".
The Act authorises the formation of a Trust to maintain that section of "the Ancient Road called Watlingstreet Road (being reputed the Old Roman Road between the Cities of London and Westchester, and now, and for many years pass, the Common Poll Road towards Ireland)". It describes the section as being eight miles in length, starting at a place called Fornhill "about a mile beyond Hockley in the County of Bedford" now known as Hockliffe and ending in Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire.
The document names the original trustees as:-
The Honourable Charles Leigh Esq., Sir Richard Temple, Sir John Wirtewronge, Sir Pynsent Chernock, Sir Harry Tyrril, Sir Edmund Denton, Sir Joseph Alston, Sir Charles Duncomb, Sir Roger Hill, Sir William Millard, Allen Bathurst, Browne Willis, Thomas Maynard, Richard Hampden, James Selby, John Knapp, Alexander Denton, Ebenezar Sadler, William Farrer, Thomas Busby, Francis Duncombe, Thomas Ligoe, Simon Mayne, William Johnson, Henry Andrews, Thomas Chapman, John Rogers, William Edgell, Nehemiah Brandreth, William Norcliffe, John Hillerdon and Thomas Bristow.
The Act sets the inital tolls at:-
for every coach, chariot or calash: one shilling,
for every waggon, cart or carriage loaded with grain: six pence,
for every other waggon: one shilling,
for every other cart: eight pence,
for every horse: one penny,
for every chaise with a single horse: six pence,
for every score of oxen: six pence,
for every score of sheep or lambs: one penny,
for every score of hogs: three pence.
The document was printed in London by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased, "Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. MDCCVI".
Level of description
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