Chapter THE FIRST: On the Study of Bridges and Roads (4)
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[31] It is said that he charged eightpence for the passage
of a dead Jew! A large sum in those days. A Jewish
cemetery was just beyond the bridge.--W.S.S.
[32] “English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages,” pp. 45
and 47. See also “Archæologia,” Vols. XXVII, p. 77;
XXIX, p. 380. Also the histories of Essex.
[33] See Darwin’s “Descent of Man,” Part I, chapter III.
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