Edwin A. Pratt

Name: A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England — Chapter 5
Author: Edwin A. Pratt

A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

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“A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England — Chapter 5”, published in 1912, is a work by Edwin A. Pratt. It explores elements such as highways, tolls and surveyors.

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ These surveyors were authorised to require occupiers of land to attend each Midsummer with wains, or carts, in proportion to their holdings, such carts being furnished, after the custom of the country, with oxen, horses or other cattle and necessaries, and to be in charge of two able men. All other householders, cottagers and labourers, able to work and not being servants hired by the year, were to furnish work in their own persons, or by deputy, bringing with them "such shovels, spades, pikes, mattocks and other tools and instruments as they do make their own fences and ditches withall." ”

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ After declaring, in a preamble, that the roads had become "both very noisome and tedious to travel in and dangerous to all passengers and carriages," the Act directed that constables and churchwardens in every parish should, during Easter week in each year, "call together a number of the parochians" and choose two honest persons to serve for twelve months as surveyors and orderers of works for amending parish highways leading to any market town. ”

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ Petitions had been received from the inhabitants of various districts throughout the country praying that steps should be taken for the betterment of their roads, with the view of facilitating intercommunication, and it became evident that some more effective system for the construction and repairing of roads must be adopted. ”

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ The Act required the justices in each of the three counties to appoint surveyors who were to provide road materials and require of persons chargeable under the general law that they should send waggons and supply labour in accordance with their obligations, any extra work done by them being paid for at the usual rates in force in the district. The surveyors were, also, to appoint collectors of tolls who were empowered to levy, at the toll-gates (one of these being in each of the three counties) "for every horse, one penny ”

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ The earliest road legislation that can be traced was an Act passed in 1285, in the reign of Edward I., directing that on highways leading from one market town to another "there be neither dyke, tree nor bush whereby a man may lurk to do hurt within two hundred feet on either side of the way"; but this measure was designed for the protection of travellers against robbers, and had no concern with the repair of the roads. In 1346 tolls were imposed, by authority of Edward III., for the repair of three roads in London, namely, "the King's highway between the hospital of St. ”

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Edwin A. Pratt, A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England… (1912)

“ These surveyors were to view the highways, estimate the cost of the necessary repairs, and, with the help of two or more substantial householders, apportion the cost among persons assessed to the poor rate and owners of all classes of property exclusive of "household stuff," the stock of goods in a shop being assessed as well as the shop itself, and the personal belongings of a householder equally with the dwelling he occupied. ”

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