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The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland covers London to York, with illustrations by the author and from old prints and pictures. The account describes the Church granting indulgences for gifts or labour towards highway repair and licensing hermits to collect tolls and alms for upkeep. The account records benefactors leaving lands and houses whose proceeds were intended for the same maintenance.
The account of false hermits describes unlicensed collectors living on alms while allowing roads and bridges to decay. The description of Askerne notes medicinal springs and identifies the old pump-room and lake as summer resorts for trippers from York and Doncaster.
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- Charles G. Harper
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
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- European History
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