Other  bridges  receiving  benefits  under  the  wills  are  the  following :
"  Brayntebregge,"  which  possibly  may  have  been  in  the  neigh-
bourhood of  Brentford  (I.  461);  a  new  bridge  at  "  Colbrook,"
co.  Bucks,  spanning  the  river  Coin,  which  divides  the  shires  of
Buckingham  and  Middlesex  (II.  760);  "Ebrugge,"  beyond  {ultra)
Derwent,  near  Derby  (I.  681);  the  bridge  at  Harpeford  near
"Whatele  (Wheatley  [?]  near  Oxford)  (I.  461) ;  the  bridge  span-
ning the  river  Weaver  at  Northwich,  co.  Chester  (II.  683) ;  the
bridges  at  Maydenheth  or  Maidenhead  (I.  461)  and  at  Newcastle-
upon-Tyne  (II.  554);  the  great  and  little  bridges  at  Oxford
(I.  461),  the  former  known  as  Grrandpont,  situate  to  the  south
of  the  city,  but  more  commonly  spoken  of,  at  the  present  day,
as  Folly  Bridge,  the  latter  identical  either  with  Magdalen
Bridge  (which  was  formerly  called  Pettypont,  to  distinguish  it
from  Grandpont),  or  with  the  bridge  known  as  "  Quaking  Bridge,"
which  crossed  a  little  stream  running  near  the  Castle,  and
which  is  also  described  in  ancient  charters  as  parvus  pons,  or
little  bridge;3  a  bridge  over  the  Medway  at  "Theston"  or
Teston,  co.  Kent  (II.  600) ;  and  the  bridge  over  the  Thames  at
Wallingford  (II.  509).
Bequests  to       Bequests  to  the  four  orders  of  mendicant  friars  in

mendicant    London  occur  in  almost  every  other  will.      The  orders

referred  to  are :  (1)  The  Carmelites  or  White  Friars,  who

1  Hist.  MSS.  Com.,  Ninth  Eeport,  Ap-
pendix, p.  285.
2  Stow,  'Annals,'  1592,  p.  301.
'Survey  of  the  Antiquities  of   the


City  of  Oxford,'  composed  in  1661-6  by
Anthony  Wood  ;  recently  edited  by
Andrew  Clark,  M.A.,  for  the  Oxford
Historical  Society,  vol.  i.  pp.  409,  433.
