| Description | Plea of Valentine Kitchingman esquire and John Foss, two inhabitants of the North Riding, by Alfred Simpson their attorney, that the inhabitants ought not to be charged with repairing the bridge, because after the Cod Beck was made navigable from the river Swale to the borough of Thirsk, the existing ford became dangerous, and a bridge was built. The commissioners for making and continuing the navigation of the Cod Beck have been liable to repair the bridge |