Richard Robinson and Thomas Broune, Coal traders

Richard Robinson and Thomas Broune got into trouble for breaking the Dee Bridge rules...

Throughout the fifteenth century the civic ordinance prohibiting carts with iron-bound wheels from using the bridge was largely ignored. In 1494 Richard Robinson of Handbridge and Thomas Broune of Saltneyside drove carts with iron-bound wheels and laden with sea-coal over the bridge. Each man was fined 6s 8d and each paid 2s. The following year, a Welshman called David drove his cart into an arch of the bridge tower and destroyed it.