free passage for the king's subjects; on which account it is called the king's high way, though the freehold of the soil belong to the owner of the land. Those ways that lead from one town to another, and such as are drift or cart ways, and are for all travellers in great roads, or that communicate with them, are high ways only; and as to their reparation, are under the care of surveyors.

High-way-men, are robbers on the high way; for the apprehending and taking of whom, a reward of 40l. is given by the statute of 4 and 5 W. and M. to be paid within a month after conviction by the sheriff of the county; to which the statute 8 Geo. II. cap. 6. superadds 10l. to be paid by the hundred indemnified by such taking.