HCA 13/70 f.524r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 524 |
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The 11th day of October1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
William Luson Thomas Moore George Iles}
Samuell Godfrey William daman Thomas}
[?Peirrie]. John George and others ffishermen}
and Mariners of ffeversham and Tennants}
to the hundred and Manner (sic) of ffeversham against}
[BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Atkistall and others the}
ffishermen of Milton Stroud halstowe and}
placs adiacent. ffrancklin}
Examined upon an allegation made in the acts
of Court the twenty sixth day of September
1655 on the behalfe of the sayd Luson
and others
jus
John Cadman of ffeversham in
the County of Kent ffisherman
where and in parts neere adioyning within
the hundred of ffeversham hee hath lived
upward of twenty yeares last past
aged fifty yeares or thereabouts a
wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet
To the sayd allegation made in the Acts of Court hee saith that
hee this deponent hath bin an Inhabitant and ffisherman and a Tennant
of the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham for these Twenty yeares
last past and upwards and thereby well knoweth that the grounds
allegate called the [?Nebb] or harth shoare and the East Swale and the
[?Beton] grounds, and the Nass grounds, and Pollard grounds are fishing
grounds and water courses wherein are oyster bedds and are lying within and belonging to the Mannorr
and hundred of ffeversham allegate, and are part of the sayd mannor and hundred
and for such of this deponents knowledge hath bin during the sayd
tyme commonly reputed, and hath bin reputed to belonge and be
part of the sayd mannor and hundred (as this deponent hath heard from aunchient
Inhabitants and from aunchient tennants of the sayd Mannor and hundred) tyme out of mynde and
memory of men now liveing And hee saith that for the sayd twenty
yeares last past the ffishermen of the sayd
Mannor of ffeversham
and noe others have ought to have right (as hee beleeveth) to ffish in the sayd grounds and watercourses and
oyter bedds in them and saith they have fished and doe fish (and ought to fish as hee beleeveth) in them exclusively
to all others whatsoever and take and convert the oysters and fish by them there
taken to their owne use and benefit, and hee saith they have during the sayd
tyme payd yearely in liew of the sayd priviledge soe to doe
to the Lords of the sayd Mannor of ffeversham or their stewards the yearely rent of
twenty three shillings fowere pence And this deponent hath heard
from
