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Transcription

and saith it is not about a myle broad betwixt shoare and shore, or rather lesse
at high water and about a quarter of a myle broad at lowe water And further
hee cannot answere

To the 3 interrogatory hee saith hee was never at any viceadmiralty Court held in
Kent nor of the jurys in any such court and further to this interrogatorie hee
cannot depose, but saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that the jury of the Court
for the mannor of ffaversham and hundred thereof tennants of the sayd mannor and hundred doe appoint tymes for laying
in and breaking open of the grounds as is interrogate and punish offenders against
such their orders And further hee cannot answere.

To the 4th saving his foregoeing deposition to the allegacon made
in the article of Court in this cause which hee referreth hee cannot answere
having never heard ought of any such complaint as is interrogate

To the fifth hee saith hee can write and read but remembreth not the date of the
writings by him predeposed of and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot answere.

To the 6th hee saith hee desyreth right may take place in this cause and
to the rest of the interrogatory hee answereth negatively.

To the 7th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose

To the 8th hee saith there are other fish besides oysters as soles, dabbs,
place, and other smale fish taken upon the grounds in question by the tennants
of the mannor and hundred of ffaversham, but by noe other as hee beleeveth
unlesse secretly without the knowledgeof the sayd tennants, And further
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere

To the 9th hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively
having never heard of nor beleeving any such thing as is interrogatory.

Repeated before doctor Goldolphin

Robert Rye [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day (CENTRE HEADING)

Examined upon the sayd allegation in the Article of Court

Godfrey Slade of Owre in the hundred of ffaversham
and County of Kent ffisherman where hee hath lived
for these 22 yeares last past or thereabouts and before that
at milton in the sayd County from his birth
being there bound aged threescore and two yeares or thereabouts
a witttnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet

To the sayd allegacon hee saith hee well knoweth the grounds allegate
the nebb or harly shoare East Swale the Beacon grounds nesse? grounds
and Polland grounds and hath soe knowne for these five or six and
forty yeares last past during which tyme hee saith of this deponents
knowledge they have bin fishing grounds wherein?
were bedds of oysters lyeing and saith that during the sayd tyme the
sayd grounds have bin commonly reputed and taken to be part of the
mannor and hundred of ffaversham, and the fishing of them to belonge
solely and properly to the Lords of the mannor of ffaversham, and lXs
tennants ffishermen of the mannor and hundred of ffaversham and to