HCA 13/70 f.536r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 536 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Anne Mills | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2014/12/09 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Edited on 31/12/2014 by Jill Wilcox | |
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not compelled to appear by any proces or order of this Court, and saith
hee is a fisherman of the hundred of ffeversham and useth to fish in the
places in question and saith hee would if it were in his power give
the victory in this cause to them that have most right thereto soe farr
as his judgment would leade him, and saith if the cause goe against the
ffeversham men hee shall be much preiudiced thereby his living
consisting for the most part in fishing on the grounds in question, and that it will be great
benefit to him if the ffeversham men prevaile therein.
To the 2 hee saith the place in question lyeth within the ebbing and flowing
of the sea but is not accompted an arme thereof it being but a smale river
about a myle or somewhat lesse broad from shoare to shoare at
high water and about a quarter of a myle broad at lowe water, and saith
noe shipp of any great burthen such as is interrogate can ride(?) therein
because the mouth of the River is shallow and will not admitt a shipp
of any great burthen And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath satisfied
the contents thereof before/
To the 3 hee saith hee was about 10 or 12 yeares since at a Vice Adm =
iralty Court held at Rochester (by Sir Thomas Walsingham and stewards) but was not of the Iurie there
nor knoweth who were Iury men there? and to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively
for that hee well knoweth that the grounds in question are appointed
by authority of the Court of the Mannor of ffeversham upon to be laye in and
when broken open, and the offenders against such orders there punished, and
for that hee knoweth the Iury of that court are none but tennants of the mannor and
hundred of ffeversham/
To 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the allegation
made in this cause in the article of Court to which hee referreth hee
cannot answere having never heard of any such complaint as
is Interrogate./
To the 5th hee saith hee can write his name but not reade written
hand very perfectly and to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth
negatively/
To the 6th hee saith hee hath answered the contents thereof in his answere to the first Interrogatorie./
To the 7th hee saith hee knoweth the oysters (predeposed
to be bought by this deponent for storing the grounds in
question) were not taken out of the sea for that hee sawe them taken out of other
grounds where bedds of oysters were kept. And further hee cannot answere./
To the 8th hee saith there are other fish as soles dabbs thornebacks
damsells and other small fish taken upon the grounds in question by this
deponent and other the tennants of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham, but by noe other
as hee beleeveth unlesse secretly as by stealth
and further saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot
answere./
To the last hee saith hee never knew nor heard of nor beleeveth any
thing contryved in this Interrogatorie./
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
Godfrey Slade [SIGNATURE RH SIDE]
