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Transcription

this cause hee shall retayne his right of fishing in the grounds
in question all others excluded, but if the ffeversham men be
ovethrowne hee shall loose that priviledge which is a great part of
his livelyhood And further to this interrogatory hee cannot answere

To the second interrogatory hee saith that the place interrogate lyeth within the ebbing and
flowing of the sea, and is only a smale river and not any arm? of the sea as hee
beleeveth, and saith the same is at high water when the water goeth over the
oose and said about a myle broad in the broadest place from shoare to shoare and
not above a quarter of a myle broad at lowe tyde and saith hee well knoweth
that by reason the mouth of the River is shallowe noe shipps of such burthen
as is interrogate or of any great burthen can or doe ride there And further
to this interrogatory saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere

To the 3 hee saith hee was never at any Vice Admiralty Court held in Kent
and further to this interrogatory hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively
well knowing that the ffishermen tennants of the mannor and hundred
of ffeversham doe yearely in the Court held for the Lord of the sayd mannor
and hundred of ffeversham (in which court none but ffishermen tennants of the sayd
mannor and hundred doe serve or can be of the jurye) sett out and make
orders when the lands in question shall be laid in and when broken open, and
punish offenders against the sayd orders, not having ever heard or beleeveing
that any vice admiralty Court or any other court save the sayd Court
held at ffeversham yearely for the Lord of the mannor and hundred thereof had
any power to make or did make any such orders as is interrogate

To the 4th hee saith hee beleeveth the ffishermen of Stroud and milton and other
places have within the tyme interrogatory fished secretly as trespassers and
as by stealth on the grounds interrogatory And to the rest of this interrogatory hee
answereth negatively for his part having never heard of any such complaint
or order as is interrogate

To the fifth he saith he can both write and read and hath divers tymes
seene writings in the hands and custodie of the stewards for the tyme being
of the mannor and hundred of ffaversham and was then, wherein is sett forth
that the ffeversham ffishermen tennants of that mannor and hundred have
right to fish the grounds in question excluding all other ffishermen whatsoever
but the date of them hee remembreth not
saving hee saith some of them be a? date in Queene Elizabeths tyme and some?
in King James his tyme And further hee cannot answere

To the 6th hee saith saving his answere to the first interrogatory to which hee
ansewreth hee cannot answere hereto?

To the 7th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition to the arlate allegacon
in this cause hee cannot answere

To the 8th hee saith there are divers other fish besides oysters as dabbs, place,
soales, and other smale fish taken by the ffishermen tennants of the hundred and
mannor of ffeversham upon the grounds in question but not by any other
ffishermen