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and imprisoned him for fishing on the said … and imprisoned him for fishing on the said grounds and beate and abused him.<br />
And other wise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid and what followeth.
To the 7th 8th and 9th hee saith the ffishermen of ffeversham use to provide and keep<br />
store oisters on the said grounds, and use to watch the said hrounds to keepe<br />
others from dredging and fishing there, and often take way the boates<br />
and committ violence on the persons of such others as fish and dredg there<br />
And otherwise hee cannot answer saving what is aforesaid and followeth.
To the tenth hee saith that the bond or schedule annexed to the said<br />
Interrogatories is signed by this deponent and by him sealed and delivered, and alsoe<br />
by the interrogated Ambrose [?Bartensells], while this deponent was under restraint<br />
and imprisonment as aforesaid, and saith they were and are Inhabitants of<br />
Strowde.
To the 11th hee hath not soe deposed, otherwise then as aforesaid.
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation.
'''6.'''
'''John Sawman''' of Strowde in the County of kent fisherman<br />
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee hath bin a fisher<br />
man and boy for theise 18 yeares last or thereabouts, living all the said<br />
time and at present in Strowde, and that for all the said time hath well<br />
knowne the places allegate called East Swale and hartie shore, and<br />
saith the same are within the ebbing and flowing of the sea and an arme<br />
and part of the sea, where shipps of three hundred tonnes at conceniencie<br />
of tides may saile and passe in and out, and for such places they were<br />
and are commonly accompted, and saith that many times within the<br />
said space hee this deponent being a fisher of Strowde hath fished and<br />
dredged there for oisters and other fish, and soe of his knowledge<br />
have many others of Strowde and Milton donne, And this deponent<br />
hath heard auncient men of Strowde say that they fished there fourtie yeares<br />
agoe. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first and 2 hee saith hee is a fisherman of Strowde in his owne right<br />
and claimes right of fishing and dredging in the places in question. and that#hee is concerned in this sute against the ffeversham men and beareth part<br />
of the charege thereof.
To the third and fourth hee saith [?that] ffeversham men use to fish<br />
and dredge in the places in question, and claime the fishing and dredging there<br />
to themselves, ebndeavouring to exclude others. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth 6th 7 8 and 9 hee saith the ffeversham men often hinder and disturb<br />
Strowde and Milton men in their fishing in the said grounds, and commit<br />
violence on them, and often take away their [?boats] and materialls; and that<br />
fourteene yeares since they beate and abused this deponent for<br />
fishing there and tooke away his boate and kept him as prisoner, but at length<br />
they were glad to set him at libertie, pay his charges and pay<br />
him for his boate. And saith the ffeversham men use to provide store oistersfeversham men use to provide store oisters +
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