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'''33./'''
'''D 11'''
The 12th day of Oc … '''33./'''
'''D 11'''
The 12th day of October 1655 [CENTRE EHADING]
Luson and others againsdt Atkinstall and others}<br />
ffrancklin Smith}
'''Rp [?X] 11.'''
'''3'''
'''see the two first wiitnesses in Quire<br />
D10/'''
'''William Iles''' of ffeversham in the County of Kent<br />
ffisherman where and in the hundred thereof hee hath lived for these thirty five yeares<br />
last past or thereabouts aged 46 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the sayd allegation in the Acts of Court hee saith that<br />
the grounds allegate called the Nebb or harty shoare, East<br />
SWale the Becon grounds Nesse grounds and Pollard grounds have<br />
bin and are ffishing grounds and water courses (with bedds of oysters<br />
in them) belonging to, and commonly accompted to belonge to and be<br />
parte of the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham, and soe have bin reputed<br />
for theise thirty yeares the ffishermen tennants of the hundred and<br />
Mannor of ffeversham aforesayd have bin commonly accompted t<br />
have the sole right and tytle to fish in the sayd grounds excludeing all others<br />
whatsoever, and this deponent hath observed during the sayd fishing and converted<br />
the fish thereof to their use, (saving that hee saith that sometymes the fisher=<br />
men of Stroud Milton and other places would and did in the night tyme<br />
and secretly as they could) fish for oysters upon the sayd grounds and some<br />
of them being taken soe doeing hath of this deponents knowledge<br />
bin fined by the Court held for the mannor and hundred<br />
of ffeversham aforesayd and have submitted them selves as trespassers<br />
for soe doeing and paid their fines [#]
[# LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]<br />
saith hee well remembreth that about 14 yeares since hee being then in a boate with one John Golson and others ffishermen of<br />
the mannor and hundred of ffeversham, on the grounds in question<br />
a ffisherman of Strowde or Rochester came in the night tyme to fish upon the sayd grounds and did fish<br />
for oysters thereupon and was taken soe deoing by this deponent and the sayd Golson and others, and perceiving him<br />
selfe to be discovered the sayd Strowde man or Rochester man and his company threw great stones as this deponent and the<br />
other ffeversham men and hurt the sayd Golson soe with one of them that hee was not able to followe his<br />
trade of ffishing for a longe tyme after<br />
'''WI''' [MARKE, LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES]
And hee alsoe saith that he this<br />
deponent well knoweth that the ffishermen [?XX] tennants of the sayd<br />
Mannor and hundred of ffeversham have and doe pay and ought to pay to the Lord of the sayd<br />
Mannor for such their priviledge of fishing the sayd grounds the yearely<br />
rent of twenty three shillings and fower pence, this hee knoweth for that<br />
hee hath bin imployed by the sayd Tennants some yeares to pay the sayd Rent<br />
And hee alsoe saith hee knoweth the arlate William Lusonn and the rest of<br />
the producents in this cause and saith they are tennants of the sayd Mannor<br />
of ffeversham and soe accompted, and soe have bin of this deponents knowledge<br />
for divers yeares last past, hee having seene them yearely make their<br />
appearance at the Courts held twice a yeare for the Lord of the sayd Mannor<br />
of ffeversham as tennants thereof And saith hee never heard nor beleeveth that the ffishermen<br />
of Stroud Milton halstow Gillingham or other places adiacent or any save<br />
the ffishermen tennants of the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham had at any tyme any right to fisheversham had at any tyme any right to fish +
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