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HCA 13/70 f.533r Annotate
First transcribed 6 February 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 533  +
Materials <u>Faversham Oyster fishery</u><u>Faversham Oyster fishery</u> * Company and Fraternity of Free Fishermen and Dredgermen of Faversham in existence by 1189. "This was a ‘labour corporation’, or trade collective, whose profits were shared in proportion to the amount of work put in by each individual member. To become a ‘freeman’ of the Company applicants had to serve a 7-year apprenticeship and be married. Under the jurisdiction of the Lord of the Manor the Company was run by an ‘admiralty’, or ‘water’, court consisting of a ‘Foreman’ (chairman), two other officers and a ‘Jury’ (committee) of four."UNIQ290ad591236cf4eb-ref-00000253-QINU."UNIQ290ad591236cf4eb-ref-00000253-QINU  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Places <u>Faversham</u> See [http://<u>Faversham</u> See [http://www.faversham.org/history/past_glimpses/17th_century.aspx Faversham in C17th] * Michael Laithwaite, A Ship-Master’s House at Faversham in Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol 2 (1968) * Francis F Giraud & Charles E Donne, A Visitor’s Guide to Faversham, 1876 (Faversham Society reprint, 1988) <br /> <u>Faversham Guildhall</u> See: [http://www.faversham.org/history/buildings/guildhall.aspx Faversham Guildhall history]uildhall.aspx Faversham Guildhall history]  +
Primary sources <u>Kent Archives</u> Fa/CPl26<u>Kent Archives</u> Fa/CPl26 Precepts for the Admiralty court at Faversham, with a jury list of 36 names Date: 1628<br /> - Nb. Fa - FAVERSHAM BOROUGH RECORDS CP - The Cinque Ports l - Chancery court, Dover: Fa/JC Title:The Coroner Level: Series Fa - FAVERSHAM BOROUGH RECORDS J - Judicial Records B - Borough Court of Record<br /> - f - Fines and related documents<br /> - p - Court papers<br /> - r - Court record<br /> -s - Court rolls and books<br /> - w - Writ of summons and writs of arrest - w - Writ of summons and writs of arrest  +
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Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 06/02/2015  +
Transcription may prevaile in this cause and saith it wimay prevaile in this cause and saith it will be neither benefitt<br /> nor preiudice to him which side soever prevaile in this cause And further<br /> hee cannot answere,/ To the 2 hee saith hee is noe fisherman but hath very well knowne the<br /> grounds Interrogate for the reasons before expressed for these fifty yeares<br /> last past and better and saith it is within the ebbing and flowing of<br /> the sea and is at high water about a myle broad from shoare to shore<br /> or at lowe water about a quarter of a myle broad this hee knoweth having<br /> very many tymes passed over it both at high and lowe ater and saith shipps<br /> of such a burthen as is Interrogate cannot as hee beleeveth ride therein<br /> mor any other shipp of any great burthen the mouth of the river being<br /> but shallowe not above 7 or 8 feete deepe at lowe water And further<br /> saving his foregoeing deposition wherein hee hath<br /> satisfied the rest of this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/ To the 3 hee saith hee was never at any Court held in Kent but the<br /> Court for the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham, and the Maiors Court<br /> at ffeversham and therefore saving his foregoeing deposition cannot<br /> further answere to this Interrogatorie./ To the 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the allegation<br /> made in this cause in the acts of Court to which hee referreth hee<br /> cannot further answere to this Interrogatorie having never heard ought of<br /> any such complaintes as is Interrogate./ To the 5th hee saith hee can write and read, And to the rest of the<br /> sayd Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for his part and further<br /> cannot answere./ To the 6th hee saith hee desyreth right may prevaile in this cause and<br /> to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./ To the 7th Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose<br /> thereto./ To the 8th hee saith there are other fish beside oysters as dabbs<br /> and soles and smelts and such smale fish taken upon the grounds in<br /> question and saith hee beleeveth none but the tennants of the hundred and<br /> mannor of ffeversham doe catch fish in the places Interrate, unlessethey doe it secretly as by stealth without the knowledge of the tennants<br /> of the sayd Mannor and hundred And further saving his foregoeing<br /> deposition hee cannot answere./ To the last hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively<br /> having never heard of nor beleeveing any such thing as is Interrogate/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin John whitfield [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lphin John whitfield [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]  +
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