| First transcribed
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1 January 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Rachel Carter +
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| Folio
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541 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 01/12/2015 +
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| Transcription
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ffishermen of any other places whatsoever … ffishermen of any other places whatsoever unlesse secretly as trespassers<br />
And further hee cannot answere./
To the 9th hee never knew, heard or beleeveth any such thing as is<br />
Interrogate./
Thomas Michall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
The 16th day of October 1655 (CENTRE HEADING)
Examined upon the sayd allegation made in the Article of<br />
Court./
'''William Thompson''' of ffaversham in the County of Kent<br />
ffisherman where hee hath lived all his life tyme being there<br />
borne aged 46 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposethas followeth videlicet./
To the sayd allegation made in the article of Court hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
hath knowne the grounds in question called the nebb or harty shoare East Swale<br />
the Beacon grounds Nesse grounds and Polland grounds allogate for these thirty<br />
yeares last past during all which tyme they have bin fishing grounds and water<br />
courses where in bedds of oysters laye, and have during the sayd tyme (and tyme<br />
out of mynde and memory of men now living as hee hath heard by common<br />
fame and report in ffeversham and places adiacent) bin commonly reputed to bee<br />
part and parcell of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham and to lye<br />
within the bXXnd and bynisse? thereof And saith hee hath bin a tennant to the<br />
sayd grounds these eighteene yeares last past and thereby knoweth that the<br />
ffishermen Tennants of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham during the sayd<br />
tyme have (in lieu of twenty three shillings foure pence yearly paid<br />
by them to the Lords of the sayd mannor and hundred for the tyme being) quietly had<br />
and enioyed the right and priviledge of fishing and have quietly fished<br />
the sayd grounds for oysters and all other sorts of ffish therein to be taken, and<br />
converted the same to their owne proper use and benefitt excludeing all other<br />
ffishermen whatsoever and soe the ffishermen tennants of the sayd mannor and<br />
hundred have done and use (for the fishermen?) to doe tyme beyond the memory of men now living<br />
(as this deponent hath by Common fame and report in ffeversham and other places<br />
adiacent heard) And hee this deponent never knew or heard that any the inhabitants<br />
ffishermen of Stroud Milton Halstow Gillingham or any but the ffishermen<br />
tennants of the sayd mannor and hundred of ffeversham had at any tyme<br />
any right to fish in or did fish in any of the sayd grounds quietly and<br />
peaceably (if discovered?) for any sort of fish but have fished therein only<br />
as trespassers secretly and as by stealth, And hee saith that hee well understandeth?<br />
that within these twenty yeares last past retaine fishermen of Whitstable,<br />
and some ffishermen of Milton, being taken fishing on the sayd grounds for<br />
oysters, now sue as trespassers for soe doeing by St George Sands the<br />
now Lords of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham in the Exchequer, and<br />
the sayd witstable ffishermen did of this deponents knowledge compound with<br />
the sayd Lords for such their trespasse and paid to this deponent being<br />
then waterbayly for the sayd Lords the pounds of the good lord and<br />
assigned order aXXXXX three pounds more to be paid to the sayd lords (and soe ffiX being) for the same trespasse And the sayd Milton ffishermen<br />
being alsoe sued by the sayd Lords in the Exchequer did acknowledge them<br />
selves trespassers for fishing on the sayd grounds and did compound<br />
with grounds and did compound<br />
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