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| − | * 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."<ref>[http://www.faversham.org/history/maritime/Oyster_Fishery.aspx 'Oyster fisher', Faversham.org website,] viewed 06/02/2015</ref> | + | * 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."<ref>[http://www.faversham.org/history/maritime/Oyster_Fishery.aspx 'Oyster fisher', Faversham.org website, drawing on “Faversham Oyster Fishery through 11 Centuries”, by Patricia Hyde and Duncan Harrington (2002), ISBN 0-9530998-2-2] viewed 06/02/2015</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:16, February 6, 2015
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
|---|---|
| Folio | 533 |
| Side | Recto |
| ← Previous Page | |
| Status | |
| First cut transcription started and completed on 06/02/2015 by Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 29/08/14, by CSG | |
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may prevaile in this cause and saith it will be neither benefitt
nor preiudice to him which side soever prevaile in this cause And further
hee cannot answere,/
To the 2 hee saith hee is noe fisherman but hath very well knowne the
grounds Interrogate for the reasons before expressed for these fifty yeares
last past and better and saith it is within the ebbing and flowing of
the sea and is at high water about a myle broad from shoare to shore
or at lowe water about a quarter of a myle broad this hee knoweth having
very many tymes passed over it both at high and lowe ater and saith shipps
of such a burthen as is Interrogate cannot as hee beleeveth ride therein
mor any other shipp of any great burthen the mouth of the river being
but shallowe not above 7 or 8 feete deepe at lowe water And further
saving his foregoeing deposition wherein hee hath
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
Court for the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham, and the Maiors Court
at ffeversham and therefore saving his foregoeing deposition cannot
further answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the allegation
made in this cause in the acts of Court to which hee referreth hee
cannot further answere to this Interrogatorie having never heard ought of
any such complaintes as is Interrogate./
To the 5th hee saith hee can write and read, And to the rest of the
sayd Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for his part and further
cannot answere./
To the 6th hee saith hee desyreth right may prevaile in this cause and
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 7th Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose
thereto./
To the 8th hee saith there are other fish beside oysters as dabbs
and soles and smelts and such smale fish taken upon the grounds in
question and saith hee beleeveth none but the tennants of the hundred and
mannor of ffeversham doe catch fish in the places Interrate, unlessethey doe it secretly as by stealth without the knowledge of the tennants
of the sayd Mannor and hundred And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively
having never heard of nor beleeveing any such thing as is Interrogate/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
John whitfield [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Topics
Places
Faversham
- 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)
Faversham Guildhall
Materials
Faversham Oyster fishery
- 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."[1]
Miscellaneous Topics
Faversham Legal Records from C17th
From H.C.F. Lansberry, Government and Politics in Kent, 1640-1914 (London, 2001), p.70
- Boroughs held General of Quaarter Sessions, similar to those at County level
- Faversham sessions included trial of felonies
- Each corporation included a court for debts, real, personal, and mixed. These were ususally named "Courts of Portmote" (e.g. Rocherster, Faversham), or Courts of Pleas (e.g. Canterbury, Maidstone), or in obne case the "Hundred Court" (Fordwich)
- Rochester had is own Court of Admiralty
- Court Leets were originally a manorial court and was a court of minor misdemeanour
- Queenborough provides an example of manorial courts becoming marginalised in the C17th and ossified in the C19th (Ibid, p.71)
