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Transcription

ffishermen of any other places whatsoever unlesse secretly as trespassers
And further hee cannot answere./

To the 9th hee never knew, heard or beleeveth any such thing as is
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
Court./

William Thompson of ffaversham in the County of Kent
ffisherman where hee hath lived all his life tyme being there
borne aged 46 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and
examined saith and deposethas followeth videlicet./

To the sayd allegation made in the article of Court hee saith and deposeth that hee
hath knowne the grounds in question called the nebb or harty shoare East Swale
the Beacon grounds Nesse grounds and Polland grounds allogate for these thirty
yeares last past during all which tyme they have bin fishing grounds and water
courses where in bedds of oysters laye, and have during the sayd tyme (and tyme
out of mynde and memory of men now living as hee hath heard by common
fame and report in ffeversham and places adiacent) bin commonly reputed to bee
part and parcell of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham and to lye
within the bXXnd and bynisse? thereof And saith hee hath bin a tennant to the
sayd grounds these eighteene yeares last past and thereby knoweth that the
ffishermen Tennants of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham during the sayd
tyme have (in lieu of twenty three shillings foure pence yearly paid
by them to the Lords of the sayd mannor and hundred for the tyme being) quietly had
and enioyed the right and priviledge of fishing and have quietly fished
the sayd grounds for oysters and all other sorts of ffish therein to be taken, and
converted the same to their owne proper use and benefitt excludeing all other
ffishermen whatsoever and soe the ffishermen tennants of the sayd mannor and
hundred have done and use (for the fishermen?) to doe tyme beyond the memory of men now living
(as this deponent hath by Common fame and report in ffeversham and other places
adiacent heard) And hee this deponent never knew or heard that any the inhabitants
ffishermen of Stroud Milton Halstow Gillingham or any but the ffishermen
tennants of the sayd mannor and hundred of ffeversham had at any tyme
any right to fish in or did fish in any of the sayd grounds quietly and
peaceably (if discovered?) for any sort of fish but have fished therein only
as trespassers secretly and as by stealth, And hee saith that hee well understandeth?
that within these twenty yeares last past retaine fishermen of Whitstable,
and some ffishermen of Milton, being taken fishing on the sayd grounds for
oysters, now sue as trespassers for soe doeing by St George Sands the
now Lords of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham in the Exchequer, and
the sayd witstable ffishermen did of this deponents knowledge compound with
the sayd Lords for such their trespasse and paid to this deponent being
then waterbayly for the sayd Lords the pounds of the good lord and
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
being alsoe sued by the sayd Lords in the Exchequer did acknowledge them
selves trespassers for fishing on the sayd grounds and did compound
with