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Transcription

The same day [centre heading]

Examined upon the said allegation in the Acts of Court

6us

Robert Rye of fferversham in the countie of Kent Seaman
there borne and living all his life time aged fifty nyne years
or thereabouts a wittnes sworn and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the sayd allegation he saith that he hath bin a seaman and used the seas for
about these sixe or seaven and 50 years last past and during all that tyme well
knowne the grounds allegate called the Nebb or Harly shoare and East
swale , and Becon grounds and Nesse And Pollard grounds
and saith during the sayd tyme they have bin and are fishing grounds where in
were and are bedds of oysters and saith he hath seene and heard writings
read expresseing that the sayd and part of the mannor all and hundred
was and that the said and part of the all and hundred
Heversham and that that is grounded by Rueeue E Girabely?
and by Kings of this nation suine? Her Regger? To the Lords of the
of Heversham for the times nuspertine? by you with power
for all their cenm? Only fishermen of them, and hundreds of Heversham fish
in the said grounds
and say that he had heard from his father
and other aumipient inhabitants of Heversham that the
said grounds and the fishing of them had in like manner belonged by a wirpicient
from the Kings of this nation and the Lord of the Manor of Heversham
and there hundreds of the said and the hundred full time beyond the memory of
now living and here say that fall these sige? Or seamen and 50 years
last past here hath no and observed that the fishermen commonly of the
said and hundreds of Heversham have finished in the said
grounds for all the students and other fish and rouberles there to their own purpose
and benefit exclusive to all other fishermen and bui? In why it possession
thereof exclusive to all other fishing, saving that tea men fishermen
of shroufr? and therplane? Have bin taken fishing for oysters in the said rounds server 3
and some of them have escaped away and other have bin misinformed
of this dependence right and knowledge for some doing, and he saith that
according to sommon fame and report in heversham and to adianeut? The
fishing for oysters and other fish in the said grounds does and of right
or slowly to belong and so have belonged time out of mynde? And
money off men now living to the lands of the of Heversham
the times desperately and their lemaules? Fishermen of
manner of hundreds of Heversham and that they the said tenants have
and do you yearly pay for sure there privilege so to do to the lands
of the said manner or his shepard? For the time being heurty? There
shillings foure peune?, and saith he never know door heard that any
fishermen of Milton Strode? Halstow Gillingham or any pairto? Adianent?
Or any about the tenants of the manner and hundreds of Heversham were
at any time in quiet session of fishing in the said grounds or
pmitur quietly to fishermen if they were around and saith have
belongeth the allegate Chillian? Suson? And other the predominantly in this saith
are