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Transcription

other persons whatsoever and hee this deponent having bin a ffisherman
at milton for about twelve yeares of the tyme hee lived there,
never heard, that any ffishermen of milton or any
other place allegate, or any save the ffishermen tennants of the mannor
and hundred of ffeversham ever had any right to fish in the sayd
grounds either for oysters or other fish or were quietly permitted soe to fish there but the sayd tennants of the
mannor of ffeversham and hundred thereof did all the sayd tyme and alsoe
ever since this deponent came to live in the hundred of ffeversham
at Owre which hath bin for about two and twenty yeares next after his
soe liveing at milton) quietly enioys the fishing of the sayd grounds
both for oysters and other fish to themselves and convert the fish thereof
to their owne use without any interruption, exluding all other
fishermen whatsoever saving hee saith that within these twenty two
yeares last past some ffishermen of Stroude and Milton have
secretly in the night tyme as it were by stealth fished for oysters
and other fish on the grounds in question and were taken soe doeing
and these ffishermen of strowde of this deponents knowledge were
imprisoned at ffeversham for the same and did
in the presence of this deponent and others acknowledge themselves
trespassers against the Lord of the mannor of ffeversham and his
tennants for soe doeing, and entered into bond
that they nor their servants would not fish there any more or to
that effect whereupon they were discharged And hee saith that
the Milton fishermen soe taken whose name hee remembreth not at present did without being imprisoned acknowledge
before this deponent and others that hee had trespassed against the Lords
of the mannor of ffeversham and his tennants of the sayd mannor
and the hundred thereof in soe fishing upon the sayd grounds, and by the
meanes of this deponent (who interceaded for him to the water
bayly of the sayd mannor and hundred) hee ?compounded for such his
trespasse for a smale summe of money which as hee now remembreth
was twelve shillings and soe was discharged, And hee further saith
that ever since hee this deponent came to live at Owre aforesayd hee
knoweth that the tennants of the mannor and hundred of ffeversham
for such their priviledge to enioye the fishing of the sayd grounds
solely to themselves exclusive from all other ffishermen, doe
annually pay to the Lords of the sayd mannor of ffeversham or his
steward twenty three shillings foure pence and hee this deponent being a tennant hath yearely paid this part thereof during the sayd tyme And saith the allegate
Luson and other the producents in this cause are tennants of the mannor and
hundred of ffeversham and soe have bin and are commonly and ?compted for divers yeares
last past of this deponents knowledge And further to this allegation hee cannot depose/