| First transcribed
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6 February 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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533 +
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| Materials
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<u>Faversham Oyster fishery</u> … <u>Faversham Oyster fishery</u>
* 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."UNIQ290ad591236cf4eb-ref-00000253-QINU."UNIQ290ad591236cf4eb-ref-00000253-QINU +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Places
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<u>Faversham</u>
See [http:// … <u>Faversham</u>
See [http://www.faversham.org/history/past_glimpses/17th_century.aspx Faversham in C17th]
* 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)
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<u>Faversham Guildhall</u>
See: [http://www.faversham.org/history/buildings/guildhall.aspx Faversham Guildhall history]uildhall.aspx Faversham Guildhall history] +
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| Primary sources
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<u>Kent Archives</u>
Fa/CPl26 … <u>Kent Archives</u>
Fa/CPl26 Precepts for the Admiralty court at Faversham, with a jury list of 36 names Date: 1628<br />
- Nb. Fa - FAVERSHAM BOROUGH RECORDS CP - The Cinque Ports l - Chancery court, Dover:
Fa/JC Title:The Coroner Level: Series
Fa - FAVERSHAM BOROUGH RECORDS J - Judicial Records B - Borough Court of Record<br />
- f - Fines and related documents<br />
- p - Court papers<br />
- r - Court record<br />
-s - Court rolls and books<br />
- w - Writ of summons and writs of arrest
- w - Writ of summons and writs of arrest +
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Recto +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 06/02/2015 +
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| Transcription
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may prevaile in this cause and saith it wi … may prevaile in this cause and saith it will be neither benefitt<br />
nor preiudice to him which side soever prevaile in this cause And further<br />
hee cannot answere,/
To the 2 hee saith hee is noe fisherman but hath very well knowne the<br />
grounds Interrogate for the reasons before expressed for these fifty yeares<br />
last past and better and saith it is within the ebbing and flowing of<br />
the sea and is at high water about a myle broad from shoare to shore<br />
or at lowe water about a quarter of a myle broad this hee knoweth having<br />
very many tymes passed over it both at high and lowe ater and saith shipps<br />
of such a burthen as is Interrogate cannot as hee beleeveth ride therein<br />
mor any other shipp of any great burthen the mouth of the river being<br />
but shallowe not above 7 or 8 feete deepe at lowe water And further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition wherein hee hath<br />
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<br />
Court for the Mannor and hundred of ffeversham, and the Maiors Court<br />
at ffeversham and therefore saving his foregoeing deposition cannot<br />
further answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the allegation<br />
made in this cause in the acts of Court to which hee referreth hee<br />
cannot further answere to this Interrogatorie having never heard ought of<br />
any such complaintes as is Interrogate./
To the 5th hee saith hee can write and read, And to the rest of the<br />
sayd Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for his part and further<br />
cannot answere./
To the 6th hee saith hee desyreth right may prevaile in this cause and<br />
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 7th Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose<br />
thereto./
To the 8th hee saith there are other fish beside oysters as dabbs<br />
and soles and smelts and such smale fish taken upon the grounds in<br />
question and saith hee beleeveth none but the tennants of the hundred and<br />
mannor of ffeversham doe catch fish in the places Interrate, unlessethey doe it secretly as by stealth without the knowledge of the tennants<br />
of the sayd Mannor and hundred And further saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively<br />
having never heard of nor beleeveing any such thing as is Interrogate/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
John whitfield [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lphin
John whitfield [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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