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and saith it is not about a myle broad bet … and saith it is not about a myle broad betwixt shoare and shore, or rather lesse<br />
at high water and about a quarter of a myle broad at lowe water And further<br />
hee cannot answere
To the 3 interrogatory hee saith hee was never at any viceadmiralty Court held in<br />
Kent nor of the jurys in any such court and further to this interrogatorie hee<br />
cannot depose, but saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that the jury of the Court<br />
for the mannor of ffaversham and hundred thereof tennants of the sayd mannor and hundred doe appoint tymes for laying<br />
in and breaking open of the grounds as is interrogate and punish offenders against<br />
such their orders And further hee cannot answere.
To the 4th saving his foregoeing deposition to the allegacon made<br />
in the article of Court in this cause which hee referreth hee cannot answere<br />
having never heard ought of any such complaint as is interrogate
To the fifth hee saith hee can write and read but remembreth not the date of the<br />
writings by him predeposed of and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot answere.
To the 6th hee saith hee desyreth right may take place in this cause and<br />
to the rest of the interrogatory hee answereth negatively.
To the 7th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose
To the 8th hee saith there are other fish besides oysters as soles, dabbs,<br />
place, and other smale fish taken upon the grounds in question by the tennants<br />
of the mannor and hundred of ffaversham, but by noe other as hee beleeveth<br />
unlesse secretly without the knowledgeof the sayd tennants, And further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere
To the 9th hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively<br />
having never heard of nor beleeving any such thing as is interrogatory.
Repeated before doctor Goldolphin
Robert Rye [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day (CENTRE HEADING)
Examined upon the sayd allegation in the Article of Court
'''Godfrey Slade''' of Owre in the hundred of ffaversham<br />
and County of Kent ffisherman where hee hath lived<br />
for these 22 yeares last past or thereabouts and before that<br />
at milton in the sayd County from his birth<br />
being there bound aged threescore and two yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witttnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet
To the sayd allegacon hee saith hee well knoweth the grounds allegate<br />
the nebb or harly shoare East Swale the Beacon grounds nesse? grounds<br />
and Polland grounds and hath soe knowne for these five or six and<br />
forty yeares last past during which tyme hee saith of this deponents<br />
knowledge they have bin fishing grounds wherein?<br />
were bedds of oysters lyeing and saith that during the sayd tyme the<br />
sayd grounds have bin commonly reputed and taken to be part of the<br />
mannor and hundred of ffaversham, and the fishing of them to belonge<br />
solely and properly to the Lords of the mannor of ffaversham, and lXs<br />
tennants ffishermen of the mannor and hundred of ffaversham and tohe mannor and hundred of ffaversham and to +
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