Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions to navigation of the Thames were often complained of, see Nos. 41, 42,91; till those made since Edw. I’s time were ordered to be abated and quelled down by Statute 3 of 25 Edw. Ill, § 4- goNz, were dams inclosing or narrowing the waters in order to build mills or make fish preserves, and were often a source of profit. (No. 91 should come here.) 41. Anc. Pet., File 10, No. 477. Abstract. To the King and Council: The merchants who frequent ? (hauntent) the water between London and Oxford show, that their common passage by the Thames with their ships of merchandise is obstructed by gors, locks, and mills often to their great peril, and the king’s damage. And whereas the king was used to assign justices every seven years to survey the dangers of the water, but they have not done it for twenty years past,—the commonalty pray that special justices may be appointed to survey the obstructions and to inquire into the accidents (perils) that have happened in consequence. ‘ E sire nous entendoms qe en vostre domisday serra troue la manere coment le ewe de Tamise doit auer son cours sanz desturbance.’ Also they complain of fishermen with nets so fine (estraytz) that they entirely destroy the fry of the fish, in impoverishment of the people. Endorsement. Coram toto consilio. Assignentur ad hoc Justiciarii dominus W. de Bereford et dominus R. de Heyham. 42. Anc. Pet., File 10, No. 474. Abstract. To the King and Council: the merchants who frequent Edw. I or the water between London and Oxford show, that their common passage by the Thames with their ships of merchandise is obstructed certU.’ by gors, locks, and mills, often to their great peril, also by fishers who> with their nets beyond the assise, take more small fish than they ought by right. And whereas the king was used to assign justices every seven years to survey the dangers of the water, but it had not been done for twenty years past, and on prayer of the commonalty William de Bereford and Sir Roger de Hegham were appointed, but were too much occupied in the king’s service to undertake it,—they pray that others may be appointed who can undertake it, suggesting three by name.