Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent eventsGillingwater, Edmund
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Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events
Gillingwater, Edmund
Lothingland (England); Lowestoft (England)
3rd. And that whensoever any ships or boats apply themselves into
Kirkley road, laden with herrings, they may twice unlade again and
return to fish; whereas the ships or boats applying into the port of
the town of Yarmouth, they can but once in the same time unload and
again return to sea to fish.
4th. Also they say that the commonalty do sustain and bear very
great griefs, damages, and hindrances, by colour of the liberties and
privileges aforesaid.
5th. Also they say, that the said place of Kirkley road lyeth in the
main sea over against the town of Lowestoft, in Suffolk, and is
distant from the town of Yarmouth ten miles.
6th. Also they say, that all the ships and boats laden or unladen,
often, and when they come into the sea between the entry of the port
of Yarmouth and the place of Kirkley road, if the wind be not
contrary, they may at their wills enter into the port and also the
said place of Kirkley road.
7th. Also they understand, that the men of Yarmouth may sustain and
bear all charges towards our lord the king, which before the granting
of the liberties of the new charter aforesaid they did bear, and
maintain their town, besides that charge that they render yearly for
the said charter to them newly granted, although the said charter be
revoked and made void.
8th. Also they say, that if the wind do serve for the ships, that
they cannot come to the said town of Great Yarmouth, sometime it
happeneth that they must cast their herrings into the sea for
oldness, if that they may not lawfully deliver their herrings at the
place of Kirkley road.
In Witness, etc.
The charter for uniting Kirkley road to Yarmouth Haven was repealed the
second time, the 5th of Richard II. The grant restored again till the
meeting of Parliament to consider of it, the eighth of Richard II.
At the meeting of parliament, which was in the ninth of Richard II. the
last grant of the eighth of Richard II. was, by an ordinance of that
Parliament, dated the 18th day of December, in the ninth of Richard II.
annulled, and the act of repeal, in the fifth of Richard II. continued in
force.
The last grant annulled the ninth of Richard II. and the repeal of the
fifth Richard II. continued in force.
But notwithstanding all the allegations, statutes, etc., to the contrary,
the burgesses of Yarmouth, by their petitions, etc., in the subsequent
Parliament, holden at Westminster, in the tenth of Richard II, recovered
all their former liberties and grants, by an act or ordinance of
Parliament, which privileges, etc., were confirmed by a charter under the
great seal of England, which charter has never since been repealed, but
continues in force to this day.
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