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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

Name: Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events
Author: Gillingwater, Edmund

Gillingwater, Edmund

Lothingland (England); Lowestoft (England)

And I humbly crave liberty to certify to your Majesty, that by the
    word “crane” key, in my former certificate, I did intend the key of
    Yarmouth, that is known by that name, without any the least prejudice
    to either party thereby, in relation to the admeasurement mentioned
    in the same certificate, further or otherwise than the truth of the
    cause would bear.

                 All which I humbly submit to your Majesty’s great wisdom.

At a council held at Whitehall the 10th of April, 1661, at which were
present his Majesty, and the Duke of York, and many of the first
nobility, these reports of the attorney-general were presented and read;
and it was accordingly ordered by the council, that by reason of his
Majesty’s approaching coronation, they were unable to pay such proper
attention to the complaints of the respective parties, as their cases
required; therefore the affair must necessarily be suspended a short time
longer; and that both parties do attend the Board on Friday three weeks,
the third of May next ensuing, at three in the afternoon, for the further
hearing and determining of this matter.

Upon the issuing of the order for deferring the hearing of the cause to a
subsequent council, the Lowestoft men presented another petition to His
Majesty, beseeching him that as it was the opinion of the judges, and
also of the Attorney-general, that the only method which could be taken
for compromising the differences so long subsisting between these two
towns, would be to consider seven miles to be measured from the key of
Yarmouth, towards Lowestoft, in order to ascertain the boundary of the
liberties of the former place, and secure the privilege of a free fishery
to the latter, and at the end thereof to have some apparent mark erected,
to denote the same; that his Majesty would be pleased to order the said
admeasurement to be immediately carried into execution; or otherwise, by
reason of their many misfortunes and losses, they must be involved in
inevitable ruin.

       TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE
       INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF LOWESTOFT, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK,

    Sheweth,

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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)

And I humbly crave liberty to certify to your Majesty, that by the
    word “crane” key, in my former certificate, I did intend the key of
    Yarmouth, that is known by that name, without any the least prejudice
    to either party thereby, in relation to the admeasurement mentioned
    in the same certificate, further or otherwise than the truth of the
    cause would bear.

                 All which I humbly submit to your Majesty’s great wisdom.

At a council held at Whitehall the 10th of April, 1661, at which were
present his Majesty, and the Duke of York, and many of the first
nobility, these reports of the attorney-general were presented and read;
and it was accordingly ordered by the council, that by reason of his
Majesty’s approaching coronation, they were unable to pay such proper
attention to the complaints of the respective parties, as their cases
required; therefore the affair must necessarily be suspended a short time
longer; and that both parties do attend the Board on Friday three weeks,
the third of May next ensuing, at three in the afternoon, for the further
hearing and determining of this matter.

Upon the issuing of the order for deferring the hearing of the cause to a
subsequent council, the Lowestoft men presented another petition to His
Majesty, beseeching him that as it was the opinion of the judges, and
also of the Attorney-general, that the only method which could be taken
for compromising the differences so long subsisting between these two
towns, would be to consider seven miles to be measured from the key of
Yarmouth, towards Lowestoft, in order to ascertain the boundary of the
liberties of the former place, and secure the privilege of a free fishery
to the latter, and at the end thereof to have some apparent mark erected,
to denote the same; that his Majesty would be pleased to order the said
admeasurement to be immediately carried into execution; or otherwise, by
reason of their many misfortunes and losses, they must be involved in
inevitable ruin.

       TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE
       INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF LOWESTOFT, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK,

    Sheweth,

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events

Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events

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