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)
Warrants were also issued to the sheriffs of both counties, to warn a
jury, to take a view of all such breaches and other decays, within the
limits of the said commission, and to make presentiments of the same;
and, accordingly, amongst many other matters, they presented the
sea-breach near Lowestoft, and that it was necessary that a defence
against the sea should be made there, otherwise it would be injurious to
the owners of the lands betwixt the said sea-breach and Ditchingham Dam.
Also, they found the grounds liable to be taxed to the sea-breach, as far
as the former jurors found them, viz.: to Yarmouth on the Suffolk side,
and to Braydon on the Norfolk side. They also found the grounds
hereinafter mentioned, as liable to be taxed to the said sea-breach,
although omitted in the former levy, viz.:
Acres.
Lands within the Town of Lowestoft 60
Low grounds in Carlton Colville, lying between East Heath 20
and the common drain leading from Kirkley Bridge and
against Lowestoft
Several doles in Kirkley, and other low grounds lying 30
against the common, betwixt Lowestoft bounds and inclosed
meadows towards Kirkley Bridge
Several inclosed pieces, betwixt divers common doles and 2
Kirkley Bridge, whereof one piece is glebe, belonging
unto William Bacon, clerk
Two other pieces, in the tenure of Henry Church 2
One other piece of glebe, lying next Kirkley Bridge, 1
belonging to the said William Bacon, clerk
It was further ordered by the Court,
That against the next sessions of sewers, to be holden at the Swan
Tavern, Lowestoft, the 21st June next, a levy be prepared, to be sent
to the several towns chargeable to the sea-breach at Lowestoft, at
double the proportion which was formerly charged, viz. from the said
sea-breach to Beccles Bridge and Gillingham Dam, in the whole level,
chargeable at two shillings in the pound; and from the said Bridge
and Dam to Ditchingham Dam, sixteen pence in the pound; and those
towns which were not charged upon the former levy, to be added to
this.
Also, that the clerk of this commission do issue out warrants to the
several petty constables within the towns charged towards the
sea-breach at Lowestoft, to collect and pay their several sums to Mr.
Gisleham Wollhouse, treasurer, at the White Lion, at Beccles, the 4th
day of July next.
The proportion of the several towns charged to the sea-breach at
Lowestoft, being the second levy at two shillings in the pound to Beccles
Bridge, and sixteen pence in the pound from thence to Bungay Bridge and
Ditchingham Dam. {16}
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