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 we strictly prohibit,
for us and our heirs, that no one within the space aforesaid of seven
leuks, presume to lade or unlade any other ship or boat than his
proper own, and of his own proper herrings, and other merchandises,
anywhere, but only at the same town of Great Yarmouth, or in the
haven of the same, or at the place of Kirkley road, or in the time
aforesaid, to hold any fair, or to sell or buy any herrings or other
wares, on account of merchandising, but only at the said town of
Great Yarmouth, or in the haven of the same upon forfeiture of the
ships and boats so to be laded or unladed, or from that time to be
put to sale in such fairs or elsewhere, by way of merchandising,
contrary to the said prohibition, to be applied to the uses of us and
our heirs. Of which forfeitures aforesaid we will, and have granted,
for us and our heirs, that the bailiffs of the said, town of Great
Yarmouth, for the time being, may and shall enquire from time to
time, and take them into custody, and cause them to be kept for our
use, and answer to us and our heirs, thereupon into the exchequer
aforesaid, every year, at the term of St. Michael and Easter.
And all our letters whatsoever, to the town of Lowestoft or to the
men of the same, contrary to any of these premises, made by us, as to
such contrariety, we do revoke.
Witness myself, at Westminster the 22nd day of August, in the 46th
year of our reign of England.
By virtue of this charter, the Yarmouth men not only obtained the
privilege of having Kirkley road united to the town and haven of
Yarmouth, but also to receive the same customs there which had usually
been collected before in the port of Yarmouth, and were also farther
empowered to seize the ships, goods, etc., of such as bought or sold
within seven leuks of it, under certain restrictions mentioned in the
said charter.
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