History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
History
History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
share, and every heak to be allowed for two nets; and what person
soever, shall give or take anything in this voyage contrary to this
order, shall forfeit for every time so doing, twenty
shillings.”—“_Item_. It shall be lawful for the owner and master of
every boat or bark going to _Scarborough_, at the return of every
such boat or bark from the said voyage, to take up, before sharing,
so much of the fish as, being indifferently prized by the whole
company, will pay all the charges that shall be then owing for the
said voyage, so that they become chargeable to the creditors; which
fish, being so prized and taken, the warden or wardens, and the Vicar
or his deputy, paying the same price in ready money, shall have, if
they or any of them require it.”—“_Item_. If there shall be any
stranger master in any boat of _Brighthelmston_ in any voyage, then
the owner shall take up and pay the half share for the Vicar of
_Brighthelmston_, and the quarter share for the town, upon pain of
every owner doing the contrary, to forfeit for every such default
twenty _shillings_.”—“_Item_. No man shall take or give above a
share and a quarter for any man’s travel in _Tucknet fare_, upon
forfeiture of ten shillings, to be paid by the giver, and also by the
taker for every time so doing.”—“_Item_. No owner of any tucker or
tucknet shall take any more than four shares for the boat, the nets,
and the arms, viz., for the boat and the nets, three shares; and for
the arms, one share, upon pain to forfeit, for every time so doing,
twenty shillings.”—“_Item_. No man going to sea with harbours shall
take for his body any more than one share, nor for twelve lines of
hooks any more than one share; and so for more or less
proportionably; and any man that shall take or give anything contrary
to this order, shall forfeit for every time so doing, ten
shillings.”—“_Item_. To the intent the said quarter share may
hereafter be truly paid without fraud or guile, every owner and
master of every boat, in every voyage, shall call the Vicar, or his
deputy or deputies, to all and every their several accounts at the
end of every their several voyages, (_Cock fare_, _Tuck fare_,
_Harbour fare_, only excepted, for which three one only account by
every master and owner at the end of every voyage, shall be made),
and in his presence shall make a true and particular account of all
their charges, profits, and shares, upon pain for every owner and
master, for every time doing the contrary, to forfeit twenty
shillings; a note whereof the said Vicar or his deputy shall give in
writing unto the wardens yearly, at _St. Stephen’s Day_, upon pain of
twenty shillings to be forfeited by the said Vicar.”
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