“_Orders for_ HOOKS, _and going to_ SEA.—“_Imprimis_. That every line of small hooks shall contain in length nine score yards and not above; and whosoever shall have any line of hooks above the said length, at any time after the first day of August, in _anno Domini_ one thousand five hundred four score and one, shall forfeit for every such line, twenty shillings: and that no man shall bring to sea at any time any more than four lines of the aforesaid hooks: and every man shall pay the seventh fish to the boat, of three of his lines, except the master of the boat, and the young men who are called _tacheners_; the which master shall have all the fishing of his four lines, without paying any duty to the boat; and the said _tacheners_ shall have for the keeping of the boat, the fishing of every their fourth line without paying any duty to the boat; and whosoever shall do anything contrary to this order, shall forfeit for every time so doing, twenty shillings. And if any boat shall come to mishap through the default of the _tacheners_, that then the said _tacheners_ shall pay for the hurt of the same boat, to the value of the same hurt.”—“_Item_. Any man that shall lose any small hooks at sea, shall have for every line so lost two shillings, to be paid unto him by the company in equal portions.”—“_Item_. If there be four lines or more lost in any boat, then the whole of the fish, except the boat’s part, shall be equally divided among the company; and any man that hath lost any of the same hooks, shall be allowed two shillings for every line so lost, to be paid by the whole company in equal portions.”—“_Item_. Every man that shall lose any heak, norward net, or shotnet, in any fishing voyage, shall be allowed by the company for every heak so lost, ten shillings; and for every norward net so lost, ten shillings, and for every shotnet so lost, four shillings, and not above.”—“_Item_. That no man, being an inhabitant of this town, shall drive with nets for herrings between _Shoreham Haven_ and _Beach_ (_Beachy Head_) on any Saturday night or Sunday, until evening prayer be done, upon pain to forfeit for every time so doing, twenty shillings.”—“_Item_. That no man shall drive with any tucknet at any time before sun-rising, or after sun-setting, upon pain to forfeit, for every time so doing, ten shillings.”—“_Item_. That no man shall go to sea with tucknet to fish for plaice before _Shrove Tuesday_ yearly, upon pain of forfeiture of ten shillings for every time so doing.”—“_Item_. If there shall at any time any boat of this town be cast away through the default of the master and the company, then the master and his company to be answerable to the owner for the same boat.”