County: Middlesex
Code: D4197#54
Reference: London, London Metropolitan Archives: COL/AD/01/011, fol. 130v, item 3
Function: Proclamation
[line 19]For as moche as diuerse persones nowe of late haue fisshed in the watier̕ of Thamyse
wt Nettes and Jngynes whereof the Mesches beenn to streit And not of largenes and
Th assise therefore ordeyned contrarie to the lawes of the kyng oure soueraign̕ lord
And of this his Citee . Therefore it is Adiugged by my lord the Maire and my ~~~
Maisters the Aldremen̕ . that the said Nettes here shuld be brent Accordyng to þe
lawes aforesaid . to th entent that Alle maner of persones whiche vsen̕ to fisshe in the
saide watier̕ of Thamys thereby shuld take an̕ Example and eschewe hereafter
to fisshe in the said watier̕ withe any suche prohibited and vnlawfulle Nettes
and Jngynes . / . [Latin: Md qd ista proclamacon fca fuit xxvijo die Octoberres Ao xvijo E iiijti / .]