LANCELET. 



fishing in Hellestonc Lake, whensoever our lord the king 

 should come to Hellestone, and so long as he should stay 

 there. 



" Gloucester. Pennant states that it has been an old 

 custom for the city of Gloucester annually to present the 

 sovereign with a Lamprey pie, covered with a large raised 

 crust. 



" Rodeley, county of Gloucester. Certain tenants of the 

 manor of Rodeley pay to this day. to the lord thereof, a rent 

 called Pridgavel, in duty and acknowledgment to him for 

 their liberty and privilege of fishing for Lampreys in the river 

 Severn. Pridgavel : Prid, for brevity, being the latter sylla- 

 ble of Lamprid, as this fish was anciently called ; and gavel, 

 a rent or tribute. 



" Stafford. Ralph de Waymer held of the king in fee 

 and inheritance the stew or fish-pond without the eastern gate 

 of the town of Stafford, in this manner, that when the king 

 should please to fish, he was to have the Pikes and Breams ; 

 and the said Ralph and his heirs were to have all the other 

 fishes with the Eels coming to the hooks, rendering therefore 

 to the king half a mark at the feast of St. Michael. 



" Yarmouth. The town of Yarmouth in Norfolk is bound 

 to send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred Herrings, 

 which are to be baked in twenty-four pies or pasties, and 

 thence delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton, 

 who is to convey them to the king. They are still sent to 

 the clerk of the kitchen's office at St. James's. In 1778, 

 the sheriffs of Norwich attended with them in person, and 

 claimed the following allowance in return, viz. ' Six white 

 loaves, six dishes of meat (out of the king's kitchen) ; one 

 flaggon of wine ; one flaggon of beer ; one truss of hay ; one 

 bushell of oats ; one pricket of wax ; six tallow candles. 1 

 But no precedent appearing of these things having been de- 



