A.D. 

 1278. 



The fishing 

 at great 

 Yarmouth. 



Henry the 

 third. 



Edzuard the 

 confessor. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



rivage, asponsage, and from all wrecke, and from all their 

 sale, carying and recarying through all our realme and 

 dominion, with socke and souke, toll and theme. And 

 that they shall have Infangthefe, and that they shall be 

 wreckefree, lastagefree, and lovecopfree. And that they 

 shall have Denne and Strande at great Yarmouth, accord- 

 ing as it is contayned in the ordinance by us thereof made 

 perpetually to bee observed. And also that they are free 

 from all shires and hundreds : so that if any person will 

 plead against them, they shall not aunswere nor pleade 

 otherwise then they were wont to plead in the time of the 

 lord, king Henrie our great grandfather : And that they 

 shall have their findelles in the sea and in the land : And 

 that they be free of all their goods and of all their 

 marchandises as our freemen. And that they have their 

 honours in our court, and their liberties throughout all 

 the land wheresoever they shall come. And that they 

 shall be free for ever of all their lands, which in the time 

 of Lord Henrie the king our father they possessed : that 

 is to say in the 44. yere of his reign, from all maner of 

 summonces before our Justices to any maner of plead- 

 ings, journeying in what shire soever their lands are. 

 So that they shall not be bound to come before the 

 Justices aforesaid, except any of the same Barons doe 

 implead any man, or if any man be impleaded. And that 

 they shall not pleade in any other place, except where 

 they ought, and where they were wont, that is to say, at 

 Shepeway. And that they have their liberties and free- 

 domes from hencefoorth, as they and their predecessors 

 have had them at any time better, more fully and honour- 

 ably in the time of the kings of England, Edward, 

 William the first, William the second, Henrie the king 

 our great grandfather, and in the times of king Richard, 

 and king John our grandfathers, and lord king Henrie 

 our father, by their Charters : as the same Charters which 

 the same our Barons thereof have, and which we have 

 scene, doe reasonably testifie. And we forbid that no man 

 unjustly trouble them nor their marchandise upon our 



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