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their right to angle from this foot-path, it will not 

 authorize any visitor to angle there, neither can an 

 inhabitant of that town delegate his authority to 

 another person, who is not an established inhabitant. 



In the case of Bawlins v. Jenkins and others, really 

 versus the mayor, burgesses, and freeholders of Whit- 

 church, in Hampshire, for trespass, by angling in the 

 river Test, which they could only do by entering a 

 close belonging to the plaintiff, the defendants 

 pleaded a prescriptive right by immemorial custom. 

 The case was tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at 

 the spring assizes, held at Winchester, in 1842; and 

 the verdict was, after a long trial, in favour of the 

 defendants. A new trial was granted, and owing to 

 some misconception, the verdict was for the plaintiff. 

 Another trial was applied for on account of the 

 alleged misdirection of the judge; but it was not 

 obtained, so the parties are much as they were, 

 except a little lighter in pocket. 



In the navigation from Weybridge Bridge to 

 Thames Lock, it is the old river Wey, and above the 

 lock at "Weybridge Bridge, to Godalming, it is an 

 artificially made canal ; now, the proprietors of the 

 whole navigation to Godalming have very inju 

 diciously placed boards forbidding persons to angle : 

 but from Thames Lock to Weybridge Bridge, it is the 

 original river, and probably was originally, ages ago, 



