OF A SALMON. 17 



lately found,* and which, among other things, 

 grants to the Monks " a full tenth of the 

 fishery at Eton,t and of all that pertain thereto," 

 " and a tenth of the fishery of Eueland 

 (Ehydlan) and a tenth from the ships ; " (de 

 navibus) supposed to he vessels bringing fish to 

 the port of Chester. Eanulph, after confirming 

 all the former Charter, gives " the tenth penny 

 of all my revenue of the city, and of every fish 

 -taken in the Dee" (in aqua de Dee.) 



As no mention is made of any particular 

 portion of the river, we gather that the Earl then 

 claimed the whole of it, at least within the 

 rights of the Palatinate. This right must have 

 been alienated by subsequent grants of which we 

 have no record ; as we find in the 17th of Edwd. 

 the 1st (1289), that the rights, vested in the 

 Crown, as Earl of Chester, were confined to the 

 Mills and fishery " belonging to the Bridge." 



In 1227 the freemen of Llangollen endowed 

 the Monks of Valle Crucis Abbey "with a 



* Translation read at the November Monthly Meeting 

 of the Chester Archaeological Society, by the Rev. W. 

 Massie. 



f The Earl's right to the possession of Eton is 

 mentioned in Domesday, with the particulars of the 

 fishery. " Ibi piscaria reddit M salmones et VI pisca- 

 tores et una acra prati." Ormerod ii, 452. 



