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Chester and bis fishery in the water of Dee," for 

 an annual rent of 200. It is observable that 

 this is the only document in which we have this 

 part of the Fishery distinctly named apart from 

 the Dee Mills, (with which it was in later times 

 always conveyed), and stated as belonging to the 

 Bridge. The record runs thus ; 



" Writ from King Edward the 1st, wherein (having 

 lately confided to Master Richard his Engineer, his 

 Mills of Chester and his fishery in the water of Dee, 

 belonging to the bridge over that water, to hold 

 for a term of 12 years, on yielding to his Exchequer at 

 Chester, annually, two hundred pounds ; and the same 

 Richard declaring that by reason of inundations of the 

 said waters frequently occurring, he had sustained 

 serious loss and damage) commissions Reginald de Grey, 

 his Justice of Chester, that he should diligently enquire 

 how much damage and loss the said Richard had 

 suffered from the said cause ; and if 'the said Richard 

 had any blame therein or not. Dated 7 day of 

 September, in the 17th year of his reign. 



u Inquisition being made, in the same year, a jury 

 declared, That after our Lord the King had delivered 

 his Fishery of the bridge of Chester to Master Richard 

 the Engineer for a lease of 12 years ; in the first year 

 of the same lease, so many inundations of water had 

 frequently arisen, whilst the said Richard remained on 

 the King's service at Karnarvon, that it had not been 

 possible to set the fish traps [crates] under the bridge ; 

 and that the aforesaid fishing pools and granaries 

 together with the walls of the mills, had been thrown 



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