OF A SALMON. 25 



Hamaan Goodman, William Shaa, and Roger Smyth, 

 occupiers of the Fulling Mill there for the time aforesaid. 



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And of twenty -four pounds of the farm of the fishery 

 and fish of a certain stank of the Lord the King, called 

 the Kynge's Pole of Dee, so demised to Hugh Hurleton, 

 to have and to hold, to the aforesaid Hugh, and to his 

 assigns, from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, 

 in the 19th year of the King that now is, Henry the 7th, 

 unto end of the term of twenty years then immediately 

 following, and fully to complete ; rendering, therefore, 

 yearly over and above all manner of charges, by the 

 said Hugh or his assigns, to be made and sustained in 

 this behalf to the aforesaid Lord the King, and his heirs, 

 Earls of Chester, 24, at the feast of Easter and St. 

 Michael the Archangel, by letters patent, under the 

 seal of his Exchequer of Chester, dated the 26th day 

 of September, in the 19th year of his reign, and enrolled 

 in the original of the minister's accounts of the 19th 

 year of the King aforesaid by mainprize of John Clyffe, 

 James Hurleton, son and heir of Thomas Hurleton, 

 Thomas Smyth, mercer, and Eichard Hockenhall, baker, 

 in this the 4th year of his term. Sum 24." 



These meagre details, and .dry records of rights 

 long passed away, may enable us, when taken in 

 connection with other " signs of the times," to 

 cast a look back for some centuries and divine, 

 with some degree of certainty, what have been 



