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" It'm the ij day (June, 1532) to one Dompier Peter 

 Tremesin, that did ryde ij horses at ones, by way of 

 reward C crowns" '(One hundred crowns or 24 6s. 8d. 

 of that time.) 



" It'm the iij daye pade to one Davy w t a slyt nose, 

 by way of rewarde, x s. 



By an indenture dated the 6th September in 

 the 4th year of Henry the eighth (1509) the then 

 abbot of Chester, John Birchenshaw, authorised 

 Richard Grosvenor 



" to make and attach a weyre or fish yard in the water 

 of Dee, upon the soyle and ground of his convent, and 

 also to make a little howse on the sayd ground, for the 

 safe keeping: of the fish and netts of the said Richard, 

 &c. together with all the tenth of fish that shall happen 

 to be taken in the said fish yard and weyre, except of 

 Pike, Tench, and Breame, for the annual rent of 25 

 shillings ; that is, to witt, for the sayd attachment and 

 house, 20d ; and for the sayd Teythe fish, 22s."* 



In the reign of Edward the sixth, the rights 

 of the crown (derived from the Prince of Wales 

 as Earl of Chester) to the Dee Mills, and the 

 Fishery attached were surrendered by the King 

 to the Cotton family, in exchange for estates in 

 Lincolnshire, and were purchased of that family 

 in 1587 by T. Gamul, subject to a reserved, 

 rent of 100 a year, (subsequently redeemed) 

 from whose descendants they passed, by purchase, 

 to the present proprietors. 



* Harleian MSS, 2022. 

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