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Edward. I c. 47. it is provided w that the Rivers 

 Humber, Ouse, Trent, (and several others there 

 named) and all other waters in which salmon 

 are taken, shall be put in defence, from the 

 Nativity of St. Mary to the day of St Martin." 



Upon this statute Sir Edward Coke remarks, 

 " that the noble River Thames is not named, and 

 it was held, that the general words extended 

 to inferior rivers only," and therefore the River 

 Thames is added in another place, viz. 



In the 25th Edward III. it was prayed by the 

 Commons, and in the same year it was enacted 

 that ." the statute of Westminster made against 

 the destruction of salmon may be kept, and that 

 all mills set on the aforesaid rivers be thrown 

 down, and shall take effect as well on the Ri- 

 ver Thames as elsewhere." See the Statutes, 

 and Cotton's Abridgement of the Records 

 in the Tower of London, by Prynne, 1657. 

 pp. 75-80. 



In the 50th of Edward III. it was peti- 

 tioned by the Commons " that no salmons be 

 taken between Gravesend and Henely-upon- 

 Thames in kipper time." 



