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and a dish of fish to Lord Hertford as often as he passes 

 through the town. 



" Degemue and Eglosderi, county of Cornwall. William 

 Trevelle holds one Cornish acre of land in Degemue and 

 Eglosderi, by the serjeanty of finding one boat and nets for 

 fishing in Hellestone Lake, whensoever our lord the king 

 should come to Hellestone, and so long as he should stay 

 there. 



" Gloucester. Pennant states that it has been an old 

 custom for the city of Gloucester annually to present his Ma- 

 jesty with a Lamprey pie, covered with a large raised crust. 



" Rodeley, county of Gloucester. Certain tenants of the 

 manor of Rodeley pay to this day, to the lord thereof, a rent 

 called Pridgavel, in duty and acknowledgment to him for 

 their liberty and privilege of fishing for Lampreys in the 

 river Severn. Pridgavel : Prid, for brevity, being the latter 

 syllable of Lamprid, as this fish was anciently called ; and 

 gavel, a rent or tribute. 



" Stafford. Ralph de Waymer held of the king in fee 

 and inheritance the stew or fish-pond without the eastern 

 gate of the town of Stafford, in this manner, that when the 

 king should please to fish, he was to have the Pikes and 

 Breams ; and the said Ralph and his heirs were to have all 

 the other fishes with the Eels coming to the hooks, rendering 

 therefore to the king half a mark at the feast of St. Michael. 



" Yarmouth. The town of Yarmouth in Norfolk is bound 

 to send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred Herrings, 

 which are to be baked in twenty-four pies or pasties, and 

 thence delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton, 

 who is to convey them to the king. They are still sent to 

 the clerk of the kitchen's office at St. James's. In 1778, 

 the sheriffs of Norwich attended with them in person, and 

 claimed the following allowance in return, viz. * Six white 



