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deliver for every twenty salmon so taken one fish to the hands of 

 his bailiflf there by ancient custom, and no such fish in y hath been 

 made or had by the time aforesaid.'' 



Coming down to twentieth Elizabeth, 1578, we find in the 

 account of Eobert Ai'derne, bailiff, an entry precisely similar to 

 that of his predecessor some forty years before. In this same 

 year Launcelot Errington, the collector of Benwell, accounts 

 ■*' for the ferm of a fishery for salmon within the water of Tyne 

 within the territories of the Vilie of Benwell cvj^ viij*^ and Els- 

 wick xijs. In all for the year cxiij* viii*^. Denton with Derring- 

 ton and WalsiBgham. 



' ' Of the ferm of a fishery of salmon within the waters of the 

 Tyne within the lordship of Denton aforesaid, let for the year 

 iiij^" 



In the sixth year of James I., a.d. 1608, a sui'vey was made 

 of the manor of Tynemouth, and at the conclusion of the sui'vey 

 there is the following note : — 



" Item : there is a fishing for salmon there in the water of the 

 TjTie, extending from the mouth of the river, where the Tyne 

 falleth into the sea, unto Howden Head, neai* the territories of 

 Wmington, for which there hath been anciently paid iij* iv^ (3s. 

 4d.) by the year, but hath been decayed by many years, yet 

 now may the said yearly rent be re\'ived again, upon a grant of 

 a lease thereof worth by the year iij^ iiij*^. The yearly value 

 beyond rent, nil." 



In the year 1624, in consideration of the sum of d£984 13s. 4d. 

 paid by Henry, Earl of Northumberland, an ancestor of the pre- 

 sent duke, the king granted to him certain lands and rights 

 which formerly belonged to the monastery of T}-nemouth. 



In 1625 Charles I. granted to Edward Ramsey, and Robert 

 Ramsey, for a yearly rental of 3s. 4d., " all that salmon fishery 

 in the water of the Tyne, extending from the place where the 

 water of the Tyne fiiUs into the sea unto a place called Howden 

 Head, near the territory of WUlington." 



Twelve years after the Ramseys transferred their fishery 

 rights, for a due consideration, to George Milburn and William 

 Milburn. 



