IlEfiARD TO TFIE FRESH-WATER FISHERIES OF NORFOLK. 445 
Then follow “ Special orders to be observed by the Fishermen 
of the town of liynn, as well for their orderly Fishing in and 
upon the said Itiver, as also for the Preservation of the young Fry 
of Fish there, and for other meet and convenient Usages, to be 
kept and observed of the said Fishermen in their said Trade 
and Dealing.” 
The first section contains regulations for berthing the boats, 
prohibits fishing with a “Trimmer” between St. German’s Bridge 
and the Cross Beacon between Holy Thursday and the First 
of August, prohibits the use of “ any Swinge of a Net, but that 
a Threepence may go through,” between May Day and the Fifteenth 
of August ; orders that so soon as any man “ hath hooked his Net, 
ho shall throw the Brood or Fry in again,” and states the minimum 
size of the fish allowed to be retained. Penalties are “ ordained ” 
for any person wilfully fouling his neighbour’s lines, selling bait to 
strangers, for setting “a Lift on his Swing End of two inches 
and a half width, and two yards long, between St. Faith and 
St. Andrew ; ” bringing “ any Prock into the Fleet, except it shall 
be Sticklings;” or if “any man shall go a handing, and be found 
with any Brood or Prock, both shall forfeit every time eight 
shillings.” 
The second section provides for the preservation of Spawn and 
Fry, and it is ordered that enquiry bo made ■whether any person 
do take, “either with Net or any other Engine, any young 
Salmons, from the middle of April to St John Baptist;” to 
enquire if any Wears are erected “at such straitness as the young 
Fry of Fish be thereby destroyed ; ” “ whether any do hang across 
the said Haven any Nets or Engines call’d Trunks, or any other 
sort of Nets fastened or hanged continually Day and Night;” 
whether any person, “ with any Nets, Devices, or Engines, do take 
and kill any young Brood, Spawn, or Fry of Fish . . 
contrary to the Statute made in the first year of Q. Elizabeth.” 
Then follow orders as to prohibiting the taking of unseasonable 
Salmon, Trout, etc., or any “ Pyke or Pickerell ” not being 10 or 
more inches long, Salmon 16 inches. Trout 8 inches, or Barbel 
12 inches, and fixing the mesh of the nets used at 2| inches; 
provided nevertheless, that for the Taking and Killing of Smelts, 
LnrJiies, Minims, Bull-heads, Gudfjeotis, or Eels, it shall be lawful 
to use such Nets, and other Engines, Devices, Ways, or Means, as 
