306 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Weekes, presumably the mayor of 1558-9, binding himself to 
maintain and repair during his life the “causse at Coxside, that 
I dydd there make.” Smart’s Quay was built in 1601. 
Sutton Pool from an early date was commonly in the hands of 
the town authorities. In 1481 £1 4s. was contributed towards 
the reparation of the church of St. Andrew, and the making of 
its south aisle, out of the pence of the farm of Sutton Pool. 
Courts of the water of Sutton Pool were, however, held on 
behalf of the Duke of Cornwall. -Roger Edward, ‘ sub-ballivo,” 
was directed in 1479—19th Edward IV.—to take twelve legal 
men of Plymouth, six of Stonehouse, six of Yealm and Newton 
Ferrers, and six of ‘‘ Horson,” and in legal court before Nicholas 
Henscott locwm tenens, who was then mayor, to make sundry 
inquiries into matters connected with the Pool. As I have already 
pointed out, such rights in the Pool as the Prior of Plympton had 
possessed the Corporation enjoyed. The Duchy rights they appear 
to have rented or farmed. They had a water-bailiff appointed 
yearly, and made regulations for the general conduct of the traffic. 
Here is an abstract of an order, the earliest I can find on the 
subject, made in 1568 by William Hawkins, mayor, John Fitz, 
recorder, the twelve and twenty-four, concerning “the good kepyng 
of the poole and water-side under the ffull sea marke.” 
No manner of ballast, nor the “swepyng or clensyng” of any 
ship, was to be cast into the Pool; no anchor to be put out 
‘without a boye vpon hym, or a pole to stand by the anker, that 
people may knowe where the anker lieth ;” no stones, timber, or 
other things to be cast into the Pool to any common prejudice; no 
graving-pits to be left unfilled after use; no “landing kayes 
accustomed to be mayntayned” to be suffered to fall into decay ; 
nobody to “bryng any kynde of stingkyng thyng to the water's 
side, as ffyshe, fflesh, deadd beasts, as dogges, cattes, swyne ;” 
all ships discharging within the Cawse were there to take their 
ballast, and that without allowing any to fall into the water; 
no one taking “any stone or other thyng whereon to stape into 
any bote or shepyng” should leave it in the water; no timber 
should be buried in, the “ose,” save in the lawful place; and 
that no ‘“guttyng or heddyng of ffyshe be caste vpon the kayes, 
or left vpon the kayes.” All breaches of these regulations to be 
visited. by fine. _ 
One regrets to find that such well-intentioned regulations: were 
