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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26817	The charter of Romney-Marsh, or, The laws and customs of Romney Marsh very useful for all professors of the law, and also for all lords of towns ... / framed and contrived by the Venerable Justice Henry de Bathe.	Romney Marsh (England); Bathe, Henry de, d. 1260.	1686 (1686)	Wing B1133; ESTC R35320	41,316	91

his own force Before William de Walleyns and his fellows assigned to oversee the Walls and Watergages in the County of Kent on Munday next ensuing the Feast of S. Mildred the Virgin at Newchurch in the second year of the Reign of King Edward son of King Edward It was ordained of common assent of the Lords of the Marsh of Lyde and Oxeney and on the part of our Lord the King commanded that henceforth the common Bayliff of our Lord the King in Romney Marsh do oversee the same Bayliffs and Iurors in the same Marshes of Lyde and Oxeney and them and also 24. Iurors in Romney Marsh when need shall be he cause to meet at fit places to consult of Ordinances and make their awards for safety of the Lands of the same Marshes So that they always stand to the Ordinance and Custom of the said Iurors for the least hurt and best safety of the Land any Custom notwithstanding Saving always the Tenor of the Charter of our Lord the King granted to the Communalty of the said Marsh and also the Ordinances of the Lords Henry de Bathonia and the said John de Lovetot and his fellows which shall continue in their strength The Ordinance of the Lord Thomas de Lodelowe Iustice of our Lord the King and his fellows at Crowthorne on munday next after the Feast _____ in the 3● year of the Raign of King Edward the third after the Conquest by vertue of a Commission of the Lord the King to them directed whose Tenor followeth in these words The King to his welbeloved and faithful Thomas Lodelow Robert Belknap and Thomas Culpeper greeting By the grievous complaint of the reverent Father Symon Archbishop of Canterbury and others having Lands within the precinct of Romney Marsh we are advertised That whereas all their Lands lye nigh to the Sea Coast and without continual keeping the walls gutters and ditches and other defences as well for avoiding the sea-water as excluding the fresh Waters there made by no means can be defended and saved For which in the time of the Lord Henry late King of England our Great Grandfather by Henry de Bathonia and his fellows Iustices of the same our Grandfather to oversee the Walls Ditches and Sluces and the defence thereof and to cause to be made and repaired among others it was Ordained that whosoever of the Tenants and men resident within the said Precinct whom the greater part of the Lords having Rule within the said Precinct would chose should be Bailiff to levy the Assessments for reparations and upholding the Walls Sluces Ditches and Defences aforesaid as in the same Ordinances is more apparent and albeit according to the same Ordinances John at Lese Tenant and resident within the same Precinct to the said Office of Bailiff to levy the Assessments aforesaid by the Lords of the same Marsh in form aforesaid within that precinct was chosen and deputed notwithstanding Mathew at More and other his confederates by their false Deceits being confederate and knit together to make another Bailiff there by their own assent which might be partial to his Friends and unduly burthen others against the said Ordinances did so terrify the said John and cruelly threaten him and otherwise hinder him that he cannot nor dare take upon him the Office accordingly and so in default of the same Bailiff all the said Marsh by overflowing of Waters daily coming remaineth in peril to be spoiled unless speedy redress in this behalf be had We respecting the hurt and peril which as well to us as to all our Kingdom and specially in those parts by overflowing hereof unless meet defence to exclude and avoid the same Waters be done may happen and willing to prevent these hurts and dangers have assigned you three or two of you to oversee and repair the Walls Sluces Ditches and their Defences made in the same Marsh and to oversee the same Ordinances and in case that the Ordinances for the safety and defence of the said Marsh be found insufficient for the same overflowing to correct and amend those Ordinances and if need shall be to ordain a new such as the said Marsh may be defended against the same Waters from henceforth what chances soever should happen and for grievous punishments against those which against the form of the Ordinances by you three or two of you to be done in any wise will not come or will forsake your Decrees And that you cause the same Ordinances to be proclaimed that they may be for ever Circumspectly observed in those parts and that ye cause all things else to be performed which for the safety and defence of the said Marsh and excluding and avoiding the same Waters shall be needful and fit And also to enquire by the Oath of honest and lawful men of the County of Kent of the Confederacies Covens and Allegations aforesaid and also of the trespasses and contempts to us by the said Mathew and his Complices in that behalf made and of the names of those adherents and that ye hear and determine the same Confederacies Covins Allegations Trespasses and Contempts aforesaid to be heard and determined according to the Law and Custom of our Realm And therefore we command you that at certain days and places which you three or two of you shall limit in that behalf ye hear and determine all and singular the same business and the confederacies covins allegations trespasses and contempts aforesaid in form aforesaid and that ye do further that which to Iustice shall appertain according to the Law and Custom of our Realm Reserving to us the other Amerceaments thereby accrewing For we have commanded our Sheriff of the same County that at certain days and places which you three or two of you shall appoint him he cause to come before you three or two of you so many and such honest and lawful men of his Bailywick by whom the truth of the matter in the premisses may be known and inquired In witness whereof c. witness c. at Westminster the seventh day of February in the year abovesaid By which mandate the said Thomas Robert and Thomas in the year day and place aforesaid by consent of the Lords Bailiffs 24. Iurors and Communalty of the same Marsh that is to say by John Francis the Attorny of Lord Simon of Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury the Abbot of S. Augustine of Cant. the Prior of Christs Church of Cant. Simon Master of the House of Gods Gifts Edmond Staplegate Lord of Bilsington the less and other Lords hereunto specially chosen with certain also of the Communalty to wit by William of Ecchingham and Stephen de Valcyns Christus William de Horn and James de Capele hereunto for the said Communalty elected have ordained and established that the common Bailiff of Romney-Marsh which hath Lands and is also resident there be chosen by the common assent of the Lords of the Towns of the