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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	city_n	london_n	mayor_n	10,714	5	9.7889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01915	The case of the masters, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the art or mystery of Fishermen of the River of Thames truly stated, and humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled.	Company of Free-Fishermen of the River of Thames.; Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (London, England)	1693 (1693)	Wing C1115AA; ESTC R176349	3,478	1

The CASE of the Masters Wardens Assistants and Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Fishermen of the River of Thames truly stated and humbly offered to the Consideration of the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled THe Free Fishermen of the River of Thames were Incorporated and made a Company by King Charles the First in the tenth year of his Reign but ever opposed and endeavoured to be supprest by the Company of Fishmongers of the City of London to prevent which and for the better support of the Company of Fishermen to the intents and purposes hereafter mentioned The late King James the II. by Charter in the third year of his Reign did Incorporate several persons by the name of Master Wardens Assistants and Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Fishermen of the River of Thames and all the then Inhabitants in the Counties of Middlesex Surry Essex and Kent and in the City of London and that should inhabit in the said Counties and City or any of them using or that should use the Craft of Fishing in the River of Thames and places adjacent from the Stone called London Mark-stone westward of Stains-bridge to Yeandall alias Yeanlet and Waters of Medway to the Liberties of the City of Rochester and all other places from the North-foreland in Kent to Harwich in Essex with power to make By-laws for the better governing the said Company Which when confirmed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London and Judge of his Majestys Court of Admiralty are binding to all the Members of the said Company and in which Charter is contained as followeth 1. The said Charter is declared to be granted that the said Company should take care that the Fry and Spawn of Fish in the said River be not destroyed 2. That the Goods brought and conveyed upon and thro the said Rivers into this Realm or intended to be carried out of the same the Customs not being paid may the better be discovered to those whom it concerneth for the performance of which The Master and Wardens of the said Company yearly enter into Bond to the King of two hundred Marks penalty that no person of the said Company shall put on board of any Vessel or take into his Boat out of any Vessel any goods for which the Custom is not paid but shall give notice to the Custom-house Officers thereof 3. Every person of the said Company who shall take up any Anchors Cables Boats Masts Yards Flotson Jetzou Lagon or other goods shall present them to the Company and they to the Lord Mayor of the City of London and Judge of the Admiralty Court that the same may be restored 4. The said Company is to take care that no Fish shall be transported by any Member thereof or sold to be transported during such time the same shall be prohibited by the King or any six Lords of his Privy Council 5. The said Company to take care no foreign Fish prohibited by Law be Imported 6. The said Company to endeavour to prevent the Ingrossing of Fish and fore-stalling the publick Fish-markets that supply the City of London by acquainting the Justices of Peace therewith that the offenders may be punished Pursuant to the authority of which Charter several By-Laws have been made by the said Company and after great consideration and debate have been confirmed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Judge of his Majesties High Court of Admiralty and approved on by several of the Judges of his Majesties Courts of Kings-bench and Common Pleas Some to the purpose following 1. The By-laws of the said Company have assertained the Seasons and Methods of Fishing for all sorts of Fish within their Limits the Size of Nets and Fish to be taken therewith and inflicts Penalties and Forfeitures on such as offend 2. The By-laws injoin the Members of the Company to go with and assist persons deputed to survey the said Rivers from time to time to seize and cut all unlawful Nets and to present Offenders to the next Court of Assistants of the said Company in order to be punished for the same 3. The By-laws require every person when admitted a Free man of the said Company to take an Oath of Allegiance to the King and that he will not smuggle or carry any uncustomed or prohibited Goods or know the same to be done by any other without discovering the same 4. The By-laws require every person of the said Company who shall be thought fit by a Court of Assistants for his Majesties Service at Sea shall make his Appearance on Summons at the Company 's Hall fitted with Cloaths and other Necessaries to be shipped for his Majesties Service under the Penalty of five Pound and the said Company hath upon Orders raised five hundred men in a short time By which Instances amongst many others might be given it may appear how very serviceable the said Company is and may be to the King and useful to the Publick and that it might be more so The said Company humbly Petitioned this Honorable House that there being a 〈◊〉 endeavouring to be passed for Incouraging of Sea-men by Registring them the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Company might be permitted and impowered by the said Act to Register an 〈…〉 and their Servants within the limits of their Company in such methods and to such intents and purposes as the said Act shall direct and appoint By which 1. The said Company will discover some thousands of Fishermen and Dredgermen which stand in Contempt of their Company and Offend daily against the said Charter and By-Laws and run out of the way and sculk and abscond themselves when the King hath occasion for them 2. The Company will be able as Orders shall be given to them in a very short time and with little Charge to the King to supply the Royal Fleet yearly with 2000 good Seamen 3. The said Company will be able the better to observe and perform the aforesaid intents and directions contained in their said Charter and By-Laws But the Company finding two Petitions delivered in opposition to their Petition beg leave to make these following Remarks in Answer to them The first Petition against the said Company s Petition is in the name of the Fishmongers Company of London Observe The Fishmongers Company have ever since the Fishermen have been Incorporated endeavoured to ruin their Company and inslave their Members and rate Fish to what extravagant price they please as the same hath been Reported by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to the King and Council upon a Reference on a Petition of the Fishermens Company against the said Fishmongers evil practices of Engrossing and Forestalling the Markets of Fish and Combining to take all Fish coming or that comes to London and dividing the same amongst themselves by Lotts and preventing the same being sold in Markets as they ought to be and by that means raising the price of Fish near two thirds more than it would be if the same were disposed of as by Law it ought and when they have taken whole Cargo's of Fish from the Fishermen making them take what rate they please for the same Observe The said Fishmongers at this time as appears by printed papers put out in the names of Thomas Hutchins Edward Newport and William Ellis are under a Combination to monopolize all Salmon into their hands to prevent which the said persons in the said Paper set forth several places where persons may be furnished with Salmon at reasonable rates by the pound on several days in the week Therefore it cannot be wondered at that the said Fishmongers Company do endavour to prevent any thing that may tend to the support and advantage of the said Fishermens Company to prevent their reducing them to their ancient and legal way of Trading and thereby making Fish plentiful and cheap in all parts of the Town and their being nothing in their Petition of any weight alledged against the said Fishermens Company it 's hoped the same will have no effect unlese it be to induce the Honourable House of Commons to grant the said Fishermens Company what to the Ends and Intents aforesaid they humbly desire The second Petition against the said Company of Fishermens Petition is under the hands of several Members of the said Company and at first may seem strange but will be of no force on the considerations following 1. The said Petition was sollicited and obtained by the contrivance and at the instigation of some of the Fishmongers Company in hopes thereby to seem to devide the Members of the said Company and protect themselves in the continuing their aforesaid practices by such devision 2. All or most of the Persons whose Names are subscribed to the said Petition have been frequently and are Offenders against the Charter and By-laws of the said Company and divers times have been presented convicted and punished for the same and it may justly be feared are drawn in by the said Fishmongers in hopes to throw off from themselves all Regulation and Government over them that they may make what Destruction of Fish and commit what Nuzences and other Misdemeanors in the said Rivers they please All which matters being considered 't is humbly hoped that the Honourable House of Commons by a Clause in the Bill for Registring of Seamen will permit and authorize the Master Wardens and Assistants for the time being to register all Fishermen Dregermen and their Servants within the Limits of their Charter in such methods to such purposes as the said Bill shall direct and appoint any other Seafaring Men to be Registerd it being not to be doubted that the Right Honourable the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen now Master of the said Fishermens Company will supply his Majesties Royal Fleet with Men able and fit for that Service out of the said Company as occasion shall require All which Matters are humbly submitted to the Consideration of this Honourable House