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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 55 - 1942  page 67

Two Faversham Documents by Frank W. Jessup, B.A., LL.B.

in Calice". The men of London enjoyed a similar freedom. For another explanation, see Archæologia Cantiana IX, p. lxiv.
   Denne and Strand. The right formerly exercised by the fishermen of the Cinque Ports to land at Yarmouth to mend their nets and sell their catch.
   Tallage. A subsidy granted to the King by Parliament. Faversham could claim exemption on two grounds --- as a member of the Cinque Ports, who were exempt from the payment of subsidies because of their duty to perform ship-service for the King, and as a manor held in ancient demesne, i.e. a manor in the possession of the Crown at the time of Edward the Confessor. The King however claimed the right to tallage lands held in ancient demesne without the intervention of Parliament.
   Passage. Payments for passing to or fro of persons or goods in common shores or landing places.
   Kayage. Toll at common quays.
   Pontage. Contributions collected for the repair of a bridge.
   Murage. A toll levied for the building or repair of public walls.
   Spissage, or sponsage. A payment for passing over a   bridge.
   Tonnage. An imposition on goods carried out of or brought into the country in tuns.
   Horngilt. A tax payable within the King's Forest on horned beasts.
   Wreck. "Wreck ......... is, where a Ship is perished on the Sea, and no man escapes alive out of it, and the Ship, or part of it so perished, or the Goods of the Ship, come to the Land of any Lord, the Lord shall have that as a 

Wreck of the Sea. But if a Man, or a Dog, or a Cat, escape alive, so that the party to whom the goods belong, come within a year and a day, and prove the Goods to be his, he shall have them again." (Rastell.)

   Many of these privileges are referred to in Henry III's charter granted to Faversham in 1252, and in the General Charter granted by Edward I to the Cinque Ports in 1278, both of which will be found reprinted in Miss Murray's The Constitutional History of the Cinque Ports, at pages 236-8.

COMMON RECOVERY IN THE COURT OF
   PORTMOTE.

   Unfortunately the record of the Common Recovery suffered in the Faversham Court of Portmote in 1708, during the Mayoralty of John Bateman, is too long to be set out in extenso. The property which is the subject of the Recovery is described as a messuage and garden lying on the west side of Preston Street, Faversham, and the parties are: William Peirce, demandant; John Tassell junior, gentleman, tenant to the praecipe; and Lawrence Whatman, the common vouchee. (Perhaps for the benefit of the "lay gents" it should be explained that the Common Recovery was a fictitious compromised action at law, the usual object of which was to enlarge an entailed estate into a fee simple.)
   Common Recoveries were usually suffered in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, but Recoveries could be suffered and Fines could be levied in various inferior courts, including courts of ancient

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