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Burning of a False Kidel.1
Be it remembered that a certain kidel of the Abbot of Lesnes,
2 Fo. 91.
found in the Thames opposite the Abbey of Lesnes, was taken
before the Mayor, J[ohn] de Gisors, William de Leire, John de
Wyndesore,* and Stephen de Abyndon, 4 Aldermen, on Thursday next after the Feast of St. Mark [25 April], 6 Edward II. [A.D. 1313], in the Guildhall, and condemned, &c., because it was found, on the oath of John de Mockyng, Henry Lombard, Laurence Aubyn, Oliver Brounyng, John de Barton, William Scot, John Fresfish, John Frossh, Robert de Mockyng, Richard Swote, Geoffrey Scot, junior, and Alexander Pike, fishmongers,
that the said net, called a kidel, was too close and insufficient
for fishing, to the injury of the water {pro destruction riparie)
and common damage to the whole City and people resorting
thither. And they further say that in the great Charter of
liberties of England5 it is contained that all kidels should be
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Fo. 91 b.
removed from the aforesaid bank of the Thames, and so it is
adjudged that the said kidel be burnt in Chepe, &C.1 |