1 gen 1694 anni - fish-garth

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A garth or enclosure on a river or the sea-shore designed to catch fish, especially salmon. They are known to have been in existence on Yorkshire rivers from 1392-3 (HAH161) and the term features regularly in documents from the fifteenth century: 1454 <i>oon fysshgarth … void of take, without fermour</i>, Hemingbrough (HAH393); 1477 <i>the fisshegarth of Goldale and other fysshegarthes within the ryver of Ayre is stondynge … to the … intollerable hurt of the Kyngs Chaumbre</i>, York (YRS98/19); 1520 ‘fishing in the water of the Ouse called <i>Fisshe Gartys’</i> [sic], Barley (YRS2/37); 1555 <i>certyne his fysshegarthes sett in the sayd ryver to great nusans</i>, York (YRS110/129); 1694 <i>The fishings & 8 places for Fish Garths set lying & being in the water of Ouze</i>, Cawood (MH/DC).

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