Newspaper Clippings - Loose - Volume 2 - page 26
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from ' THE HISTORY OF SOUTH SHIELDS by Geo . Hodgson , published 1903 . 14 The by - laws and injunctions issued by the court dealt with a wide variety of questions . The tenants were ordered to keep the high - road clear of dung , to clean out and cover in ditches , etc. Tenants holding two bondage tenements were ordered to work as well and efficiently for the one as the other in cultivation as well as manuring3 Tenants were forbidden to sell growing crops without permission , to cut or mow the bent grass , to trespass in or permit dogs to go through le Hopp 5 or le Conyngher , " the latter probably the coney or rabbit warren ; to keep hounds for destroying or coursing rabbits , or to keep wolf dogs ' after the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula , 1373 ; to allow hogs , geese , or cattle to go out of the village without an attendant , and especially to permit them to trample or feed upon the corn in the Hough , s to wash clothes in the well of Caldwell or in the watercourse near Wivestow Chapel , 10 to wash , deposit rubbish , or commit any nuisance in Holawpoill , " which was reserved for the watering of cattle and a supply of water for the tenants ; to steep flax ( then evidently extensively grown in the district , since it finds frequent mention ) in the Denis well 12 reserved for the watering of flocks , to make roads over Caldwell Meadowe 13 or Medicroft , or shafts for working the coal on certain lands 15 ( evidence that coal - mining was carried on in the borough six centuries ago , probably in the shallow seams in the neighbourhood of the Deans ) . In other Vills , and probably therefore also in South Shields , the court prohibited objectionable trades , such as the making of fish oil , and the game of football , forbid probably because it interfered with the practice of archery , butts for which purpose were provided on the east side of what is now Mile End Road , the land so set apart becoming one of the few pieces of ancient freehold in the borough . By - laws were made from time to time , forbidding the tenants of Shels 16 selling any fish to be carried beyond the bishopric until the wants of the Bishop and Prior and other lords and dwellers between the Tyne and Tees had been supplied , when the residue might be sold in Newcastle , while another rule in 1377 ¹7 prohibited the men of Schelles from carrying fishers to North Sche ( 1 ) es for buying fish there . The tenants were also forbidden to buy fish elsewhere while they could have it from the fishermen of Shields , and the use of the ferry - boat for bring ing in such fish was prohibited . The innkeepers were forbidden to sell beer dearer than 14d . a tankard , 18 and were also ordered to sell ale off as well as on the premises , frequent fines being imposed for breaches of these orders . John Hilton and others were fined in 1380 ¹0 for selling ale of inferior quality , and the innkeepers were ordered to sell no beer except by sealed measures under penalty of 400 . |
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