Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Commission to John Conyers, William Fencotes, William Vyncent, Christopher de Boynton, John Doueney and Robert Mauleverere to enquire into the capture of salmon and fry in the rivers Humber, Ouse, Done, Eyre, Derwent, Querf, Nidd, Yore, Swale and Tese, co. York, contrary to the statute of Westminster the second and the statute of 13 Richard II, and to punish the offenders according to the statutes.

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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Janet Clarkson has Richard II’s 1390 statute, which forbade taking or destroying

the Spawn, Fry, or Young Breed, of any kind of Fish. For a first offence, the destruction of the Nets and Engines, for a second offence, imprisonment for three months, and for the third offence, imprisonment for a year, and as the Trespass is repeated, so is the Punishment to be (Clarkson 2014).

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Commission to John Conyers, William Fencotes, William Vyncent, Christopher de Boynton, John Doueney and Robert Mauleverere to enquire into the capture of salmon and fry in the rivers Humber, Ouse, Done, Eyre, Derwent, Querf, Nidd, Yore, Swale and Tese, co. York, contrary to the statute of Westminster the second and the statute of 13 Richard II, and to punish the offenders according to the statutes.

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• Henry IV (1367-1413) (5), aka Henry Bolingbroke, King of England 1399-1413, son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (third son of Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster, first English ruler whose mother tongue was English since the Norman Conquest, faced a number of rebellions, including Owain Glyndŵr, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, and the English knight Henry Percy (Hotspur), killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 ·
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• Richard II of England (4) ·
• River Aire (25) ·
• River Derwent, Yorkshire (3) ·
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• River Nidd (5) ·
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