The Silvery Hosts of the North Sea, with a Sketch of 'Quaint Old Yarmouth'. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...all the people." Upon this a statute was made, called the "Herring Statute," by which it was ordained that no herring be bought or sold in the sea, nor until the cable of the ship be drawn to land. Fishers to be free to sell their herrings to whom they will, without hindrance from their hostelers or any other, but only between sunrise and sunset. No one to buy herring to hang in their houses at a higher price-than 40J. per last, "but less in as much as he may." No one to go by land or by sea to forestall herring, "but the herring shall come freely, unsold, unto the haven." "No pykcr to make buying of fresh herring in the haven of Yarmouth betwixt the Feasts of St. Michael and St. Martin"; "no vessel called pyker, of London nor of none other place, shall enter into the said haven, to abate pur encherir, to enhance or raise), the fair in damage of the people." All hostelers to be sworn before the wardens of the fair to receive their guests well, to aid them reasonably; and for every last of herrings, sold through them to another, they were to receive forty pence, and to be responsible for the payment by the purchaser; but on herrings bought for themselves they were not to receive commission. The hundred herring was fixed at six score, the last at ten thousand. Yarmouth people were to sell a last of red herrings bought for 40J. fresh, if sold within forty days, at half a mark gain, and not above. London carriers attending the fair were to carry a last of herrings from Yarmouth to London for one mark, and not above. Two lasts of shotten herring to be sold for the price of one of full. Two lasts of shotten red herring to be sold one mark dearer than one last of full red. "And that the same barons and ba...