A Description of the High Stream of Arundel, the Heads and Risings thereof; the Sundry Kinds of Fishes therein in their several Haunts; the Fishermen, and their Care and Service in preserving the Fish in Roading Time; the Swans and Eyries, and other Fowl in their several Limits; the Water Bailiff of the aforesaid High Stream in Arundel Rape, his Fees, Dues, and Duties

Abstract

IN this book we have a vast amount of antiquarian material that is of considerable local interest, and in so far as it touches on the rights and duties of a water-bailiff in mid-seventeenth century times, it will be of value to many whose interests lie beyond the bounds of West Sussex. Herein is printed in full a manuscript of which the first part is known only by two copies, which were made in 1899 for the Duke of Norfolk when defending his fishing rights, and the second part of which has been copied directly from the original. This was discovered after considerable search at Old Norfolk House, tied up with other manuscripts relating to wrecks upon the Sussex coast. The manuscript was known to Caraccieli (1766),Dailaway (1819), and Tierney (1834), but the first part of the original is still missing.

A Description of the High Stream of Arundel, the Heads and Risings thereof; the Sundry Kinds of Fishes therein in their several Haunts; the Fishermen, and their Care and Service in preserving the Fish in Roading Time; the Swans and Eyries, and other Fowl in their several Limits; the Water Bailiff of the aforesaid High Stream in Arundel Rape, his Fees, Dues, and Duties.

Edited with Introduction, Notes, Map, and Index, by Joseph Fowler. (Extra Publication, No. 1.) Pp. 71. (Littlehampton: Nature and Archæology Circle, The Museum, 1929.) 7s. 6d.