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Extracts from July 27th 1790

YARMOUTH, July 22.

The cause which was intended to be tried at the ensuing assizes, between this Corporation, and Engle Knights, of Winterton; Esq. relative to his obtaining possession of divers anchors and cables, found and taken on the high sea, within the known limits of the Admiralty jurisdiction granted to this Borough, and his exercising an authority of Admiralty respecting the same, is settled, at the instance of the defendant, who has agreed to deliver at Yarmouth, unto the Marshal of the Admiralty Court there, an anchor of about nine hundred weight, without any expence whatever; to pay to the Chamberlain, for use of the Corporation, fifty pounds, towards the expences they have been at in the actions brought against him in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, and in the prosecutions in our Admiralty Court, against certain other persons who refused to enter such derelict goods into Court; and to sign an acknowledgement, declaring himself fully convinced of the unquestionable rights of the Corporation to all derelict goods, found and taken within their Admiralty Jurisdiction, viz. "In length, from Winterton Ness to Eston Ness, and in breadth into the sea, by the space of seven leuks from all sea-banks, and shores whatsoever within the said Nesses," according to the tenor of certain royal grants made to the Corporation, and since confirmed to them by Act of Parliament.

And at a Court of Admiralty held on Tuesday last, Mark Watson the younger, who was libelled therein, for taking up two large anchors and two cables shortly after the hard gale in October last, and sailing away with the same to London, and there selling them, to the great prejudice of this Court and the Admiralty Jurisdiction of this Borough, and to the total loss of the owners thereof, was, on his confessing the fact, sentenced to pay a fine of fifty pounds to the Corporation, and to stand committed to the common gaol of this Borough, until payment of the said fine and costs; and he, refusing to pay the same, was therefore immediately committed to gaol.

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