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Devon. Manuscript deposition with judgement for fishing rights on the Yealm, 13th April 1547, 2 pages written in a neat secretary hand in English, taken before Nicholas Fortesque and others on behalf of the Dowager Queen Katherine Parr against Nicholas Upton concerning the boundary of rights to fish the River Yealm in Devon, with consideration of maintenance of a weir, in the parish of Yealmpton in South Devon during the first months of the reign of Edward VI, with integral docketed blank leaf, old folds, folio, together with: [Prior, Matthew], Henry and Emma. A poem (transcribed in manuscript by Anna Penelope Crownfield), 1728, 21 pages, circa 774 lines of manuscript, ruled border, some water stains and soiling, three blank pages at rear, old blanket stitching at spine edge, slim folio, plus other miscellaneous manuscripts mostly 18th & 19th century, including a 4 page manuscript written in secretary hand 'The case stated concerning the Queen's maintenance & jointure' relating to Mary of Modena's claim for financial support at the time of the negotiations for the Peace of Ryswyck in 1697, some toning and scattered spotting, folio; and a receipt for coronation regalia for the Earl of Wigton, 23rd September, 1761, and a few sheets of miscellaneous manuscript poetry and a manuscript version of Benjamin Franklin's supposed chapter in Genesis in favour of toleration, etc. (Qty: approx. 10)