EDWARD III
Letters Patent, witnessed by the King himself at Westminster ("In cuius rei testimonium has letteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonesterium"), confirming the grant made by Edmund late Earl of Cornwall to Robert Crochard of all fishing rights in the river of Loo[e] both within and without the park of Liskeret [Liskeard] with appurtenances, to be held by Crochard and his heirs in perpetuity, on payment of one mark [13/4d] at the feast of Michaelmas [29 September], for the confirmation of which Crochard has paid the Earl five marks [£3-6s-8d] by his own hand; the original deed given at Ashridge on 7 June 1296, the present deed confirming this grant to Richard de Kendale [Kendal] now tenant of the said fishing rights; on vellum, with flourished ascenders in the first line, bearing a fine impression of the seventh ('Brétigny') Great Seal of Edward III in green wax (denoting perpetuity), on four light green and dark blue/ purple plaited cords, docketed with a note of its antiquity in a 17th century hand ("372 years before 1668" and in an 18th hand "Patent of the Fishery of Looe River", some dust-staining, minor rubbing and creasing (with two small holes where folded) and an unobtrusive light stain in the lower margin, but overall in good and attractive condition; the seal largely intact with minor chipping at the edges (removing the legend at the left of the obverse, but barely affecting the image), with a modern invisible repair where formerly cracked; in a later fitted wooden case by Longman & Strongi'th'arm of Dover Street, Piccadilly, the deed 230 x 377 mm., Westminster, 26 May [1368]
