Book Excerpt
The town of Stonehaven was forfeited in 1715. Feuars had
to prove possession of their properties over the previous 40 years....
George Taylor, white fisher in Stonehaven, aged
65 years, depones, that there are at present three boats employed in white
fishing about Stonehaven, and that he remembers there were five boats at said
fishing in the late Earl Marischall's lifetime, as he has been informed by his
father, who is a white fisher in Stonehaven; but there are at present only three
boats employed in said fishing; That the deponent has been informed that in the
lifetime of the Earl Marischall the tiend of the boats were set at £10 Scots,
for each boat, and the tacksman drew the tiend from the boatmen in kind:
That since the year 1718, this teind was drawn from the fishers for serveral
years, and the deponent paid it himself for three years to one John Falconer, as
tacksman of these fishings; but for many years past no person has claimed, or
drawn the above teind, though the fishers were always ready to have paid, had it
been demanded; and the deponent cannot say whether the teind would be worth £10
Scots at present for each boat.
John Ritchie, white fisher in Stonehaven, aged
about 70 years, depones, that the deponement remembers there were five fishing
boats employed in white fishing about the town of Stonehaven, before the year
1715: That this tiend was generally let to a tacksman, who drew the same,
but the deponent does not know what the rent the tacksman paid: That after
the year 1715, the tiend fish for many years continued to be drawn down to the
year 1740, or thereabout, but since that time no person has claimed them:
That there are only three boats now employed in that fishing; and the deponent
thinks, that rather than pay the tiend fish, they would give £10 Scots, for
each boat.
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