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11. Another Branch of the Royal Revenue is the right to Royal Fish; these are Whales, deletion & /deletion addition and [[/addition] Sturgeon, thrown on shore, or caught near the Courts.

12. The Revenue arising from Shipwrecks, which note +C. /note by the 3d+ of Edward I was explained to be Goods cast away upon the Shore without any living Animal escaping, note & /note addition and /addition the property not claimed for a Year deletion & /deletion addition and /addition a day after the Shipwreck, for by that Statute if a Cat or Dog was saved, it was no Wreck, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition the Owners making good their Claim within a Year deletion & /deletion addition and /addition day were put in possession; before this Reign, the barbarous Custom prevailed of plundering Poor Shipwrecked persons, notwithstanding the Ordinances of Henry I, Richard I. & Henry III. to the Contrary.

13. This is the Right of Mines which has its origine from the King’s Prerogative of Coinage, for to that end all Gold & Silver is the King’s & formerly Mines of base Metals mixed with the two note symbol C.30. /note others made the whole a Royal Mine, but by the 1st & symbol 5th /symbol of William & Mary, No Mines of Copper, Tin, Iron, or Lead, are Royal Mines, tho’ Gold or Silver may be extracted from them, but the King may have the Ore, paying the price for it stated in the Act.