HN10/356/DB28

Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions holden at Aylesbury between (1) Duke of Bedford (2) Amersham Union Assessment Committee. Statements (handwritten on draft paper): - Charles Stonbridge, Woburn, clerk of the works... 'I have been on the estate of the Duke of Bedford for upwards of 47 years and for the last 32 years I have had the control of the repairs of the fish hides in the trout fishing stream in Chenies Parish. I estimate the annual cost of keeping the fish hide in repair to be 25/- each. There are 20 in number in the said parish and the average life of each would be from 15 to 16 years which works out at about 1 ¼ renewals each year. The costs of each renewal would be about £16 and therefore the cost of the renewal each year would amount to about £20 and the repairs at 325 altogether £45, and I reckon that if these Fish Hides were not so attended to and renewed from time to time the stream could not be used for the purpose of trout fishing and would not be let for such without them. I produce a Fish Hide on a small scale which I have made'. (probably the diagram at HN10/356/DB10) - David Janes... 'I am clerk in the employ of Frederic Tanqueray of Woburn the appellant's solicitor. On the 29th November 1909 I served the Respondents and the Parish Council of Chenies with notices of appeal in this case 5 in number. I served the same by registered post by the same being addressed to the Clerk of both bodies. I produce the registered tickets and also the duplicate notices endorsed by me at the time'. - Arthur Vernon of High Wycombe, estate agent & valuer... 'I have had considerable experience in rating matters and in letting of Estates and fishing Streams. I have been carefully through the schedules of repairs prepared by Herbert Trustram Eve which he considers necessary for the upkeep of the Trout Stream in Chenies Parish. I have inspected the Stream and I say that the first 7 items of the third schedule are necessary and proper landlord's repairs to be executed in order to let the stream as a Trout Stream. If such repairs and renewals were not annually executed the Stream would not let as a Trout Stream and it is absolutely necessary to employ keepers to watch the Stream in consequence of the many poachers there are about the neighbourhood and of the openness of the stream'.

4 Apr 1910

From: 1910 To: 1910

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Stonbridge, Charles,
Janes, David,
Tanqueray, Frederic,
Vernon, Arthur,
Eve, Herbert Trustram

Quarter Sessions, tenancy, estates personnel, trout, River Chess, streams, agricultural leases, estate agent, keeper, watchman, poaching, Aylesbury