Certain inspectors brought to the Guildhall in London twelve nets belonging to men of Erith including Thomas Dyghere which ought to be forfeited, as they said, because of their mesh being too small and destructive of small fish called 'fry'. The court ordered four good men of the company of fishmongers to give evidence. On 22 Feb 1378 William Strokelady, Hugh de Ware [a victim of the revolt], Gilbert Beauchampe and Nicholas Ramsey, fishmongers, appeared and declared on oath that the nets were false. The same were ordered to be burnt in Cheap and the said men of Erith were sworn not to cast a net, either in the Thames or Medway, the mesh of which was not of the assize of two inches at least, measured transversely between the knots.
London Letter Book H, p. 87
The other men of Erith named whose nets were seized included William Dyghere who was presumably a relative.
