Papers concerning the bedesmen's rights and the salmon dispute Papers mainly related to the salmon dispute, together with other management papers for the building owned by the hospital in Don Street. While the grant of a salmon from the Don fishings to each bedesman annually was not a provision of the foundation charter, it was evidently a long-standing tradition by the 1820s, when the proprietors of the Don fishings proposed to discontinue the practice. 1754 - 1830