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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03408	A pollitique platt for the honour of the Prince, the greate profite of the publique state, relief of the poore, preseruation of the riche, reformation of roges and idle persones, and the wealthe of thousandes that knowes not howe to liue. Written for an Newyeres gift to Englande, and the inhabitantes thereof: by Robert Hitchcok late of Cauersfeelde in the countie of Buckyngham Gentleman	Hitchcock, Robert, Captain.	1580 (1580)	STC 13531; ESTC S104130	25,631	61

maie bee shrouded vnder an vncleane Cloke And I doubte not also but the same reasons and duetie that bounde me this many yeres to trauell in this action to my greate coste and charge to finde out the waie and perfection thereof shall also binde thee and moue thee effectually to fauour it to further it in the Parliament house and to defende my imperfection against a sorte of Momus fecte and Zoilus bande that can rather finde fault with the man then with the matter be it neuer so well or any waie putte to their helpyng handes to amende the same if it bee not orderly My care hath been to please my Countrey and the honest and graue sorte thereof whiche if this my trauell shall doe content I haue cause to thanke almightie God for it and thinke my tyme well spēt For in this little booke gentill Reader thou shalt finde if the same be executed accordyng to lawe it importeth mutche matter bryngeth greate plentie and mutche wealthe and benefite to all the inhabitauntes of this Realme It prouideth for the poore in honest and decent maner brynging them to a good and a Godly vocation of life with many other speciall benefites to this Kyngdome and common wealth whiche for tediousnesse sake least I wearie thee I referre thee to the booke it self where thou maiest at large see them with thy eye Iudge them by thy good discretion wisedome and fauour and further them by thy good helpe and assistaunce at conuenient tyme. So fare thee hartly well Robert Hitchcocke Hitchcockes Newyeres gift to Englande THE GREAT CARE that the Queenes Maestie and her noble progenitors haue taken to banishe and roote out of their Dominions that lothesome monster Idelnesse the mother and breeder of Uacaboundes is moste apparaunt by their wholsome lawes and prouisions made from tyme to tyme Beginnyng at the woorthie reigne of Kyng Edward the third Kyng Richard the seconde and so descendyng to her Maiesties moste prudente and vertuous gouernement wherein aswell publique prouisions hath been to helpe the commonweale as some sharpe and seuere punishement prouided if common pollicie would not serue Yet neuerthelesse all these Lawes so circumspectly made could not nor cannot banishe that pestilent Canker out of this commonweale by any degree but that the same encreaseth daiely more more to the greate hurte and impouerishyng of this Realme For remedie whereof almightie GOD by the moste comodious scituation of this Islande and his blessynges bothe of the Lande thereof and of the Sea wherewith it is enuironed hath prouided a moste conuenient meane bothe for labor for the Idle and for food benefite and ritches for the Inhabitantes Whereby the lustie Uacabounds and Idell persones the rootes buddes and seedes of idelnesse shall at all handes and in al places be set on worke and labour willyngly and thereby proue good subiectes and profitable members of this Commonweale This realme and the inhabitantes Reade the preamble of the statute Henrie 8. Anno 33. cap 2. bordryng aswell vpon the sea as vpō the lande throughout thesame in short tyme to be meruailously inriched Nyne thousande Marriners more then now presētly there is to serue her Maiesties shippes at all tymes if neede bee The Coines of golde and siluer that issues plentefully out of this Realme to staie and abide within this lande For restraint whereof bothe her highnesse and her noble progenitors haue made diuerse lawes statutes but yet neuer could do thesame A redie meane to cause forrain wares to be brought hether Her Maiesties Customes and Subsidies greatly augmented Her Nauigation greatly increased The Tounes borderyng vpon the Sea coastes now in ruine and voide of Englishe inhabitauntes to bee peopled and inhabited by her maiesties owne peculer Subiectes to the greate strength of this Realme and terror of the enemie Besides the helpe that shal be ministered to twoo hundreth twentie and fiue decaied tounes in Englande and Wales with a stocke of two hundeth pounde to euery decaied toune to set the poore on worke And to eight principall Port tounes with in this lande appointed for sondrie causes apperteinyng to this Platte eighte thousande pounde whiche is to euery principall Porte Toune one thousande pounde to bee a stocke for euer Besides fower hundreth Fishing Shippes to continue for euer And twoo good Shippes of warre furnished warlike to defende the Fishyng Shippes All whiche thynges God willyng maie bee perfourmed within three yeres without coste or charges to any man as by this plat shall appere And also an infinite nomber of people as well rich as poore set to worke by diuerse meanes and degrees whiche thynges will releeue many a poore man and saue many a tall fellowe from the Gallowes For performaunce whereof first there must be made fower hundreth fishyng Shippes after the maner of Flemishe Busses of the burden of three score and tenne Tunne the Shippe or more but none vnder whiche will coste two hundreth poūd the Shippe with the furniture if it be readie furnished to the Sea in all thynges necessarie Euery Shippe requireth one skilfull Maister to gouerne it twelue Marriners or fishermen and xii of the strong lustie Beggers or poore men taken vp through this Lande Whiche in the whole amounteth to the nomber of tenne thousande persones at the firste mannyng of the Shippes So that with a little experience this Realme hath clearely increased nyne thousande Marriners more then was in this Lande before These Shippes so made furnished and manned must be appointed to sutche Roades and Hauen tounes as border vppon the Sea coastes compassyng this Realme rounde aboute Beginnyng an London and so orderly proceedyng accordyng to the Table herevnto annexed And beyng thus placed hauyng with theim to the Seas for their victualles sufficient Breade Bere Butter and Cheese with Barrelles emptie Caske and Salte with order also not to retourne vntill thei bee fullie loden shall goe yerely a fishyng and kill Herynges vpō the coastes of Englande and Irelande presently and alwaies as thei kille them to gill theim salte pickle and barrill theim after the Flemishe maner with salte vpon salte whiche is the beste kinde of Salt And shall fishe for Herynges yerely duryng the tyme of Heryng Fishyng whiche is fowertene or fiftene weekes In which tyme by Gods grace euery Shippe will kill at the least fiftie Laste of the beste sort of Herynges amountyng in the whole to twentie thousande Laste Euery Laste beyng sold but for ten pound whiche is xvi s. viii d. the Barrell draweth to twoo hundreth thousande poundes yerely for the beste Herynges onely Perhaps thei maie loade their Shippes yerely twice with Herynges and then the somme is doubled in that tyme of Herryng Fishyng And to the ende the Herynges shall be wholesome for the subiecte Straunger or for whom so euer shall buy them and that the good vsage therof maie get credite where thei shall happen to bee vttered Thei shall accompte in makyng of their Herynges vpon the Sea so as sixtene Barrelles made