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A23570	A briefe note of the benefits that grow to this realme, by the obseruation of fish-daies with a reason and cause wherefore the law in that behalfe made, is ordained. Very necessarie to be placed in the houses of all men, especially common victualers.		1627 (1627)	STC 9978; ESTC S117794	3,514	1

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A briefe note of the benefits that grow to this Realme by the obseruation of Fish-daies with a reason and cause wherefore the Law in that behalfe made is ordained Very necessarie to be placed in the Houses of all men especially common Victualers WHere heretofore by the Queenes most excellent Maiestie of her clemencie and care conceiued for diuers priuate benefits that might growe to her louing Subiects specially for the better maintenance of the Nauie of this Lande hath with the assent of the whole state of her Realme caused to be made and published sundry statute Lawes and Proclamations for the expence of Fish and obseruation of Fish-dayes with great penalties to be laid on the offenders That by the certaine obseruation thereof Fisher-men the chiefest Nource for Marriners might the more be increased and maintained The common sort of people contemning this obseruation to auoyde the ceremony in times past therein vsed and not certainly knowing the benefites thereby growing to the Realme nor remembring the penalties by the same Lawes appointed doe not onely fall into the danger of the said Lawes but by the same hath caused a great decay to Fishing whereby groweth many other great detriments to the common-wealth of this Realme For the better instruction therefore of such persons as for the benefit of their Countrey will be perswaded In this briefe Table is set downe the punishment appointed for the Offenders the discommodities that happen to the Realme by the said contempt and the great benefit that might grow to the people by obseruation hereof with the opinion that ought to be conceiued in the eating of Fish at the dayes and times prescribed being briefly set downe as hereafter followeth THE BRANCHES OF THE STATVTE IN the fift yeere of her Maiesties most gracious raigne it was ordained that it should not be Lawfull for any person within this Realme to eat any Flesh vpon any dayes then vsually obserued as Fish-dayes vpon paine to forfeit three pounds for euery time he offended or suffer three mon●hs of imp●isonment without baile or mainprize And euery person within whose house any such offence shall be done being priuie and knowing thereof and not effectually punishing or disclosing the same to some publique officer hauing authority to punish the same to forfeit for euery such offence fortie shillings the said penaltie being great and many of poore estate fauoured by reason thereof but the offence thought necessary not to be left vnpunished the Queenes Maiestie of her great clemencie in the Parliment holden the 34. yeere of her most gracious raigne hath caused the forfiture for the eater to be but twenty shillings and for him in whose house it is eaten but 13. shillings 4. pence which being executed will proue very damedgeable to the offenders In the twenty seuenth yeere of her highnesse raigne it was further ordained and remaineth still in force that no Inholder Vintner Alehouse-keeper Common-victualler Common-cooke or Common Table-keeper shall vtter or put to sale vpon any Fryday Saterday or other dayes appointed to be Fish-dayes or any day in time of Lent any kind of flesh victuall vpon paine of forfiture of 5. pounds and shall suffer ten dayes imprisonment without baile maineprize or remooue for euery time so offending THE CAVSE AND REASON FIrst for as much as our Countrey is for the most part compassed with the Seas and the greatest force for defence thereof vnder God is the Kings Maiesties Nauie of ships for maintenance and in increase of the said Nauie this Law for abstinence hath been most carefully ordained that by the certaine expence of Fish fishing and Fisher-men might be the more increased and the better maintained for that the said trade is the cheefest Nource not only for the bringing vp of youth for shipping but great numbers of ships therein are vsed furnished with sufficient Marriners men at all times in a readinesse for his Maiesties seruice in those affaires The second cause for that many Towns and Villages vpon the Sea coasts are of late yeres wonderfully decayed and some wonderfully depopulated which in times past were replenished not only with Fisher-men and great store of shipping but sundry other Artificers as Shipwrightes Smithes Ropemakers Net-makers Saile-makers Weauers Dressers Cariers and Vtterers of Fish maintained chiefly by fishing That they hereby againe might be tended the want whereof is and hath beene cause of great numbers of idle persons with whom the Realme is greatly damaged and this happeneth by reason of the vncertainty of the sale of Fish and the contemp● which in eating of fish is conceiued Furthermore it is considered that the trade for grasing of cattell through the vnlawfull expence of flesh is so much increased that many Farme houses and Villages wherein were maintained great numbers of people and by them the markets plentifully serued with Corne and other victuals is now vtterly decayed and put downe for the feeding or grassng of Beefs and Muttons only by meanes whereof the people which in such places were maintained are not only made vagrant but also Calues Hogs Pigs Gees● Hennes Chickins Capons Egges Butter Cheese and such like things doth become exceeding scarce and deare by want of their increase in those places so that the markets are 〈◊〉 nor cannot be serued as in times past it hath beene Many other things for confirmation hereof might be spoken as the great number of ships decayed which hath beene maintained by fishing the wealth and commoditie that fishing bringeth to this Realme the cause that certaine dayes and times for expence of fish must of necessitie be obserued growne by reason the prouision of flesh for the peoples diet must be certainely prouided whereof the gentle Reader shall be more at large instructed in a litle booke published to that effect with sundry other arguments which for breuitie is omitted in hope the consideration hereof will be sufficient to perswade such persons as esteeme more the benefite of their Countrey then their owne lust or appetite setting before their eies the feare of God in obedience to the Princes commandement especially in such things as concerne the benefite of a Common-wealth considering S. Paul saith There is no power but of God The powers saith he that be are ordained of God and those that resist these powers resist the ordinance of God It is further to be considered that there is no conscience to be made in the kinde or nature of the meate being flesh or fish as in times past a feigned ceremonie therein was vsed neither is the meate concerning it selfe vnlawfull to be eaten at any time but the vse thereof is vnlawfull being forbidden to eat by the Prince hauing power and authoritie from God and done by the consent of the whole estate for a Common-wealth wherein obedience ought to be shewed not for feare of punishment onely as S. Paul saith but for conscience sake not esteeming the meate nor the day but obedience to the Law benefite to our Countrey and poore brethren remembring that the Magistrate beareth not the sword for nought but to take vengeance vpon them that doe euill For S. Paul saith further He that will liue without feare of punishment must doe well and so shall he haue praise for the same And although feare of punishment will not reforme such persons as by affection conceiued hath bene addicted from the expence of Fish and the obseruation of Fish-dayes yet the foresaid things considered let obedience to their Prince and benefite to their Countrey perswade them to bridle their affectioned lust for a small time so shall they both see and feele estimate of the Beefes that were killed and vttered in the Citie of London and Suburds for a yeere and what number of the might be spared in the said yeere by one dayes abstinence in a weeke by which also may be coniectured what may be spared in the whole Realme An estimate what Beefes might be spared in a yeere in the Cittie of London by one dayes abstinence in a weeke First the yeere are fiftie two weekes for euery weeke seuen dayes in all 365. The Lent with Fryday and Satuday in euery weeke the other accustomed Fish dayes being collected together extend to 153. So in the yeere is 153 fish dayes and 211. flesh-dayes that is 58. flesh-dayes more then fish-dayes So the yeere being 52 weekes abate 7. for the time of Lent wherein no Beefes ought to be killed and there remaineth but 45. weekes Then let vs say there be three score Butchers that bee Freemen within the Cittie and euery Butcher to kill weekely the one with the other fiue Beefes apeece The same amounteth to 13500. Beefes The Forriners in the Suburbs such as come out of the Countrey to serue the Markets in the Cittie as it is credibly affirmed kill and vtter in the Cittie weekely foure times so many as the Freemen which amounteth to 54000. So ioyning the Beefes vttered by the Freemen Fariners together they extend to 67500. If we will now know what number of Beefes might be spared in a yeere by one dayes abstinence in a weeke let vs say in the weeke are fiue daies accustomably serued with flesh for that Fryday and Saterday by the Law are dayes of abstinence whereof one being taken away the rest but foure in like case deuide the said 67500. into fiue parts And the fift part spared by the fift dayes abstinence is 13500. By this is not ment that any moe fish-dayes should be ordayned then already are but that Fryday and Saterday might be in better sort obserued for that Flesh victuals on those dayes in most places are as commonly spent as on flesh-dayes and therefore may well be accounted for the expence of one flesh-day's the due obseruation wherof would spare the number of Beefes aforesaid or more besides those things sold by the Poulters and other small Cattell as Calues Sheepe and Lambes innumerable killed by the Butcher Seene and allowed by the most honorable priuie Councell in the yeere of our Lord God 1593. The 20. of March AT LONDON Printed for Henry Gosson and Francis Coules