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A20020	General and rare memorials pertayning to the perfect arte of nauigation annexed to the paradoxal cumpas, in playne: now first published: 24. yeres, after the first inuention thereof.	Dee, John, 1527-1608.; Gemistus Plethon, George, 15th cent.; Canter, Willem, 1542-1575.	1577 (1577)	STC 6459; ESTC S106676	100,597	109

them Away with them Away with them Who so abhominably conuert Mans Meat to the Feeding of * Much lyke Disorders haue heretofore byn vsed about O●sord Hauen in the County of Suffolk Read the Statute made Ann● 4 Henri●● 7. Cap. 21. 1. Swyne And Otherwhile 2. Bury some of their vnlawfull Spoyle of Fry and young Fish in the Shores of the Thames and Otherwhere God of his infinite Goodnes sendeth vs Yerely Euident Tokens of the great Habundance of this kynde of good Vittailes prepared purposely for this parte of this Brytish Albion But these Trynker-Men Cast Incredible Much of such a Threasor before their Swyne to Battle them withall And are by that meanes great Hynderers bot● to the Wealth and Reliefe Publik and also to the Glory of God Who wold be Duly Glorifyed and Praysed of many a Thowsand of the Rich and Poore who should be Serued Pleasured and Relieued with the great Habundance of the Dyuers sorts of good and wholesome Fish Swarming in this Incomparable Riuer of Thames from the one end therof to the other in very mayn Skulls Yf these Publik Enemies of God and Man did not more than Barbarously and les than Christianlike vtterly spoyle and wickedly tred vnder their feet such a Blessing and liberall Gift of our GOD and most louing heauenly father profered vnto vs and in manner put into our hands Very much more abhominable and more vnreasonable is the wickednes of these Trinker-men than was the Disorder heretofore and till of late committed in Ireland where the Inhabitants of diuers Cities and Towns adioyning nere to Riuers that do Eb and Flow in which Riuers the Fry of Salmon Ele and other Commodious Fish are bred and nourished did kepe great heards and numbers of Swyne which at low water they do or till of late did lead of suffer to fede vpon the Strands of the sayd Riuers where they do or did destroy great Quantity of Salmon and Ele Fry and of diuers other good Fishes to the great hurt and hindrance of Fishing and the exceeding great dammage of the Common-Wealth As by the Act made against the same at Dublyn Anno vndecimo of our most Gracious Souerayn Lady Queene Elizabeth more at large may appere And at this present I am the bolder to expres my Instructor his feruency against the Trinker-Men their haynous endammaging of the Publik-wealth of this Kingdom Seeing for abowt an Hundred and Fifty yeres ago the whole Body of this Realm by their Parlement Senators left vnto vs worthy Record of their vigilant Eye to finde out such Offences and their Politik Prouiso by very good Iustice either to Cut of the Cause of so greuous hindrance to the Common-wealth or discreetly to punish the fact so often as it should be Committed with a Hundred Shillings to be Forfetted to the King. In the Second yere of King Henry the Sixth these are the wordes of the Statute to our purpose prudently established CAP. XV. The Statute against Trinker-Men for Euer enduring ITem it is Ordeined that the Standing of Nets and Engins called Trinks and all other manner of Nets which be and were wont to be fastened and hanged continually day and night by a certayn tyme in the yere to great Posts Boats and Anchors ouerthwart the Riuer of Thames and other Riuers of the Realm which Standing is a Cause and an Occasion of as great and more destruction of the Broode and Fry of Fish and Disturbance of the Common Passage of vessels as be the Weares Kyddels or any other Engins be wholy defended for EVER And that euery Person that so setteth or fastneth them from henceforth to such Posts Boats and Anchors or like thing continually to Stand as afore is sayd and be duly therof by the Cours of the Law conuict he shall forfait to the king C.S. at euery tyme that he is so proued in Default Prouided alwayes that it shall be lawfull to the Possessors of the sayd Trinks if they be of * Which comonly are so vnlawfull that of a Bushell of Wheat thrown into the Stream nere before the Net Three Pecks of the same or the half may be stayed in the Hose or Cod therof as Honest Men full many will Auouche Assise to Fish with them in all seasonable tymes Drawing and conueying them by Hand as other Fishers do other Netts and not fastning or tacking the sayd Netts to the Posts Boats and Anchors continually to Stand as afore is sayd Sauing alwayes to euery of the Kings liege People their Right Title and Enheritance in their Fishings in the sayd Water But what shall any Zealous Louer of Iustice and good Publik Policy say or think herein Seeing so long ago so Iust sufficient and easy a Remedy was prouided against these Trink-Boats 1. aswell for the manifold Cumber Danger and Dammage happening by them to such as should and did pas Vp or Down vpon the Thames by Day and chiefly in the Dark Nights and Foggy Weather As also against the exceeding great Publik-Dammage to the Naturall and Ordinary Encrease of very good Fish of diuers sorts wilfully and very vngodly procured by the sayd Trinker-men hath byn no better regarded And seeing 2. Sutes in the Law haue byn in our dayes commenced and followed by vertue of the sayd Act against the sayd Trinker-men And they therupon Condemned And yet that notwithstanding their vnlawfull Practises still are continued And Thirdly Seeing before our Eyes the Dammage to the Common-wealth and the incredible hinderance to that plenty of Vittailes finding and enioying which God hath prepared for vs is by these Trinker-men procured more now than euer before most vnlawfully and fraudulently etiam cum Calumnia quadam to the Pitifull Clemency and the very great Lenity vsed toward them Therfore Seeing I saye that Neither the foresayd very good Law can feare them Nor the Amercements as they are vsed do sufficiently pinch th●m Nor the manifold iust Complaynts besides Costly Sutes made and had against these Trinker-Men are yet of sufficient effect to the poore Commons to be vsed herein according to the Lawes of this Realm But that they remayn remedyles yet and are euidently Spoyled yerely of an incredible great Publik Benefit by these Trinkerly disordred and vnlawfull Fishings as before is declared How can I hope that vpon this very brief and simple Aduertisement of my Instructor These Trink-Nets shall vtterly and speedily be cut of ☜ without any longer sinister means to be vsed by any Subiects to beard check-mate or to deface so commendable and needfull a Statute as that is which before is expressed against the Standing of any Trink-Nets But yet for all that such is my Confidence in the goodnes of her most excellent Maiesty and so assured I am her Maiesties hart to be fraught with pitifull Compassion on the Lamentable and due Complaynts made of the great and excessiue hynderance and dammage to her Commons and Subiects wealth and relief And likewise so well are we