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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33387	His Majesties propriety and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies and injuries they have committed, and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas : as also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places : to which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Brittain and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours / by an experienced hand.	Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Clavell, Robert, d. 1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4602; ESTC R3773	67,265	198

his Majesty is resolved as to do no wrong so to do Justice both to his Subjects and Friends within the limits of his Seas And this is the real and Royal design of this Fleet whereof you may give part as you finde occasion to our good Neighbours in those parts that no Umbrage may be taken of any hostile act or purpose to their prejudice in any kinde So wishing you all health and happiness I rest Your Assured friend and Servant JOHN COOK White-hall 16. April 1635. our style The inestimable Riches and Commodities of the Brittish Seas THe Coasts of Great Brittain do yield such a continual Sea-harvest of gain and benefit to all those that with diligence do labour in the same that no time or season in the year passeth away without some apparent means of profitable imployment especially to such as apply themselves to Fishing which from the beginning of the year unto the latter end continueth upon some pat or other of our Coasts and therein such infinite sholes and multitudes of Fishes are offered to the Takers as may justly move admiration not onely to strangers but to those that daily be imployed among them The Summer-Fishing for Herring beginneth about Midsummer and lasteth some part of August The Winter-Fishing for Herring lasteth from September to the middle of November both which extend in place from Boughones in Scotland to the Thames mouth The Fishing for Cod at Alamby Whirlington and White Haven near the Coast of Lancashire from Easter untill Whitsontide The Fishing for Hake at Aberdenie Abveswhich and other places between Wales and Ireland from Whitsontide to Saint James-tide The Fishing of Cod and Ling about Padstow within the Land and of Severn from Christmas to Mid-lent The Fishing for Cod on the West-part of Ireland frequented by those of Biscay Galicia and Portugal from the beginnig of April untill the end of June The Fishing for Cod and Ling on the North and north-North-East of Ireland from Christmas until Michaelmas The Fishing for Pilchers on the West coast of England from Saint James-tide until Michaelmas The Fishing for Cod and Ling upon the north-North-East of England from Easter untill Midsummer The Fishing of great Staple-Ling and many other sorts of Fish lying about the Island of Scotland and in the several parts of the Brittish Seas all the year long In September not many years since upon the Coast of Devonshire near Minigal Five Hundred Tun of Fish were taken in one day And about the same time three thousand pounds worth of Fish in one day were taken at Saint Ives in Cornwall by small Boats and other poor provisions Our five-men-Boats and cobles adventuring in a calm to launch out amongst the Holland Busses not far from Robinhood's Bay returned to Whitbie full fraught with Herrings and reported that they saw some of those Busses take Ten Twenty Twenty four lasts at a draught of Herrings and returned into their own Country with Forty Fifty and an Hundred Lasts of Herrings in one Buss Our Fleet of Colliers not many years since returning from Newcastle laden with Coals about the Well near Flanborough-Head and Scarborough met with such multitudes of Cod Ling and Herring that one amongst the rest with certain ship-hooks and other like instruments drew up as much Cod and Ling in a little space of time as were sold well near for as much as her whole Lading of Cole And many Hundred of ships might have been there laden in two dayes and two nights Out of which wonderfull affluence and abundance of Fish swarming in our Seas that we may the better perceive the infinite gain which Forreign Nations make I will especially insist upon the Fishing of the Hollanders in our Coasts and thereby shew how by this means principally they have increased 1. In Shipping 2. In Mariners 3. In Trade 4. In Towns and Fortifications 5. In Power extern or abroad 6. In publick Revenue 7. In private Wealth 8. In all manner of Provisions and store of things Necessarie 1. Encrease of Shipping BEsides Seven Hundred Strand-Boats Four Hundred Evars and Four Hundred Sullits Drivers and Tod-boats wherewith the Hollanders Fish upon their own Coasts every one of those imploying another Ship to fetch Salt and carry their Fish into other Countries being in all Three Thousand Sayle maintaining and setting on work at least Four Thousand persons Fishers Tradesmen Women and Children They have One Hundred Doyer Boats of One Hundred and Fifty Tuns apiece or there abouts Seven Hundred Pinks and Well-Boats from Sixty to One Hundred Tuns apiece which altogether Fish upon the Coasts of England and Scotland for Cod and Ling onely And each of these employ another Vessel for providing of Salt and transporting of their Fish making in all One Thousand Six Hundred ships which maintain and employ persons of all sorts Four Thousand at least For the Herring-season they have One Thousand Six Hundred Busses at the least all of them Fishing onely upon our Coasts from Boughonness in Scotland to the mouth of Thames And every one of these maketh work for three other ships that attend her the one to bring in Salt from Forreign parts another to carry the said Salt and Cask to the Busses and to bring back their Herrings and the third to Transport the said Fish into Forreign Countries So that the Total Number of Ships and Busses plying the Herring Fare is Six Thousand Four Hundred whereby every Busse one with another imployeth Forty Men Mariners and Fishers within her own Hold and the rest Ten Men a piece which amounteth to One Hundred Twelve Thousand Fishers and Mariners All which maintain double if not treble so many Tradesmen Women and Children a land Moreover they have Four Hundred other Vessels at least that take Herring at Yarmouth and there sell them for ready money so that the Hollanders besides Three Hundred ships before-mentioned fishing upon their own shores have at least Four Thousand Eight Hundred ships only maintained by the Seas of Great Brittain by which means principally Holland being not so big as one of our shires of England containing not above Twenty Miles in length and three in breadth have encreased the number of their shipping to at least Ten Thousand sayle being more then are in England France Spain Portugal Italy Denmark Poland Sweden and Russia And to this number they add every day although their Country it self affords them neither materials or victual nor merchandise to be accounted of towards their setting forth Besides these of Holland Lubeck hath Seven Hundred great ships Hamborough Six Hundred Embden Fourteen Hundred whereunto add the ships of Bremer Biscay Portugal Spain and France which for the most part fish in our Seas and it will appear that Ten Thousand sayle of Forreign Vessels and above are employed and maintained by fishing upon our Coasts So that in Holland there are built a thousand sayle at the least to supply ship-wracks and augment their store which as the Prince and common Nursery