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A42117	A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer'd, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas.	Gander, Joseph.; Gander, Joseph. Sovereignty of the British-seas asserted.	1699 (1699)	Wing G196; ESTC R227035	28,639	110

A VINDICATION OF A National-Fishery Wherein is Asserted That the GLORY WEALTH STRENGTH SAFETY and HAPPINESS of this KINGDOM with the Flourishing of TRADE and Growth of NAVIGATION As also the Employing the POOR of this Realm doth depend under GOD upon A National-Fishery And all the General Vulgar tho' Erroneous Objections against Encouraging the Fishery of England Answer'd and Confuted To which is added The SOVEREIGNTY of the BRITISH-SEAS England's a Perfect World 'T has Indies two Correct your Maps The Fishery is Peru. LONDON Printed for F. Coggan in the Inner Temple Lane MDCXCIX To the most Noble AND Mighty PRINCE THOMAS Duke of LEEDS MARQVESS of CARMARTHEN EARL of DANBY Viscount Latimore Baron Osbourne of Kiveton Lord President of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council Lord Lieutenant of York-shire Governour of Kingston upon Hull AND KNIGHT OF THE Most Noble Order OF THE GARTER May it please Your Grace THE Great Applause you have so deservedly meritted hath encouraged me to Dedicate this small Epitomy to Your Honour and not knowing any Man that can with more lively Colours represent this Important Affair to the Wisdom of the Nation I lay it at Your Lordship's Feet as an UNDERTAKING which if Your Grace be pleased to Espouse for the Good of the Kingdom you will thereby add another Trophy to your former Atchievements and the Glory of the Action will be Recorded to all Posterity For upon a National-Fishery under God doth depend the Safety Honour and Happiness of this Kingdom the Flourishing of Trade and the Supporting of Credit as in the Sequel of my Discourse I hope I have made appear My Lord this Age gives us too many Examples of Discouraging Ingenuity many Excellent Qualities lying often hid under humble Looks and mean Habits which soon are discountenanc'd and suppress'd by Insulting Greatness and Popular Opulancy But You have shewed by the constant Example of Your Actions that You have Agreed with Seneca in his Renowned Maxim that sola virtus vera Nobilitas When so many others are blinded with their absurd Vanity and airy Greatness But you have rendred your self a true Patriot to your Country and therefore I most humbly implore this Book may be sheltred under the wings of Your Graces Protection who am Right Honourable and Renowned Sir Your Graces most humble And most obedient Servant Joseph Gander TO THE BARONS OF THE Cinque-Ports And the Members of Parliament for the Coasting-Towns and Burroughs of the Kingdom of England Honoured and Worthy Senators THE Cinque-Ports of this Kingdom having signalized their Loyalty and Valour by Sea in several Expeditions for the Glory of the King 's Honour of their Country and Safety of the Realm our preceding Kings confirmed several Dignities on them and amongst the rest made their Members of Parliament Barons as an Encouragement to Navigation and their Prowess And gave them the Honour of Supporting the Canopy over his Head at his Coronation as is supposed by way of Similitude That whereas they had Defended Supported and Maintained his Honour by their Courage against his Enemies by Sea he gave them the Honour to support the Canopy over his Head as a Mark of Honour to them and his Acknowledgement of the Greatness of their Service And many Coasting-Towns and Burroughs have from time to time been endowed with great Priviledges some of them remaining to this day as a mark of Honour by several Kings to Encourage Navigation from whence originally we have beyond all Dispute arrived to the Knowledge we are now attained to in Marine Affairs But now most of those Towns and Burroughs that formerly flourished by their Fishing are reduced to miserable Poverty and Thousands of Families ruined for want of the Fishery And the Gentlemen who have Estates in those Places or near the Coast are exceedingly impair'd Of which Calamity King Henry the 8th had undoubtedly a fore-sight of as appears by the Sratute of 33 of his Reign 't is there thus inserted because the English Fishermen dwelling on the Sea Coasts did leave off their Trade of Fishing in our Seas and went the half Seas over and thereupon they did buy Fish of Pickards Flemmings Normands and Zealanders by reason whereof many Incommodities did grow to the Realm viz. The Decay of the Wealth and Prosperity as well of the Cinque-Ports and Members of the same as of other Coasting-Towns by the Sea-side which were builded and inhabited by great Multitudes of People by reason of Using and Exercising the Feat and Craft of Fishing Secondly The decay of a great Number of Boats and Ships And thirdly the decay of many good Mariners both able in Body by their Diligence Labour and continual Exercise of Fishing and Expert by reason thereof in the Knowledge of our Sea-Coasts as well within the Realm as in other Parts beyond the Seas It was therefore Enacted That no manner of Persons English Denizons or Strangers at that time or any time after should buy any Fish of any Foreigners in the said Ports of Flanders zealand Pickardy or France or upon the Sea between Shoar and Shoar This shews what great Care our former Kings and Parliaments have taken to Preserve the Nursery for Sea-faring Men for the Defence of the Kingdom and for the Preservation of our Coasting Towns c. And have therefore thought fit in all Humility to Dedicate this Book to you as before-mentioned If my sincere Intentions to serve the Kingdom have its desired Success I have my wish who am Your most humble And most obedient Servant J. Gander A VINDICATION OF A National Fishery c. BY the Benign Goodness of God and by the Wise Conduct of our King and the Admirable Wisdom and prudent Care of our Sage Senatours at Home England after a tedious and Chargeable War hath obtained an Honourable Peace And the Sword being now Sheathed His Majesty in his most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament hath declared His Royal Inclination for the Preservation of the Saftety Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom c. So that it is not to be doubted but that the Genius of our Government will make it the Chiefest of their Care to Settle the Affairs of Trade upon the most firmest Foundation for the publick Good of our Nation For the most destructive Consumption that can happen to a Kingdom and the only Nurse of Idleness and Beggary is Want of Trade whereas on the contrary Increase of Trade encourageth Labour Art and Invention and enricheth the Common-Weal And beyond all Dispute the Fishery of England is the Main Trade of this Kingdom rightly Managed The good Patriots of our Country are to weigh the Matter And it is so comprehensive a Blessing that were those Advantages but Industriously improved that Providence hath bestowed on this Island we might consequently be the most Flourishing People in the whole World both by Sea and Land And seeing by the Decay of the Fishing Trade we have lain open to France and Holland by neglecting our own

in a very Insolent manner Justified his Actions in Writing as done by Authority of the King his Master's Commission This being alledged to be done to the great Damage and prejudice of the King of England the Prelates Peers and the rest of the Nation Exhibited a Bill against Reyner Grimbald and managed by the Procurators on the behalf of the Prelates Peers and of the Cities and Towns through out England and also of the whole Kingdom of England in General and by and with the Authority as is supposed of the Estates assembled in Parliament with those were joyned Procurators of most Nations Bordering upon the Sea throughout Europe viz. The Genoeses The Catalonians The Spainards The Almayns The Zealanders The Hollanders The Freezlanders The Danes The Norwegians The Hamburghers And all these instituted a complaint against Reyner Grimbald who was Admiral of the French Navy in the time of the War between Philip King of France and Guy Earl of Flanders And all these Complainants in their Bill do joyntly affirm That the King of England and his Predecessors have time out of mind and without controversie enjoyed the Sovereignty and Dominion of the English Seas and the Isles belonging to the same by Right of the Realm of England that is to say by prescribing Laws Statutes and Prohibition of Arms and of Ships otherwise Furnished than with such Necessaries and Commodities as belong to Merchants c. Also That they have had and have the Sovereign Guard hereof with all manner of Cognizance and Jurisdiction doing right and Justice according to the said Laws Ordinances and Prohibitions and in all other Matters which may concern the Exercise of Sovereign Dominion in the said Places This is the Declarations of the Nations aforemention'd and they did declare he was Lord of the Sea c. This is Cited out of the Parliament Records and they did declare an Acknowledgment of the Sea Dominion of our Kings made by those Foreign and Neighbour Nations who were most concern'd in the Business to the Glory of our Kings of England Mr. Hitchcock in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth presented a Book to the Parliament concerning the Commodity of Fishing That the Hollanders and Zealanders every year towards the latter end of Summer do send out four or five Hundred Vessels called Busses to Fish for Herrings in our Eastern Seas but before they Fish they ask leave of Starbourough these were the Words Care was also taken in King James the first of Englands Reign That no Foreigner should Fish on the English or Irish Seas without leave first obtained and every year at the least this leave was renewed from Commissioners for that purpose appointed at London And the Kings of France have desired leave of the Kings of England for a certain time to Fish on our Seas only for Fish for his Houshould and obliged themselves in Articles That none of the Fish that was taken in the British Seas should be exposed to sale in any Market In the Seventh year of the Reign of King James the first the Sovereignty of the British Seas was Strenuously asserted by Proclamation and all Persons excluded from the use of the Seas upon our Coasts without particular Licence the Grounds whereof you have here set down in the Proclamation it self A PROCLAMATION Touching Fishing JAMES by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and Singular Persons to whom it may appertain Greeting Although we do sufficiently know by our Experience in the Office of Regal Dignity in which by the Favour of Almighty God we have been Placed and Exercised these many years as also by the Observation which we have made of other Christian Princes exemplary Actions how far the Absoluteness of Sovereign Power extendeth it self and that in Regard thereof we need not yield Account to any Person under God for any Action of ours which is Lawfully Grounded upon that Just Prerogative yet such hath ever been and shall be our Care and Desire to give satisfaction to our Neighbour Princes and Freinds in any Action which may have the least Relation to their Subjects and Estates as we have thought Good by way of Premonition to declare to them and to whomsoever it may appertain as followeth Whereas we have been contented since our coming to the Crown to tolerate an Indifferent and Promiscuous kind of Liberty to all our Friends whatsoever to Fish within our Streams and upon any of our Coasts of Great Britain Ireland and other adjacent Islands so far forth as the Permission or use thereof might not redound to the Impeachment of our Prerogative Royal nor to the Hurt and Damage of our loving Subjects whose Preservation and Flourishing Estate we hold our self Principally bound to Advance before all worldly Respects so finding that our Continuance therein hath not only given occasion of over-great Encroachments upon our Regalities or rather questioning our Right but hath been a means of daily wrongs to our own People that exercise the Trade of Fishing as either by the Multitude of Strangers which do pre-ocupy those Places or by the Injuries that they receive Commonly at their Hands Our Subjects are constrain'd to abandon their Fishing or at least are become so discouraged in the same as they hold it better for them to betake themselves to some other course of Living whereby not only divers of our Coast Towns are much decayed but the Number of Mariners daily diminish which is a Matter of Great consequence to our Estates considering how much the Strength thereof consisteth in the Power of Shipping and use of Navigation We have thought it now both Just and Necessary in Respect that we are now by Gods Favour Linealy and Lawfully Possess'd as well of the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the rest of the Isles adjacent to bethink our selves of good lawful Means to prevent those Inconveniences and many others depending upon the same In consideration whereof as we are desirous that the World may take notice that we have no intention to deny our Neighbours the Allies those Fruits and Benefits of Peace and Friendship which may justly be expected at our hands in Honour and Reason or are afforded by other Princes in the point of Commerce and Exchange of those things which may not prove prejudicial to them So because some such convenient Order may be taken in this Matter as may sufficiently provide for these Important Considerations which do depend thereupon We have resolved first to give Notice to all the World that our Express pleasure is That from the beginning of the Month of August next coming no Person of what Nation or Quality soever being not our Natural Born Subjects be permitted to Fish on any of our Coasts and Seas of Great Britain Ireland and the rest of the Isles adjacent where most usually heretofore any Fishing hath been until they have orderly demanded and obtained Licenses from Us or such of Our