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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60466	The trade & fishing of Great-Britain displayed with a description of the islands of Orkney and Shotland. By Captain John Smith.	Smith, John, Captain, lieutenant under Col. Rainsborough.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4097; ESTC R220078	12,883	24

manner of Provisions Hence they made themselves Lords of all the Trade of the Levant comprehending in it Turkey part of Africk and Italy and by multitude of Ships of their own transported the Commodities of those Countries into France England and the Netherlands They made their way also into the Indies and all over Persia by their Caravans and by Egypt and Aleppo returned thence all kind of Silks and Spices and sold them at their own Rates where ever they found the best vent and so they continued to do at excessive Rates though not without extraordinary Gains by reason of the difficulty of conveyance till the Portingals discovered the passage to the Indies by the Cape of good Hope receiving in Exchange for the Commodities so Bartered the Staple Commodities of all the Countries they Traded to Here in England they had for them Cloth Tin Lead c. and with which we our selves by our own Shipping cheaper and with greater gain might have supplyed Italy Turky and the greatest part of Africk Hence also that State at first confined to a sew scattered Islands on which by degrees they built their City whither before they onely fled for security came to encrease and grow to that heighth in which now it is nay greater in all probability for by the decaying of Trade their Power and Dominion hath sensibly decayed By the greatness of their Trade they enlarged their Jurisdiction both upon the Levant Seas and very high into the Main Land in Lombardy Graecia on the Dukedom of Milan conquered and purchased many considerable Islands in the Mediterranean as Candy Zant Cyprus and other places which lay convenient both for strength and security of the Trade and Navigation of that Republick It would be tedious for me to recount how many Colonies they have dispersed over the world and that fear and jealousie other Kings and Emperors have had of its growing strength how that City was thought to have a design upon the Soveraignty of Italy and the many combinations to prevent And all this to have compassed from so small a beginning onely by the extent of its Trade as its neighbour Rome enjoyed it by strength of Arms. After the Venetians and Genoese the Easterlings or Hance-Towns were Master of the Trade and Commodities transported from Moscovy Poland Germany Sweden Prussia Denmark c. and with them by their abundance of Shipping served England France Spain and the Low-Countries And that in regard of that continual need we had of the Commodities of those parts or people as Hemp all manner of Cordage Sope-Ashes Flax Pitch Tar Masts Corn c. They received in return from us our Staple Commodities which by their own Ships at their own Rates they conveyed all over Europe when we for want of Shipping could not but did see their excessive gains and yet were forced to be content Even here in England they had very great privileges mighty indulgencies and out of that necessity we thought we had of them finding by them the speediest vent for our Commodities we embraced them into our bosom so that by degrees they began to be very potent upon the Northern Seas and upon every occasion were ready to turn our enemies the most dangerous because as it were within our own bowels Hence taking advantage in their Shipping the Saxons Danes and Normans invaded England and the Hance-Towns were grown formidable both to Italy and France But as their Trading decayed so did also their Strength and their Shipping being wasted they have undergone the same necessity that others once famous Cities of Mart have done and have utterly lost all their power and strength by Sea The Portingals discovering the way to the Indies by the Cape of good Hope quickly became Engrossers of the whole Trade thither and by the same stratagem and device undermined at once the the Venetian and all the Hance-Towns whereupon encreasing with the strength of Spain they made themselves the terror of all round about them and a very rich Nation and People within it self This was the first rise of the Portingals who lying so commodiously for Navigation and a no less industrious than a very cautelous people in the management of their affairs proceeded so far that Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory jealous of them fearing lest Spain should joyn with them and of their future greatness continually encreasing by reason of its Traffick into the East and West-Indies for the security of her self and safety of all her good Subjects endeavoured to make her self equal in strength and counterpoise them if possible by the enlargement of the Trade of Great-Britain and this she prosecuted with so much vigour and so successfully that in a little space England had as great a Trade and Power by Sea as either the King of Spain or any Principality of Europe But before her time in the Reign of King Edward the 6th our own Merchants discovered the Trade into Moscovy by the way of St. Nicholas ever since which time in our own Shipping we have thence transported home all the Commodities of that large and vast Country formerly brought in by the Hanc●-Towns their Agents and Merchants And whereas a great part of those same Commodities as Cavear Tallow Hydes c. are not vendible in England and being Bought must be again Sold or Exchanged Need and Use hath found a better Vent for them in Italy and other parts of the Levant whereupon first began our Trade there a Trade which though it at first appeared very small and inconsiderable increased in a few years to that heighth of Improvement that within 90 or 100 years we have worn the Venetians out of all that mighty Trade they carried from those parts or in Turky and all over Christendom So that by this you easily see how Trade hath flourished and decayed in Genoa Venice the Hance-Towns and Portingal the whole being now fallen betwixt Us and the Hollander either striving who shall use means most effectual for advancing the general Trade of its Country and though the Hollanders hath by Art and Industry better improved his Interest yet that wherein his Interest most li●s may obviously appear and wherein in that very particular we may if we please go before them I shall thus endeavour to demonstrate The Hollanders have not at present neither ever had any other means to rise to this greatness of Wealth and Trade but by betaking themselves to Fishing being a People of constant Labour and unwearied Industry a multitude in a Spot of Land which doth not afford them any Commodities sufficient to be the ground even of a mean Trade They first began and all along have drove this Trade of Fishing being their Original of all Trade upon our Coast and the Coast of Scotland on which they employ thousands of poor people besides others of a better Rank making some Mariners and Fisher-men others they keep at work about the making and mending of N ets others they employ as Merchants