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A04763
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The trades increase
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Kayll, Robert.; J. R. (John Roberts)
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1615
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go with as few men and our fishermen on the Coast by diuers reports can liue as hardly as they And let any iudge of the hardnesse when the principall time of fishing for Herring is in September and October and a sixe weekes time and they are almost in sight of our owne Coasts and besides good prouision of butter and cheese and Beere they haue the plenty of the sea-fish then this way wee may affoord as good penyworths as they But I goe further and say that we haue great vantages of them The Seas be our owne therefore we iourney not so farre as the Hollander doth whereby likewise our trauaile and charge must be lighter our ports harbours and roades be at hand nay which is more all vtensiles and appurtenances belonging to shipping as is before shewed Pitch and Tarre excepted are found in our owne Land whereas they with great cost paines and hazard fetch them from sixe seuerall places So then we shall be able to affoord better cheape then the Hollanders You English we will make you glad to weare our old shooes and so we may sell when they cannot and so the English shall and may weary them and weare out those flouts wherewith our poore Fisher-men are scorned For if they bee put by the vttering of their Herrings abroade they will bee driuen to leaue their great Ships and fish in smaller vessels neere the shore to serue their owne turnes as heretofore they haue caused vs to doe when as likewise on euery tempest they openly triumph ouer vs for not taking the blessings of God powred into our lappes These hinderances obiected taken away wee may now resort againe to the sweete fountaine of profite which besides that it watereth our priuate estates with the continuall spring of great gaine keepeth in our treasure which exceedingly now wasteth bringeth in all commodities that either the East and North Countries France or Flaunders affoords euen for this barter it runneth into the sea of the Kings custome the venting onely of ten thousand Last of Herring beyond sea commeth to fiue thousand pounds after the rate of the ordinary poundage besides the custome of Cod and Ling very neere as valuable as the benefit of Herring the particular view whereof is set downe by him whom I haue so often named in whose booke you may see the greatnesse of the custome amounting to aboue 50000 pound starling that accrueth to those Countries out of this fishing Trade And yet all this to them is nothing their keeping in their treasure their carrying away our treasure their aboundance with all other commodities their greatnesse of their custome this way is nothing in regard of their profit honor safety that their increase of shipping increase of Mariners this way begetteth to themselues amongst all nations to their state The life of the sea is in shipping nay one may say to ships Mare non est mare vos estis mare The beauty of the Sea is in Shipping and sure the Poets affirming Venus to be the daughter of the sea might meane a Ship by her For Haec vna Venus omnium surripuit Venerâ—s and this little land of the Hollanders exceeded in quantity by Norfolke and Suffolke hath gotten this sea hath gained this Venus England Scotland France and Spaine for shipping and sea-faring men not answerable to them and all spawned out of fish and fishing There hath bene numbred in sight two thousand saile of Busses and other good vessels gone out to sea at once of the Hollanders and there hath beene found by computation some thirty seuen thousand Fishermen in diuers sorts of vessels at one time employed herein Hence proceede their great vndertakings and prodigious aduenturing to all places hereby they out-goe vs and ouer-beare all Trades where euer they come Wee thinke the West-Indie gold to be the cause of the pride and presumption of Spaniards we may assure our selues that our North-Indies counteruaile that treasure and are the onely confidence of the Hollander euen by breeding sea-men and increasing of shipping in that aboundance as that hereby they both swarme euety where and France Spaine and the East Countries are full of their shipping Hence they fetch our coales and carry them abroad from Norway and Danske they bring vs all commodities and carry forth ours at a farre better rate then we can our selues they haue filled Moscouy whence we are emptied with thither shipping and the Straights abound with them once our possession They go into nay they arme in the West Indies where we may not be seene and in the East Indies they haue had long setled Factories before vs and haue foure men to one of ours there and go beyond vs as farre besides the number in store of goodly shipping whereby as they hinder our trade so they forbeare not which I cannot but write with stomacke the honour of our King and kingdome as presuming somtimes to call themselues English and pretend Embassage and presents from his Maiesty Which they did to the King of Siam in other places calling the Crowne and State of England into comparison which made the King of Achem aske captaine Best whether the King of England or the King of Holland were the greater Monarke Besides what an infinite number of shippes and men of warre haue they alwayes in a readinesse at home And as the In-keeper of Chalcis sayd to his guest admiring tantam ferculorum varietatem It was with Art all cookt out of pork this their store this their aboundance is raised all out of fishing Who then would not be moued who would not be stirred vp therewith Who would not goe a fishing You see what want we haue of shipping what want we haue of Mariners what discouragements we haue in trades what wants our men are in When Naaman the Sirian complained to Elizeus of his leprosie he was bid wash himselfe in Iordan seuen times He looked for other miraculous courses to be taken by the Prophet and could hardly be perswaded thereto because Abna and Pharphar flouds of Damascus were better Naaman was a Heathen and had neuer any experience of Gods Iordan yet hee was in the end perswaded To supply our wants to satisfie our hunger to heale our diseases there is not a riuer but a Sea shewen vs and that not in another kingdome but in our owne wee are but bidden goe and take fish out of it Wee are Christians and it is God that hath prouided this remedy and we see by experience no water like ours and wee see our neighbours from every place resorting thereto and healing themselues thereby You see how it concerneth vs let vs in the end likewise be perswaded What the number is of our Sea-men bred and employed by all sorts of Sea-trades our petty fishings excepted may easily be ghest at and whatsoeuer it may amount to If out of our whole Land there bee but foure hundred Busses built and set forth of seuenty tunne the peece there are in
aduance the Kings custome and assure the kingdome and all this in our owne Seas by fishing and especially out of Herring Towards the which apparant necessity hauing hitherto made vs the way we are to perswade you to follow in it by the Facility Profit and Vse of this fishng The Facility in that the meanes are in our owne hands The Place our owne seas The Art well knowne The meanes in our owne hands in that we haue all things that shall be vsed about this businesse growing at home in our owne Land Pitch and Tarre excepted whereas the Hollander hauing nothing growing in their owne Land for it is faine to goe to sixe seuerall Countries and those remote and vnder diuers Princes to furnish themselues and doe furnish themselues meerely with the barter of Fish and Herring taken out of our seas Then the place is not farre remoued if in our owne Seas if in his Maiesties Dominions on the coast of England Scotland Ireland is this principall fishing for by the report of many exercised in this mysterie and the relation of two especially painefull herein by their Treatises Hitchcockes and Gentleman The Herrings first and towards the ending of Summer shoote out of the deepes on both sides of Scotland and England and beginne to do first so on the Scots coast at Midsummer when is the first and worst fishing The second and best is about Bartholomew-tide from Scarbrough in Yorkeshire till you come to the Thames mouth The third from the Thames mouth through the narrow Seas but not so certaine for that extreame weather maketh them shoote on both sides of Ireland likewise on the Coast of Ireland is good fishing for Herring from Michaelmas to Christmas On the North-west seas of England ouer against Carliel about Wirkentowne is good fishing for Herring from Bartholmewtide till fourteene daies after Michaelmas So then it appeareth by these reports that this fishing for Herring is especially on his Maiesties dominions And to this end aske the ancient custome of the Hollanders and Flemming that before they beganne their fishing for Herring craued leaue of Scarbrough aforesayd which easily obtained they then layd their Nets And howsoeuer it pleaseth his Maiesty to allow of his royall Predecessours bounty in tolerating the neighbour Nations to fish in his streames yet other Princes take more straight courses For whereas till Christmas on the coast of Norway called the Mall Strand all strangers do fish as Hitchcockes writeth they then paid a youhendale on euery Last of Herring to the King of Denmarke And I can likewise remember that certaine of our Merchants of Hull had their goods and Shippes taken away and themselues imprisoned for fishing about the Ward-house and not paying the duty imposed on them by the King of Denmarke The place our Seas likewise for other necessary and profitable fishing on the Coast of Lancashire from Easter to Midsummer for Cod for Hakes twixt Wales and Ireland from Whitsontide vntill Saint Iames-tide for Cod and Ling about Padstow within the Lands end of Seuerne from Christmas to middle Lent and in seuen or eight seuerall places more about the Coasts and within his Maiesties Dominions the which is largely set downe by Hitchcockes Now besides this fishing treasure lyeth easily to bee found in our owne Seas what good Harbours fitting thereto lye open to vs in our owne Coasts as Colchester Harwich Ipswich Yarmouth with a number of other set downe painfully by Gentleman together with the commodities they affoord for Timber Workemanship furnishing and harbouring Busses Nets and Men As the Hauens lye open to vs as the Seas bee our owne and as we haue all things almost fitting for such a businesse at home and naturally so that nothing may bee wanting to vs but our selues the Art is well knowne to vs likewise Maisters for Busses may be had from Yarmouth and Sould and the rest of the coasts downe the riuer Vse maketh Fishermen and these places affoord store of Sea-faring men for the purpose In Orford Hauen and Alborough be many good Fishermen whose abilities exercised in Busses would by Gentlemans report put downe the Hollander The like may be sayd of Sould Dunwich Walderswich which breede Fishermen In all these and many other places is this rich Art knowne but not vsed In all these and all other the Hollanders swimme like Elephants we wading like Sheepe We keep the Bankes and Shoales when as they are in the depth Besides to encourage vs the more the charges are not great the paines are not great the time is not long the hazard is nothing at all This is very apparant and exactly set downe in Gentleman his Treatise whom I shall but obscure to contract neither is he long The next motiue to this fishing was that of profite wherein if euer it were true that a good cause maketh a good Orator here is a subiect to enable all meane Rhetoricians Euery man almost is taken with the attention to profite Loue doth much but Mony doth all Here is money heere is profite in aboundance and diuers waies In aboundance for that the whole charge of a Busse That is betweene sixtie and eightie tunne with all furniture and appurtenances betweene thirty and forty Last will cost about fiue hundred pounds the charges for keeping her a whole summer at Sea may be some three hundred three score and fiue pounds the whole Summer filleth her three times with making one hundred Last of barrels amounteth to one thousand pounds wherby allowing one hundred pounds for weare of ships and reparations of nets there is gained fiue hundred sixtie fiue pounds by one Busse in one yeare and this is after ten pounds the Last which was so rated in Hitchcockes time which is some thirty three yeres agoe the Hollander now selling them for fifteene twenty pounds and vpward the Last at Danske Hence one may gather of the great gaine that euen riseth to a priuate purse by this fishing with a small aduenture Busses being the maine and those likely likewise to continue by Gods grace some twenty yeares So then her charges returned for keeping her at sea the first yeare also she quitteth her own selfe and there is I say fiue hundred sixty fiue pounds as long as she liueth afterwards dc claro I would faine know not desiring to be too curious in a strange Common-wealth but rather to inuite my Countrey-men into this society what Trade in the Land did euer in his strength promise so much howsoeuer neuer any I am sure performed so much so easily so continually When Antiochus in his shew to Hanniball of his glorious Army in battel-range his Elephants being most richly adorned and all his Souldiers in very braue and costly harnesse and abiliments willing to draw some acknowledgement from him of his power and strength asked his opinion of it the warlike Souldier replied againe That it was an Armie able to satisfie the most couetous enemy No question though the Carthaginian noted the