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B04927 Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, why stock-fish and live eels should be imported into England: Notwithstanding the same being at present prohibited by the act, which prohibits the importation of Irish cattle and forreign fish. England and Wales. Parliament. 1679-1680? (1680) Wing P67; ESTC R181378 1,494 1

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REASONS Humbly offered to the Consideration of PARLIAMENT why STOCK-FISH and Live EELS should be Imported into ENGLAND Notwithstanding the same being at present Prohibited by the ACT which Prohibits the Importation of Irish CATTLE and Forreign FISH Firstly THE said Cod-fish alias Stock-Fish is Caught and Cured in Iseland which is in the King of Denmarks Dominions and no where else and is Cured without Salt by the Coldness of the Air and Frost only which Fish is made use of by all our Ships trading to the East and West Indies Guinney and other parts where no other s ort of Fish will keep good but decay Secondly The said Stock-Fish is never made use of in any other place then where our own Fish will never keep or hold good So that there is never the less of our English Fish spent by the Stock-Fish imported into the Kingdom in as much as no Person will Eat that if they can get our English Cod or Ling. Thirdly This sort of Fish is absolutely necessary for our Seamen and is observed and allowed to have been of great use and benefit to them by preserving them in their long Voyages from the Scurvey which they are subject unto by reason that all other of their Provisions are extreamly salt So that divers Commanders have affirmed that for want of that sort of Fish two thirds of their Men have in some Voyages fallen down with the Scurvey to that degree that they have hardly had Men enough on Board able to stand on their Legs for managing their Sails Fourthly If our Shipping cannot be furnished with Stock-Fish here they will have it from other parts beyond the Seas Holland or some other places And therefore better for the English to Import it than Forreigners As for the Live Eels prohibited in the same Act they are taken at or near Copenhagen within the said Kingdom of Denmark and brought to London Market Firstly The said Eels are taken in Fresh Water within the Land and are of the Natural Growth of that Countrey and therefore no way prejudicial to the Fishery of this Kingdom Secondly That the Trade of bringing Live Eels from Denmark to London Market is but for one Voyage in the year which time is about Michaelmass and that but only for two Ships or Hoys which are built on purpose for that Trade Thirdly That formerly as Ancient Men affirm there hath been Fourteen Ships or Hoys at one time in the River of Thames all Foreigners all which Eels were sold in London Market although the number of People then inhabiting in and about the City not half so many as now which Places where those Ships or Hoys were Laden are since drained and great Towns built in the room thereof Fourthly That our Fenns in England being now drained also there is not the hundredth part sufficient taken in England to supply the Kingdom And whereas there can be but two Ships imployed upon that Trade if there were Lading to be had for more than twenty they would be all sold in London Market Fifthly That the aforesaid Trade of bringing live Eels into London Market hath been Practised time out of mind as will appear by all the Ancient Mapps of the City of London where you will find the Eel-Ships alwayes figured out in the River of Thames lying at Anchor over against Queenhithe Sixthly That the said Live Eels are Esteemed as in Truth they are most Excellent Food The Price being set by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London are bought and sold at very reasonable Rates Seventhly That the said Trade hath heretofore been managed by Dutchmen who Sayled from Holland to Denmark and bought them there and brought them to London Market but is now solely managed by the English who are Fishmongers in London No Forreigner being concerned with them Eighthly That the aforesaid Stock-Fish and Eels are the Returns and Effects of our own Manufactories and Growth of this Kingdom Our Woollen Cloth Serges Perpetuanes Norwich Stuffs Stockings Pewter Cheese and Spirits going out of this Land in Exchange for the same Wherefore it is most humbly prayed That the said Stock-Fish and Live Eels may be Imported notwithstanding the Prohibitions aforesaid or any new Act that shall be made to perpetuate the aforesaid Acts.