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A14929	An abridgement of all sea-lavves Gathered forth of all writings and monuments, which are to be found among any people or nation, upon the coasts of the great Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. And specially ordered and disposed for the use and benefit of all benevolent sea-farers, within his Majesties dominions of Great Brittain, Ireland, and the adjacent isles thereof. By William Welvvod, professor of the civill lawe.	Welwood, William, fl. 1578-1622.	1636 (1636)	STC 25238; ESTC S119612	51,299	268

repressed at least by these represalies and letters of Merque specially sith that cause in effect resembles a warre denounced without solemnities of clarigation And therefore both according to the lawes of England letters of Merque are allowable and according to the old custome of Scotland and the tenor of the Act of Parliament made by Iames the first of Scotland concerning shipwracke to be followed for a rule to such cursed cases that is to say that other Nations should have the like favour of us that they shew to us Now being agreed that letters of Merque are lawfull as they are by statutes customes and reason specially upon a matter of great importance and after a due warning intimation and one requisition so that it be done by the Prince and solemnly then what goods happen to be taken by that meanes should bee brought and presented as aforesaid before the Admirall that a just Inventary may be taken thereof for divers good respects TIT. XXVI Of Fishers fishing and traffiquers therewith ALbeit hunting hawking and fishing be of one kinde as subject to a like law and liberty because what wilde beast fowle or fish be once taken by any man commonly it becommeth his owne proper by the lawes of Nations yet is there a difference twixt these three for albeit hunting and hawking be almost every where lawfull yet fishing is forbidden in other mens ponds stanks and lakes as comparable with the●t Yea now a-daies in rivers and in parts of the Seas neerest to the possessions of men having grant and infeftment from the King may fishing be forbidden but no private man without the grant of the Prince upon any pretence or allegation of long consuetude and prescription may acquire the propriety of any such part of the sea as to prohibite others to fish there also for such prescriptions onely pertaine to Princes To returne to the quality of fishing sith it is not onely allowable to all sorts of persons but also commendable and alwaies to be preferred to all other trades and traffiques upon sea not onely for necessaries but also for the great good and profit redounding thereby all ciuill and vertuous Princes have diversly forthshowne their care for the entertaining and advancing thereof as by ordinances to build shippes and boats to that purpose and by their wise appointing of certaine onely times for the fishing as namely of Salmon under paines not onely of Fynes but also of forfeitures and of death according to the manner of the offence and contempt of their decrees and statutes Which Princes also for the increase of fishes have as it were with common consent forbidden the making setting and using of crowes yarrs dammes fosses tramelets parkings dyking and herrywaters in any waters where the sea ebbes and flowes under paine of confiscation of all the goods of the transgressors in Scotland Yea albeit that any man were of old infefted with keeping of crwiffes weares and kiddles c. yet must he keepe the Saturdaies slop that is to lift the same from Saturday at after-noone till Monday and also to make each heck or mesh of his crwiffe three inches wide except for taking of smelts loches and such like that will neuer be bigger as also for to set the same upon the waters that the mid-streame may have the iust space of sixe foot wide under the paine of five pound And thus farre concerning the maintenance and increase of fishes by our Scottish lawes and custome It followeth to set downe concerning the Fishers their safety and priviledges Wherin it is provided first that all Shippes sayling into the parts where Herring are taken at least during the taking thereof shall let downe ●aile after day light past let their Anchor fall and keepe watch with Lanterne and light untill day light appeare again lest otherwise the poor Fishers should be over-run or their nets broken their paine in Denmarke is death to the transgressors and the Fishers are likewise forbidden to use light in their fishing by night lest they deceive saylers with the false shew of a port Likewise lest any of the Fishers harme or hurt one another it is diversly provided as also cōcerning the right measure of their nets in length in bredth as may be seen by the Statutes of sundry nations Vid statuta Angliae And specially therfore it is agreed of long time sithence by the Sea-farers on the Forth of Scotland first that no ground-draffe or drag-net be set before March nor upon deeper water then fourteene fathome Item that none shall lye to their neighbours when he shall be asked concerning the length and depth of his tewe when he is in driving neither yet wittingly and wilfully to suffer his tewes and nets to flit and runne over one another under the paine of ten pound for every transgression of the premised articles Item above all that from the Sun-set on Sonday no man lay nor hale nets or great lines or exercise any labour under the foresaid paine Item for the further incouraging of Fishers in the West and North Isles of Scotland there is a Statute that no other customes be sought of the Fishers in the said I●es but only the Kings customes under the paines due to manifest oppressors against them who exact the same Lastly concerning Fishers and traffiquers with fishes it is ordained that not onely all fish slaine and taken neere to the coast of Scotland be brought and presented to the market places where the takers or slayers thereof dwell but also all fishes taken in the North and West Isles or Firths to be brought directly to the townes where the Fishers dwell that the need of the countrey may be first served and presented to the market places from which none may carry them away to packe and peil but onely betwixt the houres of eleven and two in the afternoone under the paine of confiscation In which markets it is lawfull to the Provost Bail●ffes to set downe prices and to compell the packer and peiler to sell againe for the need of the Lieges Which being done they may transport the remainder where they please And in case they contemne then their fishes to be eschete two parts to the King and the third to the Magistrate Likewise concerning the barrelling of fishes it is ordained that the measures prescribed of old shall be kept videlicet each barrell of Herring or of white fish to be of twelve galons and the barrell of Salmon of fourteene galons according to the measure of Hamburg under the paines of escheting there of from the pa●ker and of five pound to be lifted from the Couper And therefore hoop irons to be made in each towne for the tryall and gaging thereof Vid. statuta Angliae Tit. of fishing in the Abridgements TIT. XXVII Of the Community and Propriety of the Seas HAving of late seene