This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...for By John Keymor, printed in 1664.. See the Royal Trade of Fishing, printed 1662. 1 See a Collection, printed in 1695. Essay for raising a National Fishery. H permission to exercise their avocation near our shores. This yearly impost, however, does not appear to have been paid'.. The contentions which have arisen on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...for By John Keymor, printed in 1664.. See the Royal Trade of Fishing, printed 1662. 1 See a Collection, printed in 1695. Essay for raising a National Fishery. H permission to exercise their avocation near our shores. This yearly impost, however, does not appear to have been paid'.. The contentions which have arisen on the subject of a free right to fish in the British seas afford an incontestible proof of the vast importance attached to the pursuit, which amongst other instances appears from the differences that arose between King James the First and the United Provinces, in 1617, on occasion of the detention and carrying over to Holland, on board a Dutch ship, of one John Brown, commissioned by the Duke of Lenox, as Admiral of Scotland, to levy a certain duty on fishermen fishing on the coast of Scotland. The King being highly incensed at this outrage, demanded satisfaction; when a negociation was entered into, which involving 'a discussion of the right ofthe herring fishery, continued for several years. In the letters addressed by Carlton to the English secretary of state, on this subject, he represented, on behalf of the States, that the inhabitants of those provinces had been in the quiet and undisturbed possession of a free herring fishery for upwards of two centuries; that it afforded the means of subsistence to upwards of 50,000 persons; and that if the king insisted on subjecting the same to a tribute, many indigent inhabitants would not only lose their bread, but the United Provinces Trade and Fishing of Great Britain, by Capt. John Smith, printed 1661.. themselves would be incapacitated from perform'-' ing their engagements. / /.i The following extracts, taken from a work published in l64l1', at which timeextraordinary en'...
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