762 APPENDIX I 



APPENDIX I. 



(P. 289.) 



REPORT OF THE ADMIRALTY TO CHARLES I. AS TO THE 

 EMPLOYMENT OF THE SHIP-MONEY FLEET IN WAFT- 

 ING AND SECURING FOREIGN MERCHANTS PASSING 

 THROUGH HIS MAJESTY'S SEAS, AND IN PROTECTING 

 FOREIGN FISHERMEN WHO ACCEPT THE KING'S 

 LICENSE. 



(State Papers, Domestic. Charles I., Vol. 313, No. 24.) 



IT may Please your Maty, 



According to your Majesty's commandment, wee, your Commissioners 

 for ye Admiralty have mett and consulted on those two pointes 

 which you were pleased to recommend to our consideration, touch- 

 ing the imploying of your fleete for yo r Honor and Proffit. The 

 one for the wafting and securing of Merchants that pass through 

 yo r Majesty's seas. The other for protecting all such fishermen 

 in generall as shall exercise that trade by your Majesty's license 

 upon yo r seas and coastes. 



The first of these that fell into debate was that concerning the 

 fishing, and by S r Henry Martin it was made evident vnto vs that 

 y r Ma ts father of blessed memory in yeere of his 



Raigne, was, vpon long and mature deliberacion, satisfied and re- 

 solved, that the fishing in his Seas, and upon the coasts of his 

 Dominions, did justly appertain unto him as a right incident to 

 his Crownes, and that in pursuance thereof, he did then sett out 

 his Royall Proclamation, thereby declaring his title, as allso his 

 pleasure, that no stranger of what quality soever should presume 

 to fish there without his expresse license, and so was graciously 

 pleased in the said Proclamation to appoint, that for the Coastes 

 of England and Ireland licenses should be given in London, and 

 for those of Scotland in Edenborough. 



And howsoever S r Henry Martin did allso make it appear unto 

 us that the States of the Vnited Provinces did at that time sende 

 Commissioners into England who presented to his Majesty a 

 paper contayning allegations by w ch they did entend to prove 

 continued custom and a present possession of that fishing, mention- 

 ing w^ll som treaties that had bene heretofore betwene the 

 Kinges of Englande and the Dukes of Burgundy in fauor of that 

 their fishing, yet upon the whole matter, and after due deliberation, 



