302 HISTORY OF THE 



to London market, at the time the aforefaid laws 

 were ena&ed, and for feveral years after, were 

 caught in harbours, rivers, and bays, and by boats 

 laying lines upon the coaft, from Orford, as far as 

 Pakeleld or Leftoff in Suffolk, where the fifhing- 

 fmacks, from Harwich and other places, lay and 

 took them in for London ; for, at that time, there 

 were no fifhing fmacks or veffels that went into the 

 north feafrom Harwich, nor (by the account of the 

 oldeft fifhermen) from any other port in England, 

 to catch live cod and haddock for London market. 



In 1712, there were 3 fmacks, of about 40 tons 

 burden each, belonging to Harwich, which carried 

 about 20 men and boys. And, in 1715, Richard 

 Orlibar, m after and owner of one of the aforefaid 

 fmacks, having received information of the Dutch 

 fifhermen where they took the cod, &c. proceeded, 

 at his own hazard and expence, on a voyage to the 

 north fea, (meaning the Cromer and the Dogger- 

 banks) and, after a trial of 6 weeks, he returned to 

 Harwich, having caught only one cod, and one coal- 

 fifh. Notwithftanding this bad fuccefs in his firft 

 attempt, he went a fecond time, and having the 

 good fortune to catch a confiderable quantity of fifh, 

 not only encouraged him to continue this fifhery, 

 but alfo induced the other two owners of fmacks at 

 Harwich, and the fifhermen at Horflydown, &c. to 

 take up this trade of fupplying London with 

 frefh fifh. 



From 1715 to 1720, the number of fmacks in 

 the port of Harwich, had increafed to 1 2 fail ; in 

 1735, to 33 f a ^5 from 40 to 50 tons burden each; 

 in 1774, to 62 fail, from 45 to 55 tons* and imme- 

 diately before the late Dutch war, to 72 fail. 



They fifhed with hand-lines till about the year 

 1770, when an Englifhman who had been on the 

 Dutch fifhery, introduced the method praclifed by 

 that people in* the winter by means of long lines. 

 At fail they had little or no fuccefs in the long-line 



fifhery, 



