APPENDIX 117 



The Charge and Profitt of one Busse of 70 Tunes 



IMPLOYED ONE YeARE EST THE FfISHERY, BY WCH MAY BE 

 COMPUTED THE CHARGE OF A FlEET.^ 



The Charge. 



Such a Busse with all her tackle ready to 

 launch forth wiU cost £403 10 



To sett her forth with all lasting and wasting 

 comodities for ye whole year - - - - 695 18 8 



Wages for 15 men and sallaries to land ofi&cers 

 for our Busse may be paid . - - - 238 1 



£1337 9 8 



The Profitt. 



The Herrings usually taken in such a busse 

 in one yeare is seldome less than 100 Lasts 

 worth - - £1000 



Of cod 15,000 worth 4501., of Lmg 



10,000 worth 800 comes to - . - 1250 



£2250 



By this accompt (wch is the whole years charges, though 

 provisions are shipped at severall tymes and the Sallaries are 

 paid at ye vessells retume by the Comodities they bring home), 

 it appears that the Herrings, Cod & Ling taken in one year by 

 a Busse of 70 Tunnes (besides two moonths set apart for caulking 

 the vessel) doth repay the whole money adventured with Interest 

 of 70 per cent, and the Buss with all her lasting provisions clearly 

 gained, and about 1500 h. a year so long as she lasteth after- 

 wards, 500 of which Busses would in two years tyme raise his 

 Matie. sufficient moneys to make them up 2000 Busses, which 

 wiU bring him in yearly between two and three miUions of pounds 

 sterhng (besides the saving of 300,000 li. yearly of ready money 

 wch is laid out with ye Dutch for the fish only caught in our own 



1 Sea Fisheries, Temp. Car. II. ; Additional MSS. British Museum. 



