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made Red Herrings to sell into the Streights and other marketts 

 as were more than what wee tooke ourselves, to the value at 

 least of another hundred thousand pounds. Besides the Hol- 

 landers had 500 other shippes imployed upon his Maties. seas to 

 serve London and other parts of England \^dth Cod and Ling, 

 for which Cod and Ling we can not rationally urge that they tooke 

 less of us than 200,000 pounds in ready money whereas if our- 

 selves were imployed in ye fishing, no Treasure wd be transported 

 for fish, but wd pass from one to another in our own Nation. 

 The Profit to be gained computed by stating gains derived 

 from fish by Hollanders, etc. 



1. By that of ye States in their customs wch is reported to 

 be five himdred and ninety thousand pond, viz. 440,000 H. by 

 herrings and 150,000 h. by cod and ling. 



2. By that of the adventurers in their returnes wch is esteemeed 

 to be three millions of pounds at home and five millions at for- 

 reign markets, and if we add thereto all ye fish taken by other 

 neighbour nations on ye British coast all ye yeare long ye totall 

 will evidently arrise to tenn miUions of pounds. 



3. By that of the Convoys in their pay ; while the warr con- 

 tmued between the Hollanders and their sovereign the Kinge 

 of Spain, the Dunkirkers did so infest their fishermen that 

 they were forced to hire men of warr to secure them in their 

 fishing and in their passage to and fro, att the price of a Dollar 

 uppon every Last, the Register whereof showed 300,000 lasts 

 taken during that season of herring fishing. 



4. By the great quantities sold at foreign markets and the 

 great price, the quantity more than an hundred thousand lasts, 

 with a greater proportion sold to fforeigners at home, besides 

 what spent in the Belgick provinces and the price att fforeign 

 marketts att least 16, but sometymes La some places 18, 20, 

 24, 30, 36 pounds the last. 



Benefits. — La the Honour, Security and Strength, that will 

 redound to this Nation thereby. 



1. By restoring to our Countrey of Great Brittaine the name 

 & reputation of her own Comodities ; for that is one thing which 

 renders a Nation renowned among Strangers, that it can furnish 

 other parts of the world with any usefull commoditie. But 



