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our Dutch neighbours deck themselves ^vith our feathers and as 

 our EngHsh Bayes transported white into Amsterdam, and there 

 drogged and dyed, they sell by the name of fflemish Bayes, and 

 sett their o^\^l town Scale on them, so the great staple ling taken 

 indeed only by the Hollanders, but yet about the Islands of 

 Scotland, Sheteland, Orkney, and wherewith they serve all 

 Christendom, is called forsooth by the name of Holland ling. 



2. By taking off that too true imputation of sloathfulness and 

 improvidence from our nation, which hitherto hath had many 

 thousand persons lay idle at home while strangers come from 

 hundreds of leagues to our Coasts for imployment, and eithere 

 sent away those commodities from us which God and Nature 

 sent unto us, and laid at our doors, or if they sent them not 

 away, they made us pay great rates for them, even for the fish 

 of our own waters, though towards the takeing those fish we 

 have all necessaris in as much more plenty as they have. 



3. By securring our Rights from the incroachments of those 

 who (if our gratious Sovereign had not interposed) wd not only 

 have supplanted us in our foreign plantations, but probably 

 also have catched our bordering seas from us as well as our fish 

 as appears, 



1. By their refuseing, notwithstanding our late King's pro- 

 clamation to that purpose, to ask leave when they came to fish 

 in our seas, as they had ever done once by the yeare in former 

 tyme at Scarborough ; secondly, by their abusing us when they 

 did come in our best and nearest fishing in the Yarmouth Road — 

 pestering the narrow Seas with multitudes of Dutch Vessells 

 and comonly ride at anchor in the midst of the shoals, gipping, 

 dressing, and barrelling their herrings, which makes our EngHsh 

 loose their tyme, for we cannot drive whilst they ride at anchor, 

 but our netts will be spoyled and torn to peeces on the others 

 cables. 



Thirdly, by the Hollanders intitling themselves to a freedome 

 on the British coasts, in calHng their great fishing and catching 

 of herrings (which they catch only in his Maties. Seas) the prin- 

 cipall golden myne of the United Provinces, States Proclamation, 

 19th July, 1622. 



Fourthly, by their late design of getting a patent to possess. 



