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Directions relating to the Royal British fishery. 



London, printed for H. M. and are to be had of T. Walcock. 

 1695. 4°. 



A discourse concerning the fishery within the British 



seas... 1695. 4°. See England. Company of the Royal 

 fishery of England. 



An essay upon the British fisheries : wherein the 



errors of the system on which they are at present conducted 

 are pointed out, etc. By a Caledonian Fisher. Edinburgh, 

 W. Creech, 1785. pp. iv. 40. 4°. 



His Majesty's Royal Charter, granted on the eleventh 



day of October, 1750... for incorporating the Society of the 

 Free British Fishery, etc. London, 1750. pp. iv. 36. 4°. 



The history of the British dominions in North 



America, from the first discovery of that vast continent by 

 Seb. Cabot in 1497 to its present glorious establishment as 

 confirmed by the late Treaty of peace in 1763. In fourteen 

 books. London, Strahan and Becket, 1773. 4°. 

 [Treats of the Cod-fishery in 13th and 14th books.] 



A letter to a member of Parliament concerning the 



Free British Fisheries, with draughts of a herring buss and 

 nets, and the harbour and town of Peterhead. London, R. 

 Spavan, 1750. 8°. 



A letter to the Court of Directors of the Society for 



improving the British fisheries, with a plan for the erection of 

 villages, humbly submitted to their consideration. London, 

 Cadell, 1787. 8°. 



Minutes of the General Meetings and Council of 



the Society of the Free British Fishery, from 1749 to 1755. 

 [Add. MSS. British Museum.] 



Plans and proposals transmitted to the Committee 



on the British fishery. By several hands. London, 1750. 

 title ^ pp. 109. 4*^ 



Representations and resolutions of the adventurers 



in the herring fishery, occasioned by the Report of Committee 

 of the... House of Commons, appointed to enquire into the 

 British herring fisheries. Glasgow, printed by Chapman and 

 Lang. 1799. title^ pp. 38. 8°. 



Browne ( Peter). A letter from a clergy-man in Ireland ; 

 giving an account of the taking of great numbers of fish, and 

 of many sea-monsters, in the County of Clare, in that king- 

 dom... Published by Henry Davinson, f.r.s. London, J. 

 Roberts, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane. 1721. 

 pp. 42. 4^ 



