272 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



Parliamentary papers. Continued. 



in the water of Burnham, alias Walflete. 1644. 

 Ordinance for maintaining a convoy for the fishery. 1644. 

 Ordinance for imposing a duty on herrings to pay for the protection of 



the fishery. 1644. 

 Ordinance for same purpose. 1645. 

 Earl of Pembroke's petition concerning losses sustained in fishing and 



busses. 1645 ? 

 Declaration to assert the right of this Commonwealth to the fishery and 



to the Sovereignty of the seas. 165 1-3. 

 Bill for transporting fish in foreign bottoms. 1656 & 1658. 

 Bill for encouraging the fisheries. 1660. 



Bill for confirming a patent concernmg the fishing trade. 1661. 

 Petition of the inhabitants of Lowestoft relating to a free trade of fish- 

 ing and complaining of being molested by inhabitants of Great 



Yarmouth. 1661. 

 Bill for the regulation of the pilchard fishery in Devon and Cornwall. 



1662. 

 Clause for regulating the fishing trade added to Bill for advancement of 



trade. 1663. 

 Bill for regulating the herring and other fisheries. 1663. 

 Bill to prevent abuses in fishing and for preserving the spawn of fish. 



1664. 

 Bill for settling the differences between the towns of Great and Little 



Yarmouth touching the lading and unlading of herrings. 1664-5. 

 Bill to prevent the importation of foreign cattle and fish. 1665. 

 Bill against importation of fish taken by foreigners. 1666. 

 Bill for the preservation of the spawn of fish. 1666. 

 Bill for the better preservation of the game and securing the several 



fishings of this realm. 1670. 

 Bill for the encouragement of the fishery. 1670. 

 Rill for the preservation of the piscary in the Severn, Avon and Thames, 



1673 & 1675. 

 Petition of Sir Thomas Monnis, water-bailiflfof the Severn. 1675. 

 Bill for preservation of the fishing in several rivers. 1675 & 1677. 



[ A conference between the Houses was held on the second 



occasion, and the Bill confined to the Severn only.] 

 Bill for preservation of the fishing in the Severn. 1678. 

 Resolution to receive proposals concerning the Royal Fishery Company. 



1679. 

 Bill to repeal part of the law regulating fishing in the Severn. 1680. 

 Bill against the importation of fish caught by foreigners. 1685. 

 Bill for regulating pilchard fishery. 1689. 

 Petition against Clause in Act 30 Car. IL and Bill for repeal thereof. 



1689 & 1692. 

 Committee to consider means for the encouragement of the general 



fisheries. 1691. 

 Bill for the relief of the subject against unlawful weirs and dams, with 



petitions for and against. 1696. 

 Bill for encouraging the fisheries. 1696. 

 Bill for the preservation of salmon and salmon-fry, with petitions for and 



and against. 1697. 



