A. D. 1533. ^s 



by her proclamation, to revive this law in iuch counties as flic fhould 

 judge proper, ' for the better provifion of nets for help and furtherance 

 ' of filhing, and for elchewing of idlenefs ;' but no mention of a linen 

 manufafture is therein made. 



The tree, or flirub, bearing currants, or grapes of Corinth, is by fome 

 authors faid to have been brought from the ifland of Zant, and planted 

 in England about this time. This delicious fruit or grape has long ago 

 become fo plentiful every where throughout Britain and Ireland, that it 

 would be difficult to convince fome people that currants were not ori- 

 ginal natives here ; which is alfo the cafe of many other truits, plants, 

 roots, and flowers. Dr. Heylin,in his Colmography, obferves, that the 

 people of Zant were very poor when the Engliili began to purchafe 

 their currants, and wondered to what end they annually brought away 

 fuch quantities, alking them, whether they ufed their currants to dye 

 cloths, or to tatten their hogs ? He adds, ' that our trade thither has 



* enriched thofe iflanders.' 



The Lubeckers, who had been ferviceable to Guftavus Erickfon king 

 of Sweden, demanded of him the foie right of trading on his northern 

 fea-coafts ; but this being judged unreafonable, they thereupon demand- 

 ed immediate payment of what he owed them ; and alfo joining with 

 the refugees of the expelled King Chrifliern's party, they propofed to 

 themf elves (fays PufFendorf) no Icfs than the conqueft of the northern 

 kingdoms. 



Concerning this King Guftavus T, Voltaire obferves, ' that he was 



* the firft of the Swedilh kings v^ho made foreign nations fenfible of 



* the weight which Sweden might have in the affairs ot Europe, at a 

 '• time when European policy was putting on a new face, and when firft 

 ' the .notion was fiarted of a balance of power. Sweden' (continues 

 this author) ' had as yet no regular commerce nor manufadures ; and 

 ' the ufeful inventions were unknown there. It Vv'as this king Guflavus 

 ' v/ho firfl drew the Sv-edes out of obfcurity, and likevvlit; Simulated 

 ' the Danes by his example ' 



1534 — Jacques Cartier failed from France with one fnip, to fearcli 

 for a north-weit paiTage to the Eaft-Indics : but after failing up the bay 

 of St. Laurence as far as the ifle of Ailumption, lie returned home in 

 the fame year. The next year he failed up the great river of St. Lau- 

 rence, (or Canada) with tliree Ihips, as far as Montreal, 200 leagues from 

 its entrance, and wintered there among the natives ; fome uf whom, 

 with their king, he invited onboard his ihlp, on pretence ol an enter- 

 tainment, and carried them home to St. Maloes (where their king died 

 four years after), in hope thereby to gain a perfect knowledge of their, 

 country, and of the hoped-for pafTage to India : But the natives were 

 fo enraged at his treachery, that they could not, in many vears after, be 



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