A. D. 1606. 245 



without any difcovery. They now began to kill morfes, or fea horfes, 

 by lances, wliofe teeth being in thole times efleemed better than ivory, 

 they brought home many of them, and much of their oil, and alfo 

 thirty tons of lead ore from Cherry ifland, fo called becaufe difcovered 

 in 1603 by a fhip belonging to Sir Francis Cherry. 



In the years 1608 and 1610, the Ruffia company took poflellion of 

 Cherry ifland, and brought home confiderable quantities of morfes 

 teeth and oil. In Gull ifland they difcovered three lead mines and a 

 coal mine. 



In the third of King James, an acl of parliament palTed, with di- 

 rections how a paflage may be made by water from London to Oxford ; 

 but as this law did not anfwer expectation, it was repealed. 



In this year a new treaty of peace, commerce, and alliance, was con- 

 cluded between King James and Henry IV king of France, for their 

 mutual defence againft Spain, and for lupporting the United Nether- 

 lands. What relates to commerce is in iubllance as follows, viz. 



I) Tlie duties and cufloms m both countries to be the fame as in 

 former treaties. 



II) In the ports of London for England, and of Rouen, &c. for 

 France, all controverfies between merchants fliall be referred to two 

 merchants of eacli nation, who fliall be called confervators of the com- 

 merce, and fliall take an oath for the faithful execution of their office, 

 and fhall be appointed anew every year. They fliall fee to the juflnefs 

 of weights and nieafures, and thofe in France to the goodnefs of En~ 

 glifli woollen cloth ; and what fliall appear to be bad ihall be re-export- 

 ed to England, but without connfcation, or the paying of any duty at 

 the removal or return of fuch cloth. 



III) If in any fliip of either party there be found goods not enteredj 

 which fliGuld have paid cuftoni, only the unentered goods, but none of 

 the others in the fnip, fliall be forfeited. 



IV) Merchants dying in either country may freely bequeath their 

 effeds according to the laws and cuftoms of their own relpedive coun- 

 tries. 



V) All letters of reprifals fliall be called in on both fldes. {Foedera, 

 V. xvi. p. 645 J 



N. B. in this treaty the ifles of Gucrnfey and Jerfey are by name in- 

 cluded. 



An Englifli minifter vv^as now for the firft time appointed to refide in 

 Turkey, by King James's letters-patent to Thomas Glover, to be his en- 

 voy and a^ent in the dominions of Sultan Achmet the grand flgnior, 

 who has freely given his content that our merchants may trade to his 

 dominions. Liberty is hereby given to the faid Thomas Clover to re- 

 fide ni what part of Turkey he fhall think beft, and to appoint confuls 

 for the good government of the Englifli in the other proper ports. This 



