A. D. 1613. 275 



We have likewife, from the faine very credible author, the total 

 ; amount of the cuftoms of England for this year 161 3, viz. 



London. 

 Outward, L6i,32 2 16 7 



Inward, 48,250 i 9 



Li09,572 18 4 



Out-ports. 

 L25,47i 19 7 

 13,030 9 9 



L38,502 9 4 



Total. 

 L86,794 ^^ 2 

 61,280 II 6 



Li 48,075 7 8 



Thus we fee, that London paid then very near thrice as much for 

 cuftoms as all the reft of England together. 



1614. — ^King James commiflioned Sir Henry Wootton his ambafla- 

 dor extraordinary to the ftates of the United provinces and others, to 

 treat with the commiflaries of their high mightinefles, concerning the 

 differences between the fubjects of the two nations, on account of the 

 free commerce of his fubjeds to the Eaft-Indies obftruded by the Hol- 

 landers, and alfo on account of the fiftiery in the North fea, near the 

 ftiores of Greenland, of right folely belonging to him and his people, 

 -but interrupted alfo by the Hollanders. \F(xdera, V. xvi, p. 774-] 



George Spilbergen now failed from Holland, with five fliips, through 

 the ftraits of Magellan, and did great mifchief to the Spaniards in the 

 South fea, &c. and thence he failed round the globe, by the way fettling 

 a factory at Ternate, the chief of the Molucco ifles, and returned home 

 by the Cape of Good Hope in 161 7. This is the fecond voyage round 

 the globe pertormed by the Hollanders. 



This year produced the difcovery of a new fpecies of woollen manu- 

 facture in England, on the following occafion. The ftates general of 

 the United Netherlands having ifllied a placart, prohibiting the importa- 

 tion of any Englifti woollen cloth that was dyed in the cloth, (becaufe it 

 prevented them from dying and drefting them as formerly) upon pain 

 of confifcation of the goods, and of 25 gilders per cloth beftdes, the 

 Englifti clothiers iiigenioufly fell upon the way of making mixtures dyed 

 in the wool, rather than lofe all the advantages of dying and drefting. 

 This has ever fince got the appel'ation of medley cloth. All woollen 

 doth before this time being only of one ftngle colour dyed in the cloth, 

 as black, blue, red, &c. 



The Ruftia company now fent thirteen ftiips to Greenland, and the 

 Dutch eighteen ftiips, four of which v\'ere ftiips of war of the ftates, 

 where they fiftied in fpite of the Englifti company's exclufive preten- 

 fions. 



About this time, the fine iftand of Barbadoes, in the Weft-Indies, was 

 faid to be dilcovered and fettled on by fome Englifti people. Others 

 fay, it was before difcovered by one of Sir William Courten's ftiips, but 

 had then no inhabitants, nor any beafts but hogs, left there by the Spa- 

 niards as ufual, for their own future conveniency : and Courten's heirs 

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