A. D. 1633, 377 



empire *. This was-, probably, the firft proper fubfidy treaty between 

 France and Sweden, fince then frequently repeated. 



The king ifTued a long proclamation for preventing frauds in the 

 weaving,, dying, milling, ftretching, fealing, meafuring, fearching, &c. 

 of woollen cloths.; many or mofl of which being fince then repealed ov 

 altered, we (hall not enlarge on it. [^F^deya, V. xix, p. 445.] 



The king granted a fpecial commiflion for one Young to go out witli 

 what fhips, ..merchandize, and people, he fhould judge proper, for the 

 difcovery of the unplanted parts of Virginia, or any where elfe in 

 America, not poflefled by any European power, and to fettle the fame 

 as an Englifh colony, &c. [Fadera, V. xix, p. 472.] 



In the fame year he iflued his proclamation for regulating the retail- 

 ers of tobacco in cities and towns; wherein none but reputable and fub- 

 ftantial traders fhould retail the fame ; of whom a catalogue fliould be 

 made for each city and town : and he exprefsly prohibits all keepers of 

 taverns, ale-houfes, inns, vidualling-houfes, flrong-water-fellers, &c^ 

 from retailing tobacco. How little feemed he in this, as in many other 

 refpecls, to underfland his true intereft. 



This year a Dutchman erected a wind faw-mill or engine for fawing 

 timber, on the river Thames oppofite Durham-yard in the Strand,. 

 London : whereby with the attendance of one man and one boy, as- 

 much work was done as twenty men can perform in the ufual way. But 

 this method was afterward put down, lefl our labouring people fhould 

 want employment. How juft fuch reafoning is, is fubmitted to the 

 public ; fince, by a parity of reafoning, all wheel-carriages, Sec. fliould'. 

 be fupprefled. There is fuch a faw-mill at Leith, near Edinburgh, 

 which alfo goes by wind l and-, as there is no legal reflraint again fl fa 

 ufeful an engine, it is fomewhat flrange, that in times when ufeful 

 hands were fo much wanted elfewhere, it has never fince been attempt- 

 ed. Poffibly the danger of popular clamour may have deterred mea 

 from purfuing it. 



The author of the Prefent flate of England, [/>«;*/ iii,/». 93, f^a^, 1683.]. 

 acquaints us,, that lacquer varnifli, which, imitating the gold colour,., 

 has faved much coft formerly beftowed on the gilding of coaches, &c. 

 was now firfl brought into ufe in England by the ingenious Mr. Evelyn 

 of Says-court near Deptford. 



This year alio, a new a.nd great afTociation or company was formed^ 

 in England for carrying on the fifliery, in which the earl of Pembroke, 

 Sir William Courten,.Sir John Harrifon, Sir Paul Pindar, &c. were con- 

 cerned : and King Charles, to encourage that laudable purpofe, enjoined 

 lent to be more ftridlly obferved, prohibited fifh caught by foreigners 



* So fays the author of Ridilieu's life, though it was well known to be principallyp intended for ;h<^ 

 depreffion of the houfe of Auilria. 



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