A I.T.I >ri;s AMI i.iiiirrn( >rsi-:s. 



foreign trade of Kim'land hern previously conducted in 



foreign SJlIJtS. 1)111 e\'ell ( ! 1 1' < '< i;ist S Wl ')'(' fished 1\- foreign 



fishermen. Tin 1 writer of a pamphlet published in Mi 14. 



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i >iie 1 < 1 'i;ts ( Jen t lull niii, ;t fisherman and mariner, pointed 

 nut the jLi'i'eat amount of wealth yearly taken out of his 

 Majesty's seas by the IIollan<lers, whereby thev had 

 LiTown rich and powerful, possessed of a irreat ileet, and 

 weiv alile to dietate terms to the Spaniards; whereas 

 the Knu'lish coasting people were p<><>r. idle, and ne ( U"li- 

 Li'eiit. and eonstrained e\'en to bee; bread of the " plump 

 Hollanders." Mr. (Jentleinan was indignant at seeing 

 the foreigners, whose indnstrv and diligence he never- 

 theless o'reatly praised, iisinu' our seas as a rich treasury, 

 and drawing wealth iroin them as ironi a ^'old-mine. Six 

 hundred Dutch busses, of some six seore tons each, 

 were employed in the herring' fishery aloii ( U' the Rvitisli 

 coast, from the mouth of the Thames as far north as 

 Shetland, besides numerous others in the eod-fishery, 

 protected by some twenty, thirty, and e\"eii forty ships 

 of war to preyent their be in Li 1 pillaged by the Dunkirkers, 

 who were the chief pirates of those times. That these 

 Dutchmen should come into <ur markets and sell us (>ur 

 i\\ n lish, carrying a\\'a\" e.'reat (pianlities (if our ufold and 

 silyer. \\diils1 Kn^i'lisli ships la\' ii]> a-rottinu', was a thine; 



that Mr. ( Jeiit leina n thought was not coolly to be borne. 



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It is mucli to he lamented, sanl he, tlioii^li we ha\'e 



such a plentiful ( 'mini ry and Store of able and idle peojtle, 

 that not one of 111-- Ma jcsty's Subjects is t here to be seen, 

 all the whole Summer, to hsh or to ta ke one 1 1 erring : but 

 only the Xorth-sea l*oats of the Sea-coast To\\ns. that c v;o 

 to take ( <><{>'. 1 1 ie\" do ta\*' so niaii\a-> they need to bait 

 their I looks, and no more. \\ e are daily scorned by 

 these Hollanders for be in u 1 so neirhii'ent of our Profit and 

 careless o| our FislimiLi* : and the\ do daily flout us that 

 be the poor I' i she r men ol h]i iLi'la nd, 1 o < H \ r l^aees a t >ea, 

 calling 1 to us and >a\iii'j'. ) a l^nu'lish. i/<i iiill <>r oinl *<'<nn' 



