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Charles II, King of England. Charles R. to... the Lord 

 Mayor of our City of London [recommending] a free sub- 

 scription for raising a stock to buy hemp and clapboards to 

 make herring fishing nets and... fitting out one Busse or fishing 

 vessel [to each Ward.] Given at our Court at Whitehall this 

 23 day of July in the 12 year of our reign, (1660). London, 

 printed for Jane Bourne. [1660]. s. sh. fol. 



Letters patents, [nominating and constituting] 



Royal fishing of Great Britain and Ireland. ( London, J. Bill 

 and C. Barker, 1661.) B.L. pp.8. 4. 

 [Dated 22 Aug. 13.] 



See WATSON ( Smith). To the King, etc. 1677. 



Cole (John). An humble proposal to... Parliament... for em- 

 ploying and maintaining the poor of the Kingdom, by erecting 

 fisheries, [circa 1700]. s. sh. fol. 



Cole ( Thomas). A short narrative of the proceedings, of the 

 Society appointed to manage the British white herring fishery 

 ...with seasonable hints for improving and extending the 

 British white herring fishery on the coast of Wales. London, 

 1750. pp.27. 4. 



Collection. A collection of tracts on several useful and inter- 

 esting subjects, relating to publick affairs... V. A method 

 for the preservation of our river and pond fisheries from the 

 daily destruction that is now made of them, etc. London, 

 Thomas Trye, 1748. 4. 



[ There is also an edition without date. It is signed " Corrigi- 

 dorus."] 



Collins ( John). A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattle, 

 and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners. Together with 

 an. ..address to. ..Members of Parliament of.. .Cornwall and 

 Devon, about the... fishery, etc. London, Langley Curtis, 

 1680. pp. 38. 4. 



Salt and fishery, a discourse thereof, etc. London, 



Robert Home, 1682. 4. 



Collins ( Wilkie). Rambles beyond railways ; or, notes in 

 Cornwall taken a-foot. New edition. London, Bentley, 

 1861. 12. 



[ II. A Cornish fishing town. VII. The pilchard fishery.] 



Considerations upon the white-herring and cod fisheries : in 

 which the design of carrying on and improving them, in the 

 manner proposed by a Society trading with a joint stock, is 

 fully explained, and freed from all objections. London, M. 

 Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster-row. 1748. title, pp. 58. 

 4. 



