CHARLES I. I THE NAVY 309 



Thus ended the campaign against the Dutch herring-boats, 

 from which, as we have seen, Charles desired to reap profit as 

 well as honour. So far as the profit went, it did not amount 

 to much. Appended to the official journal of the voyage of 

 the fleet is a statement of the sums received for convoying 

 shipping, which, in accordance with the advice of the Admir- 

 alty, was voluntary, and also of the " acknowledgment money " 

 taken from the fishing-busses. The former amounted to 999, 

 nearly all of which was earned by the convoying of merchant- 

 men and small traders to Dunkirk and Ostend. 1 Small as the 

 amount was, it greatly exceeded what was exacted from the 

 Dutch busses for king's license and protection, the total being 

 501, 15s. 2d., collected in a variety of coins. 2 The detailed 

 schedule is as follows: 



"InRixDollo" 878 163 10 08 



In halfe Crownes 145 018 02 06 



In pieces of 3 s 40 006 00 00 



In Runnings Dollo re 100 025 00 00 



In Ryalls of 8 134 029 02 10 



English money 018 12 08 



English Gold 119 13 00 



Dutch and Scotch Angells 015 15 00 



Hungare Duckats 7 002 09 00 



Dutch and French money 001 05 00 



Dutch shillings 066 00 00 



Double Stivers 030 00 06 



Single Stivers 005 06 00 



In Silver 000 18 00 



501 15 02" 



that given by the Earl of Northumberland. According to them, seven English 

 men-of-war fell in with a hundred busses convoyed by five States' warships, and 

 the busses paid the tax and took the licenses. But when thirteen Dutch men-of- 

 war, convoying a great herring fleet, arrived on the scene and put themselves in 

 a position for battle, the English ships did not interfere any further and soon 

 sheered off. 



1 An Accompt of the Convoy money, as it was delivered unto me by the Cap- 

 taines einploied in that Service, vi/t. : Captain Carteret, 657, Captaine Lindsey, 

 200, Captain Slingsby, 42, Captain Johnson, 20, Mr Skinner, 80. 



3 An Account of the Acknowledgment Money taken of the Holland Fishermen. 

 The partiality for English gold is shown by the fact that 119, 13s. of the total 

 was thus paid. 



