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had other things to think about than the launching of fishery 

 schemes. Cromwell, however, at the conclusion of the war, 

 renewed the licenses to the fishermen of Dieppe and Calais 

 to fish in the seas between England and France, at the usual 

 times and places. 1 



1 Proc. Council of State, 9th June 1654. Vice- Admiral Lawson, in transmitting 

 to the Admiralty the request from the Governor of Calais, said it had been the 

 practice for the French and Spanish men-of-war to suffer the fishermen of each 

 nation to fish freely, although the war between these Powers had lasted so long. 

 State Papers, Dom., xcviii. 13. 



