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servants of the same Boate, To Fishe at the place called the Sowe 

 upon the English coast and elsewhere upon that coast, in the same 

 sorte as any one of those five boates heertofore tollerated and 

 privileged out of respect for the service of the Frenche king his 

 excellent Ma tie , for all sortes of Fishe without restrainte of season, 

 soe the same be done and performed with nettes and engines law- 

 full and accustomed by the English subiectes of that coast. Eequir- 

 ing you and every of you whom it shall concerne not onely to permit 

 and suffer him and his sayd servantes soe to doe without any your 

 unnecessary lett or impeachement. But alsoe to yeilde him and his 

 company all lawfull favor and assistance therein as they shall have 

 occasion, bearinge themselves orderly and peaceably and observing 

 the rules and ordinances sett downe and established for that coast 

 fishing as aforesaid under the penalties therein expressed and con- 

 teyned. This license is to endure but until 1 the first daie of August 

 w ch shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God 1616. 



Geven under the Seale of Office at Douer Castle the sixt daie 

 of July in the thirteenth yeare of the reigne of our Souereigne Lord, 

 James, by the grace of God of Great Britaine, Frannce, and Ireland, 

 king, Defender of the fayth, &c. (Sd.) E. SOMERSET. 



A la nomination du Mouns r Villares Houden gouern r du 

 Chatiau et ville de Diep et suit du Eoy de Fraunce. 



APPENDIX D. 



(P. 119.) 



PROCLAMATION FOR REUOCATION OF MARINERS FROM 

 FORREINE SERUICES. 



(A Booke of Proclamations, published since the beginning of his Majesties most 

 happy Reigne ouer England, &c., Vntill this present Moneth of Febr. 3, 

 Anno Dom. 1609 [1602-1612].) 



WHEREAS within this short time since the Peace concluded be- 

 tweene vs and the King of Spaine and the Archdukes our good 

 brothers, it hath appeared unto vs that many Mariners and Sea- 

 fearing men of this Eealme hauing gotten a custome and habite 

 in the time of the Warre to make profite by Spoile, doe leaue their 

 ordinary and honest vocation and Trading in Merchantly Voyages, 

 whereby they might both reape conuenient maintenance, and be seruice- 



