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on the sale of fish exported to the Baltic, Den- 

 mark, Norway, France, and some other countries. 

 Besides this, all victuallers and coffee house 

 keepers were compelled each to take a certain 

 number of barrels of herrings yearly at 30s. per 

 barrel, until a foreign market should be esta- 

 blished to the satisfaction of the council. Beyond 

 these encouragements a duty of 2s. Gd. per barrel 

 was imposed upon foreign herrings imported, and 

 a promise was made of ei all such other advantages 

 as experience should discover to be necessary." 

 Great as were these encouragements, no progress 

 was made in the fishery for sixteen years, at 

 which time a charter was granted to a new 

 fishing company which raised by subscriptions 

 .Cl 1,580. This company, which was renewed in 

 1G90, also failed, and was dissolved by Act of 

 Parliament early in the reign of William Til. 

 Two 'further efforts made in 1720 and 1750 were 

 alike unsuccessful. Various reasons have been 

 assigned for these repeated failures; among these 

 reasons may be mentioned the rule which made 

 London] theMicad-quarters of the fishery, it being 

 the dearest port in the kingdom, and the supe- 

 riority of the Dutch in the art. Andrew Taring- 



