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found in the Literary Search Room at the Record 

 Office, London. The earlier Port Books (from 

 1275) will be found in the class of Exchequer, K-R, 

 Customs Accounts. The later Port Books, from 

 1565, are contained in one thousand four hundred 

 and sixty-four bundles which are indexed under the 

 port names. 



A careful search of these MSS. would doubt- 

 less give evidence of an early trade in whale- 

 bone and trayne oil, e.g., there was a discharge of a 

 cargo including trayne oil by a ship of Holland at 

 Kingston-on-Hull in December, 1608, to one James 

 Scotus; on 22nd March, 1631, Richard Parkins 

 & Company, import two hundredweights of whale 

 fins (this man was afterwards prosecuted by 

 the Muscovy Company); on 5th September, 1633, 

 in the May e flower of Hull, Richard Parkins, junior, 

 from Greenland for the Company, one hundred and 

 twenty-two tons and a halfe of whaile oil, value three 

 thousand six hundred and fifteen pounds. 



Another source of information is the Calendar of 

 State Papers. The student will find numerous 

 references indexed under such headings as: " Fish," 

 " Fisheries," " Iceland," " Newfoundland," " Green- 

 land," and so on. 



Another aspect of the case which merits careful 

 consideration is the history of the relations between 

 the authorised Trading Companies (e.g., the Mus- 

 covy Company) and the Interlopers, the chief of 

 whom hailed from Hull and London. 



Later features of the whaling trade are naturally 



