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last of herrings ; nor was the rivalry confined to 

 the countries ah-eady mentioned, since in 1418 

 a treaty made between Louis XI. and Charles, 

 Duke of Burgundy, provides that the French 

 shall not molest the herring fishers of Holland, 

 Zeeland, Brabant, Flanders and Boulogne. 



In the year 1410 a Royal grant of toll was 

 made for paving the streets of Cambridge,^ 

 part of the funds being supplied by a toll on 

 the fisheries, a large boat of herrings paying 

 fourpence, herrings a halfpenny per barrel, 

 and porpoises one farthing each for this pur- 

 pose. Porpoises were regarded as a dainty. 

 A porpoise (entered as a ''purpos"), costing 

 XX shillings, was presented by the Citizens of 

 Norwich to the Duke of Suffolk in 1536. A 

 porpoise, a peacock ''in hys pryde," dobyl-bere 

 and ypocras were served at the banquets given 

 at Norwich on Guild-days at that period by 

 the Guild of Saint George, which was founded 

 in 1324. In 1415, Henry V., at the request 

 of Eric, King of Norway, prohibited the 

 inhabitants of certain towns, among them 

 Gernemouth (Yarmouth), Linn (Lynn), Gippes- 

 wick (Ipswich), Cranmer (near Lynn), and 

 Dersingham, from fishing on the coasts of 

 Norway, owing to the English having abused 

 the permission given them in 1294. 



The Scots from an early date retained the 



* Here the Proctors in early days destroyed bad herrings. At 

 the end of the eighteenth century tlie famous feasts of dons at 

 Stourbridge Fair begun with a large dish of herrings. 



