100 THE HERRING IN HISTORY 



needful for fowlers to call several kinds of fowls or 

 birds to their nets or snares." 



Of its practical value we have found no record. 

 But the reign of Charles I. is too serious a 

 subject to introduce at the end of a chapter* 

 To appreciate the importance of the levying 

 of ship money in its true light as an expedient 

 for the increase of the naval power of England 

 against the menace of Dutch skippers, we must 

 now turn to the history of the industry in 

 Holland, and see by what means the Dutch 

 had acquired their peculiar position in the 

 herring industry. 



