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policy of Charles II. did English shipping 

 much harm. The Dutch War of 1665 was 

 popular, but the insult of 1667, when the Dutch 

 sailed up the Medway and 



"An English pilot too (O shame ! O sin !) 

 Cheated of 's pay, was he that showed them in," ^ 



caused an outburst of popular fury against 

 the Dutch that survived to embarrass the 

 sufficiently perplexing position of William of 

 Orange, as ruler of the two countries which 

 had been at each other's throats for the three 

 preceding decades. His closing days must have 

 been galled by the disaster to the Dutch 

 fishing fleet, when in 1702 six French men-of- 

 war attacked it at sea and burnt no fewer than 

 400 ships, after having sunk the admiral's ship 

 and driven off the three other Dutch ships of 

 war. 



That singular person, James Puckle, author 

 of " The Club " (1667 (?)— 1724) and grandson 

 of a Mayor of Norwich, took a prominent 

 part in the fishermen's question under 

 William III. He was the promoter of another 

 Royal Fishery of England Company, and in 

 1696 issued a pamphlet entitled " England's 

 Interests, or a Brief Discourse of the Royal 

 Fishery in a letter to a Friend," which was 

 altered and reissued under a new title '^ the 

 following year, a second time altered, enlarged 

 and largely re- written as " England's Way to 

 Wealth and Honour, in a Dialogue between an 



^ Marvell's " Last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars." 

 "^ For the full titles and other details see the Bibliography. 



