162 CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HERRING-FISHERY. 



was supported by the Duke of Kichmond, the Earl of 

 Pembroke, Lord Southampton, Sir William Monro, and 

 others of distinction, and aided by the Privy purse. King 

 Charles enjoined Lent to be more strictly observed, and 

 agreed to purchase the fish for the navy from this com- 

 pany. Several magazines for storing casks and salt were 

 built in the Hebrides, one in Harris, and another at 

 Lochmaddy, in North Uist, but the civil wars ensuing, 

 the Danes and Dutch attacked the new colonies, and the 

 undertaking was thus prevented ; the sufferers after- 

 wards petitioned Charles II. for redress, and stated 

 that they had sustained losses to the extent of 

 L.300,000.* 



In the year 1633, Mr Dick, merchant in Edinburgh, 

 farmer of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland, received from 

 his sub-collector at Stronza, a small port of the Orkneys, 

 the sum of L.858, Scottish money, as the teind duty of 

 thirty-two Dutch doggers, thirty paying L.27 each, and 

 two L.24 each. 



In 1636 King Charles issued a proclamation prohibiting 

 all persons, not his natural born subjects, from fishing on 

 the coasts and seas of Great Britain and Ireland, without 

 a special license first obtained from his Majesty, and 

 accordingly the Dutch agreed to pay L. 30,000 for liberty 

 to fish that summer.f 



In the year 1642 Mr Dick again accounted for teinds 

 from the same port of Stronza, L.507 for eighteen Dutch 

 doggers, and two busses, proceeding to the fishing. 



In 1654, a new company in London endeavoured to 

 renew the fishery at the Hebrides, but Cromwell destroyed 

 their forts at Stornoway, and built new ones to restrain 



* Rymer'a Fcedera, vol. xx. p. 20. 

 t Rusheworth Collection, 322. 



