THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE FISHING 53 
use of the natives being defined as in the charter sent by the 
king. The charters of the Association having been sealed 
as Charles had directed, a letter was despatched to him 
to announce that his instructions had been fulfilled in every 
detail, that the establishment of the Association, for which 
he had worked so earnestly, was now accomplished, and that 
all acknowledged “the king’s great grace and favour and 
care of thair subsistence at hame and imployments abroad 
for increasse of trading, shipping and seafaring men, as the 
principall strenth of your Majesties dominiouns.”’ ! 
1 Reg. Privy Council, Scotland, vol. iv. (2nd series) pp. 555, 556. 
