74 CHARLES I. 
Sending in his report on August 16th, 1636, from his 
flagship, The Triumph, then lying before Scarborough, 
Northumberland reported that he had not seen so many 
Dutch vessels as had been expected. He had, in fact, 
arrived at the fishing grounds so late in the season that 
the greater number of the Dutch had left for home. He 
had, however, found all the Dutch with whom he spoke 
very willing to pay the required tax and accept the license, 
being “‘ most desirous of the King’s protection,’ and had 
distributed about 200 licenses. Only two or three Dutch- 
men-of-war were with their fishing fleet, and these were 
small vessels meant as a protection against attacks from 
the Dunkirkers.+ 
In Scottish waters, the Duke of Lennox ? was to levy the 
duties from foreigners, the king having written to him on 
17th August, 1636, that this would be part of his duty 
as High Admiral of Scotland, since strangers coming into 
ports had always paid “‘one acknowledgement to our 
Admiral there.” The Council in Scotland, however, seem 
to have found the levying of the tax a difficult task ; nearly 
a year afterwards, on 20th June, 1637, they were still con- 
sidering “of the best and most faisable way to uplift the 
said dewtie.”’ ® ’ 
Northumberland himself was finding it a more difficult 
task to collect the duty and to distribute the licenses than he 
had found it at first. His next reports, dated September 
16th and October 6th, stated that he had fallen in with 
a Dutch fishing fleet of about 400 vessels, accompanied by 
1 Cal. S.P. Dom. Car. I., vol. 330, No. 41. 
2? The Duke of Lennox was also one of the Council for the Fishing. In 
1636 the Council included :—For the English: the Lord Treasurer, the 
Earl Marshal, the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Cottington, 
and Secretaries Coke and Windebank ; for the Scots: the Duke of Lennox, 
the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl Morton, the Earls of Roxburgh and 
Stirling, and Sir John Hay. 
3 Reg. Privy Council, Scotland, vol. vi. (2nd series) p. 457. 
