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and encourage it. He therefore advised the king to 
give the fishery “‘ his signall and expresse Countenance, with 
the Publick authority of the Parliament,” and suggested 
that the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland should also be 
roused to take an interest in the scheme to be brought 
forward.! 
About the same time as Dr Worsley made this report, 
two public spirited men, named Smith Watson and Simon 
Watson, inspired by the same desire to see their fellow 
countrymen enter upon the business of the fishery, set forth, 
in great detail, “The Charge and Profitt of one Busse of 70 
Tunes imployed one year in the ffishery, by wch may be 
computed the charge of a fleet,” 2? showing, in much the same 
sanguine fashion as Charles I. had done thirty years before, 
that the fishing industry was far more profitable than men 
imagined, and that it was folly to continue to pay Dutch 
fishermen to catch fish for English consumption. 
These same enthusiasts also drew up “ A Modell of a Con- 
troll for the Royal Fishery,” in which they proposed that the 
employees of the Association should be paid according 
to the results of the fishing, “‘for this will stir them up 
to be more industrious, when the more they work for his 
Ma. the more they get to themselves.” It would also, they 
very pertinently remarked, be a check upon fraud, since no 
man could defraud the Association without defrauding 
his fellows, ‘‘ who will therefor for their owne interest, look 
one to another.” The fishermen were to be paid according 
to the catch of their own vessel, while the general officers 
of the company were, they proposed, to be paid according 
to the takings of the whole fishing fleet. The estimate 
1Dr. Worstleyes Proposall about the Herring Fishing of these three 
Kingdomes: Additional MSS. British Museum; Sea Fisheries, Temp. 
Car. IT. 
2Sea Fisheries, Temp. Charles II.; Additional MSS. British Museum. 
See Appendix. 
