APPENDIX 117 
THE CHARGE AND PRoFITT OF ONE BussE or 70 TUNES 
IMPLOYED ONE YEARE IN THE FFISHERY, BY WCH MAY BE 
COMPUTED THE CHARGE OF A FLEET. 
THE CHARGE. 
Such a Busse with all her tackle ready to 
launch forth will cost - - - - £403 10 0 
To sett her forth with all lasting and wasting 
comodities for ye whole year - - - 695 18 8 
Wages for 15 men and sallaries to land officers 
for our Busse may be paid - - - - 238 1 0 
£1337 9 8 
THE PRoFITT. 
The Herrings usually taken in such a busse 
in one yeare is seldome less than 100 Lasts 
worth - - - £1000 0 0 
Of cod 15,000 worth 4501., of Ling 
10,000 worth 800 comes to - - - 1250 0 0 
£2250 0 0 
By this accompt (wch is the whole years charges, though 
provisions are shipped at severall tymes and the Sallaries are 
paid at ye vessells returne by the Comodities they bring home), 
it appears that the Herrings, Cod & Ling taken in one year by 
a Busse of 70 Tunnes (besides two moonths set apart for caulking 
the vessel) doth repay the whole money adventured with Interest 
of 70 per cent. and the Buss with all her lasting provisions clearly 
gained, and about 15001i. a year so long as she lasteth after- 
wards, 500 of which Busses would in two years tyme raise his 
Matie. sufficient moneys to make them up 2000 Busses, which 
will bring him in yearly between two and three millions of pounds 
sterling (besides the saving of 300,000 li. yearly of ready money 
weh is laid out with ye Dutch for the fish only caught in our own 
1 Sea Fisheries, Temp. Car. II.; Additional MSS. British Museum. 
