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made Red Herrings to sell into the Streights and other marketts 
as were more than what wee tooke ourselves, to the value at 
least of another hundred thousand pounds. Besides the Hol- 
landers had 500 other shippes imployed upon his Maties. seas to 
serve London and other parts of England with Cod and Ling, 
for which Cod and Ling we can not rationally urge that they tooke 
less of us than 200,000 pounds in ready money whereas if our- 
selves were imployed in ye fishing, no Treasure wd be transported 
for fish, but wd pass from one to another in our own Nation. 
The Profit to be gained computed by stating gains derived 
from fish by Hollanders, ete. 
1. By that of ye States in their customs wch is reported to 
be five hundred and ninety thousand pond, viz. 440,000 li. by 
herrings and 150,000 li. by cod and ling. 
2. By that of the adventurers in their returnes wch is esteemeed 
to be three millions of pounds at home and five millions at for- 
reign markets, and if we add thereto all ye fish taken by other 
neighbour nations on ye British coast all ye yeare long ye totall 
will evidently arrise to tenn millions of pounds. 
3. By that of the Convoys in their pay; while the warr con- 
tinued between the Hollanders and their sovereign the Kinge 
of Spain, the Dunkirkers did so infest their fishermen that 
they were forced to hire men of warr to secure them in their 
fishing and in their passage to and fro, att the price of a Dollar 
uppon every Last, the Register whereof showed 300,000 lasts 
taken during that season of herring fishing. 
4, By the great quantities sold at foreign markets and the 
great price, the quantity more than an hundred thousand lasts, 
with a greater proportion sold to fforeigners at home, besides 
what spent in the Belgick provinces and the price att fforeign 
marketts att least 16, but sometymes in some places 18, 20, 
24, 30, 36 pounds the last. 
BENEFITS.—In the Honour, Security and Strength, that will 
redound to this Nation thereby. 
1. By restoring to our Countrey of Great Brittaine the name 
& reputation of her own Comodities ; for that is one thing which 
renders a Nation renowned among Strangers, that it can furnish 
other parts of the world with any usefull commoditie. But 
