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our Dutch neighbours deck themselves with our feathers and as 
our English Bayes transported white into Amsterdam, and there 
drogged and dyed, they sell by the name of fflemish Bayes, and 
sett their own town Seale on them, so the great staple ling taken 
indeed only by the Hollanders, but yet about the Islands of 
Scotland, Sheteland, Orkney, and wherewith they serve all 
Christendom, is called forsooth by the name of Holland ling, 
2. By taking off that too true imputation of sloathfulness and 
improvidence from our nation, which hitherto hath had many 
thousand persons lay idle at home while strangers come from 
hundreds of leagues to our Coasts for imployment, and eithere 
sent away those commodities from us which God and Nature 
sent unto us, and laid at our doors, or if they sent them not 
away, they made us pay great rates for them, even for the fish 
of our own waters, though towards the takeing those fish we 
have all necessaris in as much more plenty as they have. 
3. By securring our Rights from the incroachments of those 
who (if our gratious Sovereign had not interposed) wd not only 
have supplanted us in our foreign plantations, but probably 
also have catched our bordering seas from us as well as our fish 
as appears. 
1. By their refuseing, notwithstanding our late King’s pro- 
clamation to that purpose, to ask leave when they came to fish 
in our seas, as they had ever done once by the yeare in former 
tyme at Scarborough ; secondly, by their abusing us when they 
did come in our best and nearest fishing in the Yarmouth Road— 
pestering the narrow Seas with multitudes of Dutch Vessells 
and comonly ride at anchor in the midst of the shoals, gipping, 
dressing, and barrelling- their herrings, which makes our English 
loose their tyme, for we cannot drive whilst they ride at anchor, 
but our netts will be spoyled and torn to peeces on the others 
cables. 
Thirdly, by the Hollanders intitling themselves to a freedome 
on the British coasts, in calling their great fishing and catching 
of herrings (which they catch only in his Maties. Seas) the prin- 
cipall golden myne of the United Provinces, States Proclamation, 
19th July, 1622. 
Fourthly, by their late design of getting a patent to possess, 
