Class IV. COMMON SALMON. 391 



Wharf e, Nid, Yore, Swale, and Tees ; and other 

 monarchs in aftertimes, provided in like manner 

 for the security of the fish in other rivers. 



Scotland possesses great numbers of fine fish- Scotland. 

 eries on both sides of that kingdom. The Scotch 

 in early times had most severe laws against kill- 

 ing this fish ; for the third offence was by a law 

 of James IV. made capital. Before that, the 

 offender had power to redeem his life.* They 

 w r ere thought in the time of Henry VI. a pre- 

 sent worthy of a crowned head, for in that reign 

 the Queen of Scotland sent to the Dutchess of 

 Clarence, ten casks of salted salmon, which 

 Henry directed to pass duty-free. The salmon 

 are cured in the same manner as at Berwick, 

 and a great quantity is sent to London in the 

 spring ; after that time the adventurers begin to 

 barrel and export them to foreign countries ; 

 but we believe that commerce is far less lucra- 

 tive than it was in former times, partly owing 

 to the great increase of the Newfoundland fish- 

 ery, and partly to the general relaxation of the 

 discipline of abstinence in the Romish church. 



Ireland (particularly the north) abounds with Ireland. 

 this fish : the most considerable fishery is at 

 Cranna, on the river Ban, about a mile and an 



* Regiam Majestatem. Stat. Rob. III. c. 7. Skene's Acts. 

 James IV. Pari. VI. 



