They ufe ( when it is to be had ) a great 
found (hot, called Barjlable (hot^ (which is 
beft for fowl } made of t lead blackex than 
our common lead^ to fix pound of (hot they 
allow one pound of powder, Cannon pow- 
der is efteemed beft. 
The fifhermen take yearly qpon the c^oafts 
many hundred Rentals of Coi 5^ hake^had- 
dockj^ poiluck c^c,^ whif^ and 
dry at their ftages, making three \^oyages in 
a year. When they (hir? their fifti ( which is 
at the end of every voyage ) they feparate 
the beft from the worft, the firft they call 
Merchantable fi(h, being found , full grown 
fiih and well made up, which is known 
vyrhen it is clear like a Lanthorn horn and 
without fpots '5 the fccond fort they call re- 
fufe fifi), that is fuch as is fait burnt, fpotted, 
rotten, and caiekily ordered : thefe they put 
off tothje Maffjcl)Hfkts Merchants^ the mer^ 
chantable for thirty and two and thirty 
ryals a kental, ( a kental is an hundred and 
twelve pound weight ) the refufc for Nine 
(hillings and Ten, (hillings a kental , the 
Merchant fends the merchantable fi(h to 
Lisbomey Bilbo^ Burdeaux^ MarfileSy "tahon^ 
Kacheli RoaUymd other Citie§ of France^ 
to the Cmaries clavv-board and pif c- 
ftaves which is there and at the Cbaribs a 
crime Commodity ': the lefufe fifbthey put 
iff 
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