England's improvements in two parts : in the former is discoursed how the kingdom of England may be improved ... : in the latter is discoursed how the navigation of England may be increased and the soveraignty of the British seas more secured to the crown of England ... / by Roger Coke.

Annot. upon this Prop. and Coroll.

Navigation is a mean of preserving the Sovereignty of the British Seas to the Crown of England; which being so, the Navigation which arises from the Fishing-trade, and the Re∣turns into the Ports of England, and exporting them again, &c. above all others, will more secure the Sovereignty of the British Seas. For in the Navigation which arises from the forrein Trade of our Manufactures, it may be, we employ not one Mariner to one thousand of those who are employed in working the Manufactures; and it may be, not one Ves∣sel to ten thousand: whereas even in the catching and cu∣ring

the Fish, we employ Vessels in Navigation; and all the Men are Mariners, or such as by it become Mariners. Be∣sides, the Bulkiness of the Fish in forrein Trade, employ so many more Vessels and Mariners, as they are more Bulky than other Goods: and the free Importing and Exporting of the Returns, creates a new Trade, and by consequence a new Navigation, to the further employment of Shipping and Mariners: so may the free returns of these, and expor∣ting them again, and so infinitely; whereby the Sovereignty of the British Seas may be infinitely more secured to the Crown of England.