A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer'd, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas.
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A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer'd, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas.
Author
Gander, Joseph.
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London :: Printed for F. Coggan ...,
MDCXCIX [1699]
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Subject terms
Fisheries -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Fisheries -- Economic aspects -- Netherlands -- Early works to 1800.
Maritime law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer'd, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42117.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Observation.
So that if England would en∣courage
this National Fishery,
we should Heap the same Ad∣vantages;
(the Allay of the Coin
only excepted,) which we cannot
permit in England.
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