6. Encrease of Publick Revenue.
MOreover how mighty the pub∣lick Revenue, and Customes of that State are encreased by their Fish∣ing, may appear in that above thirty years since, over and above the Cu∣stomes of other Merchandize, Excises,
His Majesties propriety, and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies, and injuries, they have committed; and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas. As also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places. To which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Britain, and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours: by an experienced hand.
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- His Majesties propriety, and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies, and injuries, they have committed; and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas. As also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places. To which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Britain, and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours: by an experienced hand.
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- Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.
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- London :: printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain,
- 1672.
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"His Majesties propriety, and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies, and injuries, they have committed; and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas. As also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places. To which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Britain, and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours: by an experienced hand." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33599.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Licenses, Waftage, and Lastage, there was paid to the State, for Cu∣stome of Herring, and other salt-Fish, above three hundred thousand pound in one year, besides the tenth Fish, and Cask paid for Waftage, which com∣eth at the least to as much more among the Hollanders onely, whereto the tenth of other Nations being added, it a∣mounteth to a far greater sum.
We are likewise to know, that great part of their Fish is sold in other Countries for ready monies, for which they commonly export of the finest gold, and silver, and coming home recoin it of a baser allay, under their own stamp, which is not a small means to augment their publick Trea∣sure.