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<HEAD>REASONS <HI>Humbly offered to the Con&s;ideration of</HI> PARLIAMENT, <HI>why</HI> STOCK-FISH <HI>and Live</HI> EELS <HI>&s;hould be Imported into</HI> ENGLAND: <HI>Notwith&s;tanding the &s;ame being at pre&s;ent Prohibited by the</HI> ACT, <HI>which Prohibits the Importation of Iri&s;h</HI> CATTLE <HI>and Forreign</HI> FISH.</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>Fir&s;tly,</LABEL> _THE &s;aid <HI>Cod-fi&s;h, alias Stock-Fi&s;h,</HI> is Caught and Cured in <HI>I&s;eland,</HI> which is in the King of <HI>Denmarks</HI> Dominions, and no where el&s;e; and is Cured without Salt, by the Coldne&s;s of the Air and Fro&s;t; only which Fi&s;h is made u&s;e of by all our Ships trading to the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t Indies, Guinney,</HI> and other parts, where no other s;ort of <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> will keep good, but decay.</P>
<P><LABEL>Secondly,</LABEL> The &s;aid <HI>Stock-Fi&s;h</HI> is never made u&s;e of in any other place then where our own <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> will never keep or hold good: So that there is never the le&s;s of our Engli&s;h <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> &s;pent, by the <HI>Stock-Fi&s;h</HI> imported into the Kingdom; in as much as no Per&s;on will Eat that if they can get our <HI>Engli&s;h Cod</HI> or <HI>Ling.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Thirdly,</LABEL> This &s;ort of <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> is ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for our <HI>Seamen;</HI> and is ob&s;erved and allowed to have been of great u&s;e and benefit to them, by pre&s;erving them in their long Voyages from the <HI>Scurvey,</HI> which they are &s;ubject unto, by rea&s;on that all other of their Provi&s;ions are extreamly &s;alt: So that divers Commanders have affirmed that for want of that &s;ort of <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> two thirds of their Men have in &s;ome Voyages fallen down with the <HI>Scurvey,</HI> to that degree that they have hardly had Men enough on Board able to &s;tand on their Legs for managing their Sails.</P>
<P><LABEL>Fourthly,</LABEL> If our Shipping cannot be furni&s;hed with <HI>Stock-Fi&s;h</HI> here, they will have it from other parts beyond the Seas, <HI>Holland,</HI> or &s;ome other places: And therefore better for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to Import it than <HI>For|reigners.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As for the Live Eels prohibited in the &s;ame</HI> Act, <HI>they are taken at or near</HI> Copenhagen, <HI>within the &s;aid Kingdom of</HI> Denmark, <HI>and brought to</HI> London <HI>Market.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Fir&s;tly,</LABEL> The &s;aid <HI>Eels</HI> are taken in Fre&s;h Water within the Land, and are of the Natural Growth of that Coun|trey; and therefore no way prejudicial to the <HI>Fi&s;hery</HI> of this Kingdom.</P>
<P><LABEL>Secondly,</LABEL> That the Trade of bringing Live <HI>Eels</HI> from <HI>Denmark</HI> to <HI>London</HI> Market, is but for one Voyage in the year, which time is about <HI>Michaelma&s;s,</HI> and that but only for two Ships or Hoys which are built on purpo&s;e for that Trade.</P>
<P><LABEL>Thirdly,</LABEL> That formerly (as Ancient Men affirm) there hath been Fourteen Ships or Hoys at one time in the <HI>River</HI> of <HI>Thames</HI> (all <HI>Foreigners</HI>) all which <HI>Eels</HI> were &s;old in <HI>London</HI> Market, although the number of People then in|habiting in and about the City, not half &s;o many as now; which Places where tho&s;e Ships or Hoys were Laden, are &s;ince drained, and great Towns built in the room thereof.</P>
<P><LABEL>Fourthly,</LABEL> That our <HI>Fenns</HI> in <HI>England</HI> being now drained al&s;o, there is not the hundredth part &s;ufficient taken in <HI>England</HI> to &s;upply the Kingdom. And whereas there can be but two Ships imployed upon that Trade, if there were Lading to be had for more than twenty, they would be all &s;old in <HI>London</HI> Market.</P>
<P><LABEL>Fifthly,</LABEL> That the afore&s;aid Trade of bringing live <HI>Eels</HI> into <HI>London</HI> Market, hath been Practi&s;ed time out of mind, as will appear by all the Ancient Mapps of the City of <HI>London,</HI> where you will find the <HI>Eel</HI>-Ships alwayes figured out in the River of <HI>Thames,</HI> lying at Anchor over again&s;t <HI>Queenhithe.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Sixthly,</LABEL> That the &s;aid Live <HI>Eels</HI> are E&s;teemed (as in Truth they are) mo&s;t Excellent Food (The Price being &s;et by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of <HI>London</HI>) are bought and &s;old, at very rea&s;onable Rates.</P>
<P><LABEL>Seventhly,</LABEL> That the &s;aid Trade hath heretofore been managed by <HI>Dutchmen</HI> who Sayled from <HI>Holland</HI> to <HI>Denmark,</HI> and bought them there, and brought them to <HI>London</HI> Market, but is now &s;olely managed by the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who are Fi&s;hmongers in <HI>London</HI> (No Forreigner being concerned with them.)</P>
<P><LABEL>Eighthly,</LABEL> That the afore&s;aid <HI>Stock-Fi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Eels</HI> are the Returns and Effects of our own Manufactories and Growth of this Kingdom, Our Woollen Cloth, Serges, Perpetuanes, <HI>Norwich</HI> Stuffs, Stockings, Pewter, Chee&s;e, and Spirits; going out of this Land in Exchange for the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore it is mo&s;t humbly prayed, That the &s;aid</HI> Stock-Fi&s;h <HI>and Live</HI> Eels <HI>may be Imported, notwith&s;tanding the Prohibitions afore&s;aid, or any new Act that &s;hall be made to perpetuate the afore&s;aid Acts.</HI></P>
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