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A38624 An Essay for the raising a national fishery by the poor of England without tax or money that shall imploy and maintain all the poor, and growing poor of this nation for ever, and in less than five yers, totally ease the publick from that greivous burden / humbly address'd to the honourable House of Commons in behalf of the poor of England. 1700 (1700) Wing E3282; ESTC R31444 9,073 20

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without infringing or interfering on the painful Husband-men's Labour or with the Woolen Manufacture or any others which would prove a desperate Wound instead of a Cure which must be effected by an other method if ever attain'd Among the Various Methods that possibly may be thought on or proposed with humble Submission 't is believed there can be but one sound that will in all respects effectually answer this great End which is not of Humane Invention but by the providence of God is put into our Hands if we would lift them to our Mouths tho' for our Ingratitude to Heaven our stuborn Blindness Sloth and Idleness we are unworthy of so great and peculiar a Blessing we might enjoy above many others that is the FISHING TRADE I shall not here Illustrate on the many Advantages besides Maintainance of the Poor 't would be to this Kingdom nor mention the Disadvantages the loss of that Trade has brought on us they are too obvious already and are both Universally known and acknowledged But how to put this great Design successfully in Practice remains as yet the Mystery To the Explicating of which I humbly offer the following Propositions or Suppositions First That English Men being furnished with Busses and Nets will be allowed as capable to catch Fish and eat them without any Hardship as well as the Hollanders or any other Nation and in many respects we have naturally the advantage of them or any other People for the Trade and Business Secondly That those English Men that have not wherewith to buy Meat the Case of too many poor honest working Families in this Town would think it a happiness to be fed with wholesome Fish Bread and Roots which without Offence was the Diet of those Worthies the Founders of Amsterdam Venice and of our own London and of most other Flourishing and Trading Towns in the World Thirdly 'T will be likewise granted that Men being now furnish't with Busses Nets and other Necessarys for Fishing under a due regulation at a Publick Charge have the same means to Live the same Tools to Work with for the support of themselves and Families as our fore Fathers had tho' on much better and easier Terms and may without doubt live and thrive as well as they did under greater Difficulties and this without any Fish Transported if that were necessary for Fish at Home will either But or Barter for Bread Meat Cloths Fire and all other Necessaries Fourthly That naturaly there are but three ways for all Mankind to get a living which are either Planting and Sowing the Fruits of the Earth hunting wild Beasts or devouring one another or catching Fish 't is presumed the third king only can be applicable to this Matter for in the first Peopling of all Collonies there first care must be to clear the Ground of Trees to plant Food for their own Sustenance before they can arrive to greater things so originally in the first Planting of Fishing Collonies they were begun by only Fishing for Food and raised by their redundancy who by furnishing others that wanted had in Exchange or Barter all other Necessaries first afterwards all manner of Superfluities till in time they acquiring great Riches Dignities and Dominions This is the natural Rise Progress and ultimate of all Fisheries and probably as they were all thus raised by degrees there may be no other means possible to revive and raise our lost and decay'd Fishery but by the same means 'T is a Subject of the greatest wonder to Foreigners and Shame and Indignity to our selves that English Men can Beg or want Work who may have Fish for catching Roots and Pulse for Planting Cloths for Spinning c. yet this is too easily answered they can't do this without Tools not purchase them without Money nor be employ'd by those that have both 'T is farther presumed that wholsome Food warm Cloths and Huts to secure from Cold and Weather are all the Poor stand in need of There Women and Children may be Employ'd in Knitting Nets Spinning Thread c. whilst the Men are Fishing Carrying and Recarrying Sir Walter Raleigh affirming that every Fishing Ship sets to work Thirty several Trades and Occupations and eight Thousand Persons by Sea and Land and that three hundred Persons are no able to make one Fleet of Nets in four Months for one Buss That to allure them to Industry and a regular Life among this new Common-wealth of Fishers they should be incouraged to Marry among themselves and be endowed with some Privileges and Immunities the more they multiply the greater the Blessing for they can never want Food and Necessaries till they have drained the Sea of Fish This would prevent the Murder of many poor Infants and check the many Robberies and Murders that are daily committed and would re-people the Sea Coast round the Kingdom repair all our old decay'd Fishing Towns and build many new ones and asking Pardon for the Expression do affirm that a Wall of Fishing-Nets round England would be a much better Defence and Security to the Nation than Fryer Bacon's Brazen Wall would have been could his Art have done it It remains now to shew how this great and glorious Work may be put in Practice so as succesfully to accomplish this great End without Tax or additional Expence to the Publick which 't is presumed will make it worth the Trial and this to be done by a right application of the Poors Revenue which heitherto hath been wrongly disposed of and to litttle purpose either for the common Good or comfort of the Poor The due Care Government and Management of the Poor is the great concern of the Publick and its Ministers and Magistrates are not without great reason Stilled the Fathers of the Poor to put them in mind that they should cherish and nourish them as Children for how Paradoxical soever it may seem the Hands of the Poor are the true and real Riches Strength Security and Blessing of a Kingdom when rightly employ'd and the Bain Curse Plague and Ruine of a Nation when idle of themselves or maintained so or which is Equivolent employ'd to no purpose To come closer to the Matter The yearly revenue of the Poor is Estimated at about 800000 l. and probably if it were nicely enquired into may be found a Million now supposing this great Revenue be paid yearly for the future as it has been for many Years past and is still growing and if not prevented must encrease for ever and that this Money be employ'd to the Poors use as now 't would be well worth knowing what good 't would do them or what Benefit either poor or Publick would receive in proportion to such a mass of Treasure raised and buried without any visible appearance of publick Good nor the tenth part of the Poor provided for Now if to accomplish this glorious Enterprize of raising and establishing a Fishery on an immoveable and solid Basis there were required 20 30 40 or a 100