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A36497	A discourse written by Sir George Downing, the King of Great Britain's envoy extraordinary to the states of the United Provinces vindicating his royal master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel, printed under the title of (An extract out of the register of the States General of the United Provinces, upon the memorial of Sir George Downing, envoy, &c.), and delivered by the agent De Hyde for such to several publick ministers : whereas no such resolution was ever communicated to the said envoy, nor any answer returned at all by their lordships to the said memorial : whereunto is added a relation of some former and later proceedings of the Hollanders / by a meaner hand.	Downing, George, Sir, 1623?-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2108; ESTC R34994	50,712	177

some Tapestries Sayes and Hull-shops yea some of our Herrings are carried as far as Brasile and that which is more strange and much to our shame above four hundred of their Ships fish with ours at Yarmouth within Ken of land uncontrould making us pay ready-money for our fish caught by them on our shores Fourthly by this their large extent of Trade originally derived from the benefits they have received from the Kingdom of England they are become as it were Devisions of the whole World whereby they have within a Century or more of years so enlarged their Towns that the major part of them are as big again as they were before for instance Amsterdam Leyden and Middle-borough having been lately above twice enlarged and their Streets and Buildings so orderly set forth that for Beauty and Strength they may compare with most upon which they bestow infinite sums of Money all originally flowing from the bounty of our Seas from whence by their labor and industry they derive the beginnings of all their Wealth and Greatness and particularly for the Havens of the aforesaid Towns whereof some of them cost Forty Fifty or an Hundred Thousand pounds Fifthly by reason of the number of their Shipping and Mariners and so great a Trade occasioned by fishing principally they have not only strengthned and fortyfied themselves at home to repell any further Polemick attempts of the King of Spain but have likewise stretched their power to the East and West-Indies in many places whereof they are Lords of the Sea-coasts and have likewise fortified on the Main where the King and People are subject to their devotion and our Country-men the English lying open to all the out-rages a cruel and imulting Tyrant can inflict upon them So formidable they are both by Sea and Land that none but a Carolus a Carolo knows how to lore their top-saile of their insufferable Pride and bring by the Lee their matchless insolence Sixthly how mightily the publick Revenue and Customes of the State are increased by their fishing may appear in that about forty or fifty years since over and above the Customes of the Merchandize Excises Licenses Waftage and Lastage there was paid to the State for Custom of Herrings and other Salt-fish and Cask paid for Waftage which cometh at least to as much more besides a great part of their Fish sold in forraign parts for ready money for which they commonly export for the finest Gold and Silver and coming home recoyn it of a baser allay under their own stamp witness the scarcity of our old Gold which is no small means to augment their Treasure Seventhly as touching their private wealth it will appear by the abundance of Herring and other fish by them taken For instance during the War between the King of Spain and the Hollander the Dunkirkkers by taking spoyling and burning the Busses of Holland and setting great ransome on the Fishermen enforced them to compound for great Sumns of Money that they might fish quietly one year whereunto the next year after the Fishermen among themselves were to pay a dollar upon every last of Herrings towards the maintenance of certain Ships of War to convoy and secure them in their fishing by reason whereof there was a Record kept of the several last of Herrings taken that year and it appeared thereby that in one half year there was taken three hundred thousand last of Herings which being at twelve pound per last amounteth to three Millions and six hundred thousand pounds whereas at sixteen twenty and thirty pounds they are sold in other Countries This great Trade of fishing employing so many ships at Sea must consequently maintain a very great number of Tradesmen and Artizens at land as Spinsters and Hemp-winders for Cables Cordage Yarn Twine for Nets and Lines Weavers to make Sail-cloaths Receivers Packers Dressers Tacklers Coopers Blocks and Bowl-makers for ships Keelmen and Labourers for removing and carrying fish Sawyers for planks Carpenters Shipwrights Boat-men Brewers Bakers and a number of others whereof a great part may be maimed Persons and unfit to be otherwise employed besides the maintenance of all their several Wives Chidren and Families and further every man or maid-servant or Orphan having any poor stock may venture the same in their fishing voyages which affords them ordinarily great increase and is duly paid according to the proportion of their gain this makes them have so few Beggars amongst them and we so many in not finding out such like means to imploy the poorer sort of people the appurtenances hereunto belonging will cost us no more than theirs did and since we have the propriety of the seas we want only industry to effect this purpose Lastly Holland is so poor of it self that it yieldeth little saving some few Hops Madder Butter and Cheese yet notwithstanding by reason of this Art of fishing aboundeth plentifully in all manner of Provisions as well for Life as Luxury nay for defence too all which they not only have in competent proportion for their own use but are likewise able from their several Magazines to supply other Countries The premises considered it maketh much to the ignomy and shame of this Kingdom that God and Nature offering us so rich a Treasure even to our own doors we notwithstanding neglect the benefit thereof and by paying money to the ungrateful Hollander for the fish of our own Seas impoverish our selves to inrich them But thanks to Almighty God that hath put it into his Majesties heart to put a stop to their further proceedings herein and do not doubt but he will once more make them acknowledg that the Soveraignty of the Narrow Seas belong to him alone his Majesties Prerogative by immemorable prescription continuall usage and possession the acknowledgment of all Neighbours States and the Municipal Laws of this Kingdom and that unto him by reason of the said Soveraignty the Supream command and jurisdiction over the passage and fishing in the same rightfully appertaineth Why may not the English then make the same advantages of these Seas as the Dutch whom we are now chastiseing not for their industry therein but for their ingratitude incivility and rag-manners The task will not be very difficult if this method may be observed as followeth By erecting two hundred and fifty Busses of reasonable strength and bigness there will be employment found for a thousand Ships and for at least twenty thousand Fishermen and Mariners at Sea and consequently for as many Laborers and Tradesmen at Land The Herrings taken by those Busses will afford the King twenty thousand pound Custom outward and for Customes returned inward three hundred thousand pound and more We have Timber sufficient and at reasonable rates growing in this Kingdom for the building these Busses and every Shire affordeth men of able and hardy bodies fit for such employment who now live poorly and idlely at home Provision we have cheap enough and great plenty thereof and our Shores and Harbours are

General as of the said Company wherein they deduce their right to that whole Coast to the exclusion of all other Nations And notwithstanding all Complaints to their Lordships neither the said Declaration disavowed nor any thing of Satisfaction given but still new Complaints coming and among others that of their having stirr'd up the King of Fantine by rewards and sums of money given him to that end and supplying him with all sorts of Arms and Ammunition for the surprize of His Majestie 's Castle at Cormantine in those parts concerning which also proofs have been since given to their Lordships by the said Envoy Extraordinary so that there was an absolute necessity impos'd upon His Majesty and His Subjects either of losing all that had been actually taken from them and withal abandoning for ever that Trade it self or otherwise of betaking themselves to some other ways for their relief And it will rather be thought strange that their patience did hold out so long than that now at last something should be done towards the righting of themselves Besides as to the business of Capo Corco Did not the same Envoy Extraordinary long ago complain in the Name and by Order of the King his Master in publick Conferences both with the Deputies of their Lordships the Estates General and also with those of Holland in particular of the injurious possessing and keeping of that place by those of the said West-Indie-Company deducing and remonstrating at large his Master 's Right thereunto the ground having been bought by His Subjects of the King of That Country for a valuable consideration and a Lodg or Factory built thereupon and those of the West Indie Company of this Country being got into the possession of the place meerly by fraud and treachery but no reflection made thereupon by their Lordships much less any hopes given of ever obtaining any restitution from them And indeed if His Majesty had not been able to rescue out of their hands the least Boat or penyworth of Goods since His Return to His Kingdoms concerning which complaint had been made by His Envoy Extraordinary of its being forceably taken by them from His Subjects what hopes of their quitting to Him any such place especially remembring that business of the Island of Poleroon in the East-Indies which hath been a restoring by them ever since the year 1622 at which time it was by solem and particular Treaty promised to be done and again by another Treaty in the year 1654 and by Orders of the Estates General and East-Indie-Company of this Countrey in the year 1661 and again by Treaty in the year 1662 and yet to this day we know nothing of its being delivered And can it be thought strange if invited thereunto by the King of the said Country that His Majesty should after so fair warning condescend to suffer His Subjects to endeavour to re-possess themselves thereof And as to the business of New Netherland so called this is very far from being a surprize or any thing of that nature it being notoriously known that That spo●… of Land lies within the limits and is part of the possession of His Subjects of New England as appears most evidently by their Charter and that those few Dutch that have lived there have lived there meerly upon connivence and sufferance and not as having any right thereunto and that this hath from time to time and from year to year been declared unto them but yet so as that the English were contented to suffer them to remain there provided they would demean themselves peaceably and quietly but that the said Dutch not contenting themselves therewith did still endeavour to encroach further and further upon the English imposing their Laws and Customs and endeavouring to raise Contributions and Excises upon them and in places where no Dutch were or had ever been Whereupon they have formerly been necessitated several times to send Soldiers for the repelling of them And as to what is said in the said Paper as if though the English should formerly have had any pretence to the said place that yet the said pretence is cut off by the fifteenth Article of the late Treaty To this he doth Reply That That Article doth only cut off matters of Piracies Robberies and Violence but as to the Rights and Inheritances of Lands and Jurisdictions that it doth not at all concern or intermeddle with the same And that this is so there needs no other Argument but the producing of several Examples out of their own Courts of Justice whereby it will appear that indeed as to the Plundering and taking of Ships or the like that all such causes if hapned before the time limited in the said Treaty did cease upon the Conclusion thereof but as to such as were then depending concerning the Inheritances of Lands that they have still continued to be pursued As for Example The Case of Sir Thomas Lower an English Man for certain Lands claimed by him in Zealand Besides those of New Neather-Lands had since the Conclusion of the Late Treaty made new Incursions upon the English and given them many new provocations and by their Charters they have Jura Belli within Themselves without Appealing first into Europe And if after all this His Majesty hath suffered them according thereunto to rescue themselvs from such continued Vexations and Mischiefs Can Any Prince think it strange or be surprized thereat much less the most Christian King For whose Satisfaction this Paper seems to be more particularly Calculated Whereas He hath been pleased this very same year to Order or Suffer with his Privity His Subjects to Re-possess themselves in like manner by Force and Arms of a certain Place called Cayenne which they pretend to have been wrongfully possessed and kept from them by the same West-Indie-Company And as to the business of Cabo Verde and the taking of their Ships and what else is alledged to have been done in those parts except that of Cabo Corco 'T was but in the Month of June last that the first Complaint was made thereof to His Majesty and did he not immediately return for Answer That He had given no Order or Direction to Captain Holmes the Person complained of for the doing thereof That he did expect him Home very speedily and that upon his Return he would cause those matters to be Examined and Right to be done them and the Offenders punished And did not the said Envoy Extraordinary upon the Twenty seventh day of July last deliver a Memorial to them to the like Effect And could more be said or done for their Satisfaction Yea could their Lordships Themselves within their own Countries demand more of any of their Schepens or most Inferior Court of Justice And doth not the Fourteenth Article of the Late Treaty say in express Terms that In case any thing should happen upon the Coast of Africa either by Sea or Land that Twelve Months time shall be given after Complaint for the doing of