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A65983 Severall remarkable passages concerning the Hollanders since the death of Queene Elizabeth, untill the 25th of December, 1673 Some animadversions thereupon, in answere to a scandulous pamphlett called Englands appeale to the Parliament, from the private caball at white hall. With the continuation of the case between Sr. VVilliam Courten his heires and assignes and the East-India Company of the Netherlands, faithfully recollected by E.W. armig: and rendred into English, French, and Dutch, for satisfaction of his particular friends, in England, France, and the low countriers. E. W. 1673 (1673) Wing W21; ESTC R219253 71,264 105

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Poll money Chymdy money etc. That from every Burger who expends 150. pound per annum in his Family a third parte of it goes to the States for publick uses And if the Fishing trade were ushered in againe to the ancient sea porte Townes of Suffolke Norfolke Lincolne Yorke and Northumherland from whence the first Herring fishers carried it unto Anchusen in North-Holland upon certaine priviledges granted them there as may be seene both by the records in the Statehouse and Three Herrings given in an Eschutchen for the Armes of that Citty It would multiply His Majesties Subjects by drayning other places to come where they might take the Fish freely nere their owne dores and finde as good and as quick marketts from thence as they doe in Holland Zeland and Frizland where they yeild ready money into all partes after the Fishermen returne home from their trading voyages of the first herring season Midsomer Herrings taken by the Hollanders upon the English and Scotch Coast are soe fatt and delicate that they are sold in all the 1● Provinces and partes adjacent for 1. and 2. stivers a Herring And in the later ●nd of the yeare towards L●nt when the fat●nes is almost cousumed with the salt and pickle those English Herrings are s●alded in fresh water and ●aten for great da●ties with vinger oyle and p●pper in Harbours Cloysters and other places There are H●rrings in great aboundance upon the Coast of Holland Danemarke and Norrway but very leane and in the zuyder-Zuyder-sea from Amsterdam to the Texell they are taken in such quantities that the pore people buy 40. and 50. for a stiver by the name of Pan-herrings which are not fitt for pickle therefore the Hollanders runn to the Coast of England and Scotland wh●re the Fishing is more advantageous to the States then the silver Mines in the West-Indies is to the King of Spaine or the spice trade to the East-India Company of the Netherlands And the reasons are very playn and obvious unto all intelligible men viz First in regard of the great numbers of Handicrafts and trades men that are imployed and maintained by the Fisheries which increaseth the publick revenue with their infinite payments they make to the Pactors of wine beare c. where 28. severall excises are payd at the eating of an egg Secondly from the great multitudes of sea-men that are bredd up by that imployment and made ●itt both for the service of Marchant-men and men of warr for the defence of their Country Thirdly by the great tra●●ique that is raised from the product of Herring and Codd-fish which drawes yearly 250000. pound Sterling in ready money from other partes into the United Provinces besides the staple Commodities of those other ajacent Countries soe that the United Netherlands doe multiply the ●●ock of their owne Country yearly by those Fish which they have for Catching from the English Coast and runns into all their Cantores and Treasuries and from thence out againe to build their store houses whar●es Castles ●luices Shipps Dikes dambes bridges c. Wherefore it was high time as well to looke into their strenght as into their wayes of acquiring it And to question them for their breach of league● and treatyes for feare of further assaults and surprises The only Argument that Cato the Elder used in the Senate of Rome for distroying the Citty of Carthage was from a simillitude ●e used concerning greene Figgs that were growing in Carthage whit●in foure days before which he brought into the S●nate when the ma●●er was in debat● from whence he ●●p●l●d that it was not ●afe to ●av● 〈◊〉 great and ●●● dangerous a neighbour ●●● n●r● t●at mig●t surprise them before th●y could ●● rea●h to defend themselves Then reflecting upon the contracts and Covenants ●●● often vyolated by Carthage The old stomans burnt and razed that Citty to the ground But out of the Ashes of Carthage there ●prunge up tho●e Pirates of Tunis and A●g●●rs that have proved more troublesome unto all Europe then the Carthagiman● wer● greuious to the old Romans The Zelanders have followed their exemples since the trade went from Midleburgh to Amsterdam upon the loss of Sluice in ●landers when the generall Marchants that removed could be noe longer secure there and the Marchant adventurers ret●red to Delf then to Rotterdam then to Dort now noe where since their Charter is broken and the English staple of Cloath exposed to contempt that was once accounted the glory of England As to the spice trade which the Hollanders have ingross●d by secr●●t fraud and open vyolence The States Generall cannot be soe va●ne to believe they shall injoy it any longer then there may be an opertunity to take it from them againe notwithstanding they have strenghtned themselves in the East-Indies not only to trade but to fight there which is a new way of Mar handizing that the English were not accustomed unto POl●ron Amboyna and Jaccatra now called Batavia were all the p●ss●ssions of the English and the spice trade was by Covenants and contracts divided betweene the English and the Dutch Companies The Shipps Bona Esperanza and Henery Bonadventura belonged to English-men and were taken from t●em in time of peace by the East-India Company of the Nettherland who have not yett given any satisfaction or reparation ●or the ●ame or for the damages sustained by the loss of their voyages but are left to the proper ●●emedies The product of Fish and spice have brought the Hollanders all things of the growth of other Countries And by consequence thereof they have not only brought downe the price of English Tinn and the staple goods of English Plantations but have also lessned the value of all English Woolen Manufactures by their li●●y Woolesy and Fastaine ●●uffes wherewith they now doe furnish the Boares and Boarines which formerly used to weare good English Cloath and the better sort of ●●opell Aparrell themselves with ●ilks Mohaires ●●amletts and velvetts purposely to discourage all English woolen Manufactures and incourage their owne where they are cheaper wrought with pickle herrings and buttermilk then they can be made in England with good beife and stronge beare The Hollanders now are resolved to give noe more for a pound of English woole in the Cloath stuffe or stockings then they think it worth the working or for English lead or oare then they esteeme the labour of digging and smelting and ●oe imploy their Factors in England to buy it accordingly Although they ●ell their nuttmegs cloves and mace at their owne prices more then treble advantages and their ●ine threads for 30. per cent profitt and vpwards And because the Weavers Spinners ●nitters and other people in the Netherlands whose necessity makes them sparing and laborious should not stand still for want o● worke they are not only furnished from Scotland with woole upon sheepe s●ins cu● Privilegi● but indirectly with English woole welsh and Irish woo●es in great quantities And directly with Spanish wooles