The only design of the Company of Fishermen, by the bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons, as far as relates to themselves is as follows ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53377 of text R6748 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O347). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A53377 Wing O347 ESTC R6748 12988513 ocm 12988513 96261 2248517681

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53377) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96261) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 724:12) The only design of the Company of Fishermen, by the bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons, as far as relates to themselves is as follows ... England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1695?] Broadside. Caption title. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Company of Free-Fishermen of the River of Thames. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo The only design of the Company of Fishermen, by the bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons, as far as relates to themselves is as follows, [no entry] 1695 1 563 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The only Design of the Company of Fishermen , By the Bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons , as far as relates to themselves is as follows , viz.

1. THat thereby all the Fishermen may be equally known to the Government , as well as those of the Company ; and when their Majesties Service requires any number of them , that the Admiralty may , out of all such as get their Livelihood by fishing in publick waters , be supplied with those that are best able to serve , and with due regard to the condition of their several Ages , Families and Trade .

2. That those that are not of the Company , may not for want of a Register , and by hiding themselves during a Press , have the advantage when the Press is over , of returning to their Employ , and thereby get all the Trade into their own hands . And

3. That the Fishermen may be free from those great abuses committed by Press-masters and Pinnaces , who take away as well Masters of Vessels , as common Saylors , and many times all the Men on board ; leaving the charge of their Vessels , freighted for a London Voyage , to a Boy or two ; by which means their Freights of Fish have been many times wholly lost , and the Vessels indangered .

And as this Act will be to the benefit of the Fishermen in general , so appointing a Registry , as in the Act will evidently be , to the great advantage of the publick ; in that ,

1. Thereby the Government may know the Fishermen , their Names and Qualifications , as well as the Watermen are known on the River of Thames ; and under the same restriction may be supplied , within the Company 's limits , with some thousands of Men fit for Service , whilst the rest of the Fishermen may go on safely and quietly in their Employs : Whereas they now generally retire into remote places in time of Impressing , to the prejudice of the publick ; and such of them as are Impressed , do generally stand the Government in three or four pounds a man .

2. That the Markets of London , and places adjacent , may be in time of War as plentifully supplied with all sorts of Fish as in times of Peace , at one third part of the present price ; those of them that are left to the Fishing ( after taking such as the Government shall like ) having the priviledge to pass to and fro with their Vessels without interruption , as the Watermen do .

3. That the Running or Imbezzling of the Customs ( much practic'd by the Kentish and Essex men ) will in a great measure be prevented , in having the Names and places of Abode of the Fishermen Registred by the Company , who give great security to the Crown to prevent the Running of Customs ; and do engage their Members by Oath not to consent to do or conceal the same , but to discover such Offenders , that they may be punished according to Law .