Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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          <head xml:space="preserve"> out of Sr Water Copes booke
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          intituled:
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          Certayne breefe remonstrances
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          offerd to his Ma
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          . &c. 1613.
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 16 leaves
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            in 4
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> * The seas & Merchant only [???]
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            ever to before & therefore [???]
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            the stat: 13 of Eliz. The [???]
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            Marchant only hath power [???]
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            passe & returne wihout
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Towardes the latter end concerning Busses for fishing.
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            Anno 1611 it so far proceeded that after long consultation
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            we framed a body for the corporation consisting of a Governor
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            a deputy, a Treasurer, 24 consulls, 24 assistantes, a sercher,
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            a Guager, &c. with free liberty to all that would become adventurers.
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            We then agreed that the Government should be generall for matters
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            of order, particular for matter of adventure, having ever [???]
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            at liberty to venture for itself.
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            We then agreed of lawes and ordinances for the generall company at [???]
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            under & the particular companyes in the country that there might [???]
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            an æquall correspondence between them all.
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            We then agreed of 19 privileges that might give [???] & comfort
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            to all the undertakers.
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            But when we came to the [???] and that the end should have
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            crowned the work, when we came to the 17th privilege which
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            made it lawfull to carry our fish & returne commodityes from all
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            partes whatsoever notwithstanding all former privilege to the
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            contrary. All the companyes (especially the Adventurers) strongly
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            opposed it as if they should want commodityes for there & our return
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            we then offered them to make them parteners of our corpo-
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            ration which they refused.
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            We then demanded whether they wold make us in worse case
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            then the Hollanders who vented there great masse of fish in all
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            partes of the world, & made there returns home & better at
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            there pleasures. They answered that returnes into Holland did
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            them no hurt, Returnes into England might undo their great
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            trade of cloth.
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            And upon this uncharitable, uniust, & idle proposition, what should become
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            of our fish, before either Busses builded or nettes made or fish taken;
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            this great & noble worke of the Busses hath for these 2 yeares ben last
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            layd or asleep.
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            I call it uniust & uncharitable because agaynst the great Cha[???]
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            & agaynst many other lawes of this realme. Agaynst the birthright
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            & freedom of every subject.
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            And against all leagues & treatyes of states.
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            As appeares in the treaty of Bruxelles the 24. Jan. 1515. between Cha[???]
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            prince of Spayne & Henry 8. K. of England. And agaynst their second
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            treaty April. 11. 1520. betweene Charles the first then Emperor & our [???]
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            & alos agaynst a third treaty 1529. and contrary to our privileges
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            granted by the hosue of Burgundy & by the Emperor of Moscovy &c.
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            In all which is allowed
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            for the K. and all his subjects to come
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            & to go to buy to sell by land by sea in all clymes partes creekes &c. in
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            free liberall & ample manner as the very natives of his crowne kingdom
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            without exception or restraynt in favour of the Adventurers or any company
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            whatsoever. All lawes & treatyes ever ayming after liberty of trade. * above.
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            (No more I </s>
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