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The Sayners profit in this trade is vncertayne, as depending upon the
seas fortune, which hee long attendeth, and often with a bootlesse
trauaile: but the Pilcherd Marchant may reape a speedy, large, and
assured benefit, by dispatching the buying, sauing and selling to the
transporters, within little more then three moneths space. Howbeit,
diuers of them, snatching at wealth ouer-hastily, take mony
beforehand, and bind themselues for the same, to deliuer Pilcherd
ready saued to the transporter, at an vnder-rate, and so cut their
fingers. This venting of Pilcherd enhaunced greatly the price
of cask, whereon all other sorts of wood were conuerted to that vse:
and yet this scantly supplying a remedie, there was a statute made
35. Eliz. that from the last of Iune 1594. no stranger should
transport beyond the seas any Pilcherd or other fish in cask, vnlesse
hee did bring into the Realme, for euery sixe tunnes, two hundred of
clapboord fit to make cask, and so rateably, vpon payne of forfeyting
the sayd Pilcherd or fish.


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