Which bondage, one not long agoe sought in part to reestablish,
vnder pretence of receiuing a rent decayed euer since 9. H. 2.
and aduancing her Maiesties profit: & to this end procured Letters
patents, that none should salt, dry, or pack any fish in Deuon or
Cornwall, without his licence and warrant. A matter that would,
by consequence, haue made him an absolute disposer of all the
Westerne shipping and traffike, and their sea and land dependants.
Few words, but folding vp a multitude of inconueniences to her
Maiestie, & the whole Commonwealth.
Wherefore the Cornish Iustices of the peace, became humble suiters
to the Lords of her Highnes priuy Councell, for a necessary and
speedy redresse herein: and through the neuer fayling forwardnesse,
and backing of Sir Walter Ralegh, obtayned a reuocation. Howbeit,
this ill weed, rather cut off by the ground, then plucked vp by the
roote, once, yea twice or thrice grew forth againe, but yet, maugre
the warmers and waterers, hath by her Maiesties gracious breath beene
euer parched vp, and (as is hoped) will neuer shoote out heereafter,
at least it shall still finde an vnited resistance, of most earnest
suit, and pregnant reasons, to beat it downe.
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