Die Martis, 19 August. 1645. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the setting forth ships of warre, for the more secure fishing for herring the next season. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83263 of text R212253 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[43]). 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. 4 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 2017 A83263 Wing E2040 Thomason 669.f.9[43] ESTC R212253 99870894 99870894 161141 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83263) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161141) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[43]) Die Martis, 19 August. 1645. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the setting forth ships of warre, for the more secure fishing for herring the next season. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Laurence Blaiklock at Temple-barre, London : Septemb. 2. 1645. Order to print signed: J. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Herring industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A83263 R212253 (Thomason 669.f.9[43]). civilwar no Die Martis, 19 August. 1645. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the setting forth ships of warre, for the mo England and Wales. Parliament. 1645 643 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. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Die Martis , 19 August . 1645. AN ORDINANCE OF The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , For the setting forth ships of warre , for the more secure fishing for Herring the next season . WHereas upon the Petition of divers Fishermen for the Herring fishing the last yeeres season , praying that some ships of War might be set forth to Sea to preserve them from Pirates , and other Sea-rovers ; and for the defraying of that charge , a duty or rate might be set and received on every Last of Herring , The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament did by their Ordinance of the six and twentieth of August , 1644. lay , and impose a duty of three shillings upon every Last of Herring , ( each Last conteining ten thousand Herrings ) which should be taken that season by any Fisherman ; And for every Last of Herring such fisherman should sell at Sea , should pay the summe of five shillings over and above the former three shillings ; And if any Fishermen should bring on shore any Herring to dry , or barrell them to his owne use , that then he pay for every Last so landed the summe of five shillings over and above the said former three shillings . And it was farther ordained , that every person whatsoever that should buy any Herring that season , and land the same to barrell or dry , should pay after the rate of five shillings for every Last by him so bought , as in and by the said Ordinance more at large it doth and may appeare . Now forasmuch as the said Ordinance is expired , and the said Fishermen having again by their humble Petition desired , that in regard of the necessity of having some ships of War to be set forth for the next Herring season , and for the defraying the charge thereof , the like duty and rate may be set on every Last of Herring , Which the said Lords and Commons taking into consideration doe ordaine , that the like duty be hereby imposed on every Last of Herrings , which shall be taken this next Herring fishing season , as was set and laid on them by the said Ordinance of the six and twentieth of August , 1644. And that such summe or summes of money as shall be raised on the said duty by vertue of this Ordinance shall be paid to the said Miles Corbett and Edward Owner , Esquires , Thomas Johnson , Thomas Gooch , Bayliffes of the Towne of Yarmouth , or any two of them , or unto such persons as they shall depute under their hands and Seales for that service , to be by them or their said deputy or deputies issued out of the said service , as they shall from time to time receive order from the Committee of the Navy appointed by Parliament , who are likewise hereby authorized to doe the same . And it is further ordained , that the said Committee of the Navy shall have power to contract for such a convenient number of ships for this service as they shall thinke fit , not imploying above the number of three hundred Marriners . And it is lastly ordained , That every other Article and clause in the said Ordinance of the six and twentieth of August , 1644. contained , shall be observed , stand and continue in full force and power . ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament , That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published . J. Brown , Cler. Parliamentorum . London , Printed for Laurence Blaiklock at Temple-barre . Septemb. 2. 1645.