Anglo-Dutch Rivalry during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Winwood, Memorials, vol. iii.

7

The Zeelanders in the seventeenth century, though they sent out many fishermen to the Dogger Bank, to Greenland and Spitzbergen, did not take much part in the herring fishery. See note.

8

Groot Placaet-Boek (July 19, 1606).

9

A Pollitique Platt, by Robert Hitchcock, 1580.

Observations made upon the Dutch fishery about the year 1601, by John Keymer. Ralegh, Works, i. 144.

Sir Thomas Overbury's observations in his travels in 1609: Harleian Misc. viii. 349.

Discourse addressed to the King by Sir Nicholas Hales, on the benefit derived by the Dutch from English fisheries. Terms suggested for granting them a licence to fish for twenty-one years. Calendar of State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1603-10, p. 509.

10

Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1603-10, p. 509.

11

Statutes of the Realm, iv. 2, p. 1058.

12

Letter of Salisbury to Cornwallis, June 8, 1609. Winwood's State Papers, iii. 44-50.

13

Fruin's Verspreide Geschriften, vol. iii, pp. 408-45.

14

Winwood's Memorials, March 16, (o.s.), 1610. See also letter of April 6 (o.s.).

15

See Note C.

16

Relazioni venete, Inghilterra, serie iv, p. 128.

17

See Note A.

18

Ralegh's Works, viii. 351-76.

19

See Note B.

20

See Note.

21

Harleian Misc. iii, pp. 397-8.

22

Ibid. iv, pp. 212-31.

23

Relazioni Venete, Inghilterra, iv. 206.

24

Ranke, Hist. of England (Oxf. trans.), i. 473.

25

Dated Jan. 6/16. Letters to and from Sir Dudley Carleton during his embassy in Holland from January 1615/16, to December 1620. London, 1757.

26

Greenland here stands for Spitzbergen. All through these disputes, owing to geographical ignorance, the two terms are used almost interchangeably.

27

Aitzema Saken van Staet en Oorlog, ii. 356.

28

See Note D.

29

See Note E.