The Royal Fishery Companies of the Seventeenth Century
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John Hay, Town Clerk of Edinburgh, was commissioned to represent the whole matter to the King and the Privy Council. Before the case was heard, however, the Hollanders began to settle and to fish " with above a dozen sayle, " for Seaforth was confident that his application would be granted. His con- fidence was not justified by the decision of the King and Council ; as a result of Hay's representations, Charles resolved to withhold the promised Charter from Seaforth, and Seaforth was ordered to... dispense with the services of foreign fishermen. -^ The burghs now proceeded to urge the king to transfer these fishing rights in the Lewis to themselves, and, from letters received from John Hay, To^vn Clerk of Edmburgh, 1 Cal. S. P. Dom. Car. I. , vol. 229, No. 78. '\Cal. S. P. Dom. Car. II. , vol. 339, No. 111. '■^ Records of Convention of Burghs, Scot. , vol. 3, pp. 142, 279, 291, 302, 308, 318, 323. FISHINGS OFF THE COAST OF BRITAIN 33 were of opinion " that the borrowis are HcMie to obteyne the said fishing devolved into their hands.
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