The only design of the Company of Fishermen, by the bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons, as far as relates to themselves is as follows ... 1695 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A53377 Wing O347 ESTC R6748 12988513 ocm 12988513 96261 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. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Company of Free-Fishermen of the River of Thames. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The only Design of the Company of Fishermen , By the Bill depending in the Honourable House of Commons , as far as relates to themselves is as follows , viz. 1. THat thereby all the Fishermen may be equally known to the Government , as well as those of the Company ; and when their Majesties Service requires any number of them , that the Admiralty may , out of all such as get their Livelihood by fishing in publick waters , be supplied with those that are best able to serve , and with due regard to the condition of their several Ages , Families and Trade . 2. That those that are not of the Company , may not for want of a Register , and by hiding themselves during a Press , have the advantage when the Press is over , of returning to their Employ , and thereby get all the Trade into their own hands . And 3. That the Fishermen may be free from those great abuses committed by Press-masters and Pinnaces , who take away as well Masters of Vessels , as common Saylors , and many times all the Men on board ; leaving the charge of their Vessels , freighted for a London Voyage , to a Boy or two ; by which means their Freights of Fish have been many times wholly lost , and the Vessels indangered . And as this Act will be to the benefit of the Fishermen in general , so appointing a Registry , as in the Act will evidently be , to the great advantage of the publick ; in that , 1. Thereby the Government may know the Fishermen , their Names and Qualifications , as well as the Watermen are known on the River of Thames ; and under the same restriction may be supplied , within the Company 's limits , with some thousands of Men fit for Service , whilst the rest of the Fishermen may go on safely and quietly in their Employs : Whereas they now generally retire into remote places in time of Impressing , to the prejudice of the publick ; and such of them as are Impressed , do generally stand the Government in three or four pounds a man. 2. That the Markets of London , and places adjacent , may be in time of War as plentifully supplied with all sorts of Fish as in times of Peace , at one third part of the present price ; those of them that are left to the Fishing ( after taking such as the Government shall like ) having the priviledge to pass to and fro with their Vessels without interruption , as the Watermen do . 3. That the Running or Imbezzling of the Customs ( much practic'd by the Kentish and Essex men ) will in a great measure be prevented , in having the Names and places of Abode of the Fishermen Registred by the Company , who give great security to the Crown to prevent the Running of Customs ; and do engage their Members by Oath not to consent to do or conceal the same , but to discover such Offenders , that they may be punished according to Law.