John Keymor's observation made upon the Dutch fishing about the year 1601 : demonstrating that there is more wealth rais'd out of herrings and other fish in His Majesty's seas by the neighbouring nations in one year, than the King of Spain hath from the Indies in four : and that there were twenty thousand ships and other vessels and about four hundred thousand people then set on work both by sea and land, and maintain'd only by fishing upon the coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.