[811] Keymor, as cited, p. 224. Hamburg about the same period, as Keymor notes, enacted that foreigners should not be allowed to sell herrings in the port until its own boats had come in and sold theirs.
[812] Essays in Political Arithmetic, ed. 1699, p. 170. Cp. p. 181.
[813] New Discourse on Trade, 4th ed. p. 61.
[814] For the years 1605-10, an average of 36 per cent; for 1616, 62½ per cent.
[815] M'Culloch, Treatises, pp. 366-67, and refs. It is told in the Mémoires de Jean De Witt (as cited, p. 52, note, ptie. i, ch. xi) that cargoes of pepper were wilfully sunk near port.
[816] Mémoires cited, pp. 24, 51, 52.
[817] M'Culloch, pp. 368-69. The Dutch ideal being almost necessarily one of small consumption and accumulation of nominal or money capital, there was no improvement in the popular standard of comfort.
[818] Mémoires cited, ptie. i, ch. x, xi, pp. 47, 48, 50.
[819] Motley, United Netherlands, iv, 561, 562.
[820] As to the stress of party spirit in Holland about this period, see Davies, ii, 725, 726.