. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. ^7^ A. D. 978-1016. Hlver in the year 951, fixteen thoufand pounds in 994, twenty-four thoufand pounds in IC02, thirty thoufand pounds in 1007, and forty- eight tho
. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. ^7^ A. D. 978-1016. Hlver in the year 951, fixteen thoufand pounds in 994, twenty-four thoufand pounds in IC02, thirty thoufand pounds in 1007, and forty- eight thoufand • pounds in 1012 ; after which the greateft part of the country funk under the power of the Danes, whofe king Swein died in the year 1014 in England, of which he iiad been for fome time the real and abfohue fovereign. Hiftorians attempt tv) account for thefe uninterrupted calamities by laying the blame ou wicked, incapable, and treaclierous, minifters and generals, to whom the weak king entrufted the condud of government rnd the defence of the couuiry. Certain it is that the Englifli armies appear to have been totally enervated throughout this reign, and that the fleet raifed by a requifition upon all the lands of the kingdom, which was more numerous than that of any preceding king of England, anfwered no purpofe but exhaufting the ftrength and treafure of the country, and encouraging the enemy. The city of London was burnt in 983 or 983. Stow [^«fl/w, p. 114, td. 1600] copying from Rudbum, an unedited writer of the fifteenth century, fays, that the greateft part of the houfes were then on the weft fide of Ludgate, and only foine fcattering houfes where the heart of the city now is; and that Canterbury, York, and forne other citijjs in Eng- land, then furpaflfed London in building. The fea contributed to the diftrefs of the times by an extraordinary in the year 1014, which fwept away feveral towns and a prodigious number of people. To complete the general c
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