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ships that were seized entire had probably come in in ballast, while the others had
their catches aboard. He deduces what the method of operation of the fishermen was:
they came empty from Zeeland or south Holland and went from Yarmouth to the
fishing-grounds, bringing back their catch to this centre of the English herring trade,
where ‘hosts’ bought the fish from them, and, as it appears, not seldom s v