# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 20:32  
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Case

The Masters of the Ships using the Newfoundland trade
hire people here to go out with them as Fishermen, sometimes
by a verbal contract, at others the Men require a note to be
wrote in their own Books in the words following, "I promise
"to pay ..... so much P^r Mensem — or so much for the
"Fishery Season — or so much for the Voyage from the time
"they set out till their return to the Port they sailed from,
— But generally is said to be verbal, and differs according
to the Circumstances of the Voyage.

When they arrive at Newfoundland, they perhaps hire
five or six hands more at so much for the Fishery Season,
which may be lasts two or three Months, so that a Ship
which is Navigated with 8 hands shall also have in its
employ in the whole 13 hands more, who with the sailing
Crew are employed in the killing and Curing their Fish.

There are others called Planters, who hire hands for the
Fishery trade, and go over as Passengers, and return the
Produce of their Voyage on freight; these have no Ships of
their own, nor do they hire any, But keep Bye boats on the
Land, and Employ a great many hands on the Fishery.

Whether by the Act of the 10^th of Queen Ann (and
other Acts for collecting the Duty of Sixpence a
Man a Month for the support of the Royal
Hospital at Greenwich, all the persons above