Note 726 — Chapter IV
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Dutch writers claim the invention for one of their nation in the fourteenth century (cp. M'Culloch, Treatises, p. 342; Rogers, Holland, pp. 26, 27). There is clear evidence, however, that fish-salting was carried on at Yarmouth as early as 1210, one Peter Chivalier being the patentee (see Torrens M'Cullagh's Industrial History of the Free Nations, 1846, ii, 29; Madox, History of the Exchequer, ch. xiii, § 4, p. 326, cited by him; and Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, 1802, i, 384, 385). The practice was very common in antiquity; see Schürer, Jewish People in the Time of Christ, Eng. tr. Div. ii, vol. i, p. 43.