[734]. For an example of the work England did in policing the trade routes, cf. the case of the King David. Sailing from Newfoundland to Tangier, she met with Algerine pirates off Cape St. Vincent, whom she fought off in a three-days running fight. Later, meeting with “Five Pirats more,” she was forced to surrender. A few days later, she was rescued by a ship of the English navy; but the two vessels meeting with “Six Pirats more,” the King David was a second time captured, to be rescued once again some days later by another English ship, and safely escorted into Malaga. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, 1613-1680, pp. xxxvi, 541.
[735]. Cf. also Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, pp. 195 ff.
[736]. G. Schmoller, The Mercantile System and its Historical Significance (New York, 1896), pp. 49 ff.
[737]. Sir Edward Morris, Speech at the Savoy, March 14, 1917. Given in London Times, March 15, p. 6, col. 3.
[738]. Cf. A. T. Mahan, Influence of Sea Power upon History (Boston, 1898), pp. 88, 540, 73, 75 f.
[739]. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, pp. 4 f.; “The English colonies, however, were not sister communities of England, but dependent local jurisdictions for whose welfare and safety the mother-country had assumed the responsibility.” Beer, Origins, p. 301. For discussion of the element of distance, cf. Lucas, Greater Rome and Greater Britain, pp. 32 ff.
[740]. C. H. McIlwain, The High Court of Parliament and its Supremacy (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1910), pp. 109, 158, 352 ff., 137, 145.
[741]. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, p. 15; C. M. Andrews, British Committees, p. 10.
[742]. F. S. Oliver, Alexander Hamilton (London, n.d.), pp. 450, 447.
[743]. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, p. 14; Beer, Origins, p. 341; Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum (London, 1911), vol. II, p. 425.