A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[1233] State Papers, Dom., liii, 40. Heydon to Nicholas.

[1234] State Papers, Dom., lxxxviii, 27.

[1235] Ibid., ccxx, 25. Professor Laughton was the first to suggest (Fortnightly Review, July 1866), that the real origin of the English claim to the lordship of the narrow seas is to be found in the possession by our early kings of both shores of the Channel.

[1236] Ibid., 2nd May 1635.

[1237] State Papers, Dom., cccxvii, 102.

[1238] Ibid., cccxxxvi, 13 and cccxxxviii, 39.

[1239] Aud. Off. Decl. Accounts, 1699, 65.

[1240] Ibid., 1812, 443 A.

[1241] The last of tonnage measurement varied in different places, but was of about two tons.

[1242] State Papers, Dom., ccccxxxviii, 102.