[16] Nicolas, Introduction to Acts of the Privy Council, v, 136.

[17] See ante [p 26].

[18] Bynkershoek, Questiones Juris Publica, quoted in Phillimore, op. cit. iii, 209.

[19] Rymer, op. cit. vi, 15.

[20] 13 Ric. II, c 5, 1390; 15 Ric. II, c 3, 1392.

[21] Black Book of the Admiralty, i, 151.

[22] 2 Hen V, St. 1, c 6, 1414.

[23] William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England, 5th Edition, 3 Vols., Oxford, 1903, ii, 289.