[7] Rot. Escheat., 41 Hen. III., A.D. 1259, referred to by Coke, 1. 107a; Bracton, Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, lib. v. c. xxx. fol. 437 (A.D. circa 1259); Statutes of the Realm, 18 Edw. I. Stat. 4 (A.D. 1290); Rot. Parl., 13 Ric. II., “deinz les quatre miers Dengleterre,” &c.

[8] Hall, On the Rights of the Crown in the Sea Shores of the Realm, p. 1.

[9] “The guardian of his Majesty’s three seas” (A.D. 1607). Cæsar Papers, MS. Brit. Mus. Lansd., 142, fol. 373.

[10]

“Thene here I ende of the comoditees
Ffor whiche nede is well to kepe the sees;
Este and weste, sowthe and northe they be;
And chefely kepe the sharpe narowe see,
Betwene Dover and Caleise.”

[11] Acts of the Privy Council of England, N.S., i. 232, 242.

[12] Winwood’s Memorials, iii. 50.

[13] Mare Clausum, ii. c. xiii.

[14] Selden, Mare Clausum, lib. i. c. viii., lib. ii. cc. ii.-viii.

[15] Polyhistor., c. xxiv.