The Sovereignty of the Sea / An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters

by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

[199] Fœdera, ix. 322.

[200] Rot. Parl., iv. 348, 378. 8 Hen. VI., c. 2.

[201] Fœdera, xii. 381.

[202] Ibid., xiii. 798.

[203] State Papers, Dom., Elizabeth, clxxx. 26, 15th July 1585.

[204] Ibid., ccxiii. 92.

[205] Fœdera, xvi. 278. A license granted in 1570 to an Englishman, one Raymond Binge, for fishing at Iceland for seven years, gave permission for his boats to be kept and wintered in the ports there, on payment of the customs and abstaining from trading, as well as freedom of fishing except where prohibited by royal edicts, reserved for the king’s use, or granted to others. Brit. Mus. Vespasian MSS., C. xiv. fol. 21.

[206] Complaint of the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull to Cecil, 2nd July 1599. State Papers, Dom., cclxxi. 68.

[207] Fœdera, xvi. 395, 432.

[208] Brit. Mus. Vespasian MSS., C. xiv. fol. 22. Fœdera, xvi. 431.