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

[456] Ibid., liv. 9, 33.

[457] Oppenheim, op. cit.

[458] State Papers, Dom., lxxxvi. 73, 75; ccxxix. 102.

[459] Gardiner, Hist., vii. 349 et seq.

[460] Gardiner, op. cit., 368.

[461] State Papers, Dom., cclxxxvii. 55; ccxci. 14.

[462] Ibid., cclxxvi. 65.

[463] Rushworth, Collections, ii. 257. State Papers, Dom., cclxxvi. 64. Compare the language of Edward III. in 1336, p. 36.

[464] Rushworth, ii. 294, 353. Compare Windebank’s notes of the speech, State Papers, Dom., ccxc. 108: “The Judges at the Assizes to let the people know his Majesty’s care to preserve the ancient dominion (of the seas).”

[465] Gardiner, op. cit.