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

[571] Windebank to Northumberland, July 3. State Papers, Dom., ccclxiii. 21.

[572] State Papers, Dom., clvii. 151b.

[573] Windebank to the Earl of Northumberland, 3rd July 1637. State Papers, Dom., ccclxiii. 21.

[574] Northumberland to Windebank, 4th July, Ibid., ccclxiii. 28.

[575] Windebank to Northumberland, 6th July. Ibid., ccclxiii. 41.

[576] “Diamentenring van tamelijcke groote,” Verbaal van Beveren. Muller, op. cit., 297.

[577] State Papers, Dom., cccliv. 16; ccclv. 22.

[578] Report of Fielding, 24th July. Ibid., ccclxiv. 45.

[579] Pennington to Nicholas, 10th July, State Papers, Dom., ccclxiii. 99; Northumberland to Sir Thomas Roe, 6th August, ibid., ccclxv. 28; Pennington to Northumberland, 20th May, ibid., ccclvii. 15, ii.

[580] Windebank to Fogg, Aug. 10. Ibid., ccclxv. 51. With reference to this letter of Windebank’s, the following note by Secretary Williamson was made on the copy in the volume prepared for the ambassadors going to Cologne in 1673 (State Papers, Dom., Chas. II., 339, p. 519): “This mentioned report appears by other letters and passages of that time to have been really the truth, but of that disadvantage to his Ma^tys right and title, as it was thought fitt by all means to stiffle it, and give out Captain Fielding went to ye Holland Busses onely w^th notice of ye Dunquerq^rs preparations to intercept them in their return and to offer his Ma^ties protection.”