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

[681] Gardiner, Hist. Engl., x. 208. Clarendon, iii. 113.

[682] Rushworth, Collections, v. 312.

[683] Penn, Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn, Knt., from 1640 to 1670, i. 224.

[684] State Papers, Dom., dxv. i. 37, 38, 39. There is also in one of the collections a quotation from Selden’s Mare Clausum, that it was treason not to acknowledge the King of England’s dominion in his own seas by striking sails.

[685] Instructions given by the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports, to be observed by all captains, officers, and common men respectively in this fleet, provided to the glory of God, the honour and service of the Parliament, and the safety of the three Kingdoms, March 30, 1647. Ibid., dxv. 40.

[686] Rushworth’s Collections; Penn, op. cit., i. 242.

[687] Loccenius, De Jure Maritimo, x. s. 10.

[688] State Papers, Dom., 27th Feb. 1649.

[689] 17th January 1650. A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, i. 134.

[690] Penn, Memorials, i. 365, 379.