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Author: Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.
Title: His Majesties propriety and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies and injuries they have committed, and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas : as also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places : to which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Brittain and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours / by an experienced hand.
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Print source: His Majesties propriety and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies and injuries they have committed, and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas : as also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places : to which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Brittain and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours / by an experienced hand.
Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665., Clavell, Robert, d. 1711.
London: Printed by T. Mabb for Andrew Kembe ... and Edward Thomas ... and Robert Clavel ..., 1665.
Subject terms:
Maritime law -- Great Britain.
Freedom of the seas.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Netherlands.
Netherlands -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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To the Most Illustrious, and Heroical, George Duke of Aubemarle, Earle of Tor∣rington, Baron Monck of Po∣theridge, Beauchamp, and Teys, Captain General of His Majesties Land-Forces, Garri∣sons, Forts, and Castlos within any of His Majesties Domini∣ons; Master of the Horse; Knight of the Most Noble Or∣der of the Garter; And one of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council.
THE PREFACE TO THE Reader.
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THE Propriety and Dominion of the KING of Great Brittain on His SEAS; Asserted against all Opposers, and Confirmed from all Ages, to this Present Time.
In a Letter of Secretarie Naunton's to the said Ambassadour, dated at White∣hallthe 21. of December 1618. I finde these passages.
And in a Letter of the said Lord Ambas∣sadour Carlton to Secretary Naun∣ton, of the 30. of December, 1618. from the Hague, we finde this Return, touching the business of Fishery.
In another Letter of Secretary Naun∣ton's to the Lord Ambassadour Carl∣ton, of the 21. of January, 1618. we read thus:
Now what effect the Ambassadour's Nego∣tiation with the States had, appears by a Letter of his from the Hague, of the 6. of February, 1618. to Kings James him∣self, where, among other passages he hath this.
A Proclamation by King Charles the First, For restraint of Fishing upon His Seas and Coasts without Lisence.
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The inestimable Riches and Com∣modities of the Brittish Seas
1. Encrease of Shipping.
2. Encrease of Mariners.
3. Encrease of Trade.
4. Encrease of Towns and Forts.
5. Encrease of Power abroad.
6. Encrease of Publick Revenue.
7. Encrease of private Wealth.
8. Encrease of Provisions.
A further Assertion that the Sea is under the Laws of Propriety, Declared in a full Convention betwixt Ferdinando Emper∣our of Germany, and the Re∣publick of Venice in the Year, 1563.
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