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A36497	A discourse written by Sir George Downing, the King of Great Britain's envoy extraordinary to the states of the United Provinces vindicating his royal master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel, printed under the title of (An extract out of the register of the States General of the United Provinces, upon the memorial of Sir George Downing, envoy, &c.), and delivered by the agent De Hyde for such to several publick ministers : whereas no such resolution was ever communicated to the said envoy, nor any answer returned at all by their lordships to the said memorial : whereunto is added a relation of some former and later proceedings of the Hollanders / by a meaner hand.	Downing, George, Sir, 1623?-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2108; ESTC R34994	50,712	177

you stand bound That you set forth to Sea with the ships of the Ports and the other ships that are ready and that you arrest the other ships under our Command and that with all diligence you make search after the Gallies and Ships of Warr that are abroad against Vs and that stoutly and manfully you set upon them if they shall presume to bend their course to any part of our Dominions or the Coasts of Scotland c. We read also in the Reign of the said King in the preferring a certain Bill in Parliament which is the voice of the State of the Realm that he was usually accounted King or Soveraign of the Seas by all Nations written in French and thus translated into English The Nation of the English were ever in the Ages past renowned for Sea-Affairs in all Countries near the Seas and they had also so numerous a Navy that the people of all Countreys esteemed and called the King of Edgland the King or Soveraign of the Sea Another Testimony to the same effect we read in the Parliamentary Records of Henry the fifth where the tenour of the Bill runs after this manner The Commons do pray That seeing our Soveraign Lord the King and his illustrious Progenitors have ever been Lords of the Sea and now seeing through God's grace it is now come to pass that our Lord the King is Lord of the shores on both sides the Sea such a Tribute may be imposed on all Strangers passing through the said Sea for the benefit and advantage of our said Lord the King as may seem agreeable to Reason for the safeguard of the said Sea The Answer subscribed to the Bill was Soit avise par le Roy for the King at that time resided in France being Lord of that Countrey as well by Conquest as Inheritance Many other Testimonies in this nature may be produced which to avoid prolixity I must omit Neither hath the High Court of Parliament only given this attestation to our Kings as Supream and Soveraign of the Seas but to confirm it all the Judges of the Land were consulted herein and all jointly averred That the King's Sea-Dominion which they called the Ancient Superiority of the Sea was a matter out of question his Right Neither is this Truth confirmed only by our Laws but by our Medals There hath been a piece of Gold often coined by our Kings called a Rose-Noble upon the one side whereof was stamped a Ship floating in the Sea and a King armed with a Sword and Shield sitting in the Ship it self as in a Throne But what need we labour to produce so many Testimonies at home from our Records in the Tower and other places from our High Courts of Parliament from our Laws from our Coyn and from our Histories to prove this Truth since it is acknowledged even by Forreigners themselves whom it most concerneth by striking sail according to the ancient custom by every ship of any forreign Nation whatsoever to any King's Man of War which is done not only in Honour to the King of England but also in acknowledgment of his Soveraignty and Dominion at sea The Antiquity of this Custom and that it hath been in use above these four hundred years may appear by this following Testimony At Hastings a Town scituate on the shore of Sussex it was decreed by King John and the assent of his Peers in the second year of his reign That if the Governour or Commander of the King's Navy in his Naval-Expeditions shall meet with any ships whatsoever at sea laden or empty that shall refuse to strike their sails at the command of the King's Governour or Admiral they are to be looked on as Enemies c. Mr. Selden in his excellent Treatise called Mare Clausum saith If any ship whatsoever had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in his own sea by striking sail they were not to be protected on any account of Amity and Penalties were appointed by the Kings of England in the same manner as if mention were made concerning a crime committed in some Territory of his Land But above all that yet hath been said There cannot be produced a more convincing Argument than the acknowledgment of the Sea-Dominion of the King of England by very many of our Neighbouring-Nations At what time the Agreement was made between Edward the first of England and Philip the Fair of France Reyner Grimbald Governour of the French Navy intercepted and spoiled on the English Seas the Goods of many Merchants that were going to Flanders and not contented with the depredation of their Commodities he imprisoned their Persons Hereupon a Bill was exhibited against the said Reyner Grimbald and managed by Procurators on the behalf of the Peers and People of the English Nation with these were joined the Procurators of most Nations bordering upon the Sea throughout Europe all these instituted a Complaint and all these Complainants in their Bill do jointly affirm That the King of England and his Predecessors have time out of mind and without controversie enjoyed the Soveraignty and Dominion of the English Seas and the Isles belonging to the same by right of their Realm of England also that they have had and have the Soveraign Guard thereof with all manner of Cognizance and Jurisdiction in doing Right and Justice according to the said Laws Ordinances and Prohibitions with all other matters which may concern the exercise of Soveraign Dominion in the said places But more particularly We do find an acknowledgment of the Sea-Dominion of the Kings of England made by the Flemmings themselves in the Parliament of England in the Reign of Edward the second the Records of the Parliament speak it thus In the fourteenth year of the Reign of Edward the second there appeared certain Embassadors of the Earl of Flanders to treat about the reformation of some injuries they received and as soon as the said Ambassadors had been admitted by our Lord the King to treat of the said Injuries amongst other particulars they required That the said Lord the King would at his own suit by vertue of his Royal Authority cause enquiry to be made and do justice about a depredation by the subjects of England upon the English seas taking Wines and other Commodities from certain Merchants of Flanders alledging that the said Merchandizes taken from the Flemmings were brought within the Realm and Jurisdiction of the King and that it belonged to the King to see Justice done in regard that He is Lord of the Sea In the seventh year of King James this Right was very strenuously asserted by Proclamation and all persons excluded from the use of the seas upon our Coasts without particular License but the Hollander continuing his encroachments till after the death of that wise and learned King CHARLES the First of ever blessed memory issued a Proclamation for restraint of fishing upon his Seas and Coasts without License in these terms Whereas our Father

his being cast in his passage out of Spain as his Father Charles the Fifth was upon the British shore knowing the English were cordial in your preservation then ever to suffer him to come and goe in Peace when he came on so bloody an errand 6. And though he as a Magnanimous Prince and so great a Monarch as he was yet he did often desire his Sister of England to hear his just defence for his so rigorous proceedings She refusing to dispute the truth of your complaints presuming it more probable for a stranger to be a Tyrant then that the Natural Inhabitants upon a slighter cause cast themselves into the no less bloody then scorching flames of a Civil and uncertain War She seeming rather to forget the Obligations She owed him either as a private Person or Brother when he was King of England then her Neighbours oppressions I shall not need here draw blood in your faces by application your Consciences if you have any such thing left will do it for me 7. Were not your messengers received into England in the quality of Embassadors they being then too modest to own higher Titles then of Poor Petitioners casting themselves prostrate at the feet of no less Potent Tribunal then what you were admitted to in the quality of Embassadors the other day and the which you now fight against at which time I blush to think thereof your Embassadors was pleased to say that in this conjuncture they would condescend to strike to Us if we would assist them against the French but upon condition that it should never be taken for a President here after to their prejudice this was such a condition which would soon have reduced us to a miserable and contemptible condition Did not your Embassadour forget himself what and where he was to be admitted into the quality of an Ambassadour was an honour you could never have attained to but through the Clemency of a gratious Prince your Messengers in the same quality but narrowly escap'd the Gallowes when they went with their Petition to his Catholick Majesty And did not his late Sacred Majesty out of his Princely goodness imbroider your Messengers with Titles unworthy such ingratitudes as you afterwards shewed him and his against your Alliance then made and professed 8. Have you not opened your Arms to receive those into your Councils and pay that even the whole World doth blush at the reflection of so horrid an Act such is it that tears fall on my Pen at its Relation as if it should say thou art not able to express blackness Wherein Holland canst thou glory not with colouring it with a charitable Protection O no! Then what satisfaction can you give the World or fancy to your selves when you shew a President how to protect the most horrid Regicide that ever drew breath such as are culpable of no less crime then the blood of the best of Kings and one who espoused you as it were into his Royal Family 9. Nay see farther your ingratitude that no sooner Providence had measured out the Kingdom into Peace by restoring our dread Soveraign unto his undoubted Right and the words of a firm Alliance and Amity concluded betwixt him and you scarce cold in his mouth but what wonderful outrages you committed on our Ships and Merchants in allmost all places and Ports where you could either find or meet them but especially there where you were able to treble the English power and strength who if equally but Man'd or Shipt would have reduced your Brandy-courages into that combustion which they say that Wine bears and that only by its flames to behold your own ruines nay such was your ingratitude as if nothing were more indifferent to you then who were happy so England were miserable 10. If you were not willing for those many years to come stealing and bribeing the Usurpers so long for your fishing why should you be so tutchy now with such as inquire whether it was worth your cost or their honour to defend the propriety thereof to the utmost hazard of their lives and fortunes I understand that the late Usurpers did not only give you the fish but baits to catch them Lampries I mean loaden by boat-fulls out of the Thames which they would never have done had they been as full of circumspection as that Creature is reported to be of eyes this kindness to you as all other kindnesses shown to you use to do made you so insolent as to fly in their face sor which they were forced to bring you into better manners witness the several Victories they obtained over you in the year 1652. But more especially that neer Portland wherein you were totally overthrown imputing your want of success to want of powder but I think those few of yours which were left they sent home with a powder Lastly all this considered why may not his Majesty assume to himself the rights of disposure and regulation of that which is undoubtedly his own and why may he not take till by you that never questioned style of Lord of the British Ocean as well as you at Guiny and the East-Indies that strive with your Maker who shall be most High and Mighty With these Expostulations pray take some of these following Queries Some pertinent and necessary Queries to the present Subject 1. What other Alliance can afford you so safe Harbourage in case of foul weather at Sea as England Scotland and Ireland if none whether contingencies driven in by storm under our shelter your West and East India and Straits men may not exceed all the Coales and Tobbacco Prizes De Ruyter or any under him shall scrape up in his Naval expedition If the raising a Flying Army in the Netherlands may not one time or other be reduced to such a faction especially when headed by one that cannot keep the same Consort with you as to cause the resolving you into the first Principles of both Poor Distressed and Oppressed Nay it may be further reduce you to be Vassals to some of your right or left hand Neighbours whose aim is wholly to root up that Vine which they perceive is likely to ecclipse but more willing to destory the glories of their rights and benefits of their Traffick and Trade 3. If Venice may not unproperly be called the Signet on Neptunes right hand whether England and the Netherlands being in a strait confederacy may not be styled his two Arms By which in relation to their shipping he embraceth the Universe 4. Whether your Maiden Towns as you call them may not longer enjoy that Title under the Alliance of England who hath many more rich and beautiful Havens and Harbours then any other Neighbouring Nation 5. Whether the making an honourable Peace with England by complying with her just commands may not be accounted putting of Money to more than common Interest 6. In case it so happens whether their Wisdomes do not cease too dangerous and chargable Wars the which

of blessed memory King James did in the seventh year of his Reign of Great Britain set forth a Proclamation touching Fishing whereby for the many important Reasons exprest therein all persons of what Nation or quality soever being not his natural born subjects were restrained from fishing upon any the Coasts and Seas of Great Britain Ireland and the rest of the Isles adjacent where most usually heretofore fishing had been until they had orderly demanded and obtained Licenses from our said Father or his Commissioners in that behalf upon pain of such chastisement as should be fit to be inflicted on such wilful offenders Since which time albeit neither Our Father nor Our Self have made any considerable execution of the said Proclamation but have with much patience expected a voluntary conformity of our Neighbours and Allies to so just and reasonable Prohibitions and Directions as are contained in the same And now finding by experience that all the Inconveniencies which occasioned that Proclamation are rather encreased than abated We being very sensible of the Premises and well knowing how far We are obliged to maintain in Honour the Rights of our Crown especially of so great consequence have thought it necessary by the Advice of our Privy-Council to renew the aforesaid Restraint of Fishing upon Our aforesaid Coasts and Seas without License first obtained from Us And by these Presents do make publick Declaration That Our Resolution is at times convenient to keep such a competent strength of Shipping upon Our seas as may by God's blessing be sufficient both to hinder such farther Encroachments upon Our Regalities and Assist and Protect those Our good Friends and Allies who shall henceforth by vertue of Our Licenses to be first obtained endeavour to take the benefit of Fishing upon Our Coasts and Seas in the places accustomed Given at our Palace of Westminster c. This Proclamation being set forth in the year 1636 served to speak the intent of those Naval-Preparations made before in the year 1635 which were so numerous and well provided that our Neatherland-Neighbours being touched with the apprehension of some great design in hand for the Interest of England by Sea and of the guilt that lay upon their own Consciences for their bold Encroachments soon betrayed their jealousies and fears and in them a sense of their offences before ever the Proclamation was made publick as I might shew at large if it were requisite Instead whereof I shall only insert Secretary Cook 's Letter written to Sir William Boswel the King 's Resident then at the Hague in which Letter you will understand the grounds and reasons of that great Naval Preparation and the King's resolution to maintain the Right derived from his Ancestors in the Dominion of the seas and therefore I have here rendred a true Copy of it so far as concerns this business as most pertinent to our purpose SIR BY your Letters and otherwise I perceive many jealousies and discourses are raised upon the preparation of His Majesties Fleet which is now in such forwardness we doubt not but within a month it will appear at sea It is therefore expedient both for your satisfaction and direction to inform you particularly what was the occasion and what is His Majesties intention in this work First We hold it a Principle not to be denied That the King of Great Britain is a Monarch at Land and Sea to the full extent of His Dominions and that it concerneth Him as much to maintain His Soveraignty in all the Brittish Seas as within His Three Kingdoms because without that these cannot be kept safe nor He preserve His Honour and due respects with other Nations But commanding the Seas He may cause His Neighbours and all other Countries to stand upon their guard whensoever He thinks fit And this cannot be doubted that whosoever will encroach on Him by Sea will do it by Land also when they see their time To such presumption Mare Liberum gave the Warning-piece which must be answered with a defence of Mare Clausum not so much by Discourses as by the louder language of a powerful Navy to be better understood when overstrained Patience seeth no hope of preserving her Right by any other means The degrees by which His Majesties Dominion at Sea hath of later years been first impeached and then questioned are as considerable as notorious First To cherish and as it were to nourish our unthankful Neighbours We gave them leave to gather Wealth and Strength upon our Coasts in our Ports by our Trade and by our People Then they were glad to invite our Merchants residence with what Priviledges they desired Then they offered us even the Soveraignty of their Estates and then they sued for License to fish on our Coasts and obtained it under the Great Seal of Scotland which now they suppress and when thus by leave or by connivence they had possessed themselves of our Fishings not only in Scotland but in Ireland and England and by our Staple had raised a great stock of Trade by these means they so encreased their Shipping and Power at Sea that now they endure not to be kept at any distance nay they are grown to that confidence to keep Guards on our Seas then to project an Office and Company of Assurance for the advancement of Trade and withal prohibit us free commerce even within our own Seas and take our ships and goods if they conform not to their Placarts What Insolencies and Cruelties they have committed against us heretofore in Ireland in Greenland and in the Indies is too well known to all the world In all which though our Sufferings and their Wrongs may seem forgotten yet the great Interest of His Majesties Honour is still the same and will refresh their memories as there shall be cause For though Charity must remit Wrongs done to private persons yet the reflection on the Publick may make it a greater Charity to do Justice on crying Crimes All this notwithstanding you are not to conceive that the work of this Fleet is either Revenge or Execution of Justice for these great offences past but chiefly for the future to stop the violent Current of that Presumption whereby the Men of Warr and Free-booters of all Nations abusing the favour of His Majesties peaceable and gracious Government whereby he hath permitted all His Friends Allies to make use of His Seas and Ports in a reasonable and free manner and according to his Treaties have taken upon them the boldness not only to come confidently at all times into all his Ports and Rivers but to convey their Merchants ships as high as his chief City and then to cast Anchor close upon his Magazines and to contemn the Commands of His Officers when they required a farther distance But which is more intolerable have assaulted and taken one another within His Majesties Chamber and within his River to the scorn and contempt of His Dominion and Power And this being of late