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A33387	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.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4602; ESTC R3773	67,265	198

numerous and well-provided that our Netherland 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 by certain Papers of a publick Character yet in being But there is one Instar omnium which may serve in stead of all and it is an acute Letter of Secretary Coke's that was written to Sir William Boswel the Kings Resident then at the Hague the Original whereof is still reserved among the publick Papers In which Letter he sets forth the Grounds and Reasons of preparing that gallant Navy with the Kings resolution to maintain the Right derived from his Ancestors in the Dominion of the Seas and therefore I here render a true Copy of it so farr 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 preparations of His Majesties Fleet which is now in such forwardness that we doubt not but within this 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 Brittain 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 British Seas as within His three Kingdoms because without that these cannot be kept safe nor he preserve his honour and due respect with other Nations But commanding the Seas he may cause his Neighbours and all Countries to stand upon their guard whensoever he thinks fit And this cannot be doubted that whosoever will encroach upon him by Sea will do it by Land also when they see their time To such presumption Mare liberum gave the first 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 other means The Degrees by which his Majesties Dominion at Sea hath of latter years been first impeached and then questioned are as considerable as notorious First to cherish and as it were to nourish up our unthankful Neighbors 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 would desire Then they offered to us even the Soveraignty of their Estates and then they sued for License to Fish upon the Coasts and obtained it under the Great Seal of Scotland which now they suppresse And when thus by leave or by connivence they had possessed themselves of our Fishings not onely 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 Shiping 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 upon our Seas and then to project an Office and Company of Assurance for the Advancement of Trade and withal prohibit us free commerce even within our Seas and take our Ships and goods if we 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 wrong 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 men yet the reflection upon 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 War and Free-booters of all Nations abusing the favour of His Majesties peaceable and gracious Government whereby he hath permitted all His Friends and 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 Magazins and to contemn the Commands of his Officers when they required a farther distance stance But which is more intolerable have assaulted and taken one another within his Majesties Chamber and within his Rivers to the scorn and contempt of his Dominion and Power and this being of late years an ordinary practice which we have endeavoured in vain to reform by the ways of Justice and Treaties the world I think will now be satisfied that we have reason to look about us And no wise man will doubt that it is high time to put our selves in this Equipage upon the Seas and not to suffer that Stage of Action to be taken from us for want of our appearance So you see the general ground upon which our Counsels stands In particular you may take notice and publish as cause requires That His Majesty by this Fleet intendeth not a Rupture with any Prince or State nor to infringe any point of his Treaties but resolveth to continue and maintain that happy peace wherewith God hath blessed his Kingdom and to which all his Actions and Negotiations have ohitherto tended as by your own instructions you may fully understand But withal considering that Peace must be maintained by the arme of power which onely keeps down War by keeping up Dominion His Majesty thus provoked finds it necessary even for his own defence and safety to re-assume and keep his antient and undoubted Right in the Dominion of these Seas and to suffer no other Prince or State to encroach upon him thereby assuming to themselves or their Admirals any Soveraign command but to force them to perform due homage to his Admirals and Ships and to pay them acknowledgements as in former times they did He will also set open and protect the free Trade both of his Subjects and Alies And give them such safe Conduct and Convoy as they shall reasonably require He will suffer no other Fleets or Men of War to keep any guard upon these Seas or there to offer violence or take prizes or booties or to give interruption to any lawfull intercourse In a word

of their Men of War which they yearly send out to maintain that by force which they may have of Courtesie The Prince answered that for himself at His Return from Utrecht he would do his best endeavour to procure His Majesty contentment but he doubted the Hollanders would apprehend the same effect in their payment for Fishing as they found in the passage of the Sound where at first an easie matter was demanded by the King of Denmark but now more exacted then they can possibly bear And touching their Men of War he said they must still be at the same charge with them because of the Pirates Withal he cast out a question to me whether this freedom of Fishing might not be redeemed with a summ of money To which I answered It was a matter of Royalty more then of Utility though Princes were not to neglect their profit And in another Letter of the said Lord Ambassadour from the Hague to Secretary Naunton of the 14. of January 1618. He gives him to understand That having been expostulated with but in friendly manner by certain of the States about his late Proposition as unseasonable and sharp they said they acknowledge their Commissioners went beyond their limits in their terms of Immemorial possession and immuable Droict de Gens for which they had no order Then saith he I desire them to consider what a wrong it is to challenge that upon right which these Provinces have hitherto enjoyed either by connivence or courtesie and yet never without claim on His Majesties side c. In another Letter of Secretary Naunton's to the Lord Ambassadour Carlton of the 21. of January 1618. we read thus AS I had dictated thus far I received direction from His Majesty to signifie to the States-Commissioners here That albeit their earnest entreaty and His Gracious consideration of the present trouble of their Church and State had moved His Majesty to consent to delay the Treaty of the great Fishing till the time craved by the Commissioners yet understanding by newand fresh complaints of His Martiners and Fishers upon the Coasts of Scotland that within these four or five last years the Low-Country-Fishers have taken so great advantage of His Majesties Tolleration that they have grown nearer and nearer upon His Majesties Coasts year by year then they did in preceeding Times without leaving any Bounds for the Country People and Natives to Fish upon their Prince's Coasts and oppressed some of His Subjects of intent to continue their pretended possession and driven some of their great Vessels through their Nets to deter others by fear of the like violence from Fishing near them c. His Majesty cannot forbear to tell them that he is so well perswaded of the Equity of the States and of the Honourable respect they bear unto him and to His Subjects for His sake that they will never allow so unjust and intolerable Oppressions for restraint whereof and to prevent the inconveniences which must ensue upon the continuance of the same His Majesty hath by me desired them to write to their Superiours to cause Proclamation to be made prohibiting any of their Subjects to Fish within Fourteen Miles of His Majesties Coasts this year or in any time hereafter untill order be taken by Commissioners to be authorised on both sides for a final setling of the main business His Majesty hath likewise directed me to command you from Him to make the like Declaration and Instance to the States there and to certifie His Majesty of their Answer with what convenient speed you may Thus sarr Secretary Naunton to the Ambassadour Now what effect the Ambassadour's Negotiation with the States had appears by a Letter of his from the Hague of the 6. of February 1618. to Kings James himself where among other passages he hath this I finde likewise in the manner of proceeding that treating by way of Proposition here nothing can be exspected but their wonted dilatory and evasive Answers their manner being to resey such Propositions from the States General to the States of Holland The States of Holland take advice of a 〈◊〉 Council residing at Delph which they call the Council of the Fishery From them such an Answer commonly comes as may be expected from such an Oracle The way therefore under correction to effect Your Majestiesintent is to begin with the Filhers themselves by publishing against the time of their going out Your resolution at what distance You will permit them to Fish whereby they will be forced to have recoursero their Council of Fishery that Council to the States of Holland and those of Holland to the States-General who then in place of being sought unto will for contentment of their Subjects seek unto Your Majesty A Proclamation by King Charles the First For restraint of Fishing upon His Seas and Coasts without Lisence WHere as Our Father of Blessed Memory Kings James did in the Seventh Year of His Reign of Great Brittain set forth a Proclamation touching Fishing whereby for the many important Reasons therein expressed all Persons of what Nation of Quality soever being not His Natural born 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were restrained from fishing upon 〈◊〉 the Coasts and Seas of Great Brittain Ireland and the rest of the Istes adjacent where most usually heretofore Fishing had been until they had orderly demanded and obtained Licenses from Our said Father 〈◊〉 Commissioners in that behalf upon pain of such ●●●●…sement as should be fit to be inflicted upon such wilful Offendors since which time albeit neither Our said 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 inconveniences which occasioned that Proclamation are rather increased then abated We being very sensible of the premises and well knowing how farr We are obliged in Honour to maintain 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 Seas without License first obtained from Us and by these presents to make publick Declaration that Our resolution is at times convenient to keep such a competent strength of Shiping upon Our Seas as may by God's blessing be sufficient both to hinder such further encroachments upon Our Regalties and as●●●t and Pro●●●● those Our God Friends and Allies who shall henceforth by virtue 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 the 10 day of May in the Twelfth year of our Reign of England Scotland France and Ireland 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

is the Title of Successive Inheritance confirmed as well by the Law of Nature as of Nations and is so much the more considerable in regard of the infinite Advantages of the profits of it as the Brittish Ocean in its Latitude and Circumference exceedeth the small Boundaries of the Gulph of Venice But in this great Disputation where were present the most Remarkable Wits of Italy and Germany and where the Imperialists themselves and amongst them one of the most Eminent Stephen Baron of Gourz Attested openly that the Common-Wealth of Venice was Patron of the Adriatitk Sea and might impose what Customs they thought fitting and that all other the Commissaries thought so in their Consciences There is enough as may be thought in Reason to convince all Opponents that may pretend to differ in Judgement from us Yet so it is that the Indulgence of the Kings of England to their Neighbouring Nations especially to the Hollanders by giving them too much liberty hath incouraged them to assume a Liberty to themselves and what at the first was but a License they improve into a Custom and make that Custom their Authority Insomuch that some of the most busiest of them have openly declared against the Kings Propriety on the Brittish Seas Amongst these is one Hugo Grotius a Gentleman of great Ingenuity but in this particular so inclined to obey the Importunities and serve the Interests of his Country-men that he disobliged himself of the Truth and moreover to speak the truth of his Conscience it self for it you look into his Silvae upon the first Inauguration of King Iames of ever Blessed Memory he is pleased to express himself in these words Tria Sceptra profundi in magnum Cojere Ducem which is that the Rights of the English Scottish and Irish Seas are united under one Scepter neither is he satisfied with this bare profession but he goes on Sume animas a Rege tuo Quis det Iura Mari which is in English Take courage from the King who giveth Law unto the Seas In the same Book in the contemplation of so great a Power he concludeth Finis hic est qui fine caret that is This is an end beyond an end a bound that knoweth no bound a bound which even the winds and the waves must submit unto But with what ingratitude have the Dutch Answered the many Royal Favours which the Kings of England have almost perpetually conferred on them If there be no Monster greater then Ingratitude what Monsters are these Men who of late are so far from acknowledging their thankfulness that like Vipers they would feed upon and consume those Bowells which did afford them Life and Spirit We may observe that in their Lowest Condition which is most sutable to the Name of their Abode called the Low Countries they Petitioned to the Majesty of the Q●een of England whose Royal Heart and Hand being alwayes open to those that were Distressed especially those that were her Neighbours upon the account of Religion she sent them Threescore Thousand Pound upon the account of Sir Thomas Gresham in the year One Thousand Five Hundred Seventy and Two and presently afterwards there followed Colonel Morgan Colonel Gilbert Colonel Chester to Assist them in their Wars who were the Commanders of so many Regiments of Men And after them the War increasing there were sent over Colonel North Colonel Cotton Colonel Candish and Colonel Norris and some other persons of an Eminent Name who for the Honour of the English Nation made there Excellent Demonstrations of their Valour and Redeemed the Dutch from the Power of those who otherwise would have brought them to a better understanding of their Duties Great supplyes of monies were sent over to maintain so great a charge At the last the Prince of Orange being slain presently after the Death of the Duke Alanson Brother to Henry the third of France who if the successe had Answered the Expectation was wisely enough made Duke of Brabant the Queen of England sent over unto them Robert Duke of Leicester with great provision both of Men and Money accompanied with diverse of the Nobility and Gentlemen of good account And although the said Earle not long afterwards returned into England and the affairs of the Hollanders were doubtful untill the fatal Battel at Nieuport yet Queen Elizabeth of ever Blessed Memory out of her unspeakable goodness to the distressed and to those that suffered for Religion did as long as she lived constantly Assist the Hollanders both with Men and Monies she gave them Hope in Despair she gave them strength being weak and and with the Charity of her Princely Hand did support them being fallen And although the Hollanders do ungratefully alledge that it was a Benefit great enough for the English to Assist them in reason of state because by so doing they kept out a War from their own Country It is most certain that at that time the English had need to fear no Warr at all but onely for their Cause and for taking their parts for it was for their Cause that the English in the year One Thousand Five Hundred and seventy one had seized upon the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Ducats on the West Coast of England being the money designed from Spain to the Duke of Alva for the Advancement of the Spanish Interests in the Neatherlands And although the Hollanders do further alledge in their own Excuse that they were so grateful as that they offered unto the Queen of England the Soveraignty of the Neatherlands which she would not accept and therefore it was not their fault that she obtained it not It is in reason truly answered That the Queen of England well knowing that she was in danger to draw a perpetual Warr upon her Self and her Successours by the accepting of such a Gift to which she had no Right did wisely refuse their Liberality And yet for all that she continued still to aid them without that chargeable obligation The Hollanders do further alledge that the Queen of England had the Cautionary Town of Brill Flushing and the other places delivered into her Hands It is true she had so and thereby enjoyed only the Benefit of being at more Expence both of Men and Money and let the Reader take notice that most certain it is that the Hollander had no sooner made a Truce with the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke Albertus but he began presently to set the English at nought and to take the Bridle out of their Hands whereupon immediately insued their Forbiding of the bringing of English cloaths died and dressed into Holland and the adjoyning Provinces without ever making the King of England or his Ambassadour Leiger at the Hague Privy thereunto And to make amends for this their Saucy and Insolent Affront in a more High and Peremptory way they demeaned themselves to King Iames himself for whereas the Duke of Lennox as Admiral of Scotland had by order from