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A30617	The soveraignty of the British seas proved by records, history, and the municipall lawes of this kingdome / written in the yeare 1633, by that learned knight, Sr John Boroughs ...	Borough, John, Sir, d. 1643.	1651 (1651)	Wing B6129; Wing B3774_CANCELLED; ESTC R10587	24,855	175

by their Subjects contrary to the peace formerly made between them at Paris before which the Commissioners the Agents or Procurators as the Record nameth them for the Maritime coasts of the greatest part of the Christian world of Genoa Spain Germany Holland Zealand Freezland Denmarke and Norway made this remarkable acknowledgment and declaration following which out of the old French of that time I have rendred into English the title whereof is thus in Latine De superioritate Maris Angliae jure officii Admirallatus in codem To our Lords Auditors deputed by the Kings of England of France to redresse the damages done to the people of their Kingdoms and of other Territories subject to their Dominions by sea and by land in time of peace and truce The Procurators of the Prelates Nobles and Admirall of the sea of England and of the Comminalties of Cities and Townes and of Merchants Marriners Messengers Pilgrims and of all other of the said Kingdome of England and the Territories subject to the Dominions of the sayd King of England and of other places as of the Sea-coasts of Genoa Cataloigna Spaine Almaigne Zealand Holland Freezland Denmarke and Norway and of divers other places of the Empire doe shew That whereas the Kings of England by reason of the sayd Kingdome from time whereof there is no memory to the contrary have been in peaceable possession of the Dominion of the Sea of England and of the Isles being in the same in making and establishing Lawes and Statutes and restraints of Armes and of Ships otherwise furnished then to ships of merchandize appertaineth and in taking suretie and affording safeguard in all cases where need shall be in ordering of all other things necessary for maintaining of Peace Right and Equity amongst all manner of people as well of other Dominions as of their owne passing through the said Seas and the Soveraign guard thereof and in doing Justice Right and Law according to the said Lawes Ordinances and Restraints and in all other things which may appertaine to the exercise of soveraigne dominion in the places aforsayd And A. de B. Admirall of the Sea deputed by the King of England and all other Admiralls ordained by the sayd King of England had been in peaceable possession of the soveraigne guard with the cognizance of Justice and all other the appurtenances aforesayd except in case of Appeale and of complaint made of them to their Soveraignes the Kings of England in default of Justice and for evill Judgement and especially in making Restraints doing of Justice and taking surety of the peace of all manner of people using Armes in the said Sea and carrying Ships otherwise furnished and set forth then to Merchants Ships appertaineth and in all other points where a man may have reasonable cause to suspect them of Robbery or of other misdemeanours And whereas the Masters of the ships of the sayd Kingdome of England in the absence of the sayd Admirall hath been in peaceable possession of taking Cognizance and judging all actions done in the sayd Sea betweene all manner of people according to the said lawes Statutes restraints and customes And whereas in the said first Article of confederation lately made betweene the said Kings in the treatie upon the last peace at Paris are comprised the words which follow in a Schedule annexed to these presents First it is estreated and accorded betweene us and the messengers and Procurators aforesaid in the names of the said Kings That the said Kings shall from this time forward be one to the other good true and loyall friends and ayding against all men save the Church of Rome in such manner as if any one or more whatsoever they be would disinherit hinder or molest the said Kings in the Franchises liberties priviledges rights dueties customes of them and of their Kingdomes they shall bee good and loyall friends and ayding against all men that may live and die to defend keepe and maintaine the Franchises liberties priviledges rights duties and customes abovesaid except to the King of England Mounsieur Iohn Duke of Brabant in Brabant and his heires descended of him and of the daughter of the King of England and except to our foresaid Lord the King of France the excellent Prince Mounsieur Dubart King of Almaigne and Mounsieur Iohn Earle of Anhault in Anhault and that the one shall not be of Counsell or ayding where the other may lose life member estate or temporali honour Mounsieur Reyner Grimbald master of the said Navy of the said King of France who names himselfe Admirall of the said Sea deputed by his Lord aforesaid in his warre against the Flemmings after the said confederation made established and against the forme and force of the said confederation and the intention of them that made it wrongfully assumed the office of the admiraltie in the said Sea of England by the commission of the King of France and used the same one year more taking the people and Merchants of the kingdome of England and of other places passing through the said Sea with their goods delivered the people so taken to the prison of the said Lord the King of France in the Ports of his said kingdome as to him forfeited and accrewing And the taking and detayning of the said people with their said goods and Merchandise as also his said judgement and award hath justified before the Lords Auditors in writing by vertue of the authoritie of his said commission of the Admiraltie aforesaid by himselfe usurped and during a restraint generally made by the King of England by reason of his power and according to the forme of their articles of the confederation aforesaid which conteineth the words underwritten requiring that he might be acquitted and absolved of the same to the great dammage and prejudice of the King of England the Prelates Nobles and others above named Wherefore the said procurators in the names of their said Lords doe pray your Lordships Auditors aforesaid that you cause due and speedie deliverie of the said people with their goods and Merchandise so taken and detained to be made to the Admirall of the said King of England to whom the Cognizance of the same of right appertaineth as is before expressed So that without the disturbance of you or any other hee may take Cognizance therof and to doe that which appertaineth to his office aforesaid And the said Mounsieur Reyner Grimbald bee condemned and constrained to make satisfaction to all the said parties dampnifyed so far forth as hee shall be able and in his default his said Lord the King of France by whom he was deputed in the said Office And that after due satisfaction made to the parties dampnified the said Mounsieur Reyner bee so duly punished for the violation of the sayd confederation that his punishment may bee an example to others in time to come In the Record these memorable points are to be observed First That

stuffe having their Keeles and Ribs made of slight timber and the rest of the Hull rooven up with Osyers covered with leather Carinae Primum ac statumina ex levi materia fiebant reliquum corpus navinm viminibus contectum coriis tegebatur From whence Caesar tooke his patterne of those Ships which hee was forced to frame on the sudden for passing his Army over the River neare Ilerda in Spaine without wch he had utterly lost both it and himselfe yet had they and their Confederates other shipping of so great bulk strength withal so serviceable in fight at sea that Caesar in their description preferreth them far before those of the Romanes for in the Navall preparations made by the Gaules of Venice neare the mouth of the River Loyer wherein hee expresly saith that they had Auxilia supplies from the opposite part of Brittaine he setteth forth their Ships in such manner as considering the time may justly move admiration Ipsorum Naves saith he ad hunc modum factae armataeque erant Carinae aliquanto planiores quam nostrarum Navium quo facilius vada ac decessum aestus excipere possent prorae admodum erectae atque item puppes ad magnitudinem fluctuum tempestatumque accomodatae Naves totae factae ex robore c. And againe Neque enim his nostrae rostro nocere poterant tanta erat firmitudo neque propter altitudinem facile telum adjiceb atur Et eadem de causa minus commode scopulis continebantur Accedeb ant ut cum saevire ventus cae pisset se vento dedissent tempestatem ferrent facilius in vadis considerent tutius ab aestu derelicta nihil saxa cantes timerent And presently after circiter ccxx Naves eorum paratissimae atque omni genere armorum ornatissimae è portu profectae nostris adversae constiterunt Neque satis Bruto qui classi praeerat Neque Tribunis militum Centurionibusquequibus singulae naves erant attributae constabat quid agerent aut quam rationē pugnae institerent Rostrā enim noceri non posse cognoverant turbibus artem excitatis tamen has altitu do puppium ex barbaris navibus super abat ut neque ex inferiori loco satis commodè tela adjici possent missa à Gallis gravins acciderent And that the Brittaines not onely at this time but in most of those Warres of the Gaules did send them aydes and supplies against the Romanes the words of Caesar evidently declare who intending to invade their country pretended no other quarrell then Quod omnibus ferè Gallicis hostibus nostris inde subministrata auxilia intelligebat Yet these three confederates and neighbours the Gaules they permitted not freely to passe the Brittish seas but kept them from knowing so much as their opposite coasts save onely by way of Trade and Merchandize And this to certaine appointed places neare the sea-shoares where the knowne Marts and Staples were appointed for commerce and traffique By all which it manifestly appeareth that before the Roman conquest the Brittish Nation had the supreame power and command of their owne Seas without the competition of any other Nation whatsoever So likewise when the Romans had made themselves possessorie Lords of the Island and the Soveraigntie of the Seas thereunto belonging was in them and accordingly continued and was maintained without incroachment or pretence of title thereunto made by the other But when the Civill warres and distraction of the Roman Empire had by exhausting of the flower of the Brittaine youth so much infeebled the Nation as inforced them to call in the Saxons to their ayde against the Picts their insolent neighbours for suppressing the nationall factions growne up amongst themselves and those Saxons working upon the weaknesse of the Brittaines had expelled them from the better parts of the Kingdome though for a time they were diverted from setling their owne affaires by the powerfull invasions of the Danes and their homebred quarrels grown by reason of the severall pettie Kingdomes of their Heptarchie yet when they were all reduced under one head they forgot not to assume their right of Soveraignty in the seas of England As did the most noble Edgar who in the glorious title of his Charters yet extant of those times speaketh as followeth Altitonantis Dei largiflua clementia qui est Rex Regum Ego Edgarus Anglorum Basileus omnium-que rerum Insularum Oceani quae Brittaniam circumjacent cunctarumque Nationum quae infra eam includuntur Imperator dominus c. And for maintenance of this his Soveraigntie he continually kept in readinesse a Navy of foure hundred ships which being divided into foure severall Fleets of one hundred Ships a peece did every yeare after Easter take their course to the four quarters of England where they remained to guarde and scowre the Seas untill winter following So saith Ranulphus Cestrensis Idem quoque Edgarus 400 Naves congregavit ex quibus omni anno post festum Paschale 100 Naves ad quamlibet Augliae partem statuit sic aestate Insulam circumnavigavit hyeme vero iudicia in Provincia exercuit Etheldred after Edgar for defence of the Seas and kingdomes caused of every three hundred and ten hides of land a shippe to be built which meeting at Sandwich made the greatest Navy that ever this kingdome set forth to Sea And Canutus the Dane coming not long after to be King first of halfe the Realme by by composition betweene him and Edmund Ironside and after the death of Edmond of the whole Survivorshippe did fôr his owne time as his Successors of the Danish race after him preserve the Seas of the Kingdome in their former estate without admitting any the neighbour Princes to have any dominion in any part thereof And so they remained in the time of the Confessor untill the conquest made by William Duke of Normandie in whose raign and for many discents after him the Soveraigntie of the said Seas was so far from being evicted that it was never so much as questioned by any Nation untill the time of Edward the first about the yeare 1299. and the six and twentieth of his raigne At which time the King of France being upon termes of hostilitie with those of Flanders did by his Commission constitute one Reyner Grimbald Admirall of his Navy which he then sent forth against the Flemmings by vertue of which Commission Grimbald in passing to and againe in the Seas of England tooke upon him Soveraigne Jurisdiction as Admirall unto the French King in those Seas taking the people and Merchants of England and other Nations and carrying them into France where he caused them to abide his judgement and a ward concerning their goods and Merchandice But shortly after the Kings of England and of France appointed by agreement certain Commissioners termeed Auditors in the Record to heare and redresse the wrongs interchangably done