Item,* 1.1 It was ordained at Hastings for a Law and Custome of the Sea in the second year of the raigne of King
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 ...
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- 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 ...
- Author
- Borough, John, Sir, d. 1643.
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- London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...,
- 1651.
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- Sea-power.
- Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30617.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025.
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John, by the advice of the Lords Tem∣porall, That if a Lievetenant in any voyage being ordained by Common Councell of the Kingdome doe incounter upon the Sea any Ships or vessels laden, or unladen, that will not strike and veile their Bonnets at the commandement of the Lievetenant of the King, or of the Ad∣mirall of the King, or his Lievetenant, but will fight a∣gainst them of the Fleet, that if they can be taken, they be repu∣ted
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as enemies, and their Ships, Vessells, and Goods taken, and forfeited as the Goods of Enemies, although the Masters or Posses∣sers of the same would come afterwards and alledge, that they are the Ships, Vessels, and Goods of those that are Friends to our Lord the King, and that the common peo∣ple being in the same bee chastised by impri∣sonment of their bo∣dies for their rebellion, by discretion.
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Inter leges marinas sub fine