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Author : Sir Philip Meadows
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Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Observations Concerning the Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas written by Sir Philip Meadows and published by . This book was released on 1689 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Medows
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Download or read book Observations Concerning the Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas, Being an Abstract of the Marine Affaires of England written by Philip Medows and published by . This book was released on 1689 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wemyss Fulton
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Total Pages : 836 pages
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Download or read book The Sovereignty of the Sea written by Thomas Wemyss Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wemyss Fulton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465616675
Total Pages : 799 pages
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Download or read book The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters written by Thomas Wemyss Fulton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the claim of the English crown to the sovereignty of the British seas became a question of international importance in the early part of the seventeenth century, the records of history and the treasures of ancient learning were searched for evidence to establish its antiquity. Some of the greatest lawyers and scholars of the time took part in the task, and they were not always content with the endeavour to prove that the claim was in conformity with the laws of England as an old heritage of the crown, but they tried to trace it back to a remote past. Selden, who was incomparably the ablest and most illustrious champion of the English pretension, as well as Boroughs and Prynne and other writers of lesser note, laboured with more or less erudition and ingenuity to show that the British dominion in the adjoining seas was anterior to the Roman occupation. From the ancient Britons it was supposed to have passed to the Roman conquerors as part and parcel of the British empire, and to have been exercised by them during their possession of the island. It is unnecessary to discuss the evidence and arguments for these contentions. They are for the most part drawn from scattered passages or even phrases in the writings of classical authors, to which a strained and improbable significance was assigned. An example may be given from Selden, who, in referring to the well-known passage in Solinus in which Irish warriors are described as decking the hilts of their swords with the tusks of sea-beasts (walrus), first tries to show that the passage applied also to the Britons, and then argues that there must have been a great fishing and a large number of fishermen to provide sufficient material, the conclusion being that the British seas were “occupied” by navigation and fishing. In reality the walrus tusks came by barter from the north, and there is little or no evidence to show that the ancient Britons fished for anything except salmon. At the utmost it may be said that the Romans were masters of the British seas, or parts of them, in a military sense. During their occupation of Britain they were also in possession of Gaul, and thus held both coasts of the narrow sea, and no doubt exercised authority over it, as the Norman and Angevin kings under similar circumstances did later. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period of English history evidence of the existence of a sovereignty over the adjoining sea, or even of a pretension to it, is almost as unsatisfactory. Here again the authors who championed mare clausum professed to find in very ordinary events arguments in favour of their case. The seafaring habits of the Teutonic invaders and their daring and valour—they were described by the Roman poet as sea-wolves, fierce and cunning, with the sea as their school of war and the storm their friend—were regarded as proof that they possessed maritime sovereignty after their conquest of Britain. The Danegeld, a tax which was originally levied as a means of buying off the Danes, or of providing a fleet to resist their attacks, was thought by Selden to show the same thing. So also with the fleets collected by Alfred, Edgar, Ethelred, and other English kings to oppose the invasions of the Northmen,—they were believed to have secured and maintained dominion over the sea. Even the beautiful lesson in humility which Cnut desired to convey to his courtiers when, seated in regal pomp on the seashore, he vainly commanded the inflowing tide to stay its course at his behest, was seized on for the same end. “Thou, O sea,” said the great king, “art under my dominion, like the land on which I sit; nor is there any one who dares resist my commands. I therefore enjoin thee not to come up on my land, nor to presume to wet the feet or garments of thy lord.” In these words Selden professed to find clear proof that Cnut claimed the British seas as part of his dominions.
Author : Thomas Wemyss Fulton
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371159191
Total Pages : 832 pages
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Download or read book SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEA written by Thomas Wemyss Fulton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789783
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The Ideological Origins of the British Empire written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.
Author : Humphry William Woolrych
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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise of the Law of Waters and of Sewers written by Humphry William Woolrych and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
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Total Pages : 1368 pages
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Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John Reginald Homer Weaver
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Total Pages : 1384 pages
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Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by John Reginald Homer Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
