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INDEX 



oil Dutch fishermen, 77 ; complaints 

 against Dutch fishermen, 144, 168, 

 177, 201, 234, 301 ; complaints against 

 French fishermen, 606, 617 ; Dutch 

 edicts re fishing, 201 ; old fishery lim- 

 its, 226-229; old limit against Dutch, 



83, 84; herring fishery in, 59, 61, 76, 

 79, 83, 143, 221 n. ; extra - territorial 

 jurisdiction in, 698 ; instructions of 

 Privy Council re assize herrings, 757; 

 fishery Acts, 76 ; fishery scheme, 225, 

 227 ; fishery society, 444 ; fishing in 

 lochs claimed, 218; "land fishing" de- 

 scribed, 222 and n. ; land - kenning, 

 see Land-kenning ; limits of territorial 

 sea, 226, 227, i*28, 229, 230; limit of 

 14 miles in Draft Treaty of Union, 

 223 ; limit of two leagues fixed by 

 Dutch, 605, 606 ; reserved waters, 77, 



84, 209, 211, 218, 220, 222, 223, 226-230, 

 234, 236-238, 445, 547 



Scotland, royal burghs, 76, 216, 217, 220, 

 221 ; ask that the Dutch be removed 

 within a land-kenning, 221 ; and fishery 

 society, 445 ; oppose assize herrings, 

 166 ; territorially of firths, 692 ; trawl- 

 ing restrictions on, 715, 716 ; Fishery 

 Board empowered to restrict, 717 ; Bill 

 to extend prohibition of, 720 ; Act fix- 

 ing thirteen-mile limit for, 720 ; treaties 

 with the Dutch, 188 n. 



Scotland, Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 

 1895, 592 



Scott, Thomas, 284 



Scott, Sir William. See Stowell, Lord. 



Scottish Seas, the, 226 



Scudamore, Lord, 272 



Sea, appropriation of, 537, 539 ; in Middle 

 Ages, 3 ; reasons for, 5 ; Roman law on, 

 539, 541 ; opinions of Italian jurists, 

 101, 104 ; opinions of modern jurists on, 

 552; Bynkershoek, 555; Callis, 363; 

 Lord Chief- Justice Coke on, 363 ; Gen- 

 tilis on, 35S, 359 ; Graswinckel on, 

 411, 412; Loccenius, 550; PufFendorf, 

 550 ; Lord Salisbury on, 361 ; Selden, 

 370-374 ; Lord Stair, 545 n. ; Vattel, 

 560. 



Sea, exhaustibility of. See Fisheries. 



Sea, " High Seas," 50, 54 



Sea, insecurity of, 5, 6, 30, 53, 54, 57, 70, 

 247-257 



Sea, measures for guarding, 31, 32, 33, 34 



Sea, sovereignty of. See Sovereignty. 



Sea of England, 7, 8, 9, 11, 20, 31, 41, 

 101, 209; extent of, 15, 16, 54, 55, 56; 

 seizure of ships in, by Grimbald, 49, 50 ; 

 sovereign lordship of, 43, 46, 51, 54, 55 ; 

 Callis on, 363; Plowden on, 102; terms 

 applied to, 16, 17 ; the " Two Seas." 17 ; 

 the " Three Seas," 17 ; the "Four Seas," 

 17, 18, 251 



Sea, property in bed of, 3fi2 



Seaforth, Earl of, 216, 220, 221, 222 n. 



Sealing, 695, 696 



Seals, 88 



Seas, British, extent of, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 



26, 208, 264 and n., 381, 418, 419, 429, 

 431-437, 459 n., 465, 466 and n., 469, 

 470, 477, 495, 505, 506 and n., 510, 515, 

 521 ; Admiralty on, 437, 438 ; reluctance 

 of Admiralty to define, 20, 264 and n. ; 

 boundaries intentionally left undefined, 

 20 ; Dee on extent of, 101-103 ; dispute 

 as to extent of, 437 ; Richard Cromwell 

 on extent of, 438 ; Thurloeon extent of, 

 434; Trinity House on extent of, 20, 

 477, 478 ; on striking in, 469, 470, 501- 

 505 ; claim to, gradually died out, 21 

 Sebastian, King, 107 

 Secretary for Scotland, 219, 227 n., 232 

 Seine, 26, 28 

 Seines, Bill to prohibit, within ten miles, 



444 n. 



Selden, 11, 17, 20, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 

 39, 41, 43, 44, 45 n., 48, 49, 55, 56, 62, 

 64 n., 66, 119 n., 183, 186 n., 213, 251, 

 254, 258 n., 279, 286, 305, 352 n., 353, 

 363, 410 n., 456, 469, 546, 550, 551; 

 controversy with Graswinckel, 411, 412 ; 

 imprisonment and release of, 367 ; re- 

 quested by Charles to write Mare 

 Clausum, 366 ; on British seas, 19 ; on 

 English sovereignty of sea, 373, 374 ; 

 on exhaustibility of sea, 372 ; Mare 

 Clausum, 11, 20, 254, 258 n., 315 n., 

 330, 389, 425, 456, 502, 504, 509 n., 

 543 ; history of, 3t>5, 366 ; publication 

 of, 288, 367 ; political importance of, 

 368, 369 ; importance of, in English 

 law, 369, 374; satisfaction of Charles 

 with, 368, 369 ; arguments of, 369-374 ; 

 anxiety in Holland about, 374, 375 ; 

 translated, 410 

 Semeyns, Meynert, 242 n. 

 Servat, William, 50 

 Seven Stones Rocks, territoriality of, 642, 



643 

 Shaftesbury, Earl of, 492 ; on the Dutch, 



506 



Sheerness seized by Dutch, 459 

 Shetlands, 4, 76, 88, 89, 90 n., 108, 113, 

 126, 129, 131, 151, 165, 169, 180, 201, 

 215, 221, 227, 230, 234, 238, 241, 406, 

 443, 534 

 Shields, 84 



Ship-money, 324, 329, 379 

 Ship-money fleet, first, 256, 259 n.; object 

 of, 260, 264, 265 ; proceedings of, 265, 

 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 

 274 ; failure of, 274, 275. See Lindsey. 

 Second, 286 ; its object, 287, 288 ; 

 opinion of Admiralty on convoying 

 foreign vessels, 288, 289, 762 ; on pro- 

 tecting foreign licensed fishermen, 288, 

 762; proceedings of fleet, 290, 291, 295- 

 301, 307-311 ; failure to meet with 

 French, 290 ; instructions of Charles 

 as to foreign fishermen, 295 ; licenses 

 distributed to Dutch herring busses, 

 298, 300, 308 ; amount received as con- 

 voy and license-money, 309, 310, 311. 

 See Northumberland. Third, 319, 323. 

 Fourth, 327. 



