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INDEX 



295 ; proclamation forbidding unlicensed 

 fishing by foreigners, 293, 294 ; licenses 

 to fishermen, 762 ; negotiations with 

 Dutch as to unlicensed tishing, 305, 

 306 ; tries surreptitiously to induce 

 Dutch to accept licenses, 317, 319, 3'21 ; 

 Dutch despatch a fleet to protect their 

 fishermen, 321 ; general dissatisfaction 

 with his actions, 324 ; his power on sea 

 wanes, 328 ; pretensions to sovereignty 

 of sea flouted by Dutch, 328, 329 ; 

 battle of Downs, 335 ; proceedings re- 

 garding Spanish fleet and Tronip, 331, 

 336 



Charles II., his efforts to develop fisheries, 

 441 ; Bill to encourage fisheries, 443 ; 

 directed against foreigners, 444, 444 n. ; 

 establishes the Royal Fishery, 446-448 ; 

 failure of, 449 ; Dutch embassy, negoti- 

 ations concerning fishery question, 449, 

 450, 451, 455 ; tries to prevent Franco- 

 Dutch treaty, 454 ; treaty with the 

 United Provinces, 455 ; disputes about 

 striking, 455 ; second Dutch war, 457, 

 458 ; very popular, 458 ; course of, 459 ; 

 terms of peace, 464 ; claim to exclusive 

 fishing withdrawn, 464 ; question of 

 striking, 464, 465 ; extent of British 

 seas, 465, 466 ; licenses offered to Dutch 

 fishermen, 460 ; De Witt's proposals as 

 to striking, 468 ; verbal arrangement 

 with Louis as to striking, 471, 471 n. ; 

 Triple Alliance, 474 ; secret treaty of 

 Dover, 474 ; obtains a subsidy, 475 ; 

 ill-feeling against Dutch fomented, 476 ; 

 accuses De Witt of secret negotiations 

 with Louis, 476 ; recall of Sir William 

 Temple, 476 ; pretext for war in the 

 "honour of the flag," 476; sends his 

 yacht Merlin to pick a quarrel over 

 the salute, 477, 478, 479 ; failure of the 

 Merlin, 480 ; dispute with Dutch as to 

 striking, 482 : Dutch asked to acknow- 

 ledge his dominion of the seas, 482 ; the 

 Dutch hoodwinked, 482 ; rejects con- 

 cessions of Dutch, 483, 484 ; orders 

 Dutch shipping to be seized, 484, 485 ; 

 failure of attack on Smyrna fleet, 486, 



487 : declaration of war against States- 

 General, 487; declaration on the honour 

 of the flag and sovereignty of the sea, 

 487, 488 ; arranges salute with Louis, 



488 ; terms offered the Dutch, 490 ; de- 

 mands payment for fishery, 491, 491 n. ; 

 summons Parliament, 492 ; subsidy 

 granted, 493 ; the war intensely un- 

 popular, 493 ; efforts to stir up ani- 

 mosity against Dutch, 494-498; con- 

 gress at Cologne, 498 ; terms of peace 

 offered, 498 ; question of flag and strik- 

 ing, 498, 499, 501-503, 505, 506, 508 ; 

 question of fisheries, 498-500, 503-505, 

 508 ; negotiations for separate peace, 

 504-508 ; peace concluded, 508 ; estab- 

 lishes a new fishery company. 516 



Charles V., 74, 75, 78", 79, 81 

 Charteris, A. H., 586 n. 



Chatertou, Sir Richard, 448 



Chatham, 459, 476 



Chelchethe, John de, 50 



Chelmsford, Lord, on territorial sea, 



586 n. 

 Chester, 96 



Chili, territorial sea, 661 

 Chitty, on Sovereignty of Sea, 580 u. 

 Chitty, on territorial sea, 597 

 Christian V. of Denmark, prohibits fishing 



at Greenland, 528 

 Churchill, Lieutenant, 486 n. 

 Cinque Ports, 29, 32, 36, 55, 244, 247, 

 295, 381 n. ; complain about foreign 

 fishermen, 144, 145 ; fishermen of, 58, 

 90 n., 144; jurisdiction on sea, 213, 

 544, 544 n. ; licenses to French fisher- 

 men, 65 



Clarendon, Chancellor, 241, 457 

 Clee, 90 



Cleveland yacht, 511 

 Clyde, Firth of, foreign trawlers in, 647 ; 



fisheries of, 83, 221 n., 233, 235, 239 

 Cunt, King, and the sea, 26 ; charter re- 

 garding Sandwich, 542 

 Cockaine, Sir William, 202 

 Cockburn, Lord Chief-Justice, on Bristol 

 Channel, 586, 587, 588; on territorial 

 sea, 591, 591 n. 

 Cockraine, Captain, 437 

 Cod-fishing, 79, 131, 221 n., 672 

 Coke, Lord Chief-Justice, 17, 27, 43, 44, 

 44 u. , 46, 66, 213 ; on appropriation of 

 sea, 363 



Coke, Secretary, Sir John, 130 n., 227 n., 

 268, 269 ; on the British seas, 20. 264 n. ; 

 on the fishery scheme, 215-218, 232, 235- 

 237, 239 n., 241, 243; on sovereignty 

 of sea, 20, 211, 212, 255-258, 264, 271, 

 302 



Coke, Roger, 127 n. 



Colbert, French ambassador, 471, 471 n. 

 Cologne, congress at, 264 n., 323 n., 347 n., 



491 n., 498, 506, 510 

 Colomb, Admiral, 311 n. 

 Columbus, 106, 340 



Commerce, 53, 91, 106, 107, 134, 135, 143, 

 163, 210, 255, 339, 340, 342, 390, 391, 

 395, 408, 413, 457 ; in middle ages, 3, 

 5, 6, 7, 29, 30, 34 and n., 43, 44, 67, 69, 

 86 ; monopoly of, 5, 106 

 Commercial enterprise, expansion of, 6, 



339, 340, 342, 533 

 Commercial jealousy of Dutch, 10, 422, 



441, 457 



Commonwealth, instructions as to strik- 

 ing, 380, 381 ; relations with United 

 Provinces, 384 ; negotiations for alli- 

 ance, 384, 385 : St John's mission to 

 The Hague, 384-390; Navigation Act, 

 391; seizure of Dutch ships, 391; letters 

 of reprisal against the Dutch, 391, b92, 

 393 ; renewed negotiations, 392 - 396 ; 

 thirty - nine articles considered, 393, 

 764 ; differences as to sovereignty of 

 sea, 393, 394 ; question of striking, 

 394, 395 ; question of fishery, 394, 396 



