INDEX 



793 



Ship-money writs, 36 n., 211, 253. 254, 

 286 



Ships, impressment of, 32 



Shookius, 550 



Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 520 



Shrewsbury, Duke of, 520 



Sicily, 29 



Skagerrack, 438 and n. ; territoriality of, 

 636, 653 



Sleeve, the, 260 



Slingsby, Capt., 327 



Sluys, battle of, 36, 37, 38 



Smeerenburg, 194 n. 



Smith, Captain John, 312 n., 494 



Smith, Lieut. Thomas, dismissed for forc- 

 ing French to strike, 521 



Smith, Northumberland's Secretary, 328, 

 331 332 



Smith, Simon, 242 n., 244 n., 442, 443 n., 

 448 



Smyrna fleet, 485, 486, 487 



Society of Fishing Merchants, 138, 159 



Solebay, battle of, 489 



Solinns, 25 



Somerset, Earl of, 56 n. 



Sommelsdijck, Lord of. See. Aerssen. 



Sound, the sovereignty over, 4, 8, 16, 108 ; 

 toll levied at the. 4", 8, 35, 91, 108, 110, 

 154, 190, 339, 501 



South America, territorial sea, 661 



Southampton, 68, 73, 94 



South wold, 90 n., 534 



"Sovereign of the Seas," the, 28, 326 



Sovereignty of the sea, among ancients, 

 371 n., 373 



Sovereignty of sea, decadence of claim to, 

 15, 517, 522, 523, 566 



Sovereignty of sea, juridical controversies 

 about, 5, 410-413 ; liberty of navigation, 

 8, 11, 33, 34, 54. See Navigation. 



Sovereignty of the sea, meaning of, 2 ; 

 striking as a symbol of, 39 



Sovereignty of sea, treatises on, 364 n. 



Sovereignty of the sea, Barrere on, 595 ; 

 Blackstone, 580 n. ; Boroughs, 364-366 ; 

 Champagne, 595, 596 ; Chitty, 580 n. ; 

 Secretary Coke, 272; Cromwell, 423, 

 424 ; Dr Dee, 99, 103 ; De Witt, 454, 

 468, 470 ; Evelyn, 514 ; English writers, 

 493, 494, 513; Gentilis, 359; Hall, 

 580 n. ; Hargrave, 580 n. ; Italian jur- 

 ists, 6 ; Jenkins, 484 n. ; Loccenius, 

 550; Molloy, 514; Moore, 580 n. ; 

 naval historians on, 521; Selden, 370- 

 374 ; Stubbe, 496 - 498 ; Wicquefort, 

 495 ; Baltic, 4, 33, 552 ; Bothnian 

 Gulf, 4 



Sovereignty of sea, Denmark, 4, 8, 16, 33, 

 105, 108, 158, 339, 371, 376, 530, 552, 

 567 ; contested by Elizabeth, 86 ; Eng- 

 land, origin of English claims, 6, 29, 30 ; 

 nature of, 8, 30 ; defects of, 33 ; early 

 history of, 25 ; under ancient Britons, 

 25, 26 : under Romans, 25, 365 ; under 

 Anglo-Saxons, 26 ; under King Edgar, 

 27 ; before Norman Conquest, 27 ; after 

 Norman Conquest, 29 ; under Planta- 



genet Kings, 30, 40, 51, 52; rolls con- 

 cerning, 8, 43, 44, 45, 740, 744; not 

 claimed by Tudors, 86, 111; importance 

 of claim under Stuarts, 9, 10, 118 ; 

 claimed as a prerogative of the crown, 

 211; aimed against Dutch, 10, 125; ex- 

 travagant claims under Charles I., 209, 

 251, 264, 274 ; under the Common- 

 wealth, 378-382, 394, 395, 409, 412; 

 under Charles II., 441, 458, 487, 488 ; 

 decadence of claim, 15, 517, 522, 523 ; 

 of France, 287 : of Genoa, 4, 339, 341, 

 371 ; of Norway, 4, 16, 530 ; of Pisans, 

 371 ; Poland, 4, 377 ; Portugal, 5, 105- 

 108. 112, 338, 339, 341, 371, 552 ; Spain, 

 5, 105-108, 112, 118, 158. 330, 339, 341, 

 371, 552; Sweden, 4, 350, 552; Tus- 

 cans, 371 ; Venice, 3, 4. 8, 16, 33, 338, 

 339, 341, 350, 351, 351 n., 371, 552, 

 566 



Sowe. See Zowe. 



Spain, 20, 30, 33, 45, 57, 87, 91, 95, 107, 

 189, 198, 199, 203, 205, 212, 245, 247, 

 253, 255, 264, 266, 268, 275, 286, 304, 

 493 ; claim to sovereignty of sea, 5, 86, 

 105-108, 112, 118, 188, i339; fisheries, 

 92; area of fishing -grounds, 738; for- 

 eign trawlers at. 713; fishermen of, on 

 British coasts, 67, 129, 150 ; peace with 

 England, 125, 358 ; war with United 

 Provinces, 9, 119, 139, 148. 201, 243 n., 

 251 ; territorial sea, 644-66S ; limits of, 

 569, 664 ; Customs limit, 594 ; disputes 

 with Great Britain and United States as 

 to territorial sea, 664, 665 



Spaniards forced to strike, 117, 206 



Spanish Netherlands, 266, 272, 275 



Spanish whalers at Spitzbergen, 182, 

 183 n. 



Spelman, 27 



Spitzbergen, 4 ; whaling at, 112, 164, 181, 

 182-185, 193, 194, 194 n., 198, 199, 200, 

 527. See also Greenland. 



Spragge, Sir Edward, 485, 489 



Sprat fishery, 133 



Stair, Lord, on territorial limit, 545 n. 



Star Chamber, 243 



Start, the, 260 



State merchant, 136 



States-General of the United Provinces, 

 84, 178, 186, 190, 192, 258, 292, 343, 

 351, 415, 481 ; conclude treaty with 

 James VI. , 81 ; conclude peace with 

 Spain, 148 ; consider James's proclama- 

 tion on unlicensed fishing, 148, 150 : 

 decide to maintain freedom of fishing 

 on British coast, 151 ; send embassy 

 to James about, 155 ; arguments used, 

 155, 159; proclamation suspended, 159 ; 

 apologise for the capture of Brown, 

 173 ; send the Captain responsible to 

 London, 174 ; publish an edict forbid- 

 ding their fishermen to interfere with 

 Scottish fishermen, 179 ; negotiations 

 with James, 189; disputes as to whale 

 fishing at Spitzbergen, 181-185 ; send 

 another embassy to London, 185 ; no 



