. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . t is significant thatthe envoys begged Edward of his lordship and royal powerto cause right to be done and punishment awarded, as he islord of the sea, anfl the robbery was conunitted on the seawithin his power as is above said. This recognition by theFlemings carries the more Aveight from its having been ontheir entirely voluntary; and, as Nicolas points out,although it was their interest to fix th
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . t is significant thatthe envoys begged Edward of his lordship and royal powerto cause right to be done and punishment awarded, as he islord of the sea, anfl the robbery was conunitted on the seawithin his power as is above said. This recognition by theFlemings carries the more Aveight from its having been ontheir entirely voluntary; and, as Nicolas points out,although it was their interest to fix the responsibility of theoutrage upon England, it is not probable that an admissionof a great national right would have been spontaneously made? in order to attain the object in view, unless the right wereregarded as lying beyond all question. By England theadmission was clearly accepted as a matter of course; andthe officers wdio conducted the restdtant imiuiry were orderedto examine into acts committed by men of England on thesea of Kngland. off the coast of Crauden, within the juris-diction of tlie l\ing of England. Crauden itself, it should » 62 THE GONi^OTADATION OF THE KINGDOM. [1274 be noted, did not form part of Edwards dominions. It wasmerely washed by the sea whiidi was Edwards. The dominion ehiimed, and tiuis formally acknowledged,was, however, still much more imaginary than real. Thekings peace did not, save in the(jry, extend to all his ownports, much less to the waters which were out of sight of hiscoasts; and there was fidly as much maritime lawlessness inhis reign in the Channel and the North Sea as in the reign ofany of his predecessors. In 1316, when the North Sea was,as usual in those days, swarming with pirates, six ships of warluider Sir John Sturmy and William (lettour, captains andadmirals, weie despatched to defend Berwick against thefreei looters; but, instead of proceeding upon that duty, theydropped anchor in various ports along the coast, and plun
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