Of the dominion, or, ownership of the sea two booksIn the first is shew'd, that the sea, by the lavv of nature, or nations, is not common to all men, but capable of private dominion or proprietie, as well as the landIn the second is proved, that the dominion of the British sea, or that which incompasseth the isle of Great Britain, is, and ever hath been, a part or appendant of the empire of that islandWritten at first in Latin, and entituled, Mare clausum seu, De dominio maris, by John Selden ..Translated into English; and set forth with som additional evidences and discourses . ad (the printe
Of the dominion, or, ownership of the sea two booksIn the first is shew'd, that the sea, by the lavv of nature, or nations, is not common to all men, but capable of private dominion or proprietie, as well as the landIn the second is proved, that the dominion of the British sea, or that which incompasseth the isle of Great Britain, is, and ever hath been, a part or appendant of the empire of that islandWritten at first in Latin, and entituled, Mare clausum seu, De dominio maris, by John Selden ..Translated into English; and set forth with som additional evidences and discourses . ad (the printed Books ray,each ofthem had a towred Diadem) and vejfels full of coin in theirhands ^ t^^hich fignified that the levying oftributes in thofe threeProvinces, belongd to the Proconful. fhey yi>ere afpareltd aljoin long garments of fay they haVe ^hite orskie-colou/d Afia Tifearethjhoos or Sandals and a skie colour dMantle-^ The other are li>ithoHt p?oos: Shee Ti^hich reprefents the ^Ifles li?eareth a purple Mantle; Shee ^hich repreferns HellcCpont agreen one. ^ut in the !Book o/Urfinus, they are alljhodhigh Tbiti red buskins^not differing in their habit. In Mandruci-anus they are fet forth in longgarments^ n>hich almojl cover theirfeetJThus far hee. And now judg yee,whether it bee like-ly OwierfhipoftheSea. Chap. XIV. ly or no, that any pectie Countrie of Afta fliould bee fetforth in thefe Ornaments in an equal Itate and nniajeftiewith Afta ic felf, feeing even this had comprehended thatalTo^no otherwiie then the whole doth the fmallcft part. 85. There 8^ Book I. 0/the 7)omin!on, or. Their towred Diadems, equal Stature, majcftie andwealth not differing at all, fecm ro point out (uch anccjualitie, that neither of them,can appear,by this formof defcription, to bee reckoned a part of another. Andfo, that HeOefpont cannot in that place bee any other thenthe Sea it (elf, or that Arm of the Sea flowing between;which beting thus joyned with the Ijles to the P
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