Of the dominion, or, ownership of the sea two books. In 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, (14595224327)

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Title: Of the dominion, or, ownership of the sea two books. In 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 land. In 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 island. Written 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
Year: 1652 (1650s)
Authors: Selden, John, 1584-1654 Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678. tr
Subjects: Maritime law Freedom of the seas
Publisher: London, Printed by William Du-Gard
Contributing Library: Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley
Digitizing Sponsor: Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura



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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 Gold.TheManufcripts 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
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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 Pro-confulfliip ofAJia, upon one and the fame account ofDominion, the Provinces of ^^^ and Europe became inacivilfenf, either continual or contiguous. Yea, whenthere was no fuch diftindtion of Provinces, the ad-jacent Ifles and the Sea it (elf,made one entire Provincialbodie alfo with the continent* And hence it came toc r If P^fs that the Ifles of Italy were * part of Italy j as alfbdejudiciis^ of cvery Province 5 and fuch as were divided fromde qu& vide j^aly by a fmall arm of the Sea, as Sicily, they ^ were toiraKde^n ^^^ reckoned rather among the Provinces oftheCon-fuiii^c