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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51124	De jure maritimo et navali, or, A treatise of affairs maritime and of commerce in three books / by Charles Molloy.	Molloy, Charles, 1646-1690.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1676 (1676)	Wing M2395; ESTC R43462	346,325	454

Flagg and lower his Top-Sail at his first approach to the French Fleet and to salute the Admiral of France with Guns who was to return the said salute by Guns also as was usual when the Dutch and English Fleet did meet Only in this the right of the Flagg of England differs from that claimed by the French for if there had been a failer on the part of the Dutch of paying that respect to the French the same would have amounted to no more but a breach of the League but the not striking to the King of Englands Flagg is open Rebellion and the Article does so signify for it is there mentioned as a Right and Soveraignty not a bare Dominion only like that of Jerusalem to the King of Spain XII The Duty of the Flagg that hath been so constantly pay'd to our Ancestors is of such advantage to the continuing the renown of this Nation that it serveth to imprint new reverence in Forreigners that render it and adds new courage to those of our Sea Men that exact it and since we know how much it imports a State that it be reverenced abroad and that Repute is the principal support of any Government it equally influenceth the Subjects at Home and Forreign Allies abroad And as there is no Nation in the World more tender of their Honour then the English so none more impatiently tollerate the diminution thereof with what resentments would not only the more generous and Noble but even the Popular and vulgar Sea Men detest this or any succeeding Age should they remit or loose that Regality those acknowledgements which their Predecessors with so much Glory asserted and the neglect whereof was alwaies punished as open Rebellion the indignity of such an Action being sufficient to enflame the whole Kingdom the consideration of which besides his Sacred Majesties own Royal inclination to the same and his evident testimonies never to abandon a ceremony of so high a concernment witness the exposing the one half of his own heart his Royal Highness in the asserting the same with such Fleets and in such Battles that no Age or time cannot shew a memorial of the like are causes sufficient to create in us new flames of love to those Royal Patriots and Defenders of our Rights Private Persons move in another sphear and act by other Rules then Soveraign Powers the regard of credit with them may oftentimes yield to those of utility or other motives the Publique receives little injury thereby or is their wisdom questioned for such punctilio's if they relinquish them for other Imoluments or Peace sake but Soveraigns cannot so transact their subjects the People participate in their Honour and indignities they have a property a direct Right in the former Soveraignes cannot alienate or suffer their Honours to be impaired because it is not really theirs it appertains to the Nation universally and they are all effectually injured by such transactions either because the indignity doth really extend to them or because the Government and Authority is thereupon weakned and prejudiced which is the greatest of Civil detriments that can befall a People though ordinarily they are not aware thereof As Prudence doth thus distinguish betwixt the demeanor of Private and Publique Persons so doth Charity it self for though the Gospel precepts do oblidge particular Persons to bear injuries and contumelies with patience and to surrender even the Coat as well as the Cloak yet is not this so to be construed as if even Private Christians were to yield up their Civil Rights to every insolent that would incroach upon and usurp them or that they were to deprive themselves of those Reparations which the Law and Government affords them neither is it so to be understood as if the Civil Magistrate in Christendom might not secure himself of that obedience and reverence which is due unto dignity but bear the Sword in vain XIII This being the value which this Nation did alwaies place upon the Right of the Flagg the which they never did regard it only as a Civility and Respect but as a principal Testimony of the unquestionable Right of this Nation to the Dominion and superiority of the adjacent Seas acknowledged generally by all the Neighbour States and Princes of Europe and must be pay'd and ackowledged by all Princes in the World that shall be or pass on the same The Maritime Dominion by the Laws of England were alwaies accounted the Four Seas such as are born thereon are not Aliens and to be within them is to be within the Legeance of the King and Realm of England The Records in the daies of Edward the 3d. and Henry the 5th proclaim it that those Kings and their Progenitors had ever been Lords of the Seas and amongst those many great Instances of proving the Soveraignty of the same is that famous Record of Edward the first and Phillip the Fair of France in which the Procurators of most Nations Bordering upon the Sea thoroughout Europe as the Genoeses Catalonians Almaines Zelanders Hollanders Freislanders Danes and Norwygians besides others under the Dominion of the Roman German Empire where all joyntly declare That the Kings of England by right of the said Kingdom from time to time whereof there is no memorial to the contrary have béen in peaceable possession of the Soveraign Lordship of the Seas of England and of the ●…es within the same with power of making and establishing Laws Statutes and Prohibitions of Arms and of Ships otherwise furnished then Merchant Men use to be and of taking surety and affording safe-guard in all cases where néed shall require and of ordering all things necessary for the maintaining of Peace Right and Equity among all manner of People as well of other Dominions as their own passing through the said Seas and the Soveraign Guard thereof By which it plainly appears That the King of England had then been in peaceable possession of the said Dominion by immemorial prescription that the Soveraignty belongeth unto them not because they were Domini utriusque ripas when they had both England and Normandy and were Lords of both shores for Edward the first at that time had not Normandy but that it is inseparably appendant and annexed to the Kingdom of England our Kings being Superior Lords of the said Seas by reason as the very Record mentions of the said Kingdom and since that the Soveraignty of the Sea did alwaies appertain unto the English King not in any other Right then that of the Kingdom of England no Prince or Republique ought or can doubt the Tittle by which our present claim is deduced 't is in right of Britannia that the same is challenged 't was in that right the Romans held it the claim justified Ed. 3. and his Rose Noble though there are other reasons regarding to the Lancastrian Line which yield a Colour for the use of the Port-cullis in the Roal Banners of England

Oath as their firmament though that is not so for the most part of the efficacy of such Leagues rests in the promise it self to which for Religion sake the Oath is added Hence it is that Promises made to a Free-People are in their nature real because the subject is a permanent matter although the State or Republique be changed into a Monarchy yet the League remains for that the body i. e. the power is still the same though the Head be changed And the Person is incerted into the agreement not that the agreement may be personal but to shew with whom it is made for if it be incerted into the League that it shall be perpetual or that it is made for the good of the Kingdom or with the Person and his Successors or for a time limited the same does most apparently demonstrate the thing to be real However in all Leagues which tend to Peace though there may remain somewhat whereby words of ambiguity may arise yet the most pious way of interpreting hath been to account the same rather real then Personal for all Leagues made for Peace or Commerce admit of a favorable construction Leagues defensive have more of favour offensive of burthen XVIII Leagues made with Princes although they happen afterwards to be driven out of their Kingdoms by their Subjects yet the League remains firm and good for the Right of the Kingdom remains with such an unfortunate Prince notwithstanding he hath lost his Kingdom on the other hand Leagues made with the Invader cannot be good for his cause being unjust is odious but if the people will make him King de facto and investe him the question is then out of all controversy for then he is become a King regnant and by the Laws of England if treason by committed against his Person and after he is beaten out and the King de Jure comes to his Crown the King de Jure may punish those Traytours with death The Earl of Warwick having raised an Army in France and Flanders invaded England and within five or six daies after his landing King Edwards Forces betraying him the Earl became Master of the Realm the King flying for protection to his Kinsman the Duke of Burgundy he kindly in his misfortunes entertained him yet while he was in this banished estate the Duke of Burgundy renewed the League with the English it being agreed that notwithstanding King Edwards misfortune the League remained firm and unviolable between the Duke Charles of Burgundy and the King and Realm of England So that for Edward they should name Henry who was newly taken out of the Tower by the Earl of Warwick at his chacing out of King Edward now the true reason that Leagues remain and are firm notwithstanding such a change is because there goes along with them a tacite condition viz. of holding their possessions and therefore the World wondred not that His late Sacred Majesty having sworn a League with the King of Spain expresly as he was King of Portugal did notwithstanding receive two Embassadors from the then new King of Portugal and that without being judged either in England or Spain to have broken his former Oath and League The Duke of Guise having formed the League against Henry the Third which was that in regard the King was so cold in the Profession of the Romish Faith that it was in danger to be extinguisht by the increase which he permitted of the Reformed Religion especially seeing Henry the Fourth then King of Navar was of that Religion and was to succeed to the Crown wherefore by the Mediation of Philip the Second of Spain the Pope qualified the Duke of Guise Head of that Catholique League and which in point of Government was to set him above the King avowed him Protector of the Catholique Faith in the Kingdom of France When Henry the Fourth succeeded the Crown then this League for security of Religion was most violent and the Spaniard without hoped by nourishing thus the division within to carry all for himself at last To avoid which gin and to answer all the King chang'd his Religion and negotiated by d'Ossat to be received by the Pope as a dutyful Son of the Church of Rome demanding absolution for what was past and making large promisses of due obedience for the time to come the King of Spains interest was that he should not be received and thereupon he endeavoured to perswade the Pope that King Henry did but dissemble with him and that under this disguise he would easiest ruine the Romish Religion notwithstanding this the Cardinal obtained his Reception Absolution and Benidiction through the many promises and presents which he made to His Holyness whereupon the Spaniards designes were in a moment all blown over from France but fell heavily upon the United Provinces which were sorely opprest for that they apprehended the loss and ruine of their Countrey and thereupon they implored assistance from King Henry who received their Ambassadours very gratiously and gave them assurance of relief The King of Spain who wanted no good intelligence in the Court of France immediately remonstrates to the Pope that his former inclinations concerning Henry's dissimulations did now appear in the face of all the World and that seeing His Holyness had been so credulous he knew not now whether they should be able to save the Catholique Faith from being subjected to the Reformed Religion or no for whereas the Hollanders had revolted from him only because he resolved to use the true means for the establishment of the Romish Faith among them and that now he was in a fair way of reducing them which conduced so much by his Holiness his opinion to the establishment of the Romish Faith Henry had taken their party against him in that work and that at Paris he had received their Ambassadors to that purpose although he knew they were his lawful Subjects c. This startled the Pope not a little who charged d'Ossat for having betrayed him and put the Church in danger this argument was as subtil on the Spaniards side as changing Religion was on King Henry's and therefore the Cardinal was not a little perplext how to answer it to the advantage of his Master as also coherently to the considerations of his former reception into the Church But at last he replyed That His Holyness needed not wonder how in reason of State those different Religions might joyn together for political ends without hazard of altering Religion Thus David sought protection of the Philistians and Abraham redeemed the sinful Sodomites That he took it to be upon the same ground that His Holyness himself not long before received a Persian Ambassador who was so far from being an Heretick that he never pretended to the Name of Christian that it was a plausible argument which the King of Spain used in complaining of Henry's receiving and avowing their Ambassador especially knowing