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 of the sea, unless they submit, and yield such obedience, and make such repair, as you shall approve of. But yet notwithstanding, albeit the said dominion of the sea be so ancient and indubitable, and concerneth the honour and reputation of this nation to uphold the same, we should not for all that, that you should in this expedition engage the fleet in any peril or hazard for that particular; so that if it should in this expedition happen, you should be opposed therein by such a considerable force, as the same might prove dangerous, then to forbear the pressing thereof, and take notice, who they were that did it not, that at some better opportunity they may be brought hereafter thereunto.'

But the claim to the dominion of the sea was very far from being a spent one, and Boroughs's little book deservedly ranks