HIST 104 Lecture 5: The Closed Sea by Seldon
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Went to london to study law: worked at inns of court, why does the church think it"s legal to collect tithes, becomes skeptical of divine laws, wrote a hit book about tithes in english. Was interested in where laws came from. Selden becomes parliament"s lawyer: parliament is starting to separate from monarchy, selden gets thrown in jail for questioning the king"s authority, during the petition of rights 1628 he was thrown into jail again. 1613 holland and england negotiates who controls the fisheries in the. North sea (herring: england felt dutch was fishing in english waters, second issue was the trade in asia. Grotius introduces dutch"s stand on free waters. Charles makes a deal with selden: if you write mare clausum your freed from jail. The sea is capable of private ownership like the land. The sea can be divided since pope alexander vi did it.
