Mare clausum : the right and dominion of the sea in two books : in the first the sea is proved by the law of nature and nations not to be common to all men, but to be susceptible of private dominion and propriety as well as the land : in the second it is asserted that the most serene King of Great Britain is the lord and proprietor of the circumfluent and surrounding sea as an inseparable and perpetual appendix of the British empire /