Admiralty

VIII. 159. Letter from the King (Charles I.) to the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, requiring them to give directions to their officers to forbear to embrace or intermeddle with any matter, cause, or suit affecting contracts made, or other things done, beyond or upon the seas; for freight or mariners' wages; for the breaches of Charter parties, though made within the Realm; for building, amending, saving, or necessary victualling of ships; and for personal contracts and injuries done in all navigable rivers;—which matters ought to be heard and determined in the High Court of Admiralty.
30th March, 1635.