Note 92 — C. COLONIAL AMERICA, 1660-1760

Question having arisen in regard to the definition of English-built ships and English mariners, these terms were defined in section V of the Act of 1662 (14 Car. II, c. 11). The portion of the section relating to mariners follows: "And whereas it is required by the said Act that in sundry cases the Master and three fourths of the Mariners are to be English, it is to be understood that any of His Majesties Subjects of England, Ireland, and His Plantations are to bee accounted English, and no others. ..."—Statutes of the Realm, V, 395.