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fuller policy of the Navigation Act of 1651. "It provided that no produce of any country in Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported into any territory of the Commonwealth save in vessels owned by Englishmen or inhabitants of English Colonies, and manned by crews of which more than half were of British nationality; while the produce of any part of Europe was to be imported only in English vessels or in vessels owned in the country in which it was produced or manufactured."[1] A few years later the Act was further strengthened by provisions confining colonial import and export trade to English and colonial ships of which the master and three-fourths of the crew were English, the same conditions being applied to home imports of all non-European produce and to our coasting trade. In 1661 it was enacted that English recognition should be confined to ships built in England.
- ↑ "Shipping after the War," by the Right Hon. J. M. Robertson: a complete historical and economic exposure of the "navigation" policy.