transmarine
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The Abbey of Lessay had transmarine jurisdiction and the right of presentation to the Priory of Boxgrove and other endowments in the diocese of Chichester.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
The Government quarries situated upon it were subsequently worked almost entirely by transmarine convicts, of which more will be said hereafter.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
Heyn was employed by the Dutch West India Company, which from the year 1623 onwards, carried the Spanish war into the transmarine possessions of Spain and Portugal.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring
How inimical it was could not yet be clearly seen; for the transmarine interests of Rome had not at the time attained a development which invited the mastery of conquered lands by the Roman capitalist.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
The long struggle was over, and England now retained nothing of her old transmarine possessions save Calais and the Channel Islands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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