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The English Civil Wars as a Cause of the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1640–1652

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Simon Groenveld
Simon Groenveld
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On 21 October 1639 and 29 May 1652 the English Channel off the Downs and Dover was the scene of two highly significant events. The first of these was the crushing defeat inflicted on a Spanish armada by a Dutch fleet under the command of Maerten Harpertszoon Tromp while an English squadron commanded by Sir John Pennington watched from a distance and did nothing. On the second of the two dates Tromp and the English admiral Robert Blake clashed in the armed encounter off Dover which sparked off the first Anglo-Dutch War.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 541 - 566
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32 Dat a on this to be found in ARA, RSG; RSH; LA; LE, and in P.R.O., HC A 13/61: Examinations January 1648 to June 1649; 34/1: Sentences 1643–50.

33 This refers to the trials from the beginning of 1644 onwards, when the register of judgments (HC A 34/1) started. See Groenveld, , Verlopend Getij, pp. 192–3 and 354, note 127Google Scholar. A total of 268 judgments were made in the years in question, most of them concerning ships from royalist ports.

34 This estimate is based on P.R.O., HCA 4/4: ‘Appraisements and sales 1648–1654’.

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37 The vessel Discovery, fitted out by them, was granted no fewer than 27 prizes between May 1645 and June 1646: P.R.O., HCA 34/1. Thomas Cunningham, the Scot who joined Strickland in The Hague on a diplomatic mission and in everyday life was the agent of the Scots staple at Veere in Zeeland, was a business associate of the New Merchants; between February and November 1644 he made £1,273 4s from the operations of a squadron of which he was a part-owner: Cunningham, Journal, pp. 73–4. Of the 268 judgments made by the High Court of Admiralty between January 1644 and October 1646, approximately half enriched individual English shipowners.

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41 See, inter alia, KHA, Willem II, xi D3: autograph list of letters received by William II in 1649; xi D5: 8 November 1649, William II to Charles II; viii 15: 16 July 1649 and 31 January 1650: Hyde to William II; X1A3: Henrietta Maria to William II. See also William II's correspondence in van Prinsterer, G. Groen (ed.), Archives ou correspondence inédite de la maison d'Orange-Nassau, second series, II–IV (Utrecht, 1858–1859)Google Scholar and the correspondence of his secretary, Constantijn Huygens in Worp, J. A. (ed.), De briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens 1608–1687 IV, 1644–1649 (The Hague, 1915), 491, 495–6, 497–8Google Scholar. Bodleian Library, Oxford (Bodl. L.), Carte MSS 24, fos. 35ir, 130, 222r–223r, and 240r–241v. Hoskins, , Charles II, II, 212–28, 260–75Google Scholar. Geyl, , Oranje en Stuart, pp. 48–52Google Scholar.

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45 ARA, LE 1648, 2/12 August.

46 ARA, LE 1649,18/28 May: Dorislaus to Joachimi. CJ vi, 212, same date: ‘for settling a more near and firm Union between the Two Nations’. As early as 6/16 March, when parliament still had numerous arrangements to make, the Commons expressed their intention ‘to endeavour that a good Correspondency and nearer Union may be affected and preserved between the Two States’, in response to a letter of 21 February/2 March 1649 from Strickland. A letter to this effect was written to the states general on 12/22 March: Rijksarchief in Zeeland (RAZ), annex to minutes (Bijlagen bij de Notulen) no. 2124. Dorislaus was killed before he could present his credentials to the states general: Cary, H. (ed.), Memorials ofthe great civil warfrom 1642 to 1652 (London, 1842) II, 131Google Scholar.

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48 This very forceful letter of 25 September 1649 is in ARA, L E 1649.

49 ARA, RSH 1650, p. 331.

50 ARA, RSG 1651, fo. 16r. Further developments to be found at fos. 32–59 passim.

51 CSPDom 1651, pp. 15, 17, 19–20, 21, 22. The Mercurius politicus was pressing for this between 2/12 and 9/19 January, see pp. 508 and 512.

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56 On Oliver St John see Pearl, V., ‘Oliver St John and the “middle group” in the Long Parliament, August 1643–May 1644’, English Historical Review, LXXXI (1966), 490–519CrossRefGoogle Scholar: idem, ‘The “royal independents” in the English Civil War’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, XVIII (1968), 69–96. Also Keeler, M. F., The Long Parliament, 1640–1641: a biographical study of its members (Philadelphia, 1954)Google Scholar.

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58 Bodl. L., Rawlinson MSS C 129, Journal, fo. 58r.

59 The principal sources in Dutch archives on this mission are ARA, RSG 1651; Resolutiën van de Grote Vergadering van 1651; LE 1651; RSH.

60 ARA, RSH 1651, p. 336.

61 ARA, Loketkas States-General 12589.62: secret letter from Cats and his companions to the states general, dated 10 February 1652. Correspondence of Cats et al. no. 281311, 17 May 1652.

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68 Hyde, E., earl of Clarendon, , The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England (Oxford, 1843), p. 673Google Scholar. This was not always successful: ARA, RSG 1648, fo. 869r, States of Holland executive committee (Gecommitteerde Raden), 3003, 23 October 1648.

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74 Ibid. 379–82. Earlier restrictions on trade: ibid. 1, 1224–6. Cf. LJ X, 554. On the war between England and France see Knachel, , England, pp. 122 ffGoogle Scholar. Firth, and Rait, (eds.), Acts, 11, 239–40Google Scholar; cf. CJ VI, 286.

75 Firth, and Rait, (eds.), Acts, 11, 445–7, 449–51Google Scholar. CJ VI, 491, 493.

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78 Ibid. pp. 194, 195, 204, 210, 213, 252, 258, 329, 344, 356, 414–15, 420–1, 445–7, 456. Cf. Farnell, ‘Act of Navigation’ and Junge, , Flottenpolitik, pp. 147–84Google Scholar.

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81 CSP Dom 1651, p. 300, quoted by Junge, , Flottenpolitik, pp. 156–7Google Scholar. This shows that consideration was also given to using the same measure in the war to subjugate Scotland. The text of the Navigation Act in Firth, and Rait, (eds.), Acts, 11, 559–62Google Scholar. Cf. Farnell, ‘Act of Navigation’; Clark, G. N.: ‘The Navigation Act of 1651’, History, VII (1922–1923), 282–6Google Scholar and Wilson, C., Profit and power. A study of England and the Dutch wars (2nd edn, The Hague, 1978)Google Scholar. Other views on the Act, with a more political angle, may be found in Hinton, R. W. K., The Eastland trade and the common weal (Cambridge, 1959)Google Scholar. While the order book of the admiralty committee has a lot to say about the passing of the act of October 1650, the Navigation Act is not mentioned in the subsequent volumes, on 1650 and 1651. It must have been drafted by the council of trade, which comprised pardy the same members as the committee and partly business contacts of the New Merchants. The admiralty committee order books are not in the P.R.O. in London but in the Bodleian Library: Rawlinson papers A 225 (21/31 October 1650–7/17 August 1651) and A 226 (to 25 November/5 December 1652).

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83 Sources: ARA, RSG; LA; LE; Loketkas; RSH; Incoming and outgoing letters Holland. P.R.O., HCA 13/61–5, 249, 250: Examinations; 34/1, 2, 4: Sentences. The total number of ships brought into port is less than the number of detentions because in 1647, 1648 and 1649 respectively 1, 2 and 11 ships were captured by parliament after having been detained by the royalists. The values mentioned here, as elsewhere, are based on the purchase price of ships and cargoes and not the sale price, which was probably 3 or 4 times higher.

84 The merchantmen requisitioned: ARA, RSG 1649, 24 June. LE 1649, 18 June: Joachimi to states general; 8/18 June: council of state to Walter Strickland.

85 The herring boats: GAM, RSH Stellingwerff 147, 17 September 1649.

86 GAM, RSH Stellingwerff 144, 31 July 1648.

87 ARA, RSG 1648, fos 651r–653r. Parliament's criticisms: CSPDom 1648–1649, p. 312.

88 On this mission, see ARA, RSG 1649; LE 1649; RSH 1649. P.R.O., HCA 13–250: Examinations on commission, 10–20 August 1649.

89 ARA, RSH 1650, p. 34; 1651, p. 156. On 6 January 1651 the 28 ships which had recently been brought into port in the islands were discussed: RSG 1651, fo. 12v.

90 Tromp's instruction is in ARA, LA 1651, 9 March.

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95 ARA, RSH 1651, p. 203. Cf. RSG 1651, fo. 223V on the attacks of Dutch merchantmen off the Portuguese coast.

96 Bodl. L., Rawlinson MSS A 226, Order book admiralty committee 1651–2, fo. 27r.

97 GA Amsterdam, resolutions of the Vroedschap 19, 8 December 1651. ARA, RSH 1651, pp. 592–3; RSG 1651, fo. 880v. On 15 December the states general received an application from the admiralty of Rotterdam for exemption for a fleet which was ready to leave for Scottish ports and which would not carry any prohibited goods. The application was refused: RSG 1651, fos. 897r, 899 r; as was a similar application from the admiralty of Amsterdam: fos. 913r, g18r.

98 E.g. GAM, RSH Stellingwerff 144, 31 July 1648; 147, 26 and 31 August 1649.

99 ARA, RSH 1651, p. 22.

100 ARA, RSH 1652, pp. 56, 73–4, 176–7.

101 ARA, RSH 1652, pp. 83, 97. The salute was clearly becoming a problem at this point; see ARA, RSG 1651, fos. 715V, 733V. RSH 1651, pp. 541–7. In Tromp' s instructions of March 1651 (RSH p. 125; LA 1651, 9 March) parliament is referred to as the government of England, to be treated in the same manner as the king had formerly been.

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103 Baetens, R., ‘The organisation and effects of Flemish privateering in the seventeenth century’, Acta Historiae Meerlandicae, IX (1976), 48–75, esp. 62–3CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Stradling, R. A., ‘The Spanish Dunkirkers, 1621–1648: a record of plunder and destruction’, Tijdschrifi voor Gescteedems, XCIII (1980), 541–58, esp. p. 547Google Scholar. It appears that valuations made in Dunkirk were somewhat lower than those made in England: for example, income from the 140 ships taken in 1628 amounted to approximately 1.4 million guilders, or some 10,000 guilders per ship.

104 ARA, LE 1648, 5 May. The Anglo-French war referred to was that of 1627–9.