John de Witt

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“…In October England was full of the rumours of his success. 89 In December it was confirmed, Pepys hearing at the exchange the news of'our being beaten to dirt at Guiny'. Certainly, the Dutch were still anxious to avoid war if possible: De Ruyter had been careful to do no harm either to the possessions of individuals or to royal ships, and his action was limited to the property of the Royal Adventurers' Company.…”

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The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664

Seaward

1987

Hist. J.

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On 21 April 1664, Thomas Clifford delivered to the house of commons the report of a committee appointed just under a month before to inquire into the causes of the general decay of English trade. The greatest obstruction to foreign trade, the committee asserted, arose from the wrongs and iniquities perpetrated by the Dutch against the king and his subjects by invading their rights in India, Africa and elsewhere, and the damages, injuries and atrocities they and their confederates committed against English merchants and their property. The king, it proposed, should be acquainted with these grievances, and be requested to take action to obtain their redress. The house agreed, adding that in support of their resolution they would ' with their Lives and Fortunes, assist his Majesty against all Opposition whatsoever'. 1 This famous vote, presented to the king with the concurrence of the lords on the afternoon of the 27th, occupies a prominent place in all modern accounts of the origins of the second Anglo-Dutch war. All agree that it was an expression of a sharp and popular bitterness against the Dutch, particularly acute among merchants and exacerbated by a long period of depression. This sentiment, it has been pointed out, was fomented and encouraged by powerful private interests which hoped that a revival of the successful war of 1652-4 would destroy Dutch commercial competition. Most accounts argue that the king and his dominant advisers, the lord chancellor the earl of Clarendon and the lord treasurer the earl of Southampton, were reluctant to put political stability and financial recovery at risk by indulging in so adventurist a policy, and imply that the vote of 21 April was designed to press the government into firmer action and greater commitment to war. 2 That anti-Dutch hatred was widespread, that there were powerful interests clamouring for firmer action, and that the king was lukewarm and his principal ministers profoundly antipathetic towards a war, cannot be denied. Yet to conclude from this, however, that parliament's resolution was an attempt to force the government to submit to the strength of popular opinion is unwarranted. In his memoirs, Clarendon distanced himself from the vote. It had been procured, he claimed, by 'they, who were very solicitous to promote a war with Holland' ; 3 these warmongers, he elsewhere made clear, were the merchants, supported and encouraged by James, duke of York, who was

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The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664

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1987

Hist. J.

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“…For instance, the English spymaster John Thurloe, whose Commonwealth competed with the Dutch Republic in the mid-seventeenth century, employed the Dutch diplomat Lieuwe van Aitzema to send him intelligence on political developments in the Netherlands during the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars. 8 Dutch primacy in information exchanges during the seventeenth century, combined with Anglo-Dutch geopolitical developments, laid the foundations for the intelligence networks of the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, upholding the status of the Netherlands as an important centre of news and information. During the 1680s, tensions arose in England regarding King James II, who English Protestants believed had introduced Catholic absolutism on the British Isles.…”

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“No Intrigue Is Spared”: Anglo-American Intelligence Networks in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Tieleman¹

2021

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This article surveys previously underexamined American and British intelligence networks that operated in the Netherlands during the eighteenth century and demonstrates the relevance of the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic to the larger history of the Netherlands, early modern Europe, and the revolutionary Atlantic. The Dutch Republic's favourable geographic location, its postal services, its sophisticated press, and its mercantile economy made it an ideal place to extract information and build intelligence networks, shaping power politics in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. Additionally, this article illustrates how these Anglo-American intelligence networks affected the Dutch Republic and the revolutionary Atlantic. In the late 1770s, American revolutionaries successfully deployed their intelligence network to unleash a propaganda campaign that aimed to convince the Dutch public of their cause. By infiltrating the liberal and sophisticated Dutch printing press, the American revolutionaries not only succeeded in fostering political support among the Dutch public; they also created a transatlantic intellectual exchange with the Dutch opposition that laid the foundations of the Dutch Patriot movement of the 1780s and ultimately the dissolution of the Dutch Republic as a whole in 1795.

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“…In the summer of 1652, Constantijn Huygens, in a letter to an English royalist exile, Lady Morgan, already hinted crisis might be coming which would stir up the populace against the States of Holland. 61 In the tumultuous rst half of 1653, that crisis culminated. 62 In February, Grand Pensionary Pauw had sent a letter to Parliament in which he expressed Holland's desire for peace.…”

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The cry of the royal blood:revenge tragedy and the Stuart cause in the Dutch Republic

Helmers

2015

The Royalist Republic

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John de Witt

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The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664

The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664

“No Intrigue Is Spared”: Anglo-American Intelligence Networks in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

The cry of the royal blood:revenge tragedy and the Stuart cause in the Dutch Republic

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