Anglo-Dutch Rivalry during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

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1

See the admirable monograph on the subject by the late Professor Robert Fruin, Tien Jaren uit de Tachtigjarigen Oorlog, 1588-98.

2

The towns of Flushing and Brill and the fort of Rammekens were delivered into the hands of Elizabeth, as security for repayment.

3

Res. Holl. June 12, 1609.

4

Res. St. – Gen. June 12, 1609.

5

Art. 6 of the Treaty between James and the States, July 6 (June 25, 1609, o.s.).

6

Winwood, Memorials, vol. iii.

7

The Zeelanders in the seventeenth century, though they sent out many fishermen to the Dogger Bank, to Greenland and Spitzbergen, did not take much part in the herring fishery. See note.

8

Groot Placaet-Boek (July 19, 1606).

9

A Pollitique Platt, by Robert Hitchcock, 1580.

Observations made upon the Dutch fishery about the year 1601, by John Keymer. Ralegh, Works, i. 144.

Sir Thomas Overbury's observations in his travels in 1609: Harleian Misc. viii. 349.

Discourse addressed to the King by Sir Nicholas Hales, on the benefit derived by the Dutch from English fisheries. Terms suggested for granting them a licence to fish for twenty-one years. Calendar of State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1603-10, p. 509.

10

Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1603-10, p. 509.

11

Statutes of the Realm, iv. 2, p. 1058.

12

Letter of Salisbury to Cornwallis, June 8, 1609. Winwood's State Papers, iii. 44-50.

13

Fruin's Verspreide Geschriften, vol. iii, pp. 408-45.

14

Winwood's Memorials, March 16, (o.s.), 1610. See also letter of April 6 (o.s.).

15

See Note C.

16

Relazioni venete, Inghilterra, serie iv, p. 128.

17

See Note A.

18

Ralegh's Works, viii. 351-76.

19

See Note B.

20

See Note.

21

Harleian Misc. iii, pp. 397-8.

22

Ibid. iv, pp. 212-31.

23

Relazioni Venete, Inghilterra, iv. 206.

24

Ranke, Hist. of England (Oxf. trans.), i. 473.

25

Dated Jan. 6/16. Letters to and from Sir Dudley Carleton during his embassy in Holland from January 1615/16, to December 1620. London, 1757.

26

Greenland here stands for Spitzbergen. All through these disputes, owing to geographical ignorance, the two terms are used almost interchangeably.

27

Aitzema Saken van Staet en Oorlog, ii. 356.

28

See Note D.

29

See Note E.

30

Carleton's letters during his embassy in Holland, January 1615/16, to December 1620, p. 111.

31

Carleton's Letters, pp. 156-7. Report of the Lords of the Council with the King in Scotland, to the Lords of the Council in England, Aug. 4/14, 1617.

32

Carleton's Letters, October 11.

33

The Governor-General, Jan Pietersz Coen.

34

See special note F.

35

Cambridge Modern History, iv. 758.

36

The orthography of the original.

37

Sir Dudley Carleton's State Letters, 1627, pp. 5-15.

38

See note G.

39

Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstierna's Skrifter och Brefvexling, Hugo Grotii bref, ii. 1633-9, pp. 335-58.

40

Grotii bref, April 9, 1639, p. 595, 'video cum dolore inter Anglos et Gallos veteres recrudescere inimicitias.'

41

Grotii bref, April 23, 1639, p. 602, 'Haud equidem affirmaverim, quod suspicantur Angli, Gallicis pecuniis sustentari Scoticam factionem pauperiorem ceteroqui quam ut bello diu sufficiat. Creduntur autem id facere Galli, non tantum ex aemulatu vetere, verum etiam quod cum Batavi nunc consilia socient ad capienda Flandriae oppida maritima, quod cum solus prohibere possit Anglus, domestico ob id negotio distinendus sit.'

42

Archives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, 2nd ser., iii. 171, 'dès aussitôt que j'auray endormi le faict des Duyns, qui est le seul object de ma commission.'

43

Archives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, 2nd ser., iii. 200, 201.

44

Clarendon State Papers, ii. 71.

45

Ranke, Englische Geschichte, ii. 362.

46

Archives, 2nd series, iii. 381.

47

History of the Rebellion, v. 418.

48

Among them Prince Edward, son of the Queen of Bohemia.

49

'Placaet ende Ordonnantie op 't stuk van den Haring-Vaert, 't branden van de tonnen en 't soorten van den Haringh.' Derde Memoriael boek 's Hof v. Holland.