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,Cromwell and the Dutch, 1653–4,hief and an MP he had influence, but not the impact which observers attributed to men such as Sir Henry Vane, Thomas Chaloner, Herbert Morley and Henry Neville. This group was indeed the prime target of politically active members of the Army leadership in 1652–3, for denying military influence, and

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,The Uneasy Peace: England and the Dutch, 1654–8,had other priorities — the English with the Franco-Spanish conflict and the Dutch with Charles X of Sweden’s efforts to control the Baltic. Once Cromwell had committed his navy to offensives in the Mediterranean and Caribbean late in 1654 there was none to spare to take on the Dutch, even when the l

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,Cromwell and the Baltic, 1654–6,rs to Charles X from 1655 to 1658) seemed to show Cromwell as enthusiastic about Charles’s role as a Protestant hero like Gustavus Adolphus, as he was in using `outdated’ Elizabethan nostalgia and religious fervour to form his view of Spain. He neglected the national interest in supporting Sweden, a

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,Cromwell and the Baltic, 1656–8,ntinue unabated. His financial worries were lessened by Captain Stayner’s capture of Spanish Plate Fleet silver in September 1656 and a lesser seizure by Blake in May 1657, while the meeting of his second Parliament increased the chance of legally sanctioned taxation. Meanwhile, the lack of serious

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,Cromwell and Russia, 1653–8,s been noted for an inherent xenophobia towards Europeans which broke out at times into acts of overt hostility, and the English merchants’ relative immunity from this since relations had been established between the two countries in the 1550s ceased with the execution of Charles I. As a demonstrati

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The Financial Aspects of Foreign Policy,tructure for raising the English government’s revenue presented it with an especial problem concerning enforcement of its orders, hampered as it was by its lack of a central tax-collecting service and its reliance on the cooperation of the local gentry, whose intention was naturally to fulfil their

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The other Mozart oder Das eine im anderen,aided by the coincidence that Protestants and republicans were numbered among the rebels. Spain, France’s great European rival, was also seeking to assist the rebels in order to recover the strength which she had lost as a result of French successes in the early 1640s, both in Flanders and the Iberi