By Douglas Coombs
I the tale of the perspective of Englishmen to the Dutch within the later 17th century - a narrative of the advanced interaction of engrained hostility and starting to be awareness of universal curiosity - has already been advised in a few detai1. ! With the dying of the Stadtholder-King, even if, the topic turns out to have misplaced its appeal for the historian. a lot has been written of the workings of the Anglo-Dutch alliance within the years that undefined, yet little has been performed to narrate the increase ment of 'official' attitudes and guidelines to the fluctuations and precon ceptions of public opinion . . possibly the very intimacy of the 2 nations for many of queen Anne's reign has made enquiries as to what 2 one considered the opposite appear of little second. any such view will be believable sufficient: clash is unquestionably extra fantastic and infrequently extra revealing than cohesion. three it's still visible that the subjec tion of an alliance to the stresses of warfare may possibly either display the underlying attitudes of the companions to one another and likewise make investments their day by day reactions to every other's behaviour with a heightened value. it is a truism which the current research is designed to demonstrate. the final word item of this paintings is, via an exam of what 1 See under, Ch. II, pp. 16-17 and notes.
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The British plantations, this declared, had strictly observed the prohibition of trade with the Spaniards, but the Dutch, with a different regard to their interest, do contrive by all ways and means to engage the SpaniardS in those parts to a commerce with them, and. for the better ingratiating themselves with that people, have called in their privateers and enjoy a free and open trade with the Spaniards there far greater than ever, which gives very great discouragement to her Majesty's subjects, and occasions their carrying the several commodities of the plantations (contrary to the Acts of Trade) to the Dutch, to be vended by them to the Spaniard or carried to Europe.
Hedges sent strong protests through both Vrijbergen, the Dutch envoy in London, and Stanhope; to the latter he indicated what the results of Dutch obstinacy in this matter might be: It is not to be doubted but upon Second thougbts they will consider what very ill consequences such a Proposall may produce, and especially when the Parliament meets, for it will infallibly putt them upon making very strict inquiries, and particularly how the States have complyed with their Quota of the Land Forces as well as those of the Sea.
262-4: Stepney to Shrews- 1 Stanhope to Stepney, 5 and 16 Oct. 1703, Hague, Add. Ms. ct. P. Holl. 226; Hill to Nottingham, 3 Nov. , I, pp. 277-8. B~. 11 pI. ii, pp. 678-9 ; Stanhope to Stepney. ,ue, Add. Ms. Nt, pp. 137-40. • Hill to Nottingham, 2 Nov. 1703, Hague. , j , pp. 276-7; F. Hamilton to Ormonde. 28 Dec. 1103, Breda, H. M. C. s. VIII, pp. 50-2. ,. atlhpt. 1703, Vienna, H. M. C. " • u4 12 Oct. KiU THE HIGH TORY MENACE (1703-4> THE HIGH TORY MENACE ( 1703-4) at home a powerful support for their cherished aim of changing the ~n the defensive in the Low Countries and send the rest of the army mto Germany; and he ended with assurances that 62 'method' of the war.