This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...obtained its fame, and that the staunch loyalty of the five brothers Penderell, in concealing Charles, obtained for them, when a king reigned again in England, the pension still enjoyed by their descendants. 9. For nine years from this time the king without a throne passed to and fro in France and Holland, with a few ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...obtained its fame, and that the staunch loyalty of the five brothers Penderell, in concealing Charles, obtained for them, when a king reigned again in England, the pension still enjoyed by their descendants. 9. For nine years from this time the king without a throne passed to and fro in France and Holland, with a few faithful friends, including Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Clarendon. The power of the Common-tion Ac?." wealth was now thoroughly established at home. Commercial jealousy of the Dutch led the new government into conflict abroad. In 1651 was passed the Navigation Act, which aimed a blow at a great source of the wealth of Holland by forbidding the importation into England of any foreign goods except in English vessels, or in the vessels of the countries which produced the commodities. The mercantile marine of the Dutch was largely engaged in a carrying trade for other nations, and this step led to a maritime war. 10. Robert Blake, who had already acquired fame as a soldier by his gallant defence of Lyme (in Dorsetshire) and of Taunton for the Parliament in the civil war, Naval defeats now became in England's cause a great admiral. of the On May 19th, 1652, before war had been declared Dutchby the Parliament, Blake defeated the famous Dutch admiral Van Tromp in Dover Roads. On Sept. 28th, 1652, Blake beat the Dutch, under De Ruyter and De Witt, in the Downs. Exactly a month later an engagement off the Goodwin Sands ended in Blake's defeat by a very much stronger Dutch squadron under Van Tromp and De Buyter, and then it was, when Blake was driven to the Thames for shelter and refitting, that Van Tromp's broad sense of humour made him sail the Channel with a big broom at his mast-head, as a sign that he had swept English ships from their own...
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