XVI CONTENTS 



facts and arguments Absolute sovereignty claimed for English 

 crown Anxiety in Holland States-General resolve on an official 

 refutation of Mare Clausum Graswinckel's treatise Pontanus 338 



CHAPTER X. 



THE PARLIAMENT, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE PROTECTORATE. 

 THE FIRST DUTCH WAR. 



Claim to the sovereignty of the sea and the salute continued Instruc- 

 tions to naval officers essentially the same Encounter with 

 Swedish squadron Action approved by Admiralty committee 

 Council of State instruct Blake to preserve the dominion of the 

 seas The Dutch strike willingly Strained relations between the 

 Parliament and the United Provinces Political revolution in 

 Holland Mission of St John and Strickland to The Hague Pro- 

 positions for fusion and alliance The Intercursus Magnus taken 

 as basis for treaty St John's seven Articles The thirty -six 

 Articles of the Dutch Failure of negotiations Feeling in Eng- 

 land English letters of reprisal Embassy of Cats, Schaep, and 

 Van de Perre Dutch fleet increased Discussion of thirty-six 

 Articles Fresh instructions from Holland The negotiations 

 suddenly interrupted Blake's encounter with Tromp in the 

 Straits of Dover regarding the striking of the flag Its antecedents 

 Tromp's defective instructions as to striking Account of the 

 fight Indignation in London Embassy of the Grand Pensionary, 

 Adrian Pauw First Dutch war Blake and the herring-busses 

 Tromp's broom The Parliament asserts the right of the Common- 

 wealth to the sovereignty of the seas and the fishery Selden's 

 Mare Clausum translated and published by order of the Council 

 of State Controversy between Selden and Graswinckel . . 37g 



CHAPTER XL 



THE PARLIAMENT, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE PROTECTORATE 



continued. 



THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. 



The negotiations for peace Mission of Beverning, Nieuport, Van de 

 Perre, and Jongestal The attitude of Cromwell Proposals for 

 fusion abandoned Cromwell's twelve Articles The sovereignty 

 of the sea and the fishery put in the foreground The twenty- 

 seven Articles proposed by the Council of State Claim to the 

 fishery, the salute, the right of search, the exclusive guard of the 



