[801] Davies, ii, 328.
[802] Mémoires de Jean De Witt, as cited, p. 21.
[803] Davies, ii, 407. The clergy were of the war party.
[804] Mémoires cited, p. 194.
[805] M'Culloch, p. 353; Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, 1804, ii, 596; Petty, Essays, ed. 1699, p. 165; Keymor, Observations made upon the Dutch Fishing about 1601, rep. in The Phœnix, 1707, i, 223.
[806] Mémoires cited, pp. 48, 50.
[807] Davies, iii, 556.
[808] Cp. Tucker, Essay on Trade, 4th ed. p. 57.
[809] Latterly the regulations failed to check fraud, and even hampered trade (M'Culloch, Treatises, p. 371). But for a long time the effect was to sustain the business credit of the Dutch.
[810] Cp. Mémoires of Jean De Witt, p. 103, as to exceptions.