[86] Steele, op. cit. (see note 76 above).
[87] Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress.
[88] David Jones, A Farewell Sermon at St. Mary Woolnoth’s, 1692.
[89] Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade, 1690, ed. by Professor John H. Hollander (A Reprint of Economic Tracts, Series ii, no. 1).
[90] The words of a member of the Long Parliament, quoted by C. H. Firth, Oliver Cromwell, 1902, p. 313.
[91] The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 1827 ed., vol. ii, p. 235: “The merchants took much delight to enlarge themselves upon this argument [i.e., the advantages of war], and shortly after to discourse ‘of the infinite benefit that would accrue from a barefaced war against the Dutch, how easily they might be subdued and the trade carried by the English.’” According to Clarendon, who despised the merchants and hated the whole business, it was almost a classical example of a commercial war, carefully stage-managed in all its details, from the directorship which the Royal African Company gave to the Duke of York down to the inevitable “incident” with which hostilities began.
[92] Ibid., vol. iii, pp. 7-9.
[93] Sir Dudley North, Discourses upon Trade, 1691, Preface.
[94] Petty, Political Arithmetic, Preface.
[95] Chamberlayne, Angliæ Notitia (quoted P. E. Dove, Account of Andrew Yarranton, 1854, p. 82 n.).