The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603-1707

297 Pages·2022·3.232 MB·English

by  Colin Helling

The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union,
1603–1707

The Navy and Anglo-Scottish
Union, 1603–1707
Colin Helling
THE BOYDELL PRESS
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First published 2022
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Cover image: Willem van de Velde the Younger, An English ship in action with Barbary
Corsairs, circa 1680 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Palmer
Collection. Acquired with the assistance of The Art Fund
To my parents
Dick and Jean Helling

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Note on Conventions xv
Introduction: New Histories and Composite Monarchies 1
I. Aspiration 1603–52
1. A Whole Isle: Jacobean Navy and Union 13
2. Union of Arms: War against France and Spain 1625–30 33
3. Sovereignty of the British Seas: Union of Maritime Rights? 45
4. Covenant and Union: The Navy and the Formulation of Covenanter
Policy 57
5. Engagement and Conquest: Sea Power and the Covenanters’ Defeat 79
II. Integration 1652–88
6. Accessory Union: The Cromwellian Occupation 99
7. Lowestoft to Leith: The Second Dutch War 111
8. Britannia: British Aspects of the Restoration Navy 123
9. Toward Union of the Admiralties: British Command in the
Restoration Era 135
III. Disruption 1688–1707
10. Revolution: The Navy and the Franco-Jacobite Threat 149
11. Embargo: Tensions Surrounding Economic Warfare at Sea 159
12. One Navy to Two: The Rebirth of a Scottish Squadron 173
13. Acts and Wars of Succession: The Two Navies to the Union 191
14. Parliamentary Union: The Navy in the Union Debate 207
Conclusion: A Shared Institution? 219
Bibliography 223
Index 263

Illustrations
Map 1. Scotland with the Firth of Forth inset xvi
Chart 1. The number of ships entering Leith 1639 65