Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles IIn neglecting maritime and naval matters, students of the reign of Charles I have missed or misunderstood important elements in the sickness of the early Stuart polity. The crisis of the monarchy at that time was bound up with the failure of the nation's sea forces in the wars of the 1620s and with Charles's efforts to reform and strengthen the navy by means of ship money. The studies of the shipping industry, shipowning, mutiny and one particular seaman's experience in the transatlantic servant's trade explore the economic and social aspects of seafaring, especially the relations between owners, masters, and men at a time of rapid growth and change in the merchant marine. But the relations between the merchant marine and the Royal Navy were so close that the two should be studied together. The essays on Sir Kenelm Digby's privateering venture in the Mediterranean, on ship money (the longest and most central), on the expedition against the Salle rovers, and on the Parliamentary Navy demonstrate in different ways how naval policy, naval finance, and naval enterprise were linked with the problems and the interests of the private sector, which actually took over the Navy in 1642, with not altogether savory results. This novel juxtaposition of topics will, it is hoped, stimulate new thinking about Caroline society and politics.--Book jacket. |
Contents
The growth of the shipping industry | 16 |
The shipowners | 34 |
Seamen and mutiny | 62 |
Anthonys account | 84 |
Digby at Scanderoon | 106 |
its purposes and uses | 128 |
William Rainborowe and the Sallee rovers | 160 |
Parliamentary naval enterprise | 184 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Common terms and phrases
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