Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/queenelizabethreOOOOwils Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands By the same author # Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century Holland and Britain History of Unilever Profit and Power: A Study of the Dutch Wars Men and Machines (with William Reader) England’s Apprenticeship, 1603-1763 Unilever, 1945-1965 The Dutch Republic and the Civilization of the Seventeenth Century Economic History and the Historian: A Volume of Essays Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands CHARLES WILSON F.B.A., Hon.Litt.D. (Groningen) Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridg UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles 1970 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles, California ISBN 0-520-01744-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-119009 © Charles Wilson 1970 Printed in Great Britain Contents List of Illustrations vi Preface vii Prelude ix 1. English Intervention and the Pattern of Revolt i 2. International Peace and Civil War 21 3. The Queen, the Prince and the Crisis of the Nobility 42 4. The Loss of the South 63 5. The North Preserved 86 6. Relations Transformed 107 Conclusion 123 Notes 137 A Note on Sources 156 Index 161 A 2 List of Plates between pages 64 and 65 I. Cock's view of Antwerp in J557 II. The tomb of Sir Francis Vere in Westminster Abbey III. Sir Francis Vere ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The publishers wish to thank the Director, Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, for permission to reproduce Plate I.