Navigation Minutes Between England And Holland

Navigation minutes between England and Holland

Introduction

This work will focus on the navigation records, tools through which England demanded its dominance over maritime trade with the colonies, we will delve a little in their meaning and how somehow had a negative impact with their relationship towards Holland. This work responds to the need to review the importance of the navigation records of 1651 and how somehow they came to tighten the relationship that the English colonies maintained with the crown, so we will make a historical review from the approval of the navigation actUntil its revocation in 1849.

Developing

The objective of this essay is then to demonstrate the role of navigation acts in the reformulation of their relationships with Holland, this in order to highlight its practical importance when frameworking the causes of the Anglo-Neerland Wars. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries where the prevailing economic paradigm is mercantilism, a series of measures are carried out whose purpose is to maintain a favorable trade balance at the expense of some other countries with its own interests, the central theme of this essaythen represents the application of such measures by England and its international impact.

To fulfill the purpose of this essay, we will divide the work into four parts, in the first we will show a history of the Netherlands – England, as the next point we will show what the navigation certificate of 1651 would refer, then we will show the impact of such an act, onThe colonies as in their relationship with Holland.

To understand a part of the proclamation of the navigation act, the end of an internal conflict must be taken into account first.

Because in 1649 he had just finished a civil war that culminated in the death of King Carlos I and the imposition of a new regime headed by Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan who intended to return the maritime power status to England that had possessed under the direction of the direction of theQueen Elizabeth I, on the other hand the colonizing aspirations of the two powers. According to Asimov’s words, the incursion of Dutch companies in the merchandise trade towards the colonies in America made it difficult to access England to them, since the former possessed the Eastern and Western Indies companies that were more efficient and at that timeThey dominated.

That is why in 1651 Oliver Cromwell decrees the navigation certificate. The navigation certificate. To increase the navy and strengthening the navigation of this nation, the Parliament decrees that from the first day of December 1651 no merchandise, raw material or manufacturing of Asia, Africa or America or of any other part or island belonging to them,both of English and others will take to England, Ireland or any other land, island, plantation or territory of this community, by boat other than those that truly and without fraud belong to the town of this community.

In which the captain and sailors are also mostly of the town of it, under penalty of confiscation and loss of all the goods that are imported contrary to the provisions of this act, as well as the ship in which they are transported. According to Christopher Hill’s interpretation, the above represents an intelligent movement by Cromwell because it represents an imperial coherent policy of England and after its modification in 1660 cemented the foundations of what would be its policy during the next century and a half. After their decree, the Dutch were offered a treatment that would have allowed the access of the English to the Dutch market.

However, the author argues that commercial issues were not a discussion issue for the Dutch Empire that had rejected the same proposal made previously by Queen Elizabeth I, again the agreement was rejected and began the war in 1652. Causes of war: Regarding whether the proclamation of the navigation act is a direct cause of the war there are different positions, the most popular suggests that the reason was fundamentally commercial and that in the absence of an agreement the war began, the other positionis that the war was caused by national pride and the Mare Clausum clause that refers to the sovereign property that a state can exercise.

About what is accepted as your property in the law of the sea. Implementation of the Navigation Act of 1651. The implementation of the navigation act did not pay the expected fruits until the Dutch empire was defeated, since this tells us asimov served the role of smuggler, fulfilling that work hindered the full implementation of such an act until once the war is over and the Victorious England is victorious, Act that according to Hill represented a general framework for the protection of national merchants and involves the creation of a “fully developed concept of economic policy in an essentially national way”.

Among the reasons that Asimov stands out for the non -observance of said act by the English colonies in America is that it was more damages than benefits, starting with the fact that the price of goods, captains and boats increased what a enrichment meantFrom the metropolis at the expense of the colonies, in addition, the Dutch fleet was more competent. Consequences of war: by England the consequences of the war were beneficial, since its commercial relationship rose from 15 to 33 percent of the total commercial transactions at the end of the century.

Just to continue increasing progressively throughout the next century, in addition to the advantages of the commercial monopoly that it exerted on the colonies, it finally turned navigation into one of the four most important industries in the country. Final considerations: We could finally say that the need for the promulgation of a navigation act by England responded to the need to eliminate the competition that supposed him of the Netherlands through his Eastern and Western Indian companies that dominated the world trade of world trade ingoods.

This resorting to measures that served as administrative barriers as quality standards and percentage of origin. The implementation was not entirely satisfactory until once “defeated” Holland in 1674, this due to the sale of smuggling articles by the Dutch companies in the colonies, this supported by their low costs that supposed the settlers and the dissatisfaction of seeing seeEnriching the metropolis at the expense of his. As for the war we just said that it is believed that there was a close connection between the negative of the Netherlands to England’s proposal to create a commercial alliance.

conclusion

A new proposal that puts the Mare Clausum clause as a cause of the war, although the latter has not reached a consensus such that it allows us to issue it as the true or main assumption. We arrived at the consequences of the war just to see that in the end if England’s objectives were met and that Asimov was right, saying that he was probably the most competent man that England had had since Queen Elizabeth I, despite the fact that the benefitsThey became palpable after the death of this, but their proposals were followed and their long -awaits.