Abstract
This chapter concerns the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It shows how Restoration, by re-establishing monarchy and the Church, also altered the ideological relationship between the English and Dutch governments. As usual, however, the broader situation was complicated. Retaining the republic's navy and its aggressive commercial and colonial policies helped to set in place the contexts for the second Anglo-Dutch war. Envy of Dutch prosperity was not new, accompanied by a desire to emulate it or forcibly reassign ‘market share’. Competition was sharpened by the foundation of the Royal African Company, which immediately took a large share of the slave. The new restoration ingredient, embodied by that company's patron, the Duke of York, was a hostile royalist perspective upon a neighbouring republic.
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