Note 1388 — THE COMMONWEALTH 1649-1660 (continued 2)

State Papers, Dom., 9th May 1649. This letter is signed by Holland, Smith, and Thompson. The tone of Holland’s Discourse of the Navy (1638), is one of fulsome adulation of the Monarchy and the principles it represented; but the Discourse was not in print and he had had time to realise the new tendency. Holland was the least active of the Commissioners, but if he helped to carry out some of the reforms he recommended in 1638 he did his share of service.