Cromwell, repeating the line of argument the…

Cromwell, repeating the line of argument the English delegation had made two years previously, now proposes a military alliance against Spain, promising to repeal the Navigation Act in return for Dutch assistance in the conquest of Spanish America.

This too is rejected however.

As a result, Cromwell, more than a little annoyed, makes a proposal of twenty-seven articles, two of which are utterly unacceptable to the Dutch: that all Royalists have to be expelled and that Denmark, the ally of the Republic, should be abandoned in its war against Sweden.

In the end Cromwell gives in.

The States-General on April 22, 1654, accept and ...