{"product_id":"the-intelligence-of-the-secretaries-of-state-and-their-monopoly-of-licensed-news-paperback-9781107608856","title":"The Intelligence of the Secretaries of State; And their Monopoly of Licensed News (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107608856","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Intelligence of the Secretaries of State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnd their Monopoly of Licensed News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a 1956 study of the Secretaries of State in Restoration England.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Fraser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107608856, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.26 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Restoration England the Secretaries of State performed the duties not only of a Home and Foreign Secretary combined, but also of a modern news-agency. This is a 1956 study in a vital function of seventeenth-century government, in communications, the dissemination of news, and the growth of articulate public opinion. Mr Fraser first shows the scope and nature of the Secretaries' responsibility for providing the Council with intelligence, their control of the Post Office, and their use of spies among the Dissenters and in Holland during the Dutch wars. The second part covers the continental system of news exchange, the Secretaries' correspondence with ambassadors, consuls, customs officers, postmasters and other, details of posts, and the sources of news published in the London Gazette and the newsletters from Whitehall.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Secretaries as the Eyes of the Government: 1. The use of spies\u003cbr\u003e 2. The control of the Post Office\u003cbr\u003e 3. Money spent on intelligence\u003cbr\u003e 4. The newsletter system\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Secretaries as the Voice of the Government: 5. The official printed news, 1660–88\u003cbr\u003e 6. The earliest Continental gazettes and English newsbooks\u003cbr\u003e 7. Prevailing attitude to printed news at the Restoration\u003cbr\u003e 8. Henry Muddiman introduces the official newsletter\u003cbr\u003e 9. Its raison d'être\u003cbr\u003e 10. Continental newsletters\u003cbr\u003e 11. Their connexion with the gazettes, illustrated by the example of Abraham Casteleyn\u003cbr\u003e 12. Muddiman's relations with Williamson, the Under-Secretary. The latter brings out the London Gazette\u003cbr\u003e 13. Both Secretaries share responsibility for the London Gazette\u003cbr\u003e 14. The kind of news in the Gazette and the official newsletters\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Foreign Correspondents: 15. The business of the Secretary's office\u003cbr\u003e 16. Foreign posts used by the Secretaries\u003cbr\u003e 17. Arlington's foreign correspondents\u003cbr\u003e 18. The use of cover addresses\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Division of the Fleet, 1666: 19. Circumstances of the division of the fleet, and the ensuing defeat\u003cbr\u003e 20. Attributed by a Commons Committee to a false intelligence\u003cbr\u003e 21. William Coventry and Arlington particularly blamed at Clarendon's investigation\u003cbr\u003e 22. Errors in the Committee's report on the 'want of intelligence' from abroad\u003cbr\u003e 23. Albemarle's information at the time the fleet was divided\u003cbr\u003e 24. The political background to the investigation by the Commons into the miscarriage of the Second Dutch War\u003cbr\u003e 25. Secretaries Morice and Arlington give an account of the intelligence\u003cbr\u003e 26. Williamson produces Arlington's papers\u003cbr\u003e 27. The effectiveness of Arlington's intelligence assessed, in detecting the state of Dutch naval preparations, and de Beaufort's movements, prior to the division\u003cbr\u003e 28. Opinions as to the relative efficiency of Thurloe\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Intelligence in the Third Dutch War: 29. Williamson's journal commenced before the outbreak of war\u003cbr\u003e 30. The missions of spies sent into Holland: Taylor, Langley, John Scott, Vernon, Nipho, Gelson\u003cbr\u003e 31. The Dutch fail to prevent a conjunction of the French and English fleets\u003cbr\u003e 32. Settled informants in Holland: Casteleyn, Timens, Hildebrand, Vlieyger, Boeckell, Tucker\u003cbr\u003e 33. Operations of the packet-boats to Holland\u003cbr\u003e 34. Movements of the fleets. The English and French surprised in Solebay\u003cbr\u003e 35. Other spying activities in Holland\u003cbr\u003e 36. Estimate of the Secretary's expenditure on intelligence in wartime\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. The Secretaries and the Unlicensed News-Mongers: 37. The growth of an organized public opinion\u003cbr\u003e 38. Eventual failure of the Secretaries to uphold their monopoly of licensed laws\u003cbr\u003e 39. Some justification for the monopoly\u003cbr\u003e 40. The growth of coffee-houses, and the attempt to suppress them\u003cbr\u003e 41. The unlicensed newsletter writers\u003cbr\u003e 42. Expiry of the Licensing Act, 1679, and the Whig newspapers\u003cbr\u003e 43. Changing attitudes to printed parliamentary proceedings\u003cbr\u003e 44. Some Whig newsletter writers\u003cbr\u003e 45. Effects of the London Penny Post\u003cbr\u003e 46. The increasing resources of the unlicensed newswriters: their part in the Revolution. The end of the Secretaries' monopoly of licensed news\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: International relations [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International relations\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20relations%20%5BJPS%5D%22\"\u003eJPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003589480728,"sku":"9781107608856","price":31.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107608856i.jpg?v=1696766656","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-intelligence-of-the-secretaries-of-state-and-their-monopoly-of-licensed-news-paperback-9781107608856","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}