Cromwell's Navy

`Dr Capp has presented an excellent narrative of the major operation of the English fleet ... Dr Capp's social study of the seamen is even more valuable ... a splendid book ... there is no doubt that this is an important addition to 17th-century history.' Times Higher Educational Supplement `Bernard Capp brings to the subject his wide knowledge of the political, social and religious history of the Interregnum ... The whole is based on the most meticulous scholarship in a very wide range of printed and manuscript sources.' Times Literary Supplement `an excellent, stimulating book which should be read by anyone interested in the Royal Navy, the seventeenth century, and good history ... this is an excellent book, one that should encourage a broader, and better informed approach to Naval History.' Andrew D. Lambert, International Journal of Maritime History `without doubt one of the most important published works ever to have been written on the Navy in the 1650s ... Erudite and extensively researched, Bernard Capp has produced a book whose dominant themes are built to last.' Andrew Thrush, National Maritime Museum, The Mariner's Mirror, Nov '90 `This highly-detailed study of the English navy under Cromwell and the Commonwealth is, in every respect, an admirable contribution to the field of naval history ... a highly sophisticated - and immensely erudite - study in social, political and religious history using the navy as a focus.' Jonathan I. Israel, Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden `This book has reclaimed the navy from the specialist naval historians and will do much to integrate it into future discussions about the development of radicalism during the civil war and its continuation during the Commonwealth. Capp demonstrates convincingly that the navy played a crucial part in the events of 1659 and early 1660.' Anne Laurence, The Open University, History, No. 246, Feb 1991 'a comprehensive study, beginning with a perceptive account - the best yet - of the curious naval revolt during the Second Civil War ... well-structured and elegantly-expressed volume' Ivan Roots, University of Exeter, EHR, Jan.'93