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Mercantilism: serving the absolute state 2316. S.T. Bindoff, Tudor England (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1950), p. 228.7. Ibid., p. 291.8. Harry A. Miskimin, The Economy (~t' Later Renaissance Europe: 1460-1600 (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1977), p. 60.9. Of the 66 years from 1688 to 1756, fully 34, or more than half, were spent in wars withFrance. Later wars, such as 1756-63, 1777-83, and 1794-1814, were even more spectacular,so that of the 124 years from 1688 to 1814, no less than 67 were spent by England inwars with the 'French threat'.