Paul Lay > Quotes

“There would be ‘inconveniencies’, not least the inevitable loss of trade with Spain, including the lucrative export of wool, a particular concern to Lambert, whose home county of Yorkshire was a centre for England’s cloth industry”
― Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

“the cloth trade, the foundation of England’s prosperity for centuries, in which many of the Providence grandees had a major financial stake, had collapsed as the brutalities of the Thirty Years War harrowed central Europe.”
― Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate