as printed in 1706, and _The Compleat Gardiner, or
Directions for cultivating and right ordering of Fruit Gardens and
Kitchen Gardens; with divers Reflections on several parts of Husbandry_,
(1693), which went into five editions by 1710. His History of the Dutch
War, already referred to (page xliii) would have been by far his most
important work in point of length had its completion been allowed, but
only the introductory portion saw the light as _Navigation and Commerce;
their Original and Progress, Containing a succint account of Traffick
in general; etc. etc...... to the beginning of our late differences with
Holland; in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is
asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders_. (1674). His own
account of the stoppage of the work is given in the diary for 19th
August 1674,--'His Majesty told me how exceedingly the Dutch were
displeas'd at my treatise of the "Historie of Commerce;" that the
Holland Ambassador had complain'd to him of what I had touch'd of the
Flags and Fishery, etc., and desired the booke might be call'd in;
whilst on the other side he assur'd me he was exceedingly pleas'd with
what I had done, and gave me many thanks. However, it being just upon
conclusion of the treaty of Breda (indeed it was design'd to have been
publish'd some moneths before and when we were at defiance), his Majesty
told me he must recall it formally, but gave order that what copies
should be publiqly seiz'd to pacifie the Ambassador, should immediately
be restor'd to the printer, and that neither he nor the vendor should be
molested. The truth is, that which touch'd the Hollander was much lesse
than what the King himself furnish'd me with, and oblig'd me to publish,
having caus'd it to be read to him before it went to the presse; but the
error was, it should have been publish'd before the peace was
proclaim'd. The noise of this book's suppression made it presently be
bought up, and turn'd much to the stationer's advantage. It was no other
than the Preface prepar'd to be prefix'd to my History of the whole
Warr; which I now pursued no further.' Years afterwards, however, he
wrote somewhat bitterly on this subject to his intimate friend Pepys, in
a letter dated 28th April 1682, in which he says, 'In sum, I had no
thanks for what I had done, and have been accounted since, I suppose, an
useless fop, and fit only to plant coleworts, and I cannot bend to mean
submissions; and this, Sir, is