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, commentators such as the Duke of Wirtenberg, the German jurist Paul Henzner, the Antwerp merchant van Materen, each writing in the Elizabethan era, had noted this characteristic passion for individual liberty (in Rye, 1865 : 7–8, in Macfarlane, 1978 : 165). And before the advent of Protestantism, the Venetian ambassador to the court of Henry VII also noted the same characteristics, linking independent