“A great ruler,” agreed the Councillor for Trade. “But he would not be counselled. He rejected a trade agreement with the Hanoverians over a perceived slight, cancelled existing agreements with the Yawlish and the Svear and refused to accept emissaries from Iberia whilst they supplied ships to the Sutherners. He also stopped raiding south, to avoid antagonising the Sutherners, so that source of revenue dried up.”
