From 1652 to 1660, Scotland was part of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, under English control but gaining equal trading rights.

* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )

John Radcliffe ( 1652 – 1714 ) was an English physician.

* July 15 – Inigo Jones, English architect ( d. 1652 )

** John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary ( d. 1652 )

* April 8 – John Wise, English clergyman ( b. 1652 )

** Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War ( d. 1652 )

Before Charles's restoration, the Navigation Acts of 1650 had hurt Dutch trade by giving English vessels a monopoly, and had started the First Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

* Joseph Farrow ( 1652 ?– 1692 ), English cleric

The English name " puffin " was originally applied to the Manx Shearwater which ( in 1652 ) was known as the " Manks Puffin ".

Over a hundred other Dutch ships were captured by English privateers between October 1651 and July 1652.

Accordingly, the States-General decided on 3 March 1652 to expand the fleet by hiring and equipping 150 merchant ships as ships of war to allow effective convoying against hostile English actions.

The news of this decision reached London on 12 March 1652 and the Commonwealth too began to prepare for war, but as both nations were unready, war might have been delayed if not for an unfortunate encounter between the fleets of Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp and General at Sea Robert Blake in the English Channel near Dover on 29 May 1652.

War was declared by the English Parliament on 10 July 1652.

At the Battle of the Kentish Knock on 8 October 1652 the Dutch attacked the English fleet near the mouth of the River Thames, but were beaten back with a high number of casualties.

Over the winter of 1652 – 53, the English repaired their ships and considered their position.

On 29 May 1652, Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp refused to show the respectful haste expected in lowering his flag to salute an encountered English fleet.

After some inconclusive minor fights the English were successful in the first major battle, General at Sea Robert Blake defeating the Dutch Vice-Admiral Witte de With in the Battle of the Kentish Knock in October 1652.

Heidelberg Castle and the Hortus Palatinus commissioned by Frederick, and designed by English gardener Inigo Jones ( 1573 – 1652 ) and French engineer Salomon de Caus ( 1576 – 1626 ).

# Maurice ( 1620 – 1652 ) who also served in the English Civil War.

Both sides had begun to prepare for war, but conflict might have been delayed if not for an unfortunate encounter on 29 May 1652 ( 19 May in the Julian calendar then in use in England ) near the Straits of Dover between a Dutch convoy escorted by 40 ships under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp and an English fleet of 25 ships under General-at-Sea Robert Blake.

** Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer ( born 1652 )

** Michael Alford, English Jesuit writer ( died 1652 )

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton ( March 1596 – September 1652 ) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.

They are printed in the Scriptores decem of Roger Twysden ( 1652 ).

* The Cardinal ( licensed 25 May 1641 ; printed, 1652 ).

* The Doubtful Heir ( printed 1652 ), licensed as Rosania, or Love's Victory in 1640

* The Imposture ( licensed 10 Nov. 1640 ; printed 1652 )

* The Brothers ( licensed 4 Nov. 1626 ; printed 1652 )

The name " Moderwelt " appears on a map of Lanarkshire made by Timothy Pont some time between 1583 and 1611 and printed in the Netherlands in around 1652, although the settlement was probably little more than a hamlet at that time.

* A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, performed? 1641, printed 1652.

* The Scots Figgaries, or a Knot of Knaves ( printed 1652 )

It was first printed by Twysden in Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem ( London, 1652 ).

* Andries Bicker of the Netherlands ( 1586 – 1652 ), administrator of the Dutch East India Company, Mayor of Amsterdam, and diplomat

By May 1652, after a case about delivering a new painting, he returned to Amsterdam.

at Amsterdam ( 1652 ); a more complete but very inaccurate edition () in 12 vols.

In 1652 a citizen of Amsterdam, Flinck married in 1656 an heiress, Sophie van der Houven, daughter of a director of the Dutch East India Company.

Word of this arrived in the New World in 1652, and rumors flew around the English colonies of New England that the Dutch in New Amsterdam were conspiring with all of the region's Indians to make war against them.

He arranged for the publication of Hobbes's De Cive in Amsterdam in 1647, published a French translation in 1649, published a French translation of Hobbes ' De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law in 1652, and helped secure a publisher for Hobbes's own Latin translation of Leviathan in 1668.

In 1652 Van Der Neer witnessed the fire which consumed the old town-hall of Amsterdam.

* Defensio cartesiana adversus Iacobum Revium ... et Cyriacum Lentulum pars prior exoterica, in qua Renati Cartesii dissertatio de Methodo vindicatur, simul illustria Cartesianae logicae et philosophiae specimina exhibentur ( Amsterdam, 1652 ).

Abridgments of the work appeared also at Antwerp ( 1558 and 1562 ), Paris ( 1561 ), Amsterdam ( 1586 ), Frankfort ( 1618 ) and Leiden ( 1652 ).

In 1652 he became a burgher of Amsterdam, and in 1653 he married Elisabeth Dell, whose father held positions with the Admiralty of Amsterdam and the wine merchants ' guild, both institutions that later gave commissions to the artist.

Abridgments of the work appeared also at Antwerp ( 1558 and 1562 ), Paris ( 1561 ), Amsterdam ( 1586 ), Frankfurt ( 1618 ) and Leiden ( 1652 ).