Description
Documents, some summarized entirely or in part, relating to twenty-five voyages, drawn mainly from the records of the High Court of Admiralty, with selections from narratives printed by Hakluyt and from a quantity of translations by I.A. Wright of originals (1593-5) in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville intended for a further volume on English West Indies Voyages (see Second Series 66, 71 and 99). The Introduction gives an account of the Court itself and of privateering during the Spanish war and in the West Indies. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1: The Voyage of the Drake, the Examiner, the Hope and the Chance 1588; 2: The Voyage of the Black Dog 1588–9; 3: The Voyage of John Chidley 1589; 4: The Voyage of the Bark Young 1590; 5: The Expeditions of 1591; 6: The Voyage of Benjamin Wood 1592; 7: Christopher Newport’s Voyage of 1592; 8: The Voyage of William King 1592; 9: The Voyages of William Parker in 1592 and 1593; 10: The Voyage of Sir John Burgh 1593; 11: The Voyage of James Langton 1593–4; 12: The Centaur and the Last of the Edward Bonaventure 1594; 13: The Voyages of the Golden Dragon and the Prudence, the Affection and the Jewel 1594; 14: The Voyages of William Parker 1594 and 1595; 15: The Voyage of John Ridlesden 1595; 16: The Voyage of Michael Geare 1594–5; 17: The Voyage of The Rose Lion 1594–5; 18: The Voyage of Preston and Sommers 1595
