This contains documents that date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The three for the sixteenth century include English piracy against the Spaniards, a Scottish document about a ship getting under way and the taking of the Madre de Dios in 1592. Two documents from the seventeenth century are a description by Rear Admiral… Read Abstract »
This post presents an account written by Henry V’s chaplain of the battle of Harfleur of 15th August 1416 and a subsequent ....
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This set of accounts for 1345 and 1346, drawn up by Thomas de Snetesham, Clerk of the King’s Ships in the reign of Edward III, includes ....
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This document is a survey of all of the ships in the English Navy on 25 January 1583. It is in the form of a paper book and entitled ‘A ....
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