Elizabethan naval administration
This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. It stands alongside The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I with which it shares much common apparatus and complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth's reign when there was no formal war. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and r
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Procedures; Dates, Weights and Measures; Note on Terms; I First Naval Business in the State Papers; II The Navy Treasurer's Quarter Book for 1562-1563; III The Navy Treasurer's Declared Account for 1562-1563; IV Extracts from James Humphrey's Book of Forms, 1568; V Papers relating to Wages and Wage Rates; VI The Navy Victualler's 1565 Contract and related papers; VII Papers relating to Sir John Hawkins as Treasurer of the Navy; VIII Edward Fenton's Notebook and other papers relating to the Expedition of 1590; Appendices. 1 Lists of Accounts: Treasurer and Surveyor-General of Victualling2 Glossary; 3 Table of Manuscript Descents; 4 Description of BL Add. MSS 78169-78171; List of Sources; Index
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