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has been trood, and, I declare, 1 have had no other End the PL J J t fa Establishment of our Trade, gin it, than co deter the Successors of those whose Cha- j ba i e g Ln my Readers topics of

rafters 1 may, in some Measure , have. made free wi , Ancient Charters, Letters-P atent and ^ rl si . l J f

from those Malversations, or Errors in ConduB,w ic , , Q rown , as well as by. Foreign ti > ■

have given me the Occasion \ For, as Tacitus justly o - § Encouragement of Discoveries, Setts mens aserves, an Apprehension of incurring the Censure o f° j have Hk eW ise'&iven a particular ^

future Impartial Historians has often (especial y s h r d m a blijhment of the East-India, Tuiky

with the Great) more Influence, than any Confide- sofist fstst ^ Relations J t loejfr .^ration of the Present Time. for Account of those Companies, ai.a the iv a

I most n ow beg Leave to descend to some fart er J ptlnhlifh their Commerce abroad. .

Particulars of this Work, and of the Manner m whic 3 Private or Mercantile Expeditions are

it has been condufted. The Reader will find my ffea- ,1 cinrv of a Trading Nation, I have omt e

Jons for Beginning this History with the Norman Con- P ec L . i g i een to be procured, which have tenquest, preferable to any other Period, in the Note (a) none tha^% C0V ery, or to the Efiablissment ofW I of be Work self, so stall need recapitulate either fads or, instorf that contain a }

tU1 ffthe. Glorious Reign of Queen Elizabeth opens to np Th>J f side at'NulstrrfRelations of memorableus a large Field of Mattel st this History, and lays stgstfjfststst or Ships affing under Letters ofbefore us the Noble Plans and Ground-work, upon J jg e p r i%als. .

which the whole Superstrufture of our Naval Glory is n-A taken all possbJe Care to be exaft if n si

built, I thought I could not give my Readers a greater have End, have reduced tots

Satisfaftion, than by extending that Part of it to it s Chronoogy, st Measure into Annals, and kept uputmost Limits. And here , besides a more exaft Ac- Work, in a great Meaju A

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count, than is to be found in any one Historian, -Destruftion of the Invincible Spanish Armada,Expedition to Cadiz, and other Publick Aftions, -—more particular Lists of Ships and Commanders, onboth Sides , than any hitherto extant, taken from

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a regular Historical and Chronological Connection,by an Abridgment of the most remarkable Occurrences,not only of every Reign, but almost of every Tear ; Es-peciallysuch as are Introduftory to, or the Consequences

great Numb / ~M "''"’I"'"."' ------ j . . of Naval Transactions ; So that, in FaSi, this Work ,

lick, I have ^ % Manuscripts, never before made pub- besides if s main Scope, contains an Epitome of Englishall the Ac Pus ness, to QolleSl and abridge History. And tho’, sometimes, a small Matter of the

ditions and^Vo^a a ^ e *° fi n ^ °Jthose Expe- Transactions of one Tear has inevitably crept before

Drahia’e t >\ 0Ver y (fah as Oxenham’s, those of another, and I have been obliged, now and

"T~~ T7 '-- 1 - r ri ”~- then, to go back some Months ; Tet, as I have always

mentioned it, and shewn the Reader my Reasons, noConfusion can be occasioned in Reading, on that Ac-count. I know of but one Infance of this Kind, forwhich I think it necessary to make any Apology ; /mean tbe Expedition of the Duke and Duchess to the

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Drake’s, Hawkins’s, Raleigh’s ,'the Earl of Cum-berland’.?, and the like ) which have done so much Ho-nour, as well to the Publick, as to Private Persons,and have proved of so great Advantage to the Na-tion in general. In this Particular , not to mentionother valuable Trafts, I have given my Readers an

Not only the bef Authors, on our Side of the Questi-on, have teen consulted, in great Numbers-, But asmuch Care has been taken, to enquire what has been

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Abridgment of the most curious Accounts contained in WAch for Reasons alledged, tn a p ^

Hackluyt and Purchas; And have had great Helps rut among ether Eapeditiom, tn < -

from that inestimable treasure of Antiquity , the 1 have put am gCottonian Library. . ,-r\h

In my next Period of Time, which is from the Death

of Queen Elizabeth to the Revolution, I have, par- .. z France

ticularly been very circumstantial in my Accounts of invyij 0 ppofite Side. In our Wars w Authors

the many Ewe isiestperformed by our sal,ant sa,d on the f , d the he fi French Authors

Sea-Comcnanders, in the feral Dutch Wart. of ff/AfJth the Dutch and the Span.fl., th

which we have had hitherto but very brief andimper t , _ q ^ Writers of those Nations. r j y n

sea Relations. In tbe JucceedinfReigns, the Reader a n be Mtfststldfsts 7

will f nd a great Number of remarkable Naval Tran > Cause, Thave look d m o e ,t

actions, Publick as well as Mercantile, which never _ * , Nations, as the Italian, German, . ,

yet appeared in any English History : And for many Swedish. The Authors, on all ar siJ'. %

of which 1 have been obliged to the Private Memoir .. . auDte d and, after some ss ort est »

and Original Jovwnalsy Officers wbo themselves «' / q mtur ‘ a lfy arise, on fsifff stiff or him-

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