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Compleat and Impartial

HISTORY

OF All the Memorab le

NAVAL EXPEDITIONS

TRANSACTIONS

OP THE

ENGLISH NATION;

Both Publick and Mercantile, &c.

BOOK II

Giving an Account of all the memorable Naval Expeditions andTransactions of the English, with other Events, during theReign of Queen Elizabeth.

C H A P. I.

Naval 5 Transactions and Expeditions of the English, with some other Occur-rences, during the Reign of <$ueen Elizabeth, to the Tear, 1561.

are so numerous, and so extraordinary, 1558,that a whole Volume would hardlysuffice to give a particular Account ofall. I shall, however, omit none ofany Moment, and shall give them allthe Room in this History, which theCompass of it can possibly allow : Andthis, I will venture previously to fay ;

That not any one, two or three Histo-ries of this Reign contain near so manymaterial Circumstances of Naval Af-fairs as this will.

QJJEEN Mary dying, on theseventeenth of November , 15 5 8. for-tunately for the Protestant Religion,

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A M now entringupon a R E ION,which will . affordabundant Matter forthis History : AReign, which gavemore Opportunityto the English toexercise themselves in Naval Affairs,which produced more Discoveries forthe Advancement of Trade, and breda greater Number of brave Sea-Officers,than all the preceding Reigns, since theConquest.The memorable Voyages,Esta-blisliments, Naval Combats, and otherNavalTranfactions of thisPeriod of Time

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