| CHAP. | WILLIAM, JOHN, AND RICHARD HAWKINS. | PAGE |
| I. | THREE GENERATIONS OF ADVENTURERS, | [1] |
| CHARLES HOWARD, BARON OF EFFINGHAM, AFTERWARDS EARL OF NOTTINGHAM. | |
| II. | “BORN TO SERVE AND SAVE HIS COUNTRY,” | [37] |
| SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, NAVIGATOR, DISCOVERER, AND COMBATANT. | |
| III. | THE FIRST ENGLISH DISCOVERER OF GREENLAND, | [47] |
| THOMAS CAVENDISH, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER. | |
| IV. | THE SECOND ENGLISHMAN WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE, | [57] |
| SIR WALTER RALEIGH, QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FAVOURITE MINISTER. | |
| V. | AMERICAN COLONISATION SCHEMES, | [83] |
| SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SAILOR, SCHOLAR, POET. | |
| VI. | NAVAL EXPEDITIONS—TRIAL AND EXECUTION, | [130] |
| THE PLANTING OF THE GREAT AMERICAN COLONIES. | |
| VII. | “TO FRAME SUCH JUST AND EQUAL LAWS AS SHALL BE MOST CONVENIENT,” | [173] |
| OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE SEA-POWER OF ENGLAND. | |
| VIII. | A LONG INTERVAL IN NAVAL WARFARE ENDED, | [181] |
| ROBERT BLAKE, THE GREAT ADMIRAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH. | |
| IX. | HE ACHIEVED FOR ENGLAND THE TITLE, NEVER SINCE DISPUTED, OF “MISTRESS OF THE SEA,” | [186] |
| GEORGE MONK, K.G., DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. | |
| X. | THE FRIEND OF CROMWELL, AND THE RESTORER OF CHARLES II., | [230] |
| EDWARD MONTAGU, EARL OF SANDWICH. | |
| XI. | NAVAL CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND THE DUTCH, | [253] |
| PRINCE RUPERT, NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMANDER. | |
| XII. | THE DUTCH DISCOVER ENGLISH COURAGE TO BE INVINCIBLE, | [290] |
| SIR EDWIN SPRAGGE, ONE BORN TO COMMAND. | |
| XIII. | THE DUTCH AVOW SUCH FIERCE FIGHTING NEVER TO HAVE BEEN SEEN, | [315] |
| SIR THOMAS ALLEN. | |
| XIV. | THE PROMOTED PRIVATEER, | [334] |
| SIR JOHN HARMAN. | |
| XV. | “BOLD AS A LION, BUT ALSO WISE AND WARY,” | [343] |
| ADMIRAL BENBOW. | |
| XVI. | THE KING SAID, “WE MUST SPARE OUR BEAUX, AND SEND HONEST BENBOW,” | [346] |
| SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL. | |
| XVII. | THE SHOEMAKER WHO ROSE TO BE REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, | [359] |