Index
Alva, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, 98 et seq.
Amadas, in America (1584), 151, 210
America; an obstacle to the circumnavigation of the world, 11;
—as a reputed source of gold and silver, 65
Angel, The, ship, 86
Anton, Señor Juan de, 133
Antonio, Don, pretender to the throne of Portugal, 164; and the English at Lisbon, 194
Antwerp, 98, 99, 100
Armada, 145, 150, 153, 156, 164, 165, 172, 191, 214
Aviles, Don Pedro Menendez de, 86
Azores, 150, 169, 194
Baber, Sultan in the Moluccas, 141
Bacon, Francis, Lord, 62, 210
Balboa crosses Isthmus of Panama (1513), 19
Barlow, in America (1584), 151, 210
Baskerville, Sir Thomas, 224, 227 et seq.
Bazan, Don Alonzo de, 197, 200
Bible, authorized version of, 49, 216
'Bond of Association,' 152 Brazil, voyage of Hawkins to, 33-4
Bristol, Cabot settles in, 3
Burleigh, Lord, 87, 119, 144, 156, 162, 167, 206
Cabot, John, transfers allegiance from Genoa to Venice (1476), 1;
—Cabottággio, 2;
—reaches Cape Breton (1497), 7;
—returns to Bristol, 7;
—receives a present of £10 from Henry VII, 8;
—disappears at sea (1498),8-9, 14;
—believes America the eastern limit of the Old World, 11;
—bibliography, 241
Cabot, Sebastian, second son of John, 9;
—takes command of expedition to America, 9;
—leaves men to explore Newfoundland, 9;
—coasts Greenland, 12;
—explores Atlantic Coast, 12;
—enters service of Ferdinand of Spain as Captain of the Sea,' 15;
—Charles V makes him 'Chief Pilot and Examiner of Pilots,' 15;
—determines longitude of Moluccas, 15;
—voyage to South America, 15;
—makes a map of the world, 15;
—leaves Spain for England(1548), 16;
—receives pension from Edward VI, 16;
—feasts at Gravesend with the Serchthrift, 16-17;
—Governor of Muscovy Company, 16, 31;
—sailing of the Serchthrift, 32;
—bibliography, 241
Cadiz, 165 et seq.
California, 137, 138, 212
Canaries, 157, 226
Cape Breton, Cabot reaches (1497), 7
Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama sails around, 18
Cape St. Vincent, Drake plans to capture, 167
Caribs, 80, 158
Carleill, 154, 156, 157, 160
Cartagena, 88, 108 et seq., 156, 159
Cartier, Jacques, second voyage (1535), 12;
—discovers St. Lawrence, 71
Cathay, Sebastian Cabot searches for passage to, 11;
—Sir Hugh Willoughby tries to find Northeast passage to, 30
Cavendish, Thomas, 212
Cecil, Sir Robert, 206
Charles V of Spain, maritime rival of Henry VIII, 22-25;
—his dominions, 23;
—feud with France, 23-24;
—hostile to England, 29;
—Spanish dominion, 71;
—father of Don John of Austria, 117
Chesapeake Bay, 220
Cockeram, Martin, 34
Coligny, Admiral, 207
Columbus, Christopher, citizen of Genoa, 1-2;
—visit to Iceland, 3;
—fame eclipses that of the Cabots, 13;
—reasons for his significance, 13;
—400th anniversary of his discovery, 14;
—replica of the Santa Maria, 235
Complaynt of Scotland, The, 42
Cordial Advice, 40
Corunna, 178, 192
Cosa, Juan de la, makes first dated (1500) map of America, 14
Croatoan Island, 213 et seq.
Crowndale, Drake's birthplace, 95
Cumberland, Earl of, 197
Cuttyhunk Island, 216
Dare, Virginia, 215
Delight, The, ship, 209
De Soto, 19, 81
Doughty, Thomas, 116, 120, 123 et seq., 127
Dragon, The, ship, 101
Drake, Sir Francis, born the same year as modern sea-power (1545), 28;
—on the Minion, 92;
—Son of Edmund Drake, 95;
—boyhood, 96 et seq.;
—as lieutenant, on escort to wool-fleet, 100;
—marries Mary Newman, 100;
—sails on Nombre de Dios expedition, 101 et seq.;
—Drake and Nombre de Dios, 104;
—sees the Pacific, 110;
—attacks a Spanish treasure train, 111 et seq.;
—returns to England (1573), 114;
—goes to Ireland, 115;
—recalled for consultation, 118;
—audience with the Queen, 119;
—plans to raid the Pacific, 119;
—sails ostensibly for Egypt, 120;
—his Famous Voyage (1577), 121;
—has trouble with Doughty, 124;
—whom he puts to death, 125;
—winters in Patagonia, 125;
—overcomes disaffection of his men, 126;
—sails through Straits of Magellan, 128;
—enters Pacific, 128;
—takes the Grand Captain of the South, 129;
—scours the Pacific taking prizes, 130;
—at Lima, 130;
—pursues Spanish treasure ship, 131;
—captures Don Juan de Anton, 133;
—sails north, 137;
—considered a god by the Indians, 138 et seq.;
—arrives at Moluccas, 141;
—lays foundation of English diplomacy in Eastern seas, 142;
—Golden Hind aground, 142;
—uncertainty at home as to his fate, 144;
—arrives at Plymouth, 145;
—knighted by Elizabeth, 148;
—plans a raid on New Spain, 151;
—prepares for Indies voyage of 1585, 153;
—calls at Vigo, 155;
—plans a
—raid on New Spain, 156;
—captures Santiago and San Domingo, 157;
—takes Cartagena, 159;
—calls at Roanoke, 162;
—arrives at Plymouth, (1580), 162;
—expedition to Cadiz, 165;
—arrests Borough, 167;
—conquers Sagres Castle, 167;
—takes Spanish treasure ship, 169;
—defeats the Armada, 172-191;
—undertakes Lisbon expedition (1589), 192;
—his achievement, 201;
—in disfavor, 223;
—in unhappy combination with Hawkins, 224;
—West Indies voyage, 225;
—seizes La Hacha, Santa Marta, and Nombre de Dios, 227;
—his last days, 228;
—his death, 229;
—bibliography, 243-4
Drake, Edmund, 95
Drake, Jack, 121, 132
Drake's Bay, 138
East India Company, 63, 171, 215
Edward VI, 29, 50
Elizabeth, the England of, 48 et seq.;
—early life, 50;
—and Mary, 51;
—and Anne of Cleves, 51;
—ascends the throne, 52;
—difficulty of her position, 53;
—and finance, 55;
—her court, 68;
—her love of luxury, 68-69;
—commandeers Spanish gold, 99;
—deposed by Pope, 100;
—tortuous Spanish policy, 117;
—consults Drake, 119;
—receives Drake on his return, 146;
—banquets on the Golden Hind, 148;
—knights Drake, 148;
—Babington Plot again, 163;
—beheads Mary Queen of Scots, 165;
—the Armada, 176 et seq.;
—the Lisbon expedition, 192;
—dies, 216;
—bibliography, 242
Elizabeth, The, ship, 121
Essex, Earl of, 116, 118
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 234
Fleming, Captain, 179, 190
Fletcher, Chaplain, 125, 128, 143
Fletcher of Rye, discovers the art of tacking, 26;
—as a shipwright, 233
Florida, 81, 82, 162
Francis I, of France, maritime rival of Henry VIII, 22, 24, 71
Frobisher, Martin, 120, 154, 160, 220
Fuller, Thomas, author of The Worthies of England, 101, 237
Gamboa, Don Pedro Sarmiento de, 135
Genoa, the home of Cabot and Columbus, 2
George Noble, The, ship, 198
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 208-210
Gilbert, Raleigh, 219
God Save the King! 95
Golden Hind, The, ship, 121, 127, 129, 132 et seq., 136, 141, 142, 144, 145, 147, 154, 179
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 217
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 216
Grand Captain of the South, The, ship, 129
Gravelines, battle at, 32, 190
Great Harry, The, ship, 234
Grenville, Sir Richard, 195 et seq., 220
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 60
Hakluyt's Voyages, 33
Hakluyt Society, 242 et seq.
Harriot, Thomas, 212
Harrison's description of England, 69-70
Hatton, Sir Christopher, 127, 146
Hawkins, Sir John, son of William Hawkins, 34;
—enters slave trade with New Spain (1562), 74;
—takes 300 slaves at Sierra
—Leona, 75;
—second expedition (1564), 75;
—issues sailing orders, 76;
—John Sparke's account, 77;
—at Teneriffe, 77;
—meets Peter de Ponte, 78;
—Arbol Santo tree, 78;
—takes many Sapies, 79;
—at Sambula, 79;
—island of the Cannibals, 80;
—makes for Florida, 80;
—finds French settlement, 82 et seq.;
—sells the Tiger, 85;
—sails north to Newfoundland, 85;
—arrives at Padstow, Cornwall (1565), 85;
—a favorite at court, 85;
—watched by Spain, 86;
—sets out on third voyage (1567), 86;
—begins the sea-dog fighting with Spain, 86;
—Drake joins the expedition, 86;
—disasters, 87;
—crosses from Africa to West Indies, 88;
—clashes with Spaniards at Rio de la Hacha, 88;
—at Cartagena, 89;
—at St. John de Ulua, 89;
—fight with the Spaniards, 90 et seq.;
—parted from Drake in a storm, 93;
—leaves part of his men ashore, 93;
—voyage ends in disaster, 94;
—strikes another blow at Spain (1595), 223;
—unhappily combined with Drake, 224;
—sails for New Spain 226;
—dies, 226;
—bibliography, 243
Hawkins, Sir Richard, grandson of William Hawkins, 35
Hawkins, William, story of, in Hakluyt Voyages, 33 et seq.;
—father of Sir John Hawkins, 34;
—grandfather of Sir Richard Hawkins, 35,
—and of the second William Hawkins, 35
Hawkins, William, the Second, grandson of William Hawkins, 35
Henry IV of France, 223
Henry VII, Cabot enters service of, 3;
—refuses to patronize Columbus, 4;
—gives patent to the Cabots, 4-6
Henry VIII, the monarch of the sea, 20;
—establishes a modern fleet and the office of the Admiralty, 21;
—a patron of sailors, 22;
—menaced by Scotland, France, and Spain, 25;
—defies the Pope, 25;
—defies Francis I, 26;
—birth of modern sea-power (1545), 28;
—and the voyage of Hawkins, 33-34;
—as a patron of the Navy, 232 et seq.
Henry Grace à Dieu, The, ship, 234
Honduras, 156, 228
Hore, his voyage to America, 33 et seq.
Hortop, Job, 94
Howard of Effingham, Lord, 31, 176, 189, 197
Hudson Strait, Sebastian Cabot misses, 12
India, Sebastian Cabot searches for passage to, 11
Ingram, David, 94
Inquisition, Spanish, 29, 73
Ireland, 147, 191
Jackman, 122
James I of England, 216, 218
Jefferys, Thomas, 66
Jesus, The, ship, see Jesus of Lubeck
Jesus of Lubeck, The, ship, 75, 76, 86, 89, 91 et seq.
Judith, The, ship, 86, 92 et seq., 98
Knollys, 154
La Dragontea, by Lope de Vega, 157
La Hacha, 156, 227
Lane, Ralph, 162, 196, 212
La Rochelle, 100
Laudonnière, René de, 82 et seq.
Leicester, Earl, of, 146, 164, 176
Lepanto, 117, 185
Lima, 130, 135, 144
Lines of Torres Vedras, 194
Lisbon, 144, 168, 192, 223 et seq.
Lloyd's, 59-61
London merchants, 144, 140, 171, 218
Lope de Vega, 157
Madrid, 86, 172
Magellan, Strait of, 120, 127, 128
Manoa, 221, 222
Map, Juan de la Cosa's earliest
—dated (1500) map of America,
—14; of world by Sebastian
—Cabot (1544), 15; of America
—by Thomas Jefferys, 66
Marigold, The, ship, 121, 126, 128, 129
Martin, Don, 134, 153
Mary, Queen of Scots, 31, 50
—et seq., 117, 121, 149, 152,
—163, 164, 216
Matthew, The, ship, 7
Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 175
Mendoza, 119
Menendez, 115, 150
Middleton, Captain, 197
Minion, The, ship, 86, 91 et seq.
Monopoly, 58, 66
Moone, Tom, 129, 154, 161
Mosquito, Lopez de, 141
Mountains of Bright Stones, 86, 221, 222
Muscovy Company, 16, 31
Navigation, encouraged by Henry
—VIII, 21, 25, 27; art of tacking
—discovered, 26; birth of modern
—sea-power, 28; sea-songs, 37
—et seq.; nautical terms, 42 et seq.;
—Pette and Jackman's
—advice to traders, 122-123
—ftn.; Francisco de Zarate's
—account of Drake's Golden
—Hind, 136-137; appendix; note
—on Tudor shipping, 231-239;
—bibliography, 242
New Albion, 136, 140
Newfoundland fisheries, Bacon on, 62
New France, 72, 205
Nombre de Dios, 101 et seq., 12O, 135, 156, 227
Norreys, Sir John, 176, 193
Northwest Passage, 120, 137
Oxenham, John, 105, 109, 116, 144
Pacific Ocean, taken possession
—of by Balboa (1513), 18;
—Drake enters, 128 et seq.
Panama, 19, 103, 108, 120, 132, 135, 156, 227
Parma, 172 et seq., 189
Pascha, The, ship, 101, 106, 109, 114
Pedro de Valdes, Don, 188
Pelican, The, ship, 121, 127
Philip of Spain, marries Queen
—Mary, 31; protests against
—Drake's actions, 87; plans to
—seize Scilly Isles, 115; soldiers
—sack Antwerp, 116; seizes
—Portugal, 144; prepares a
—fleet, 150; Paris plot with
—Mary, 150; seizes English
—merchant fleet, 152; duped
—by Hawkins, 153; his credit
—low, 163; resumes mobilization,
—172; prepares the Armada,
—174 et seq.
Philippines, Vasco da Gama reaches, 19;
—Drake sails to, 141
Pines, Isle of, 103
Plymouth, 96, 98, 114, 145, 162, 178-180, 217, 225
Plymouth Company, 218
Pole of Plimmouth, The, ship, 33
Ponte, Peter de, 78
Popham, George, 219
Porto Rico, 225, 226
Potosi, 28, 73, 95, 130
Primrose, The, ship, 152
Pring, Martin, 217
Puerto Bello. 229
Purchas, Samuel, 203
Ralegh, City of, in Virginia, 213
Raleigh, The, ship, 209
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 195, 205-222;
—bibliography, 244-245
Ranse, 103, 108
Revenge, The, ship, 188, 192-204
Ribaut, Jean, 82
Roanoke Island, 162, 210 et seq.
Sagres Castle, 167
St. Augustine, 86, 162
San Domingo, 156, 157, 161
San Felipe, The, ship, 197 et seq.
San Francisco, 137, 138
San Juan de Ulua, 89, 98, 99, 153
Santa Anna, The, ship, 212
Santa Cruz, 150, 172 et seq.
Santa Marta, 156, 227
Scilly Isles, 114, 115, 153
Serchthrift, The, ship, 16-17, 32
Shipping, note on Tudor, 231-239
Sidney, Sir Philip, 155, 164, 195
Slave Trade, 74 et seq.
Solomon, The, ship, 76
Somerset, 29-30, 53, 96
Southampton, Earl of, 217
Spain, rights of discovery, 6;
—Spanish Inquisition, 29, 73;
—breach with England, 72;
—Spanish gold in London, 73;
—Spaniards in Florida, 81-82;
—the 'Spanish Fury' of 1576, 116;
—Drake clips the wings of Spain, 149-171;
—Drake and the Spanish Armada, 172-191;
—Lisbon expedition, 192 et seq.;
—the last fight of the Revenge, 197 et seq.
Sparke, John, his account of Sir John Hawkins's Voyage to Florida, 77 et seq.
Spitfire, The, ship, 132
Squirrel, The, ship, 210
Swallow, The, ship, 86
Swan, The, ship, 101, 106, 109, 121, 129
Teneriffe, 77-78
Ternate, Island of, 141, 142
Têtu, Capt., 112 et seq.
Throgmorton, Elizabeth, 220
Tiger, The, ship, 60, 85, 154
Torres Vedras, Lines of, 194
Vasco da Gama finds sea route to India (1498), 18
Venice, importance in trade, 2;
—Cabot becomes a citizen of, 2
Venta Cruz, 111
Vera Cruz, 89
Verrazano, 71
Virginia, 62, 151. 196, 205, 210, 219
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 118, 146
West Indies, 84, 157, 201, 208, 219, 225 et seq.
Westward Ho! Kingsley's, 105
Weymouth, George, 218
White, John, 212 et seq.
William and John, The, ship, 86
William of Orange, 152, 207.
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, tries to find Northwest Passage, 30;
—dies in Lapland, 30
Woolwich, 153, 238
Worthies of England, The, by Thomas Fuller, 101, 237
Zarate, Don Francisco de, 136