Williamson examines English seafaring and commerce from the accession of Henry VII to the death of Mary Tudor. He discusses Henry’s commercial policy, the merchant companies, the voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot, early colonial projects, and English traders who sailed with the Spanish Indies fleets, drawing closely on documents of the period.
A careful study of the half-century that laid the groundwork for Elizabethan sea power. Download the free EPUB.