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English Merchant Shipping 1460-1540 (Paperback)
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English Merchant Shipping 1460-1540 (Paperback)
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Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of
vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In
this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English
merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance
period. Her account includes a description of the size and design
of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business
arrangements under which they sailed and the codes of maritime law
which governed them, the wages and conditions of work of the common
seaman and the degree of navigational skill of the shipmasters and
pilots. This was the time when seamen and merchants of northern
Europe were beginning to venture out of the familiar home waters
and undertake voyages of discovery such as the Bristol expeditions
1501-1504 which in all probability reached Labrador and possibly
Greenland. The author concludes that, although English shipping
faced stiff competition from traders and seamen of other countries
in northern Europe-most particularly the Dutch-the period was one
of healthy growth which laid a good foundation for the more
brilliant and better known exploits of the Elizabethan age. Based
on extensive and detailed research in manuscript sources preserved
in the Public Record Office, British libraries and the British
Museum, this study is an essential one for serious students of
English history.
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