State Papers relating to the Defeat of The Spanish Armada (Navy Records Society series Volume 2): 1588, Vol. II

Sir John Knox Laughton

State Papers relating to the Defeat of The Spanish Armada (Navy Records Society series Volume 2): 1588, Vol. II
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Navy Records Society
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 April 2019
Pages
426
ISBN
9781911248033

State Papers relating to the Defeat of The Spanish Armada (Navy Records Society series Volume 2): 1588, Vol. II

Sir John Knox Laughton

These are chiefly aEURO~State PapersaEURO ™ in the narrow sense of records of the English Secretary of State, but include other English government documents from the Public Record Office and the British Museum.

Vol II August to December 1588. In appendices Vol.II prints a list of the English fleet; letters of Captain Thomas Cely from a Spanish prison in 1579; a proposal to increase seamenaEURO ™s wages in 1585; a translation of Medina SidoniaaEURO ™s narrative as printed in Fernandez DuroaEURO ™s La Armada Invencible; and a list of the Spanish fleet, chiefly from Fernandez Duro.

The Mary Rose has now been unveiled in her entirety, marking the end of the 34-year project to preserve her after she was raised from the seabed in 1982. Viewers can now see the ship clearly, unmasked by glass or conservation jets. In 2017 The Naval Miscellany Volume VIII was published with details of her last campaign in 1545. To study the broader context of the Mary Rose, particularly the history of the second Mary Rose, a 29-gun galleon built in 1555 which fought in the Spanish Armada. She features in both volumes of aEURO~State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaaEURO ™, the first two volumes ever published by the Navy Records Society.

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