CHAP. PAGE Introduction--The Mediæval Navy 1 I. The Navy of the Tudors till the Accession of Elizabeth 33 II. Reign of Elizabeth to the Defeat of the Armada 73 III. From the Armada to the Death of the Queen 116 IV. James I. and Charles I. 146 V. The Navy in the Civil War 180 VI. The First Years of the Commonwealth 195 VII. The First Dutch War 230 VIII. The Latter Half of the War 256 IX. The Protectorate 276 X. The Navy under Charles II. 299 XI. The Second Dutch War to the Four Days' Battle 334 XII. From the Four Days' Battle till the End of the War 364 XIII. The Algerine Pirates and the Third Dutch War 398 XIV. The Last Years of the Stuart Dynasty 444 Index 465 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY INTRODUCTION THE MEDIÆVAL NAVY AUTHORITIES.--Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas has made an exhaustive collection of all the evidence as to the history of the Royal Navy in the Middle Ages, in the only two volumes published of his _History of the Royal Navy from the Earliest Times to the Wars of the French Revolution_. It is the basis of this Introduction. Captain Burrows' _Cinque Ports_, in the Historical Towns Series, supplements Sir H. Nicolas.