Table of Contents

Preface; Sources and abbreviations; Part I. Context and Organisation: 1. Privateering and the sea war; 2. Regulation; 3. Men and materials; Part II. Ventures and Venturers: Prelude, 1602 Sir Thomas Sherley; 4. The amateurs; 5. The professionals; 6. The great merchants; 7. Prizes and profits; Tail piece, 1592 William Grafton; Part III. Privateering and overseas expansion: 8. The West Indies; 9. Western planting; 10. The Portuguese trades; 11. The consequences of privateering; Appendix; Index; Map: the West Indies about 1590.

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This 1966 study of privateering during the Elizabethan war with Spain shows that it was closely connected with trade.