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Title: Maritime enterprise, 1485-1558

Author: James A. Williamson

Release date: March 30, 2023 [eBook #70418]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1913

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MARITIME ENTERPRISE
1485–1558

Warship

WARSHIP, Period 1514–45.
From Cott. MS. Aug. 1. i. 18.
Frontispiece

MARITIME ENTERPRISE
1485–1558
BY
JAMES A. WILLIAMSON
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1913
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY
HUMPHREY MILFORD M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY