| Summary: | <p>This work is concerned With naval activity between 1422 and 1485 in which the English government was involved, chiefly with that initiated or undertaken by the administration, and with the organisation of any such activity.</p>
<p>The Introduction deals with the nature of the evidence used ~ this being particularly the records of the central government (notably of the Exchequer), certain local records, for instance of King's Lynn and Sandwich, and the various printed sources, such as the Howard Household accounts, the Paston letters, the chronicles of the period, and the other narratives, correspondence and treatises in which the time is comparatively rich - with what was meant in the 15th century by the term ‘the keeping of the sea’, both by the men who used it or had reason to comment on it, and in practice, and (arising from this) what might be called naval strategy.</p>
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