INDEX 



Hawkyns, William, voyage to Brazil (1530), 263. 



Hector, East Indiaman, 1601 expedition, 243 



Helgeland, 203 



Helluland, Viking discovery, 202 



Henrietta Maria, Queen, helps Royalist cause, 106 



Henry I, English King, maintains a fleet, 19 



Henry HI, English King: his wine trade, 216; 



Hanseatic League, 230 ; piracy by Cinque Ports, 



273 

 Henry HI of Castile, expedition to Canaries, 204 

 Henry IV, English King, position at sea, 39 

 Henry IV, King of France, relations with Eliza- 

 beth, 89 

 Henry V, English King, efforts for Navy, 40 ; 



charter of HoUgost, 223 

 Henry VI, English King, wastes the Navy, 43 

 Henry VII, English King, lands at Milford Haven, 



46 ; influence on Navy, 51 ; invades France (1492), 



51 ; defeats Ravenstein, 51 

 Henry VIII, English King, invades France, 52; 



embarkation, 50 ; wine trade, 214 

 Henry the Navigator, Prince : exploration workj 



231, 232; Erik of Pomerania, 245 

 Henry, Prince of Portugal, expedition to Madeira 



294 

 Henry, Prince of Wales, naval enthusiasm, 101 

 Henry Grdce a Dieu, Tudor warship (1514), see 



Great Harry 

 Herbert, Admiral Arthur (Lord Torrington) : trans- 

 ports William III, 152; Bantry, 153; Beachy 



Head, 153 ; unjust disgrace, 154 

 Heriulfsson, Biapni, Viking, possible discovery of 



Labrador, 202 

 Hernandez, Tomas : Cavendish's expedition of 1586, 



266 ; death, 266 

 Herodotus, Roman historian, ignorant of Britain, 1 

 Herring Fisheries, poaching by Dutch, 104 

 Himilco, Carthaginian navigator, voyage to Britain, 2 

 Hispaniola (Hayti) : attack projected (1654), 126 ; 



taken by Columbus, 251 

 Hiuan-Yuan, Chinese Emperor : compass legend, 



172 

 Hoggskyns, John, Master Carpenter to Henry V, 42 

 HoUgost, English warship, built by Henry V, 40 ; 



chartered (1423), 223 

 Holmes, Admiral, captures New York, 138; " Bon- 

 fire," 140 

 Hornsea, Yorkshire port, earliest mention, 2 

 Hoseander, E.l. Co.'s ship: battle of Swally Hole, 



244 

 Houtman, Cornells, expedition of 1595, 237 

 Howard of Effingham, Lord (first), honour of the 



Flag, 55 

 Howard of Effingham, Lord (second), commands 



against Armada, G5 

 Howard, Lord Edward : defeats Andrew Barton, 



51; Lord High Admiral, 52; death, 53 

 Howard, Sir Francis, against pirates, 102 

 Howard, Lord Thomas, Elizabethan seaman, 89, 91 

 Howard, Lord Thomas, Lord High Admiral, 53 

 Hudson, Henry, North-East passage, 266, 271 ; dis 



covers Jan Mayen Island, 271 

 Hudson River, Hudson's navigation of, 271 

 Hudson's Strait, discovery of, 264 

 Huissiers, Richard I's Crusade transports, 215 

 Hull, Yorkshire port : invasion of Aquitaine (1439), 



43 ; dug-out canoe at, 166 

 Hundred Years' War : commencement of, 25 ; effect 



on Flanders, 224 

 Huntingdon, Earl of, raids French coast, 31 

 Huntingdon, John, Earl of. Admiral of Henry V, 42 

 Hythe, Kent, Cinque Port, 18 



Iceland : Irish conquest, 8, 201 ; English fishing 



fleet, 56; Naddod's visit, 201; Goddar Svarvar- 



son's visit, 201; early settlers, 201; fishing in 



15th cent., 225 

 Impressment of Foreign Ships, in early times, 218 ; 



in Wars of Roses, 218 

 Inns of Court, raised expedition for West, 236 

 Invasions of England by France : King John's 



reign, 21; by De Bove, 21; Edward I's reign, 



25 ; Eustace the Monk, 21 ; Jean de Vienne, 36 ; 



1386 failure, 36; Du Rieux on Wales, 38, 40; 



war of English Succession, 154 

 Ipswich : Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 

 Ireland: Viking raids on, 11, 19; base of Saxon 



raids, 18 ; trouble encouraged by Spain, 59, 91 ; 



invaded by James II, 153 

 Ireland, English invasions of : King Arthur, 8 ; 



Henry II, 20 

 Irish Explorers: Cormac MacArt, 192; sons of 



Ua Corra, 201 

 Isabella, Queen, invades England, 25 



Jackman, Charles : North-East passage, 237 



Jacobite Plots : help by smugglers, 165 



Jamaica : captured by Penn (1654), 126 ; discovery 



of, 252 ; Morgan, Governor of, 294 

 James I, English King ; naval policy, 101 ; hires 



fleet to France, 102 ; commerce, 230 ; East India 



Co., 244; exploitation of Virginia, 266; pardon 



to Mainwaring, 282 

 James, Duke of York (James II) : interest in Navy, 



138 ; battle of Lowestoft, 139 ; portrait, 150 ; 



third Dutch War, 151 ; retires from Navy, 152 ; 



succession and deposition, 152 ; invades Ireland, 153 

 Jan Mayen Island, discovery of, 271 

 Jean de la Valette, at siege of Malta, 281 

 jennet Purwyn, Scottish pirate ship, 51 

 Jersey, Channel Isl., pirate base, 108 

 Joao Vaz Land, 245 

 John, English King : develops the Navy, 20 ; his 



wine trade, 216 ; trade and taxes, 215 

 John, King of Portugal, 246 

 John of Gaunt, Spanish adventurer, 36 

 Juan of Austria, Don, battle of Lepanto (1571), 281 

 Judith, British ship, see Drake 



Kara Sea, North-East passage expedition, 237 



Katwijk, action off (1653), 125 



Keel-hauling, sea punishment, 187 



Keeper of the King's Ships, institution of office, 20 



Kempthorn, Captain, fight against Algerines (ill.), 



285, 287 



Kent, Edward, Earl of. Lord High Admiral (1407), 



39 



Kentish Knock, Battle of (1652), 122 



Ketch, rig and origin, 188 



Khair-ed-Din Barbarossa, 280 



Khan of Cathay, 257 



Killigrew, .Admiral, war of English Succession, 153 



Kingmaker, The (Richard Neville, Earl of War- 

 wick), 44, 45, 47 



Kingston, Jamaica, slave trade, 231 



Kinsale, James II lands at, 153 



Knights Hospitallers : siege of Malta, 1565, 280 ; 

 their fleet, 280 



Kublai Khan, visit of Marco Polo, 211 



La Hogue, Battle of, 154, 160 



La Rochelle, Battle of (1372), 33, 35, 36; English 

 hired against, 103 ; Buckingham's expedition, 103, 



112 

 Labrador, probable discovery of, 202, 245 



302 



