Authors: Susan Ronald
The Pirate Queen (78 page)
The cod in the belly of the ship depicts the ideal design for one of Baker’s ships.
A contemporary chart of the North Atlantic, Newfoundland to Brazil, by Angelo de Conte Freducci. It shows the challenges that navigators faced in sailing on the eastern seaboards of North and South America.
The Armada Portrait
of Queen Elizabeth I is the most iconic image of England’s naval strength from her reign. Her hand is placed on the globe, she is wearing the de’ Medici pearls that had been given as a wedding present to Mary Queen of Scots by Catherine de’ Medici, and her English navy, flying the flag of St. George, has just defeated the Spanish Armada. There are three “Armada Portraits,” but it is believed that the one in the Duke of Bedford’s collection is the first to have been painted by the artist.
Born and raised in the United States, SUSAN RONALD has lived in England for more than twenty years. She has consulted for fi ve British government departments and The National Trust, and she is the author of
The Sancy Blood Diamond,
a six-hundred-year history of a cursed gem, and
France: Crossroads of Europe,
a cultural and historical overview for young adults. She lives in Oxfordshire, England.
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The Sancy Blood Diamond
France, The Crossroads of Europe
, as Susan Balerdi
Jacket design by Paola Echavarria
Jacket painting by George Gower, detail from the
Armada Portrait:
By kind permission of his Grace the Duke of Bedford and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates
THE PIRATE QUEEN
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ePub edition May 2007 ISBN 9780061749452
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* There was some last minute confusion regarding these captains with the unscheduled, and unwanted, arrival of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Fulke Greville, and their entourages—including Dom Antonio. Sidney insisted that Greville be made captain of the
Hope
. Sidney was trying to escape to America, angered by Elizabeth’s failure to agree to acknowledge him as governor for Flushing. He and Fulke Greville tried to sail with Drake, but were outwitted by the admiral, and ordered to return to London. The
Tiger
should not be confused with the queen’s ship
Tiger
, which had just returned home from Virginia under Greville.
4
* There was some last minute confusion regarding these captains with the unscheduled, and unwanted, arrival of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Fulke Greville, and their entourages—including Dom Antonio. Sidney insisted that Greville be made captain of the
Hope
. Sidney was trying to escape to America, angered by Elizabeth’s failure to agree to acknowledge him as governor for Flushing. He and Fulke Greville tried to sail with Drake, but were outwitted by the admiral, and ordered to return to London. The
Tiger
should not be confused with the queen’s ship
Tiger
, which had just returned home from Virginia under Greville.
4
* There was some last minute confusion regarding these captains with the unscheduled, and unwanted, arrival of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Fulke Greville, and their entourages—including Dom Antonio. Sidney insisted that Greville be made captain of the
Hope
. Sidney was trying to escape to America, angered by Elizabeth’s failure to agree to acknowledge him as governor for Flushing. He and Fulke Greville tried to sail with Drake, but were outwitted by the admiral, and ordered to return to London. The
Tiger
should not be confused with the queen’s ship
Tiger
, which had just returned home from Virginia under Greville.
4
*1 mark = 8 ounces
Table of Contents
Part I The Desperate Quest for Security
1. The Lord's Doing
2. A Realm Exhausted
3. The Queen, Her Merchants and Gentlemen
4. The Quest for Cash
5. The Merchants Adventurers, Antwerp, and Muscovy
6. The Politics of Piracy, Trade, and Religion
7. Raising the Stakes
8. Cunning Deceits
9. The Gloves Are Off
10. Lovell's Lamentable Voyage
11. The Troublesome Voyage of John Hawkins
12. The Queen and Alba's Pay Ships
13. The Cost of Failure
14. Undeclared Holy War
15. Drake's War
16. The Dread of Future Foes
17. Drake at the Treasure House of the World
18. From a Treetop in Darien
19. Success at a Cost
20. Dr. Dee's Nursery and the Northwest Passage
21. Dark Days at Rathlin Island
22. Drake's Perfect Timing
23. The Northwest and the Company of Kathai
24. In the Shadow of Magellan
25. Into the Jaws of Death
26. The Famous Voyage
27. The World Is Not Enough
28. Elizabeth Strikes Back in the Levant
29. Katherine Champernowne's Sons Take Up the American Dream
30. The Defeats of 1582-84
31. Water!
32. Roanoke
33. The Queen Lets Loose Her Dragon
34. The Camel's Back
35. Cadiz
36. The Plundering of the Spanish Armada
37. America Again... and Again?
38. The Last Gasp of the Early Roaring '90s
39. The Alchemy That Turned Plunder into Trade
40. Essex, Ireland, and Tragedy
41. Raleigh, Virginia, and Empire
42. The East and the East India Company
Appendix I. The Petty Navy Royal
Appendix II. The Flotilla from New Spain of August 1587