Excerpt from The Navy Under the Early Stuarts: And Its Influence on English History<br><br>In this attempt to sketch briefly the naval operations of our fleets under the early Stuarts, and their influence upon the nation's history, I merely expose to View a bare state ment of facts, culled from various sources, without in any way striving to emulate any of the distinguished naval writers whose volumes I have perused with such pleasure and gratitude.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.