CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION: EARLY ENGLISH VOYAGES TO NORTH AMERICA

Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation--English colonisation --The Cabotian discoveries--The Cabots' second voyage--The Bull of Alexander VI.--The voyages of John Rut and Master Hore --Newfoundland Fishery--Cabot, Willoughby, and Chancellor--The attraction of the West--The North-West Passage--Martin Frobisher--Sir Humphrey Gilbert--Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake--Sir Walter Raleigh--The Elizabethan Period 1