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The Contents.
| Of Dockes and their definitions, and what belongs to them. | fol. 1 |
| How to build a Ship, with the definition of all the principall names of every part of her, and her principall timbers, also how they are fixed one to another, and the reasons of their use. |
2 |
| How to proportion the Masts and Yards for a Ship, by her Beame and Keele. |
15 |
| The names of all the Masts, Tops, and Yards belonging to a Ship. | 17 |
| How all the Tackling and Rigging of a Ship is made fast one to another, with the names and reasons of their use. |
18 |
| What doth belong to the Boats and Skiffe, with the definition of all those thirteen Ropes which are only properly called Ropes belonging to a Ship or a Boat, and their use. |
26 |
| The names of all sorts of Anchors, Cables, and Sailes, and how they beare their proportions, with their use. Also how the Ordnance should be placed, and the goods stowed in a Ship. |
29 |
| The charge and duty of the Captaine of a Ship, and every office and officer in a man of warre. |
34 |
| Proper Sea tearmes for dividing the Company at Sea, and ∥ stearing, sayling, and moring a Ship in faire weather or in a storme. |
37 |
| Proper Sea tearmes for the Winds, Ebbes, Flouds, and Eddies, with their definitions, and an estimate of the depth of the Sea, by the height of the Hils & largenesse of the Earth. |
46 |
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| Proper Sea tearmes belonging to the good or bad condition of Ships, how to find them and amend them. |
52 |
| Considerations for a Sea Captaine in the choise of his Ship, and in placing his Ordnance. In giving Chase, Boording, and entring a man of war like himself, or a defending Merchant man. |
54 |
| How to manage a fight at Sea, with the proper tearmes in a fight largely expressed, and the ordering a Navy at Sea. |
59 |
| The names of all sorts of great Ordnance, and their appurtenances, with their proper tearmes and expositions, also divers observations concerning their shooting, with a Table of proportion for their weight of metall, weight of powder, weight of shot, and there best at randome and point blanke inlarged. |
64 |
| How they divide their shares in a man of Warre; what Bookes and Instruments are fit for a Sea man, with divers advertisements for young Gentlemen that intend to follow the Sea, and the use of the petty Tally. |
72 |
The Expositions of all the most difficult words seldome used but
amongst sea men: where you finde the word in the Margent
breake against it: you shall find the exposition so plainly and briefly,
that any willing capacity may easily understand them.
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7. "Folio" is here used in the sense of "page number." Note that an error in pagination
on pp. 54 and 55 is repeated in this table of contents, where chap. 12 is shown as
beginning on p. 54. See p. 54n, below.
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8. Advice. The word "advertisement" was not used in the modern sense of "paid
announcement" until the end of the 17th century (cf. Smith's Advertisements).
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