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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contents -- VOLUME I -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE FOOTNOTES -- NOTE ON EDITING -- INTRODUCTION -- A critical assessment of the materials -- CHAPTER I: THE DISCOVERY OF RALEIGH'S VIRGINIA -- NARRATIVE -- 1. 25 March 1584. Letters patent to Walter Raleigh -- 2. 21 July 1584. Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Edward Stafford -- 3. The Holinshed notice of the 1584 voyage -- 4. [1584-5.] Arthur Barlowe's discourse of the first voyage -- 5. Raleigh on the naming of ' Wingandacon' -- CHAPTER II: PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1585 VOYAGE -- NARRATIVE -- 6. December 1584. Parliamentary proceedings on the bill to confirm Raleigh's patent -- 7. December 1584. Bill to confirm Raleigh's patent, as passed by the house of commons -- 8. [1584-5.] Anonymous notes for the guidance of Raleigh and Cavendish -- 9. The legal consequences of an incident on the Thames early in 1585 -- 10. [c. January 1585.] Draft commission to Sir Walter Ralegh to take up shipping and mariners -- 11. 2 February 1585. George Wapull -- 12. [Before 25 March 1583.] A possible recruit for Grenville -- 13. 2 February 1585. Signet letter to the earl of Warwick for Raleigh -- 14. 8 February 1585. Signet letter to Sir John Perrot for Ralph Lane -- 15. 16 March 1585. Sir Richard Grenviue appoints trustees during his absence -- 16. Foreign seamen impressed for the voyage -- 17. Seizure of a French ship by one of Raleigh's -- 18. 7 April 1585. Richard Hakluyt to Sir Francis Walsingham -- 19. [1585.] Charles Thynne to Sir Francis Walsingham -- 20. 10 June 1585. Signet letter for Sir Wdter Raleigh -- CHAPTER III: THE 1585 VIRGINIA VOYAGE -- NARRATIVE -- 21. [9 April 1585.] Sir Richard Grenville leaves Plymouth -- 22. The Holinshed account of the 1585 expedition -- 23. The Tiger journal of the 1585 voyage -- 24. The names of Lane's colonists