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Cover -- Shipwrecks And The Bounty Of The Sea -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Shipwrecks And Scholars -- Chapter 1. Ships At Risk -- Chapter 2. The Perils Of The Sea -- Chapter 3. Wreccum Maris: The Law Of 'wreck Of The Sea' -- Chapter 4. 'the Barbarous Country People' -- Chapter 5. 'the Great Profit Of The Lords Of Manors' -- Chapter 6. The Lord Admiral's Droits And His Majesty's Profit -- Chapter 7. Shipwreck Tales From Sea And Shore -- Chapter 8. The Bounty Of The Golden Grape -- Chapter 9. Mariners In Distress Chapter 10. Material Bounty Brought Ashore -- Chapter 11. Deep Recovery -- Chapter 12. Eighteenth-century Wrecking Revisited -- 1: Ships At Risk -- Numbers And Values -- Levels Of Loss -- 2: The Perils Of The Sea -- Ancient Mariners -- Renaissance Wrecks -- Shipwrecks Of The Soul And State -- Shipwrecking Storms And Tempests -- Lost Sailors And Faulty Charts -- Unskilfulness And Insufficiency -- Leaky Vessels -- 3: Wreccum Maris: The Law Of 'wreck Of The Sea' -- Statutes And Cases -- The Admiralty And The Common Law -- Commissions And Consequences -- Crimes And Remedies 4: The Barbarous Country People -- Moral Reproach -- Petitions And Complaints -- Inhumane Dealings -- 5: The Great Profit Of The Lords Of Manors -- The Bristol Channel -- Cornwall -- Devon -- Dorset -- Sussex -- Kent -- Norfolk -- Yorkshire And The North -- 6: The Lord Admiral's Droits And His Majesty's Profit -- Wardens And Admirals -- Admiral Buckingham -- The King's Admiralty -- Restoration Bounties -- Customs Demands -- 7: Shipwreck Tales From Sea And Shore -- Northumberland, 1559 And 1565 -- Pevensey 1569 And 1575 -- Bishopstone, 1578 -- Goodwin Sands¸ 1585 -- Stokenham, 1601 Goodwin Sands, 1616 -- Seaford, 1633 -- The Essex Sands, 1634 -- Sidestrand, 1636 -- Seaford, 1637 -- Littlehampton, 1654 -- The North Sea, 1660 -- The Isles Of Scilly, 1665 -- Cakeham, 1676 -- 8: The Bounty Of The Golden Grape -- Commissioners And Dep