The probability is, then, that his work was begun at the end of James I's reign, and was part of the large output of military literature to which the imminent prospect of war with Spain gave rise at that time.
[3] See _Drake and the Tudor Navy_, ii.

Appendix B.
[4] See Article 1 of the Instructions of 1816, _post_, p.

342.
[5] In all previous English instructions the prayer article had come towards the end.

In the Spanish service it came first, and it was thence probably that Ralegh got his idea.
[6] Laughton, _Defeat of the Armada_, i.

126; _Account, &c_.
(_Exchequer, Queen's Remembrancer_), lxiv.