Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the 'golden age' of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down.

A documentary history of English pirates in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, detailing the lives of notorious pirates such as John Ward, Clinton Atkinson, and Henry Mainwaring. Edited and footnoted transcriptions of original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts.

Three primary-source tracts relating to military archery in seventeenth century England. William Neade's Double-Armed Man, Gervase Markham's Art of Archerie, and an anonymous pamphlet promoting explosive fire-arrows. Edited together into one volume with an introduction exploring the use of the bow by English armies in the Anglo-French war (part of the Thirty Years' War) and the English Civil Wars.

Two seventeenth-century joke books: John Taylor's Wit and Mirth (1628), and Roberts Chamberlain's A Book of Bulls, transcribed and edited together into one volume.

Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the 'golden age' of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down.

In 1549 two major rebellions and several minor uprising occurred spontaneously throughout England. In East Anglia Robert Kett, aggrieved at the abuses of enclosure, laid siege to Norwich until defeated by Royal forces at the bloody battle of Dussindale. At the same time, thousands of commoners of Devon and Cornwall rose up against the introduction of the English-language Book of Common Prayer and the systematic destruction of their traditional faith. Like Norwich, Exeter was besieged throughout the long summer until, in a brutal campaign by government forces and hired foreign mercenaries, the rebellion was finally suppressed. Previous histories of the rebellions of 1549 have explored their causes in great depth, but little attention has been given to the military history of the campaigns. Yet the mid-Tudor period rests on the cusp between a medieval form of warfare and the new emerging ideas that defined warfare in the early-modern period, making the battles of 1549 of crucial importance in understanding the transition between the two. In this book Dr E.T. Fox explores how the 'medieval' rebels of the Devon and Cornwall militias fared against the German pikemen and Italian arquebusiers the government sent against them.