Pirate nation Elizabeth I and her royal sea rovers
A radical reassessment of Elizabethan maritime history, with provocative judgements on cherished national events. Highly readable and fast-moving narrative.
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Seaforth Publishing
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Protestants in pursuit of profit
- Apprentice to a pirate
- Pirate ships of war at sea
- Arms and actions
- Piracy in the Pacific
- The American dream
- The Azores and the first battle of the Atlantic
- A preference for pirates: the failure of the Spanish Armada
- The land rats
- The duke's denial
- Disturbing the world
- Low water
- Appendices: Letters of reprisal and bonds for good behaviour, 1591-95
- Commission issued by Queen Elizabeth to the Early of Cumberland, 28 March 1595
- John Donne, 'The storm' and 'The calm', 1600
- Inventory of Malice Scourge, 1600
- Estimated costs of equipping a pirate vessel
- Authorisation to equip a vessel of war under the admiralty of Zealand, 1582
- Tennyson, 'The little Revenge, A ballad of the fleet'
- Cargo unloaded at Seville, 1593
- The appraisement of prizes
- Notes from state papers concerning piracy, 1578
- Complaints of the Dutch concerning English piracy, 1589.