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In 1522 Cardinal Wolsey ordered a survey of every man over the age of 16, together with an assessment of his wealth and the military equipment he owned. Sometimes called the 'Tudor Domesday' the muster returns of 1522 present a unique insight into the people of Tudor England. Only two muster rolls from Devon have survived to the present day, that of the City of Exeter and the roll for twelve of the parishes of Shebbear Hundred in North Devon, ...

This second volume of Pirates in Their Own Words turns to the contemporary newspapers of the 'golden age' of piracy, 1690-1727 and reproduces 555 articles from a variety of British and Colonial publications.

The best way to learn things is to do them, and it's also the most satisfying and fun way. This book contains ideas and instructions for 23 projects ranging from all periods of history, from prehistory to the Victorians, all designed with children and young people in mind (but adult helpers should find them fun and interesting too).

For more than three centuries the longbow was the dominant weapon in English military thinking, and England's archers were a force to be reckoned with on battlefields across Europe. From the famous battles of Crecy and Agincourt to forgotten skirmishes in Norfolk no serious fight was complete without the hum of the bow string. The study of the history of English archery could not be complete without reference to the vast bank of primary source...

For more than three centuries the longbow was the dominant weapon in English military thinking, and England's archers were a force to be reckoned with on battlefields across Europe. From the famous battles of Crecy and Agincourt to forgotten skirmishes in Norfolk no serious fight was complete without the hum of the bow string. The study of the history of English archery could not be complete without reference to the vast bank of primary source...

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Tom Fox was born in Elgin Illinois in 1958 and raised in Southern California by a loving family. But he had a deep dark secret that destroyed his life. Now, for the first time, he has exposed that secret to the world in an effort to try and reach out to persons like himself to offer hope.

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.

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.

The 'jolly roger' is probably the most iconic flag in the world. Nobody can see the skull and cross-bones without thinking 'pirates'. This carefully-researched book explores the history of the famous pirate flag, its many variants, and includes descriptions and illustrations of every 'jolly roger' recorded during the 'golden age' of piracy in the eighteenth century.

These true tales of pirates operating from places such as Falmouth, Lulworth Cove, Plymouth and Bristol inspired the pirate fiction we know today.

Their capture of the Grand Moghul's ship, the Gang-i-Sawai, was one of the most successful crimes ever committed, and while it made the fortune of Every's pirates, it plunged the nascent British Empire into turmoil.In his own time Henry Every was the most famous pirate of them all.

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.