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Contents

Exchange Rates

1 Protestants in Pursuit of Profit

2 Apprentice to a Pirate

3 Pirate Ships of War at Sea

4 Arms and Actions

5 Piracy in the Pacific

6 The American Dream

7 The Azores and the First Battle of the Atlantic

8 A Preference for Pirates – The Failure of the Spanish Armada

Peculation and the Piratocracy

9 The Land Rats

10 The Duke’s Denial

11 Disturbing the World

12 Low Water

Appendices

1 Letters of Reprisal and Bonds for Good Behaviour, 1591–95

2 Commission issued by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Cumberland, 28 March 1595

3 John Donne, ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Calm’, 1600

4 Inventory of Malice Scourge, 1600

5 Estimated Costs of Equipping a Pirate Vessel

6 Authorisation to Equip a Vessel of War under the Admiralty of Zealand, 1582

7 Tennyson, ‘The Little Revenge, A Ballad of the Fleet’

8 Cargo Unloaded at Seville, 1593

9 The Appraisement of Prizes

10 Notes from State Papers Concerning Piracy, 1578

11 Complaints of the Dutch Concerning English Piracy, 1589

References and Bibliography

Notes

Maps

Index