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Endnotes
    Abbreviations
    APC :J.R. Dasent (ed.), Acts of the Privy Council 1542 – 1604 , 31 vols. (London, 1890–1907)
    BL: British Library
    Calendar : J.C. Appleby (ed.), A Calendar of Material relating to Ireland from the High Court of Admiralty Examinations 1536 – 1641 (Dublin, 1992)
    CSPD : R. Lemon et al. (eds.), Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1547 – 1603 and Addenda , 7 vols. (London, 1856–71)
    CSPD Edward : C.S. Knighton (ed.), Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of Edward VI 1547 – 1553 (London, 1992)
    CSPD Mary : C.S. Knighton (ed.), Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of Mary I 1553 – 1558 (London, 1998)
    CSPF : W.B. Turnbull et al. (eds.), Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, 1547 – 89 , 23 vols. (London, 1861–1950)
    CSPI : H.C. Hamilton et al. (eds.), Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland 1509 – 1603 , 11 vols. (London, 1860–1912)
    CPR : Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1461 – 1582 , 24 vols. (London, 1897–1986)
    CSPS : M. Hume et al. (eds.), Calendar of Letters and State Papers relating to English Affairs, preserved principally in the Archives of Simancas 1558 – 89 , 4 vols. (London, 1892–99)
    CSPV : R. Brown et al. (eds.), Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, relating to English Affairs, existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice 1558 – 1603 , 9 vols. (London, 1890–97)
    EHR : English Historical Review
    EPV : K.R. Andrews (ed.), English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588 – 1595 (Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 111, 1959)
    HCA: High Court of Admiralty, The National Archives
    HMC Salisbury : Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury , 23 vols. (Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1883–1973)
    Law and Custom : R.G. Marsden (ed.), Documents relating to the Law and Custom of the Sea , 2 vols. (Navy Records Society, 49 & 50, 1915–16)
    List and Analysis : R.B. Wernham (ed.), List and Analysis of State Papers Foreign Series Elizabeth I 1589 – 1596 , 7 vols. (London, 1964–2000)
    LP : J.S. Brewer et al. (eds.), Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII and Addenda , 22 vols. (2 nd edition, London, 1920–32)
    MM : Mariner’s Mirror
    Monson’s Tracts : M. Oppenheim (ed.), The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson , 5 vols. (Navy Records Society, 22, 23, 43, 45, 47, 1902–14)
    NAW : D.B. Quinn (ed.), New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612 , 5 vols. (London, 1979)
    ODNB : C. Matthew and B. Harrison (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 60 vols. (Oxford, 2004)
    Pays – Bas : K. de Lettenhove (ed.), Relations Politiques des Pays – Bas et de l’Angleterre sous Le Règne de Philippe II , 11 vols. (Brussels, 1888–1900)
    PN : Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation , 12 vols. (3 rd edition, Glasgow, 1903–5, repr. New York, 1969)
    Select Pleas : R.G. Marsden (ed.), Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty , 2 vols. (Selden Society, 6 & 11, 1894–97)
    SP: State Papers, The National Archives
    Tudor Proclamations : P.L. Hughes and J.F. Larkin (eds.), Tudor Royal Proclamations , 3 vols. (New Haven, 1964–69)

Bibliography
    Manuscript Sources
    The National Archives, Kew
        SP 12 (State Papers, Elizabeth I)
        SP 63 (State Papers, Ireland)
        HCA 1/33, 34, 37, 38, 40, 44, 45, 48 (High Court of Admiralty, oyer and terminer records)
        HCA 13/2-36 (High Court of Admiralty, examinations)
        HCA 14/9 (High Court of Admiralty, exemplifications)
    The British Library, London
        Additional MS 12505
        Lansdowne MS 26, 33, 142, 162
        Cotton MS Nero B III
        Cotton MS Otho E VIII, IX
    Printed Sources
    A True Relation of the Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous Pyrats, Purser and Clinton (London, 1639, repr. Amsterdam, 1971)
    K.R. Andrews (ed.), English Privateering Voyages to the