About the Book
Providing a comprehensive view of Golden Age piracy, this edition includes descriptions of the actions of individuals alongside contemporary discussions of the piracy problem through books, journals, newspaper articles, essays, reviews, proposals, pamphlets and sermons from Britain and its colonies.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1: General Accounts Anthony Nixon, Newes from Sea, of two Notorious Pyrats, Ward the Englishman and Danseker the Dutchman (1609); Sir Henry Morgan's Voyage to Panama 1670 (1683); Philip Ayres, The Voyages and Adventures of Capt. Barth., Sharp and Others in the South Sea (1684); Selections from British and American newspapers and journals including, American Weekly Mercury, Boston Gazette, Boston News Letter, British Journal, London Journal, Mist's Weekly Journal, Post Boy, and Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer Volume 2: Trial Accounts The Lives, Apprehensions, Arraignments, and Executions, of the 19 Late Pyrates (1609); The Grand Pyrate, or, The Life and Death of Capt. George Cusack, the great Sea Robber with an Account of all his Notorious Robberies both at Sea and Land: together with his Tryal, condemnation, and Execution (1675); An Account of the Tryals of Captain J Golden (1694); Tryals of Joseph Dawson (1696); The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Captain William Kidd (1701); A full Account of the Proceedings in Relation to Capt. Kidd (1701); The Tryal of Captain Thomas Green and his Crew (1705); The Case of Capt. Tho. Green, Commander of the Ship Worcester, and his Crew, tried and condemned for Pyracy & Murther, in the High Court of Admiralty of Scotland (1705); The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Captain John Quelch (1705) Volume 3: Trial Accounts, Legal History, Commentary The Trials of Eight Persons Indited for Piracy (1718); The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet (1719); The Tryals of Captain John Rackam (1721); The Tryals of Thirty-Six Persons for Piracy (1723); The Trials of Five Persons for Piracy (1726); The Tryals of Sixteen Persons for Piracy (1726); A Discourse of the Laws relating to Pirates and Piracies (1726); Alexander Justice, A General Treatise of the Dominion of the Sea (1724); Piracy Destroyed, or, a Short Discourse Shewing the Rise, Growth and Causes of Piracy (1701); Marquis of Carmarthen, Reasons for Reducing the Pirates at Madagascar (c.1707); Alexander Smith, 'Introduction', The Third Volume of the Compleat History of the Lives, Robberies, Piracies, and Murders committed by the Most Notorious Rogues, &c (1720); Daniel Defoe, Mists Weekly Journal (1721) Volume 4: Advice to Seamen, Dying Speeches, Fiction and Ballads Henry Valentine, Four Sea-sermons (1635); The Mariner's Divine Mate (1670); An Account of the Behaviour, Dying Speeches, and Execution of Mr. John Murphey, for High Treason, and William May, John Sparcks, William Bishop, James Lewis, and Adam Foresith for Robbery, Piracy and Felony (1696); An Account of the Behaviour and last Dying Speeches of the Six Pirates, that were Executed on Charles River, Boston (1704); Cotton Mather, Faithful Warnings to Prevent Fearful Judgments...Brief Discourse Occasioned by a Tragical Spectacle of a Number of Miserables under Sentence of Death for Piracy (1704); Paul Lorrain, The Ordinary of Newgate: his Account of the Behaviour, Confession, and Last Speech of Capt. Alexander Dolzell, a Pirate (1715); Cotton Mather, Instructions to the Living, from the Condition of the Dead (1717); Cotton Mather, Useful Remarks: an Essay upon Remarkables in the Way of Wicked Men: A Sermon on the Tragical End, unto which the Way of Twenty-six Pirates brought Them; at New Port on Rhode Island (1723); Josiah Woodward, The Seaman's Monitor, or, Advice to Sea Faring Men (1723); Benjamin Colman, It is a Fearful Thing to Fall into the Hands of the Living God (1726); The famous Adventures of Captain John Avery of Plymouth, a Notorious Pirate (1809); Bold Captain Avery (c.1770)
Review :
'Nowhere else will you find such a diverse collection of documents that cover all aspects of piracy in one set of books. Each document and each volume is one to be studied and savored, much as a connoisseur appreciates the finest wines and delicacies.' Pirates and Privateers 'The wealth and variety of these facsimile texts is exhilarating.' Nautical Research Journal
