rowkes

Updated: June 7, 2025

He was silent, too, of the injury which he had received from the pirates, though eloquent on the boats which he burnt at the Skerries. State Papers, Vol. II. p. 205. And Edward Rowkes, pirate at the sea, captain to the said Thomas, destroyed and took many of them." Act of Attainder of the Earl of Kildare: 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 1. Skeffington to Henry VIII.: State Papers, Vol. II. pp. 206, 207.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.