Note 393 — AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHINEAS PETT (continued 2)
Reading edition
The pirate; subsequently a naval officer; author of the Discourse of the Beginnings, Practices, and Suppression of Pirates, and of The Seaman's Dictionary; knighted 1618. MS. 'Manwaring'; other spellings of the name are Maynwaring, Manwayring, Maynnaring, Mannering.