Thomas Walton was a 16th century british pirate. Purser and his confederate Clinton's

Clinton Atkinson (Pirate)

Clinton Atkinson was a 16th century british pirate. Clinton and his confederate Purser's, were widely reported on at the time with, three broadsheet accounts being published shortly after their hanging in 1583...

 activities were widely reported on at the time with, three broadsheet accounts being published shortly after their hanging in 1583. In addition Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood was a prominent English playwright, actor, and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.-Early years:...

 documents their lives and deaths in his romantic melodrama Fortune by Land and Sea

Fortune by Land and Sea

Fortune by Land and Sea is a Jacobean era stage play, a romantic melodrama written by Thomas Heywood and William Rowley. The play has attracted the attention of modern critics for its juxtaposition of the themes of primogeniture and piracy.-Publication:...

and there was also a two-part pamphlet published about them; A True Relation of the Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous English Pyrats, Purser, and Clinton.

Source material

Original sources listed by Claire Jowitt for her work include:

• Clinton Atkinson and Thomas Walton, Clinton, Purser & Arnold, to their countreymen wheresoever (London, 1583) (Wherein is described by their own hands their vnfeigned penitence for their offences past: their patience in welcoming their death, & their duetiful minds towardes her most excellent Maiestie)
• Thomas Heywood and William Rowley, Fortune by Land and Sea, (ed.) Herman Doh (New York, 1980)
• Anon, A True Relation of the Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous English Pyrats, Purser, and Clinton; who lived in the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639);
• Anon, The Second Part of The Two most Famous Pirats (London, 1639).