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• Godwin B. C., “Dunster Castle “The Armoury Revisited”, Spring 2008 London Park Lane catalogue.
• Godwin B.C., “A Significant English Lock Pistol” Spring 2007 London Park Lane catalogue, pp.58-69.
  
• Godwin B.C., “The Chirk Castle Firelocks - A Revisit”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.XVIII, No.6, September 2006, pp.233-248.
  
• Early English Firearms – a loan exhibition, 20th London Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue.
  
• English Snaphance Firearms – a loan exhibition, Spring 2006 London Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue.
  

• Godwin B.C., “The English Snaphance Lock”, Spring 2006 London Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, pp.28-63.
  
• Godwin B., Cooper J. & Spencer M., “The English Flintlock: its Origins and Development”, 20th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 2002, pp.49-91.
  
• Cooper J.S., “An English Holster Pistol of Commonwealth Date”, Spring 2006 London Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, pp. 65-74.
  
• Yablonskaya E., English Firearms of the XVII – the early XIX Centuries, Moscow 2006.
  

Past Publications – older publications relating to the English snaphance and the English Lock

• Blackmore D., Arms & Armour of the English Civil Wars, London 1990.
  
• Blackmore H.L., “Muskets for the City Companies”, 12th London Park Lane Arms Fair 1995.
  
• Blackmore H.L., “The Queenhithe Pistol”, 10th London Park Lane Arms Fair, London 1993, pp.17-23.
  
• Blackmore H.L., “Guns for the Sultan of Bantam”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol. X, No. 2, 1980, pp.61-66.
  
  
• Blackmore H.L., “New Light on ‘The Present of Spain’”, 15th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 1998, pp.28-34.
  
• Blair C., “A 16th Century English Snaphance Gun”, 2nd Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 1985, pp.21-26.
  
• Colton R.T., “The Snaphaunce”, Man at Arms, Vol.14, No.6, pp.34-40.
  
• Cooper J.S., For Commonwealth & Crown: English Gunmakers of the Seventeenth Century, Gillingham 1993.
  
• Cooper J. & Godwin B., “A Group of Small English Pistols 1600 – 1660”, 17th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 2000, pp.9-13.
  

• Cooper J. & Godwin B., The Stepps House Pistol”, 18th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 2001, pp.26-30.
  
• Cruso J., Militarie Instructions for the Cavall’rie, Cambridge 1632.
  
• Drejholt N., Firearms of the Royal Armouries 1,(Livrustkammaren),Stockholm 1996.
  
• Eaves I., “Some notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol. VI, No.11, 1970, pp.277-344.
  
• Eaves I., “Further Notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, London Vol. VIII, No. 5, June 1976, pp.312-313.
  
  
• Exhibition catalogue, Treasures of the Kremlin - Arsenal of the Russian Tsars, Royal Armouries, Leeds 1998.
  
• Godwin B.C., “The English Snaphaunce: Some Newly Discovered Examples”, Arms Collecting, Vol.32, No 4,1994, pp.121-124.
  
• Godwin B.C., “An English Lock Variant”, Arms Collecting, Vol.35, No.4 1997, pp.121-124.
  
• Godwin B.C., “Warner Pin – A Question of Attribution”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.XVII, No.2, September 2001, pp.122-138.
  
• Godwin B.C., “The Chirk Castle Firelocks”, Arms Collecting, Vol.36, No.3, pp.80-85.
  
  
• Godwin B.C., “Early English Firearms at Hardwick Hall”, 16th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 1999, pp.25-28.
  
• Godwin B.C., “Hardwick Hall” – Part 1, Snaphances”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.XVII, No.6, September 2003.
  
• Godwin B.C., “Hardwick Hall” – Part 2: a lock, a stock and 8 barrels”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.XVIII, No.2, September 2004.
  
• Godwin B.C., “The Armoury at Dunster Castle”, 14th Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 1997, pp.12-17.
  
• Gooding J., “Dog Lock” & “English Lock”, Encyclopaedia of Firearms, London 1964.
  
  
• Hayward J.F., The Art of the Gunmaker - Volume 1, London 1962.
  
• Hayward J.F., “The Earliest Forms of Flint-lock in England”, Journal of the Livrustkammaren, Vol.IV, No.7, 1947.
  
• Hoff A., “The Term Snaphaunce”, Aspects of Dutch Gunmaking, Zwolle 1997.
  
• Howard G.T., “Some Observations on the Dog-Lock: And on one in particular”, Arms Collecting, Vol.22, No.3, pp.93-97.
  
• Kennard A.N., “A Pair of Seventeenth Century English Pistols”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.II, No. 6, June 1957.
  
  
• Kist J.B., Puype J.P.,Van der Mark W.& Van der Sloot R.B.F., Dutch Muskets & Pistols, London 1974.
  
• Lenk T., The Flintlock, London 1965.
  
• Mayer M., Flintlocks of the Iroquois 1620-1687, Rochester 1943.
  
• Neal W.K. & Back D.H.L., Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, Norwich 1984.
  
• Puype J.P., “Dutch & Other Flintlocks from Seventeenth Century Iroquois Sites”, Proceedings of the 1984 Trade Gun Conference, New York 1985, pp.1-120.
  
• Puype J.P., Proceedings of the Trade Gun Conference, Part 1, Rochester 1985.
  
• Peterson H., Arms & Armor in Colonial America 1526-1783, New York 1956.
  
  
• Rimer G.J., “Typology of 17th Century Flintlocks in the Popham Armoury”, Arms Collecting, Vol 25, No.4, 1987, pp.122-123.
  
• Rimer G. & Blackmore D., “Firearms in the Popham Armoury at Littlecote House”, 3rd Park Lane Arms Fair catalogue, London 1986, pp.19-24.
  
• Sotheby’s, London, The Contents of Littlecote House, Vol.2, 22nd November 1985.
  
• Spencer M.G., “Early English Muskets in the Town Hall at Oxford”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.9, No.1, pp.10-17.
  
• Spencer M.G., “Early English Muskets in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, Vol.9, No.2, pp.82-86.
  
• Spencer M.G., Early European Hand-firearms in Liverpool Museum, Liverpool1992.
  
• Spencer M.G., “The English Flintlock and the Civil War”, Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, London, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1992, p.90.
  
• Spencer M.G., “English Flintlocks and Dog-Locks”, Man at Arms magazine.
  
  
• Straube B.A., “A Re-examination of the English Lock”, American Society of Arms Collectors, Bulletin No.63, 1990.
  
• Walton R.H., Early Civil War Firearms in the Curtis Museum, Alton, 1948.
  
• Tarassuk L., Antique European & American Firearms at the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1972.
  
• Ward R., Animadversions of Warre or a militarie magazine of the truest rules….for the managing of warre, London 1639, 2 Vols.
  
• Yablonskya E., “English 17th century firearms in the Kremlin Armoury Chamber”, Royal Armouries Yearbook, Vol. 4 1999.
  
• Yablonskaya E., Dutch Guns in Russia, Zwolle 1996.