Pallas Armata was published anonymously in 1639. According to Aylward's The English Master of Arms from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century (London, 1956), the author, identified only as "G.A." may have been Gideon Ashwell, a fellow of King's College Cambridge. The text consists of four sections, describing how to fence with rapier and sword against both right and left handers. The first two sections were transcribed and translated into modern English by J. Mark Bertrand, with whose kind permission they appear here (although the text has been altered back to it's original form).  The third and fourth sections were transcribed by Stephen Hand.

1. Rapier Containing how a Right-handed man is to play against a Right-handed man at single Rapier.
2. Backsword The second part of the first booke, shewing how a Right handed man must play with a Right handed man at single Sword.
3. Rapier against a left-hander The first part of the second Booke, shewing how a Right handed man is to play with a Left handed man at single Rapier.
4. Backsword against a left-hander The second part of the second Booke shewing how a right handed man is to play at single Sword with the left handed.