Together with his father, the draper John Wight, he published seven editions of William Bourne's book A Regiment for the Sea,[2][3] the first purely English navigational text.
Pulton (1600), also published by Wight the same year, was the first book to attempt to summarise English criminal law.
It ponders the nature of law, its religious and moral standards, and jurisdiction of Parliament.
Manwood (1598) summarises the laws of the forest, known as Carta de Foresta; this was of key interest to English gentlemen, and went through numerous reprintings.
Wight published copies of the "Yearbooks", notes by law students which were the earliest English legal reports dating back to the eleventh century.