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| 1225 Enemy Wine Seized | |||
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We took the wine because "..they were in hostility to us." | ||
| 1228 Pirate Hanged | |||
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(See also, Capt. Kidd and Ann
Bonny for hanging.) This is almost the only record of hanging for piracy before the sixteenth century. "...confessed after inquisition." (old joke: "I know he was hung; but how'd he die?") |
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| 1346 Pirate Pardoned | |||
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Pirate is pardoned because he volunteered his war ship for the King's service. (What choice did he have?) | ||
| 1577 Capturing Pirates Instructions | |||
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Detailed instructions for capturing pirates and sea rovers. This would accompany a Letter of Marque. | ||
| 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh Bond | |||
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Bond paid by Sir Walter Raleigh on account for pirates' goods he hoped to capture. | ||
| 1592 Broadside Fired | |||
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A true account of the sea battle between the HMS Guardland and the Turkish Man-o-War Black Bull who wouldn't strike her colors in respect to the Queen's authority of the Seas. | ||
| 1611 Pirate Treasure | |||
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Sentence condemning the captain of the HMS Advantage in the value of the gold captured by him from a pirate who captured it from a Frenchman. | ||
| 1649 Beheading King Charles I | |||
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The King knelt; Hulet moved the King’s hair out of the way, a flash of light on the ax head, the axe descended smoothly, the King was dead. The head was always held aloft so the crowd could be sure the intended was indeed beheaded. Sergeant Hulet held the head high by its long hair and cried, “Here is the head of a Traitor.” Inexperience made him drop the head which thudded to the boards. | ||
| 1670 Henry Morgan's Instructions | |||
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See also Morgan's
Letter
of Marque One of the most interesting document in the collection. It spells out everything he is empowered to do; and he sure took it to the extreme. |
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| 1673 Enforcing Gun Salute Instructions | |||
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Instructions for enforcing the gun salute and taking captured English seaman out of foreign ships. | ||
| 1703 Ship Surgeon Amputates | |||
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Report of surgery after a battle. | ||
| 1703 Marooning Report | |||
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Report of marooning Samuel Huxford in the Cape Verde Islands where he died within three months. | ||
| 1705 Mutineers Turn Pirates | |||
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Mutineers choose sides and strip ship. | ||
| 1708 Marooned Man Found | |||
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Alexander Selkirk was marooned for four years and four months. He was the inspiration for Daniel DeFoe's book Robinson Crusoe. | ||
| 1708 Marooned Padre | |||
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Padre marooned with young female negro. | ||
| 1717 Broadside by French Pirate | |||
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A record of the devastating effect of this powerful naval action fired by a French pirate. The broadside was seldom fired because of the destruction it would cause the other ship. A ship had no value if it was badly damaged. After all, it was all about booty! | ||
| 1708 Ships' Stores | |||
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A partial list of the ships stores for a privateer. | ||
| 1709 Naval Battle | |||
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Report of battle at sea by three Naval Ships against a Spanish Galleon. | ||
| 1709 Spanish Treasure Galleon | |||
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Three English privateers fire 500 six-pound cannon balls and get beaten badly by the superior Spanish Ship. | ||
| 1710 Poor Conditions | |||
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A brief report of the poor conditions of the three ships that captured the Manila Galleon.. | ||
| 1718 Blackbeard Raids Charleston | |||
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His fleet blockaded the harbor for five days and plundered all the ships. | ||
| 1718 Blackbeard's Reward Poster | |||
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Governor of Virginia offers £500 for Teach, £100 for officers, £15 for crew. | ||
| 1718 Blackbeard's Death Report | |||
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Heavy
duty reporting. A stirring account of the famous pirate's demise in his last battle. |
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| 1718 Blackbeard's History | |||
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The fiercest pirate who ever lived. Plundering from Trinidad to Maine. | ||
| 1720 Black Bart / Bartholomew Roberts Plunders the Samuel | |||
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A drunken orgy of plundering a merchantman. | ||
| 1721 Ann Bonny and Mary Read Trial | |||
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They
wrote the book on women's issues! "...only two of the pirates had put up any fight and they had fought like wildcats." Their sentence was to be "severely hanged by the neck till you are severely dead." |
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| 1721 Calico Jack's Charges at his Trial | |||
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The charges against Calico Jack Rackman and his crew at trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica
in 1721 This is a very good document to personalize if you have a Business Group, Sports Team, Scout Troop, Class or Club because you can substitute up to ten names for the crew that is listed in the document. |
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| 1722 Black Bart / Bartholomew Roberts Death Report | |||
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An exciting account of the last battle from a report made at the trial of the remaining pirates. | ||
| 1722 Pirate Sentenced to Hang | |||
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Fifty-two men were hanged in the month of April. Their bodies were then wrapped in chains and hung in public view until they rotted. "...to be hanged by the neck, till you are dead, dead, dead." | ||
| 1723 George Lowther Plunders the Princess Galley | |||
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Report of the pirate George Lowther plundering the Princess Galley off the west coast of Africa. | ||
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Modern Piracy is an $15 billion
a year problem. This is a link to the International Piracy report page
from the IMB Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (There are
no documents to personalize.) |
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| 2010 Modern Piracy | |||
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Modern Piracy is a $15 Billion a year crime. | ||
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