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If A Pirate I Must Be...

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by Richard Sanders


  Eripice

  Eshwell, John

  Essex

  execution

  Execution Dock

  Expectation

  Experiment

  Exquemelin, Alexander

  Falconbridge, Alexander

  Fanshaw, Lieutenant

  Faversham

  female pirates

  Fenn, John

  Fernando de Noronha

  Ferryland

  Fishguard

  Flamborough

  Fletcher, Captain

  flogging

  Flushing

  Flushingham

  Fowle, Captain Henry

  French

  French African Company

  French Antilles

  French Guiana

  Frenchman’s Bay

  Gabon, River

  Gambia

  gambling

  Ganj-i-Sawai

  Gay, John

  Gee, William

  General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, A (Captain Charles Johnson)

  George

  George I, King

  Gertruycht

  Glasby, Henry

  escapes and recapture

  intervenes on prisoners’ behalf

  navigational skills

  pirates’ drinking observed by

  pirates’ trial

  unhappiness of

  gold

  Gold Coast

  Good Fortune (first); see also Princess

  consort ship

  description

  men and guns

  Princess renamed

  runs out of water

  sinking of a turning point

  Windward and Leeward Islands

  Good Fortune (second)

  Gossuch, Roger

  Grand Banks

  Grant, Captain

  grappling hooks

  Graves, Daniel

  Grenadines

  Guadeloupe

  Guillouet d’Orvilliers, Claude

  Guinneys, William

  Gulf of Guinea

  Haak, Philip

  Haiti

  Hamilton, Governor Walter

  hammocks

  Hannibal

  Hardy, Richard

  ‘hartshorn’

  Haverfordwest

  Hawkins, John

  Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

  Herdman, Captain Mungo

  High Cameroon

  Hildesley, Captain

  Hill, Captain Thomas

  Hingston, Captain Andrew

  Hispaniola

  Buccaneers

  Buck at

  French presence

  pirate haven

  Spanish base

  homosexuality

  Hooson, I.D.

  Hope Point

  Huguenots

  Hyde, Edward

  Hynde, Isaac

  Ibos

  Indian Ocean

  Isla Mona

  Isle of May

  Jacobites

  Jamaica

  James II, King

  ‘James III’ (the Old Pretender)

  James Fort

  James River

  Jeremiah and Anne

  Jessup, John

  Johnson, Captain Charles

  Anne Bonny and Mary Read

  Anstis

  Davis becomes captain

  Davis’s death

  Davis’s extravagance

  England’s crew

  General History

  Grand Banks

  Kennedy

  mythical pirate islands

  piracy, lure of

  pirate atrocities

  pirate loyalties

  pirate ravages unchecked

  Roberts described

  Roberts’ importance

  Roberts’ leadership

  Roberts’ new flags

  Roberts’ ‘privy council’

  Sagrada Familia

  St Bartholomew

  Trepassy

  trial and executions

  water supply runs out

  Johnson, Marcus

  ‘Jolly Roger’

  Jones, Thomas Lawrence

  Juan Fernández

  July, John

  Kennedy, Walter

  after Davis’s death

  on pirates’ commanders

  Roberts and

  Scotland

  trial and execution

  Kidd, Captain

  King James

  King Solomon

  Kingston

  Knott, Captain Luke

  La Bouche, Captain

  La Palisse, Montigny

  Land’s End

  Lang, Christopher

  latitude

  Launceston

  Lawes, Governor Nicholas

  Leadstone, John, see Old Crackers

  Leeward Islands

  Leith

  Lesley, Peter

  Levens, Dr

  Liberia

  Libertalia

  Lisbon

  ‘Little David’ (David Simpson)

  Little Newcastle

  Littlejohn, David

  Liverpool

  Lloyd

  Loan, Captain

  London

  Long John Silver

  longitude

  Lowther, Captain George

  Lowther, Governor Robert

  Ludlow Castle

  Luntly, Richard

  Macarty, Dennis

  Madagascar

  Magness, William

  Main, William

  maintenance (ship’s)

  malaria

  Malherbe, Monsieur

  Mansfield, Joseph

  marooning

  Marquis del Campo; see also Royal Rover

  Marshalsea Prison

  Martha

  Martinique

  Mary

  Mary and Martha

  Massachusetts

  matelotage

  Mathew, Lt General William

  Maynard, Captain

  Mead, William

  Mecca

  Mediterranean

  Mercy

  Meriwinga (Maroni) River

  Mexico

  Milford, HMS

  Milford Haven

  Minas Gerais

  Minehead

  Minories

  misogyny

  ‘Miss Nanny’ (John Walden)

  Mission, Captain

  Monrovia

  Montserrat

  Moody, Christopher

  Moor, Michael

  Morgan, Henry

  Morris, John

  Mt Misery

  Mughal Empire

  Mumvil Trader

  Murray, Archibald

  music

  navigation

  Neptune

  Nevis

  New England

  New England Courant

  New Providence

  Newcastle

  Newfoundland

  Newfoundland Inn

  Newton Abbot

  Nigeria

  Norman, Samuel

  Norman

  North Berwick

  North Carolina

  Norton, Captain Benjamin

  Nostra Senhora de Cabo

  Ogle, Captain Chaloner

  background

  his men securing pirates

  Ogle, George

  Old Calabar

  ‘Old Crackers’ (John Leadstone)

  ‘Old Standers’

  Onslow; see also Royal Fortune (third)

  Ostend

  Ousley, Captain Christopher

  Pacific Ocean

  Papillon

  parrots

  Pearl

  Pelican Stairs

  Pembrokeshire

  periaguas

  Pernambuco

  Petty Harbour

  Phillipa

  Phillips, Captain John

  Phillips, James

  Philps, John

  Phipps, General

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p; Pigeon Island

  Pirate, The (Walter Scott)

  pirate ships

  cooks

  diet

  democratic structure

  drinking

  fighting technique

  gambling

  guns

  layout

  maintenance

  music

  pecking order

  sartorial elegance of

  pistols

  Place, John

  Plantain, James

  plantations

  Plumb, Captain Abraham

  Plunkett, Robert

  Polly (John Gay)

  Poole

  Porcupine

  Port Royal

  Porter, Captain

  Portugal

  press

  Price, Roger

  Prince Eugene

  Princes Island

  Anstis at

  burial ground

  Davis at

  description

  efficacy of bark of a tree growing there

  sickness at

  Princess (later Good Fortune); see also Good Fortune (first)

  Princess (slaver)

  privateers

  prostitutes

  Puerto del Principe

  Puerto Rico

  punch

  Pye, Roger

  Rackham, Jack

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Ranger (first)

  consort ship

  conspiracies aboard

  fate of

  full speed to Whydah

  pirates capture

  sets out to plunder

  treasure

  Ranger (second)

  Ranter Bay

  Rappahannock River

  Read, Mary

  Recife

  Relief

  Réunion

  Reynolds, Moses

  Rhode Island

  ritual

  Robert, George

  Robert, William

  Roberts, Bartholomew

  born out of time

  captured by pirates

  changes name

  charms of pirate life begin to appeal

  coercion, tries to avoid

  creates own articles

  Davis’s influence

  death

  early life

  birth

  family and background

  an honest sailor

  local piracy

  final assessment of

  flags

  homosexual?

  insubordination from crew

  Jacobites and

  Kennedy and

  leadership established

  leadership questioned

  leadership re-established

  leads his ship on plundering expeditions

  Africa

  Brazil

  British and French combine against

  Cayenne

  Martinique

  Newfoundland

  Windward and Leeward Islands

  maleness of pirate communities

  North American sympathies for

  personality

  physical appearance

  power, appeal of

  power and reputation grows

  pursued to extinction

  retirement aims

  slaves, use of

  source material for

  tactical strength

  treasure

  trial of deserters

  unrivalled as pirate

  vengefulness of

  Robin Hood

  Robinson

  Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

  Rogers, Captain Owen

  Rogers, Captain Woodes

  Rokel River

  Rose, HMS

  round robins

  Royal African Company

  Davis captures fort

  employee who preferred the pirate life

  origins,

  pirates plunder

  slavery and

  Royal Fortune (first)

  description

  originally French vessel

  Roberts swaps for French prize

  Royal Fortune (second)

  French prize from Martinique

  guns

  Roberts swaps for Onslow

  Royal Fortune (third)

  fate of

  Glasby

  manpower

  originally Onslow

  Ranger and

  treasure

  Royal Hind

  Royal Navy

  Bahamas

  begins to prevail against pirates

  Cape Coast Castle

  careening

  Caribbean

  manpower

  quartermasters

  Roberts a match for

  Roberts in

  sailing masters

  uniform

  Royal Rover; see also Marquis del Campo

  careening procedure

  crew

  gun strength

  homosexuality on?

  Kennedy on

  originally Marquis del Campo

  Roberts seduced into piracy

  St Antonio

  Russell, Isaac

  Rye, HMS

  Sagrada Familia

  Saint Domingue

  Salem

  salmagundi

  Salvador do Bahia

  Samuel

  Scotland

  Scott, Walter

  Scudamore, Peter

  Sea Nymph

  Seahorse, HMS

  Selkirk, Alexander

  Senegal

  Sestos, River

  Shark, HMS

  sharks

  Sharp, Captain John

  Sierra Leone

  Davis at

  Roberts at

  Snelgrave at

  Simpson, David, see Little David

  Skinner, Captain

  Skyrm, James

  slaves and slavery

  Atkins’s views on

  Barbados and Leeward Islands

  Brazil

  Cape Coast Castle

  Davis’s treatment of

  history of

  Princes Island

  Roberts’ treatment of

  Smart, Captain

  Snelgrave, Captain William

  Somerset Gallery

  South Sea Bubble

  Spain

  Spotswood, Alexander

  Squirrel, HMS

  St Antonio

  St Bartholomew

  St Christophers (St Kitts)

  St George’s Channel

  St Lucia

  St Nicholas

  St Thomas

  Stanwich

  Stephenson, John

  Styx, River

  sugar

  surgeons

  Surinam

  Sutton, Thomas

  Swallow, HMS

  captured treasure rumours

  pirates detained in the hold

  pirates pressed aboard

  Tantumquerry

  Tarlton

  Tarlton, John

  Tarlton, Thomas

  Tarpaulin Cove

  teredo worm

  Thomas, Stephen

  Tobago

  Topsham

  Tortuga

  Traherne, Joseph

  treasure

  Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

  Trengrove, Captain

  Trengrove, Elizabeth

  Trepassey

  Trinidad

  Tucker, George

  Tuckerman, Captain

  Vikings

  Virgin Islands

  Virginia

  Walden, John; see also ‘Miss Nanny’

  walking the plank

  Walpole, Robert

  Wapping

  War of the Grand Alliance (1689-97)

  War of the Quadruple Alliance

  War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13)

  watch system

  Watson, John

  West River Merchant

  Weymouth, HMS

>   captured treasure rumours

  sickness aboard

  White, James

  Whorwood, Captain

  Whydah

  major slave port

  Ogle leaves

  pirates seize gold at

  Roberts’ one real atrocity

  Royal African Company

  Whydah

  Wild West

  Williams, William

  Wilson, George

  Winchelsea

  Windward and Leeward Islands

  Windward Coast

  Windward Islands

  Wingfield, John

  Winneba

  Withstandyenot, Thomas

  women

  ‘woolding’

  ‘World Turned Upside Down’ (John Gay)

  York River

  Zeeland

  1 Captain Johnson followed the peculiar eighteenth-century practice of using italics to indicate a direct quote, but then writing in reported speech. I have returned this quote to direct speech.

 

 

 


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