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Title: The Pirates' Who's Who
Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers

Author: Philip Gosse

Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #19564]

Language: English

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THE PIRATES'

WHO'S WHO

_Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers_

BY PHILIP GOSSE

ILLUSTRATED

BURT FRANKLIN: RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES 119

Essays in History, Economics & Social Science 51

BURT FRANKLIN

NEW YORK

Published by BURT FRANKLIN
235 East 44th St., New York 10017
Originally Published: 1924
Printed in the U.S.A.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 68-56594
Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works Series 119
Essays in History, Economics & Social Science 51

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

TO

MY FELLOW-MEMBERS OF

THE FOUNTAIN CLUB

WITH THE EARNEST HOPE THAT NOTHING
IT CONTAINS MAY INCITE THEM TO
EMULATE ITS HEROES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

TO FACE PAGE

A PAGE FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF CAPTAIN DAMPIER 98

PRESSING A PIRATE TO PLEAD 140

A PIRATE BEING HANGED AT EXECUTION DOCK, WAPPING 182

ANNE BONNY AND MARY READ, CONVICTED OF
PIRACY NOVEMBER 28TH, 1720, IN JAMAICA 256

CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS 262

PREFACE

Let it be made clear at the very outset of this Preface that the pages
which follow do not pretend to be a history of piracy, but are simply an
attempt to gather together, from various sources, particulars of those
redoubtable pirates and buccaneers whose names have