Privateers and Privateering

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Edward Phillips Statham. Privateers and Privateering

Privateers and Privateering

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF MODERN AUTHORITIES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I

TWO EARLY INCIDENTS

CHAPTER II

PRIVATEERING IN THE SOUTH SEAS

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

SOME ODD YARNS

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

TWO GREAT ENGLISHMEN

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

SOME FRENCHMEN

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

SOME AMERICANS

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

SOME MORE ODD YARNS

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

INDEX

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Edward Phillips Statham

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It appears, from certain State Papers, that one John Barton, the father of Andrew, somewhere about the year 1476, in the reign of James III. of Scotland, got into trouble with the Portuguese, who captured his vessel and goods and otherwise ill-treated him; upon representation of which injuries he obtained letters of marque against the Portuguese, in the usual terms.

Apparently, however, John did not succeed in obtaining substantial restitution by this means, for we learn, in a letter from James IV. to Maximilian, Emperor of Germany, dated December 8th, 1508, that the letters of marque had been repeatedly suspended, in the hope of obtaining redress; but had been renewed during the previous year, in favour of the late John Barton's three sons, one of whom—Robert—was the occasion of the writing of this letter; the Portuguese having taken him prisoner, and proposing to hang him as a pirate, which, says King James, he is not, having authority to act against the Portuguese, by virtue of my letters of marque.

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