A general history of the pyrates : $b from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present timeJohnson, Charles, active 1724-1731
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A general history of the pyrates : $b from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time
Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731
Pirates -- Early works to 1800
T_HE Danger of Commonwealths from an Increase of Pyrates_, 17.
_Pyrates in the Times of_ Marius _and_ Sylla, 18. _Takes_ Julius Cæsar, 19.
_The Barbarity of those Pyrates_, ib. _They spare_ Cæsar, _and why_, ib.
_His Behaviour amongst them_, ib. Cæsar _obtains his Liberty for a Ransom_,
ib. _Attacks and takes the Pyrates_, 20. _Hangs them at_ Troy, ib. _They
increase again to a prodigious Strength_, ib. _Plunder at the Gates of_
Rome, 21. _The mock Homage they paid the_ Romans, ib. Pompey _the Great,
appointed General against them_, 22. _A prodigious Fleet and Army assign'd
him_, ib. _His Conduct and good Fortune_, ib, _The Gallantry of those
Pyracies_, 23. _Receive an Overthrow_, ib. Barbarouse, _a Pyrate, his
Beginning_, ib. _His great Strength_, 24. Selim Eutemi, _King of_ Algiers,
_courts his Friendship_, ib. _Makes himself King, and how_, ib. _The King
of_ Tunis _overthrown by him_, ib. _Leaves the Inheritance to his Brother_,
ib. _The_ West-Indies _commodious for Pyrates, and why_, 24, 25. _The
Explanation of the Word_ Keys, 25. _The Pyrates conceal their Booty on
them_, ib. _The Pyrates Security in those Parts_, 26. _The Rise of Pyrates
since the Peace of_ Utrecht _accounted for_, 26, 27. _An Expedition from_
Jamaica, _to plunder the_ Spaniards, 28. _The_ Spaniards _sue for Justice
to the Government of_ Jamaica, ib. _The Plunderers turn Pyrates_, 29. _The_
Spaniards _make Reprisals_, ib. _The Names of Ships taken by them_, ib.
_The plunder'd Seamen join the Pyrates_, ib. Providence _fixed on as a
Place of Retreat by them_, 30. _That Island described_, ib. _The Lords
Address to her late Majesty for securing_ Providence, ib. _An Order of
Council in this Reign to the same Purpose_, 31. _A List of Men of War
employ'd for the Defence of the Plantations_, 32. _Captain_ Woods Rogers
_made Governor of_ Providence, ib. _The King's Proclamation for suppressing
Pyrates_, 33, 34. _How the Pyrates used the Proclamation_, 34. _Great
Divisions amongst them_, 35. _How made quiet_, ib. _Several of the Pyrates
surrender to the Governor of_ Bermudas, ib. _The Fate of the rest_, ib.
Woods Rogers _his Arrival at_ Providence, ib. Vane'_s Behaviour_, 36. Woods
Rogers _employs the pardon'd Pyrates_, ib. _Their Conduct_, ib. _Some of
them hang'd for new Pyracies_, 37. _Their strange Behaviour at the Place of
Execution_, ib. _Some Proceedings betwixt the_ English _and_ Spaniards, 38.
_The_ Spaniards _surprize the_ Greyhound _Man of War, and how_, ib. _Quit
her_, 39. _The Crew of a_ Spanish Guarda del Costa _hang'd at_ Jamaica,
_and why_, ib. _Sir_ Nicholas Laws _his Letter to the_ Alcaldes _of_
Trinidado, 39, 40. _Mr._ Joseph Laws, _Lieutenant of the_ Happy Snow _his
Letter to the_ Alcaldes _of_ Trinidado, 41. _The_ Alcaldes _Answer to the
Lieutenant's Letter_, 41, 42. _The Lieutenant's Reply to the_ Alcaldes
_Answer_, 42, 43. _The_ Alcaldes _Answer again_, 43. _Some Account of_
Richard Holland, ib. _Prizes taken by him_, 44.
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