THE LIFE OF CAPT. EDWARD LOW LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CAPT. EDWARD ENGLAND ACCOUNT OF THE LYNN PIRATES HISTORY OF THE LADRONE PIRATES THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN LEWIS LIFE, CAREER, AND DEATH OF CAPT. THOMAS WHITE LIFE, ATROCITIES, AND BLOODY DEATH OF BLACK BEARD EXPLOITS, ARREST, AND EXECUTION OF CAPT. CHARLES VANE THE WEST INDIA PIRATES ADVENTURES AND EXECUTION OF CAPT. JOHN RACKAM LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF ANNE BONNEY ADVENTURES AND HEROISM OF MARY READ HISTORY OF THE ALGERINE PIRATES ADVENTURES, TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN GOW THE PIRATE'S SONG THE DANISH AND NORMAN PIRATES The Saxons, a people supposed to be derived from the Cimbri, uniting the occupations of fishing and piracy, commenced at an early period their ravages in the German Ocean; and the shores of Gaul and Britain were for ages open to their depredations. About the middle of the fifth century, the unwarlike Vortigern, then king of Britain, embraced the fatal resolution of requesting these hardy warriors to deliver him from the harassing inroads of the Picts and Scots; and the expedition of Hengist and Horsa was the consequence. Our mention of this memorable epoch is not for its political importance, great as that is, but for its effects on piracy; for the success attending such enterprises seems to have turned the whole of the northern nations towards sea warfare. The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, from their superior knowledge of navigation, gave into it most; and on whatever coast the winds carried them, they made free with all that came in their way. Canute the Fourth endeavored in vain to repress these lawless disorders among his subjects; but they felt so galled by his restrictions, that they assassinated him. On the king of Sweden being taken by the Danes, permission was given to such of his subjects as chose, to arm themselves against the enemy, pillage his possessions, and sell their prizes at Ribnitz and Golnitz. This proved a fertile nursery of pirates, who became so formidable under the name of "Victalien Broders," that several princes were obliged to arm against them, and hang some of their chiefs.