Capn Bob

Well, scupper me hide...I've been to that museum, a cunning little place it is, too. I'd like to see more goodies in the gift shop, but that's a minor consideration. I've visited Nassau twice now, by way of Carnival Pride. Next cruise, I'm planning on taking out a day pass for the British Colonial Hilton, which stands on the site of the old Fort Nassau, what Hornigold and Neddy Teach renovated for their use...

Aye, mark me down on the Morgan's Private Stock list...I explain to me more lubberly colleagues here at library that it's like being smashed in the mouth with a fistful of vanilla beans...but in a *good* way... Besides...its easy to find. Can't lay hooks on Pyrat here, scupper me hide...

I have heard that, in some cases, after the miscreant had...dangled...a bit, his friends were permitted to pull down on his legs to shorten his sufferings. A good period source for hangings is the Newgate Calender. You can find some selected stories here... http://www.ryerson.c...ff/newgate.html and you can download the entirei Calender to read at your leisure here... http://www.exclassic...ate/ngintro.htm Capn Bob tastelessly sings: "He's swinging in the rain...just swinging in the rain..."

Why, thank'ee both, Sutler John and Capt Sterling, and much appreciated! Got me some birthday books on the English Civil War, I did

Well, somebody's been keepin' busy...ye got a ship fer the growin' crew? (Ye'd think he and the missus ha' learned wisdom after the first one...) Congrats!

Well, if'n I get me beard long enough, I could tie the ribbons in it...but I can't find Pyrat here in benighted Akron, OH, scupper me hide...

Well, let's see...the conflict over Kent Island between Virginia and Maryland had accusations of pyracy flying around...http://www.kentisland.com/kent-island-history.php And despite the likes of Nicholson and Spotswood, scupper them, hunting down poor pirates, ye had the likes of James Blair doing deals with South Seas buccaneers such as Edward Davis to get money for his college, William and Mary... http://www.davisclearinghouse.com/stories.htm about a third of the way down... So, add Virginia and Maryland onto the list...

The ass was bad but the donkey was good...

Umm...I really think it was Bonny Anne (Anne Bonney) who is reputed to have said "If you'd have fought like a man you needn't hang like a dog", and not Mary Read. And the tales of heated orgies betwixt the three of them is just focsle gossip, belike...

I've got that movie (the absolute best version of the Musketeers, in my not at all humble opinion) on my list for birthday goodies. If I don't get it for me birthday (April 21), I'll be ordering it meself...

The greatest fencing scene ever has actually never been filmed. It is between Cap'n Benjamin Avery (RN) and Bilbo the Black in the book, The Pyrates, by George MacDonald Fraser

Speaking as someone who works in a library...didja take the book back yet?

Takin' off me pirate hat and puttin' on me flintknapper's leather gloves for a minute...I suppose it would depend on just how far inland the artifact was...I can see the...umm...point (cough), but if the ballast was dumped just offshore, that might not account for its presence up the hills, as it were. Of course, what with glaciation and sea levels being lower, many of those islands may have been connected. Gloves off and Ishi Stick down now...

Mad Capn Bob sings: "Hunting tigers out in India...Out in, Out in...Out in India...YAH!"

Hey, I got that book!

I'm wondering...has anyone ever gone through, I mean, *really* gone through, the Alexander Spotswood papers? I'm assuming that Maynard, blast his eyes, would have delivered up any ship's logs he may have found to the Governor, along with the papers incriminating Tobias Knight, et al... Or, considering Blackbeard's ship at the time was the sloop Adventure, and not the Queen Anne's Revenge, would he still have logs dealing with the QAR just laying about, as it were? Inquiring minds want to know... I resemble that remark! No, Johnson's far from perfect, and I've never yet read a book on pirate history that I couldn't pick some hole in or other, including my own. Is Blackbeard's journal entry authentic? It doesn't seem right to me, but I realise what a terrible basis that is for an argument. If Blackbeard's journal had survived then it would most likely have been stored in the records office at Williamsburg VA, which suffered several fires before anyone really thought to look there for Blackbeard related stuff. Maynard doesn't mention finding a journal specifically, but he is known to have recovered several documents from the Adventure, which conceivably could have included the journal. Of course, even if Maynard did recover Blackbeard's journal it doesn't follow that Johnson really quoted from it. I will say this however, the Blackbeard journal entry is the only journal "quoted" in the GHP, and if any pirates' journal was likely to have survived it would have been Blackbeard's (because we do know that other incriminating documents were recovered from his ship). I don't believe it myself, but I'm not prepared to rule it out.

Since me British ancestor, Richard Curtis ("Ol' Dickie") came to the colonies from Reading Eng. in 1637, and likely still had family there during the Siege of Reading, I been reading up on the English Civil War. Me current reads are: "Cromwell's war machine : the New Model Army, 1645-1660" / Keith Roberts "Naseby : the decisive campaign" / Glenn Foard Oh yes...Pym and Liberty!

Scupper yer hide, now I've come over all hungry!

And he's here all week. And do try the veal...

It's Los Angeles, CA...who sez they *need* a reason?

In honor of my English Civil War era ancestors, I've been reading (get ready)..."All the King's Armies", Stuart Reid..."The King's War", C.V. Wedgwood..."The Tyrannicide Brief", Geoffrey Robertson...and I've also been reading "History of Thatcham", old book from 1901...have an old family connection to the place.