BellamyCay

Wow, nice.

We (at the Whydah Pirate Museum) kinda wish you had at least talked with us about this first... we've been working on having official, exclusive replicas of our artifacts created... but nice job. I might even order a pair from you! LOL.

www.LettersOfMarque.co.uk has beautiful, authentic reproductions of the 1717 Act of Grace and the Spotswood Declaration, and many others. If you live in the U.S. you can click on the currency tab at the top of the page to change pounds to dollars.

When and where did this get announced? Plus having Kenneth Kinkor involved also advances my interest. Were they only trial transcripts? The only think I know of that might be remotely related to this is Kinkor's Whydah Sourcebook that never got published before he died.

As it so happens... in a manner of speaking, the torch has been passed to me; publishing the Whydah Sourcebook in an appropriate format was one of Ken's last requests to me, which I have been working on for nearly two years, and I am very nearly finished with reformatting and re-editing the mammoth Work (and it does in fact contain quite a bit more than just the court trials). It will also contain new historical data obtained since Ken's sad passing (I was one of the very last to see him in this world, and I cannot express the level of grief which we are still suffering more than a year later). I am of the hope that it should be available to the general public within the next 6 months, after final approval from Mr. Clifford, of course. It is my further hope that anal critics will not shred it like a school of bloody piranha, as I have seen ignorantly done to such superior historians as Woodard, Cordingly, and Konstam. There's nothing more revolting to Academia than an uppity academic.