Calendar Of State Papers Colonial Series America West Indies 1700 PDF Download

Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1700: Preserved in the Public Record Office The energetic action of Governors like Bellomont in the North, and Nicholson in Virginia, was likely to have a discouraging effect upon pirates. In the previous year h.m.s. Essex prize had been forced to run from Linnhaven Bay after a sharp engagement with a pirate. (cal. 1699, p. Xviii.) It was characteristic of the energy and directness of the Governor of Virginia, that when a report came to. Hand of a large pirate ship hovering off the Capes, he himself went on board the Shoreham, and by his presence, and plenty of gold (500) incited the crew of His Majesty's ship, which was but weakly manned to engage the pirates. After a very hard-fought action, lasting the better-part of twelve hours, in a fine top-gallant gale of wind, over 100 pirates were compelled to surrender on terms The fight is graphically described by Capt. Passenger (523 But for the Governor's presence on board it appears that the engagement might well have ended as did that of the Essex prize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.