Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century by Pirates & Privateers in the 18th Century The Final Flourish

Author:Pirates & Privateers in the 18th Century The Final Flourish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
ISBN: 9781526731661
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2018-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Eighteenth Century woodcut of Edward ‘Ned’ England.

Chapter 10

A Short Rope or a Long Drop: Biographies of Charles Vane, Stede Bonnet, William Fly and Olivier Levasseur

Charles Vane

Charles Vane would have been 37 when his ship accompanied Henry Jennings on his 1717 raid of the salvor’s camp off Florida. Four years later Vane was dead, echoing the story of the many hundreds of pirates who paid the price for rejecting the terms of the King’s Pardon. But his time as a pirate showed a glorious defiance, and for that reason he was an influential figure, especially in the autumn of 1717 when he was based in the Bahamas. The many hundreds of pirates infesting the island had split into two camps and the one favouring outright opposition to the authority of King George was led by Charles Vane. He may well have had Jacobite sympathies, and the stories of toasts being drunk to ‘King James III’ may be indicative of this. Equally, it may have simply been a reflection of a more general feeling of ‘King George can go and get stuffed – we don’t need him.’ This is borne out by a report that Vane was actually opposed to any form of external government, Protestant or Catholic.

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