Eripice
Eshwell, John
Essex
execution
Execution Dock
Expectation
Experiment
Exquemelin, Alexander
Falconbridge, Alexander
Fanshaw, Lieutenant
Faversham
female pirates
Fenn, John
Fernando de Noronha
Ferryland
Fishguard
Flamborough
Fletcher, Captain
flogging
Flushing
Flushingham
Fowle, Captain Henry
French
French African Company
French Antilles
French Guiana
Frenchman’s Bay
Gabon, River
Gambia
gambling
Ganj-i-Sawai
Gay, John
Gee, William
General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, A (Captain Charles Johnson)
George
George I, King
Gertruycht
Glasby, Henry
escapes and recapture
intervenes on prisoners’ behalf
navigational skills
pirates’ drinking observed by
pirates’ trial
unhappiness of
gold
Gold Coast
Good Fortune (first); see also Princess
consort ship
description
men and guns
Princess renamed
runs out of water
sinking of a turning point
Windward and Leeward Islands
Good Fortune (second)
Gossuch, Roger
Grand Banks
Grant, Captain
grappling hooks
Graves, Daniel
Grenadines
Guadeloupe
Guillouet d’Orvilliers, Claude
Guinneys, William
Gulf of Guinea
Haak, Philip
Haiti
Hamilton, Governor Walter
hammocks
Hannibal
Hardy, Richard
‘hartshorn’
Haverfordwest
Hawkins, John
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Herdman, Captain Mungo
High Cameroon
Hildesley, Captain
Hill, Captain Thomas
Hingston, Captain Andrew
Hispaniola
Buccaneers
Buck at
French presence
pirate haven
Spanish base
homosexuality
Hooson, I.D.
Hope Point
Huguenots
Hyde, Edward
Hynde, Isaac
Ibos
Indian Ocean
Isla Mona
Isle of May
Jacobites
Jamaica
James II, King
‘James III’ (the Old Pretender)
James Fort
James River
Jeremiah and Anne
Jessup, John
Johnson, Captain Charles
Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Anstis
Davis becomes captain
Davis’s death
Davis’s extravagance
England’s crew
General History
Grand Banks
Kennedy
mythical pirate islands
piracy, lure of
pirate atrocities
pirate loyalties
pirate ravages unchecked
Roberts described
Roberts’ importance
Roberts’ leadership
Roberts’ new flags
Roberts’ ‘privy council’
Sagrada Familia
St Bartholomew
Trepassy
trial and executions
water supply runs out
Johnson, Marcus
‘Jolly Roger’
Jones, Thomas Lawrence
Juan Fernández
July, John
Kennedy, Walter
after Davis’s death
on pirates’ commanders
Scotland
trial and execution
Kidd, Captain
King James
King Solomon
Kingston
Knott, Captain Luke
La Bouche, Captain
La Palisse, Montigny
Land’s End
Lang, Christopher
latitude
Launceston
Lawes, Governor Nicholas
Leadstone, John, see Old Crackers
Leeward Islands
Leith
Lesley, Peter
Levens, Dr
Liberia
Libertalia
Lisbon
‘Little David’ (David Simpson)
Little Newcastle
Littlejohn, David
Liverpool
Lloyd
Loan, Captain
London
Long John Silver
longitude
Lowther, Captain George
Lowther, Governor Robert
Ludlow Castle
Luntly, Richard
Macarty, Dennis
Madagascar
Magness, William
Main, William
maintenance (ship’s)
malaria
Malherbe, Monsieur
Mansfield, Joseph
marooning
Marquis del Campo; see also Royal Rover
Marshalsea Prison
Martha
Martinique
Mary
Mary and Martha
Massachusetts
matelotage
Mathew, Lt General William
Maynard, Captain
Mead, William
Mecca
Mediterranean
Mercy
Meriwinga (Maroni) River
Mexico
Milford, HMS
Milford Haven
Minas Gerais
Minehead
Minories
misogyny
‘Miss Nanny’ (John Walden)
Mission, Captain
Monrovia
Montserrat
Moody, Christopher
Moor, Michael
Morgan, Henry
Morris, John
Mt Misery
Mughal Empire
Mumvil Trader
Murray, Archibald
music
navigation
Neptune
Nevis
New England
New England Courant
New Providence
Newcastle
Newfoundland
Newfoundland Inn
Newton Abbot
Nigeria
Norman, Samuel
Norman
North Berwick
North Carolina
Norton, Captain Benjamin
Nostra Senhora de Cabo
Ogle, Captain Chaloner
background
his men securing pirates
Ogle, George
Old Calabar
‘Old Crackers’ (John Leadstone)
‘Old Standers’
Onslow; see also Royal Fortune (third)
Ostend
Ousley, Captain Christopher
Pacific Ocean
Papillon
parrots
Pearl
Pelican Stairs
Pembrokeshire
periaguas
Pernambuco
Petty Harbour
Phillipa
Phillips, Captain John
Phillips, James
Philps, John
Phipps, General
&nbs
p; Pigeon Island
Pirate, The (Walter Scott)
pirate ships
cooks
diet
democratic structure
drinking
fighting technique
gambling
guns
layout
maintenance
music
pecking order
sartorial elegance of
pistols
Place, John
Plantain, James
plantations
Plumb, Captain Abraham
Plunkett, Robert
Polly (John Gay)
Poole
Porcupine
Port Royal
Porter, Captain
Portugal
press
Price, Roger
Prince Eugene
Princes Island
Anstis at
burial ground
Davis at
description
efficacy of bark of a tree growing there
sickness at
Princess (later Good Fortune); see also Good Fortune (first)
Princess (slaver)
privateers
prostitutes
Puerto del Principe
Puerto Rico
punch
Pye, Roger
Rackham, Jack
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ranger (first)
consort ship
conspiracies aboard
fate of
full speed to Whydah
pirates capture
sets out to plunder
treasure
Ranger (second)
Ranter Bay
Rappahannock River
Read, Mary
Recife
Relief
Réunion
Reynolds, Moses
Rhode Island
ritual
Robert, George
Robert, William
Roberts, Bartholomew
born out of time
captured by pirates
changes name
charms of pirate life begin to appeal
coercion, tries to avoid
creates own articles
Davis’s influence
death
early life
birth
family and background
an honest sailor
local piracy
final assessment of
flags
homosexual?
insubordination from crew
Jacobites and
Kennedy and
leadership established
leadership questioned
leadership re-established
leads his ship on plundering expeditions
Africa
Brazil
British and French combine against
Cayenne
Martinique
Newfoundland
Windward and Leeward Islands
maleness of pirate communities
North American sympathies for
personality
physical appearance
power, appeal of
power and reputation grows
pursued to extinction
retirement aims
slaves, use of
source material for
tactical strength
treasure
trial of deserters
unrivalled as pirate
vengefulness of
Robin Hood
Robinson
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Rogers, Captain Owen
Rogers, Captain Woodes
Rokel River
Rose, HMS
round robins
Royal African Company
Davis captures fort
employee who preferred the pirate life
origins,
pirates plunder
slavery and
Royal Fortune (first)
description
originally French vessel
Roberts swaps for French prize
Royal Fortune (second)
French prize from Martinique
guns
Roberts swaps for Onslow
Royal Fortune (third)
fate of
Glasby
manpower
originally Onslow
Ranger and
treasure
Royal Hind
Royal Navy
Bahamas
begins to prevail against pirates
Cape Coast Castle
careening
Caribbean
manpower
quartermasters
Roberts a match for
Roberts in
sailing masters
uniform
Royal Rover; see also Marquis del Campo
careening procedure
crew
gun strength
homosexuality on?
Kennedy on
originally Marquis del Campo
Roberts seduced into piracy
St Antonio
Russell, Isaac
Rye, HMS
Sagrada Familia
Saint Domingue
Salem
salmagundi
Salvador do Bahia
Samuel
Scotland
Scott, Walter
Scudamore, Peter
Sea Nymph
Seahorse, HMS
Selkirk, Alexander
Senegal
Sestos, River
Shark, HMS
sharks
Sharp, Captain John
Sierra Leone
Davis at
Roberts at
Snelgrave at
Simpson, David, see Little David
Skinner, Captain
Skyrm, James
slaves and slavery
Atkins’s views on
Barbados and Leeward Islands
Brazil
Cape Coast Castle
Davis’s treatment of
history of
Princes Island
Roberts’ treatment of
Smart, Captain
Snelgrave, Captain William
Somerset Gallery
South Sea Bubble
Spain
Spotswood, Alexander
Squirrel, HMS
St Antonio
St Bartholomew
St Christophers (St Kitts)
St George’s Channel
St Lucia
St Nicholas
St Thomas
Stanwich
Stephenson, John
Styx, River
sugar
surgeons
Surinam
Sutton, Thomas
Swallow, HMS
captured treasure rumours
pirates detained in the hold
pirates pressed aboard
Tantumquerry
Tarlton
Tarlton, John
Tarlton, Thomas
Tarpaulin Cove
teredo worm
Thomas, Stephen
Tobago
Topsham
Tortuga
Traherne, Joseph
treasure
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Trengrove, Captain
Trengrove, Elizabeth
Trepassey
Trinidad
Tucker, George
Tuckerman, Captain
Vikings
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Walden, John; see also ‘Miss Nanny’
walking the plank
Walpole, Robert
Wapping
War of the Grand Alliance (1689-97)
War of the Quadruple Alliance
War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13)
watch system
Watson, John
West River Merchant
Weymouth, HMS
captured treasure rumours
sickness aboard
White, James
Whorwood, Captain
Whydah
major slave port
Ogle leaves
pirates seize gold at
Roberts’ one real atrocity
Royal African Company
Whydah
Wild West
Williams, William
Wilson, George
Winchelsea
Windward and Leeward Islands
Windward Coast
Windward Islands
Wingfield, John
Winneba
Withstandyenot, Thomas
women
‘woolding’
‘World Turned Upside Down’ (John Gay)
York River
Zeeland
1 Captain Johnson followed the peculiar eighteenth-century practice of using italics to indicate a direct quote, but then writing in reported speech. I have returned this quote to direct speech.