The Newgate Calendar Supplement 3 Edited By Donal Ó Danachair Published by the Ex-classics Project, year http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain The Newgate Calendar CONTENTS SIR HENRY MORGAN. Pirate who became Governor of Jamaica (1688) ................ 4 MAJOR STEDE BONNET. Wealthy Landowner turned Pirate, Hanged 10th December 1718 ............................................................................................................ 13 ANN HOLLAND Wife of a highwayman with whom she robbed many people. Executed 1705 .............................................................................................................. 15 DICK MORRIS. Cunning and audacious swindler, executed 1706 ........................... 16 WILLIAM NEVISON Highwayman who robbed his fellows. Executed at York, 4th May 1684 ..................................................................................................................... 19 CAPTAIN AVERY Pirate who died penniless, having been robbed of his booty by merchants ..................................................................................................................... 24 CAPTAIN MARTEL Pirate ........................................................................................ 31 CAPTAIN TEACH alias BLACK BEARD, the Most Famous Pirate of all. ............... 33 CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND Pirate .................................................................. 39 CAPTAIN CHARLES VANE. Pirate ......................................................................... 49 CAPTAIN JOHN RACKAM. Pirate .......................................................................... 54 MARY READ. Who Passed as a Man, and became a Soldier, Sailor, and Pirate..... 57 ANNE BONNEY The Famous Woman Pirate ............................................................ 60 CAPTAIN DAVIS Pirate ............................................................................................ 61 CAPTAIN ROBERTS Pirate ...................................................................................... 75 CAPTAIN KENNEDY. Pirate .................................................................................... 84 STEPHEN BUNCE A Most Brazen and Ingenious Thief ............................................ 87 NICHOLAS WELLS Burglar, Highwayman and Hired Assassin .............................. 91 WILLIAM HALLOWAY Highwayman ..................................................................... 93 –– AVERY. Bricklayer and Highwayman ................................................................... 95 WILLIAM GETTINGS Highwayman, executed 25th September 1713. ...................... 97 CAPTAIN URATZ Highwayman and murderer, who argued with the divine under the gallows ................................................................................................................... 99 CHRISTOPHER DICKSON, JOHN GIBSON, AND CHARLES WEYMOUTH Highwaymen, executed 10th March, 1714 .................................................................. 101 RICHARD KEELE Highwayman, executed 23rd December, 1713 ........................... 102 CAPTAIN WORLEY Pirate, whose beginning was bold and desperate, his course short and prosperous, and his end bloody and disgraceful ....................................... 104 CAPTAIN LOWTHER Pirate ................................................................................... 105 CAPTAIN SPRIGGS. Pirate. .................................................................................... 109 CAPTAIN UPTON Pirate ......................................................................................... 111 CAPTAIN EDWARD LOW Pirate ........................................................................... 112 CAPTAIN JAEN Captain who flogged his cabin-boy to death ................................ 115 NAN HERFORD Swindler and Shoplifter, Executed 22 December 1690 ................ 117 TOM MARSH Thief, Executed 4 May 1696 ............................................................. 119 ANDREW BAYNES. A Hardened Malefactor, who Tried Many Dodges, and was Hanged on 8 August 1711 .......................................................................................... 120 WILLIAM WARD, SAMUEL LYNN, RALPH EMMERY, JOHN PRIOR, ROBERT VICKERS, AND FRANCIS PARQUET Malefactors who Were all Hanged on 19 February 1719 ........................................................................................................... 122 JOHN TRIPPUCK, ROBERT CANE, THOMAS CHARNOCK, AND RICHARD SHEPHERD. Malefactors who were all Hanged on 29 January 1720 ..................... 124 TOM DORBEL Highwayman Turned Servant who Robbed and Murdered his Mistress' Niece ........................................................................................................... 126 -2- Supplement 3 TOM GARRET Highwayman, who Proved less Clever than his Victim .................. 128 COLONEL TURNER Officer and Gentleman who Maintained his Position by Robbery ...................................................................................................................... 130 CONCLUDING NOTE To the Jackson 1795 edition. .............................................. 131 -3- The Newgate Calendar SIR HENRY MORGAN. Pirate who became Governor of Jamaica (1688) The distinguished courage of Sir Henry Morgan, and the scenes in which he engaged, entitle him to occupy the first station in this history. He was a native of Wales, and descended of a respectable family. His father was a wealthy farmer, but young Morgan had no inclination to that industrious mode of life. Abandoning his father's house, he hastened to a sea-port town where several vessels were bound for the isle of Barbados. He went into the service of one of these; and, upon his arrival in the island, was sold as a slave. Having obtained his liberty, he went to Jamaica. Finding two pirate vessels ready to go to sea, he went on board one of them, with the intention of becoming pirate. Having performed several successful voyages, he agreed with some of his companions to unite their wealth to purchase a vessel; which being done, he was unanimously chosen captain. With this vessel he went to cruise upon the coasts of Campeachy, and, capturing several vessels, returned in triumph to Jamaica. Upon his arrival, one Mansvelt, an old pirate, was equipping a fleet with the intention of landing upon the continent and pillaging the country. The success of Morgan induced Mansvelt to choose him for his vice-admiral. With a fleet of fifteen ships and five hundred men, they set sail from Jamaica, and arrived at the isle of St. Catharine. Here they made a descent, and landed the greater part of their men. They soon forced the garrison to surrender, and to deliver up all the forts and castles, which they demolished, only reserving one, into which they placed an hundred men, and the slaves they had taken from the Spaniards. They proceeded to an adjoining small island, and, having destroyed both islands with fire and sword, and made what arrangements were necessary at the castle, which they had garrisoned, they set sail in quest of new spoils. They cruised upon the coasts of Costa Rica, and entered the river Calla with an intention to pillage all the towns upon the coast. Informed of their arrival and of their former depredations, the governor of Panama collected a force to oppose the pirates. They fled at his approach, and hastened to the isle of St. Catharine to visit their companions that were left in the garrison. Le Sieur Simon, the governor, had put the large island in a posture of defence, and cultivated the small island with such care, that it was able to afford fresh provisions to the whole fleet. The vicinity of these islands to the Spanish dominions, and the ease with which they could be defended, strongly inclined Mansvelt to retain them in perpetual possession. With this view, he returned to Jamaica to send out greater numbers, that so they might be able to defend themselves in case of an attack from the Spaniards. He signified his intentions to the governor of Jamaica, upon his return home; but, afraid of offending the king of England, and of weakening the strength of his own island, the governor declined complying with his wishes. Baffled in his designs, he went to the island of Tortuga to solicit reinforcements from the governor, but, before he could effect his purpose, death suddenly put an end to his wicked career. Meanwhile, the governor of the garrison of St. Catharine receiving no intelligence of his admiral, was greatly anxious concerning the cause of his long absence. The Spanish governor of Costa Rica, apprised of the injury whch would accrue to his master, by these two islands remaining in the hands of the pirates, equipped a considerable fleet to retake the islands. But, before proceeding to extremities, he wrote to Le Sieur Simon to -4- Supplement 3 inform him, that if he willingly surrendered, he should be amply rewarded, but if he resisted, severely punished. Having no hope of being able to defend the islands against such a superior force, he surrendered them into the hands of their rightful owner. A few days after this, an English vessel arrived from Jamaica with a large supply of men, women, and stores. The Spaniards, seeing the ships from the castle, prevailed upon Le Sieur Simon to go on board to decoy them into the harbour; which he dexterously effecting, they were all made prisoners. But the active and intrepid mind of Morgan was soon employed in the execution of new plans. He at first equipped one ship with the intention of collecting