New-England Legends (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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High Admiral, the Duke of Shrewsbury, and Sir Edward Harrison, and they agreed to give the King, who entered into it very heartily, a tenth Of the profits of the adair. Kidd was somewhat averse to the plan, and seriously de murred, it is believed, but was threatened by the men of power that his own ship Should be detained and taken from him if he persisted, and accordingly he yielded, and in 1696 was regularly commissioned under two separate parchments, one to cruise against the French and the Other - an extraordinary one, but issue under the Great Seal, empowering him to pro ceed against the pirates of the American seas, and really given for the purpose Of authorizing him to dispose of such property as he might capture. He had orders to render his accounts to the Earl Of Bellomont, remotely and securely in New England and the Adventure Galley. A private armed ship Of thirty guns and eighty men, was brought to the buoy in the Nore at the latter end of February, and,'on the 23d Of April, 1696, he sailed in her from Plymouth, reaching New York in July, and bringing in a French Ship, valued at three hundred and fifty pounds, which he had taken on the passage, and which he there condemned.

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