I knew someone who was descended from relatives of Henry Avery. He married a lady I fancied; the pirate! ;) Nah, he was all right. Funny chap with incredibly thick glasses.
Oh! And I've eaten in a pub where Blackbeard did his recruiting. Sing a song of Sixpence was supposedly his recruiting song - all metaphors on the money and bounty to be made, and hints on where to find him to sign up. Can't remember which pub it was, now; don't think it was the Smuggler's Rest but it might have been. It was somewhere in one of those little towns east of Brighton.
Oh! And I've eaten in a pub where Blackbeard did his recruiting. Sing a song of Sixpence was supposedly his recruiting song - all metaphors on the money and bounty to be made, and hints on where to find him to sign up. Can't remember which pub it was, now; don't think it was the Smuggler's Rest but it might have been. It was somewhere in one of those little towns east of Brighton.
BTW, this song about the real life female pirate Anne Bonny always makes me think of Camilla. :-)