John Hagedorn

Welcome back, everyone, to 1001 Stories for the Road.

This is your host and storyteller, John Hagedorn.

Today, chapters 15 and 16 from Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery.

And now, chapter 15, The Inquest.

Bundle reached home about 6 a.m.

Until then, this is your host and storyteller, John Hagedorn, at 1001 Stories for the Road.

We're covering The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie.

So when she wails, we sing the scene, or drown beneath the black... Welcome back, mateys, to 1001 Stories for the Road and a General History of Pirates by Daniel DeVoe, followed by the true story of Blackbeard, which you'll find in Kevin Duffus' book, The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate.

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We begin as Governor Spotswood sees the threat to Virginia posed by Blackbeard and his pirates and issues this proclamation, publishing the rewards given for apprehending or killing pirates.

Whereas by an act of assembly made at a session of assembly begun at the Capitol in Williamsburg the 11th day of November in the fifth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, An Act to Encourage the Apprehending and Destroying of Pirates,

It is, among other things enacted, that all and every person or persons who from and after the 14th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1718,

And before the fourteenth day of November, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred nineteen, shall take any pirate or pirates on the sea or land, or in case of resistance, shall kill any such pirate or pirates between the degrees of thirty-four and thirty-nine of northern latitude, and within one hundred leagues of the continent of Virginia."

or within the provinces of Virginia, or North Carolina, upon the conviction, or making due proof of the killing of all, and every such pirate, and pirates, before the governor and council, shall be entitled to have, and receive out of the public money, in the hands of the treasurer of this colony, the several rewards following, that is to say, for Edward Teach, commonly called Captain Teach, or Blackbeard,

100 pounds.

For every other commander of a pirate ship, sloop, or vessel, 40 pounds.

for every lieutenant, master, or quartermaster, bosun, or carpenter, twenty pounds, for every other inferior officer, sixteen pounds, and for every private man taken on board such ship, sloop, or vessel, ten pounds, and that for every pirate which shall be taken by any ship, sloop, or vessel, belonging to this colony, or North Carolina, within the time aforesaid, in any place whatsoever.

the like rewards shall be paid according to the quality and condition of such pirates wherefore for the encouragement of all such persons as shall be willing to serve his majesty and their country in so just and honorable an undertaking as the suppressing a sort of people who may be truly called enemies to mankind

I have thought fit, with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council, to issue this proclamation, hereby declaring, The said rewards shall be punctually and justly paid, in current money of Virginia, according to the directions of the said Act.

and I do order and appoint this proclamation to be published by the sheriffs at their respective county houses, and by all ministers and readers in the several churches and chapels throughout this colony.