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A10235	A true relation, of the lives and deaths of two most famous English pyrats, Purser, and Clinton who lived in the reigne of Queene Elizabeth. Together with the particular actions of their takings, and undertakings with other pleasant passages which hapned before their surprizall worth the observing.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 20512; ESTC S120267	11,875	40

havens and had ever in his owne service and billited in the houses of his Lords and Peeres a certaine number of Souldiers Pilots and Mariners that were ever at present command when the King had any use of them his Ship-masters also were in wages with him through out the yeare that ever attended those Ships to see that nothing were wanting by meanes whereof he kept his Land in great peace quietnes free from the danger of all forreigne enemies It is also reported of this King Edgar by divers approved and Authentick Cronologers that upon a time being at Chester hee entred the river of Dee and sitting in a new barge for that purpose hee himselfe tooke the charge of the helme and was the steares-man and was rowed by eight Contributary Kings which hée commanded to row him up and downe the Riunto the Church of St. Thomas and from thence backe againe to his owne Pallace to shew that he was sole Soveraigne of so many provinces amongst them was numbred a Romane Arch pirate whom hee surprised who was called Maxentius and after was Elected Emperour and woare the Imperiall purple In the yeare of our Redemption one thousand three hundred forty nine and in the five and twentieth of the Raigne of King Edward the third a great pirate cald Don Charles suggested by King Iohn of France great warre being then betweene the two Kingdomes with a mighty Navy of Spaniards entred into our English streames and did much dammage to the Land insomuch that the King prepared a fleete to incounter him and met with him uppon the Coast of Winchelsee where betwixt the two Navies was a long and terrible conflict to the great losse of both sides but in the end the victory fell to his Maiesty of England who chased his enemies tooke of them 22. saile with a great number of prisoners In the yeare one thousand three hundred seventy nine in the second yeare of Richard the second who was then but a child one Sir Oliver De Clicon a French Pirate committed sundry out rages and landed in divers places of this Kingdome who did much harme and lastly entred the river Thames and so came up as high as Graves end where hee spoyled the Towne without any resistance burning a great part thereof and departed with great aboundance of riches But in the yeare one thousand foure hundred and eightéene and the sixt of King Henry the first certaine French men of warre of whom the Uicount of Narbon was chiefe Captaine committed great spoyle upon our Coast robbing our Marchants and pillaging the sea Townes and Uillages of which the King hearing being then at a place cald Toke in Normandy he sent the Earle of March the Earle of Huntington with others to scower the seas who encountred the fore-said pirats and after a long and cruell fight vanquished and overcame them this battle was fought uppon the ninth of August in which the Uicount who was admirall of the Fleet and one Captaine Mountney who was Uice admirall were both of them surprised taken prisoners in which ships they found great treasure which they had got by pillaging and robbing which after served the King to pay his souldiers In the third yeare of the Raigne of King Henry the Eight the Lord Howard surprised at Sea a famous pirate called Andrew Barton a Scotch-man with two faire shops and an hundred men in them and in the thirty seventh yeare of his Reigne were taken by the Kings ships and those that belonged to the English Coasts to the number of three hundred French ships and more which were robbers and pillagers at sea We reade also in the first yeare of King Edward the sixt being in the yeare of our Redemption one thousand five hundred forty and seven in the moneth of March Sr Andrew Dudley who was at that time Uice admirall with the Pinnace and the Heart being but small ships and single manned had a great conflict with three Scottish pirats who were double manned and had great store of Ordnance who met them in the narrow Seas and obtained of them a memorable victory as taking many prisoners bringing their ships into Orwell haven where they long after remained And now at this time in this present yeare one thousand sixe hundred thirty seven Captaine Rainsborugh with two of the Kings ships and three other belonging to the Merchants by the helpe of the Moores by Land have to the great honour of our Nation taken in Sally a great receptacle and refuge for Pirats who preyed upon all Merchants who past through those Seas surprising those rebellious sea-robbers and releasing many Christian captives who miserably were inforced naked and chain'd to tug at the Oares of their Gallies Chap. 5. Of the first acquaintance of Purser and Clinton and how they began their attempt to rob the Merchants Ships and others from time to time and of their bold carriage and state they kept in their Shippe I Come now to speake of those two parties proposed for my second discourse omitting many since their dayes notorious for pyracy as the Dutch Danseter and of our owns Nation Bishop Ward who turned renegade after lived amongst the Turkes with others namely Purser so commonly cald because he had béene Purser of one of her Maiesties Ships Royall whose name was Thomas Walton and Clinton who was an apprentise in the upper part of new Fish-street Hill who utterly abandoning his former Trade gave his minde onely to Sea turned Navigator and in severall Merchants ships had made sundry Commodious and prosperous voyages in which hée so applyed himselfe to the Compasse that he was able to guid or conduct any Shippe to all the parts of Christendome or further and bring her backe againe These two béeing growne into familiar acquaintance and both of them of haughty and ambitious spirits having divers meetings they at length began to discourse betwixt themselves that in regard of their experience and skill in Navigation what basenesse it was in them to bée no better than servants who had both the Iudgement and ability to command and to bée onely Imployed to benefit and inrich others whilst they in the Interim wanted themselves They further reasoned that service was no heritage and that in regard they had eyther of them béene more than a prentiship to learne their Art it was now high time to be freemen of the Sea and set up for theteselves This was soone concluded on but how might bee as easily compassed there lay the difficulty To take oft which they often consulted together but still when any likely proiect offered it selfe unto them the way to accomplish it did more and more perplexe them Insomuch that since likelihoods faild them they would determine upon impossibilities and rather then not to bée seen in the eye of the world resolute they would appeare desperate the one alleadging that courage begun with a deliberate constancy and continued without change doth seldome or never faile The