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A04099	A true and certaine report of the beginning, proceedings, ouerthrowes, and now present estate of Captaine Ward and Danseker, the two late famous pirates from their first setting foorth to this present time. As also the firing of 25. saile of the Tunis, men of warre: together with the death of diuers of Wards chiefe captaines. Published by Andrew Barker master of a ship, who was taken by the confederates of Ward, and by them some time detained prisoner.	Barker, Andrew, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 1417; ESTC S104493	16,169	30

which they expected their seruice dad deserued they began now taking aduantage of his lownesse to repine and to gather head against him and concluded awongst themselues that rather then Ward should containe them in that seruitude which in the time of his height and pride they supposed they were held they would now take a course to proud for redresse and which was they would immediately run away with the ship or at least the shippe should run away with them and with her whole prouision sell her to the Maltesaies who were yet Christians and so become at their seruice To which opinion with a generall consent they all agreed And apointed one of their companie Captaine and the same night before the Turks should come a board they did farewell to Tunis without taking their leaue and went for Malta being in number fortie fiue English and leauing their old Captaine but thirtie in company Which sudden alteration and vnexpected newes the next day comming to Crosiman hee sent for Ward and there in very sterne manner demanded from him whether hee were consenting to his Countremens Treason namely to the conueying away of the ship and goods in y● which the Kings maiestie his master was a party and hee himselfe had a halfe To whō Ward made answer that he was no way guiltie of it neither had he reason to be since his owne losse was as great as his Well replies Crosiman be aduised that thou art not neither let the honour and wealth that thou hast got by our support bée an incouragement shall entise thée to leaue vs and serue Christians but beare thy selfe euen and to preuent thy escape I will haue halfe of thy part of the mattelena for my share of the Iohn which thy Countrymen haue depriued me of then either resolue me of thy will or resist mee as thou thinkest good but Ward finding it no fit time to replie to the contrary for feare of his head made answer that both himselfe seruice and all his was at his pleasure So that Ward now left shiplesse almost frindlesse and his state declining since the Crosiman hath left him he began to leauie his wits together what hee were best to resolue vpon to aduenture to Sea himselfe he thought it not yet fitting but determined rather to send others a fishing for him In which determination he foorthwith buies him a ship of 80. or 90. Tuns and appointed one Captaine Sampson to bee the Commander mans her with a hundred men of which although the ship were his owne not many of them were English but the most of them Turkes who so ouersway them at Sea that the Captaine may bid what hee will and they will doe what they list For this Sampson going foorth of Tunis the eighth of Februarie last The first ship that he tooke was Captaine Fursman of London a Gentleman who in former time had béene as Samsons sworne brother of whom when Sampson came to take note of In this I commend his generous spirit hee would by no meenes haue ri●led him but earnestly laboured in all that he might to haue frely giuen him his ship and goods againe To which request of his the Turks by no meanes would bee brought to consent but the more he entreated the more they denied till at last one among the rest and who it should seeme was Life teant to Samspon strucke violent at him whom all the rest as readily seconded so that hee was compeld to looke heauily vpon his friende and enforced to be silent while they ceased on the good Marchant Master William Fursman with the ship and goods The very same day the said Sampson in Wards ship gaue Chase vnto a ship of Dartmoth whereof Iohn Fursman who was sole brother to William Furseman who they had taken not fixe houres before was master from him they tooke likewise both ship and goods and then most cruelly without pitty and not regarding praiers turned the two brothers into their ships Boate and thrée leagues from land in a very growne Sea where it was impossible to recouer the land but must vnfortunatly haue perished had not a ship of Venice happened by chance to haue taken them vp Oh what inhumane crueltie was this in them toward two naturall brothers and who can expresse the sorrow and griefe their cases being a like that one had for another one striuing to helpe the second when they saw nothing but to perish both hee lending one hand to helpe him when both would not serue to helpe himself but leauing them to their Comfort and the rest to be damned who tooke two prises more though but small Ships and returned to Tunis who to their Captaine Ward was welcome according to the prouerbe Somewhat hath some sauour although he séemed wonderous discontent that Sampson had not brought him a tall Ship wherein his worships Person might to théeuing himselfe but contenting himselfe in the meane time and neither lamenting nor reproouing him for dealing so vnkindly now with his Countrimen got away straight he sends Sampson to Sea againe who in this action thriued so succesfully that he takes for Ward a small Argosie or rather a Spaniard of thrée hundred Tunnes with thrée prises more Flemings and French which was in Iune last whereby with the strength that they haue brought him he is now preparing himselfe very forcibly to Sea training men and casting Ordinance and the Tunis men making readie fourteene saile of great Ships for men of warre and as many small for the same purpose to scoure the Coast. Where I am glad I haue left them to hope for their confusion Only I pray you receiue that which from William Graues his mouth was deliuered me of their incredible wealth as also of the spoile that our owne Nation of England hath sustained within these two yeeres Neither I hope shall it be impertinet to note héerewithall the names of all Ships as I haue gathered by being partaker of the like hard fortunes A small Barke Fulmoth laden with Pilcherds Two ships of London taken by the Gallies Besart about the Iland of Corsowe The Merchant that was taken in the first was also taken in the second His name I suppose is Master Wallowbee The next I heard of was a ship whereof Master Thomas Carrull of Plimoth was owner She was taken by Captaine Elliet in the Bay of Cullery The Troian of London she was taken and all her men made slaues but for shooting one shot in their owne defense A ship of Portsmouth laden with oiles from Talloun the master Richard Learner The same day another small ship taken by the same men of warre A ship of Hull Master Andrew Barkers The Tobias of Amsterdam These fiue Ships were taken by Crosimans Ship a Turke being called Mamatrice and an Englishman William Graues the Master the Gunners name Iohn Lumbey the Botsons name Thomas Hussey Neither was there any more Englishmen in this man of warre but Captaine Wards man whose name was Iohn

A TRVE AND CERTAINE REport of the Beginning Proceedings Ouerthrowes and now present Estate of Captaine WARD and DANSEKER the two late famous Pirates from their first setting foorth to this present time AS ALSO The firing of 25. Saile of the Tunis men of warre Together with the death of diuers of WARDS chiefe Captaines Published by Andrew Barker Master of a Ship who was taken by the Confederates of Ward and by them some time detained Prisoner LONDON Printed by William Hall and are to be sold by Iohn Helme at his shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard 1609. TO HIS WORSHIPFVL WORthy and singular good friend Master T. I. these faithfull commendations SIr a farre greater happines then I of late haue had either leisure to hope for or means to expect I commend to your good selfe the frends of our acquaintance Being certified by my affection that your gentle nature doth commiserat the misfortunes hath befalne me and therein as a friend doth share with mee in sorrow I shall as soone as occasion will suffer me make hast to London to bee counselled by your aduise touching those things in particular that mainly concerne my estate Nor make I any doubt but before the receipt hereof you haue heard of my mishap from the report of some of my men who I hope are ariued by passage by the way of Holland therefore I omit herein to trouble you with the maner of my first taking by the Turkes whose gouernours I meane Masters Pilates are all Englishmen not onely Pirates but mearely reprobates and whose successe at Seas is so great that it is most lamentable to report how many Ships of London and other parts of England haue beene taken and made prey vnto them without the help of which English the Turks by no means could haue gouerned and conducted them through their vnskilfulnes and insufficiencie in the art of Nauigation yet of late to my wofull experience I can witnes they haue beene so readied by the instruction of our apostate countrimen I meane of Ward and others who haue beene their commanders to tackle their Ships to man and mannage a fight that if it doe not please God to moue the heart of his Maiestie and other Christian Princes and states to ioyne together for their speedy suppression and the disiointing of their late strengthned forces which continually encreaseth by the Ships of England and Holland which they daily surprise It will be discomodious to the state and so dangerous to the common wealth in succeeding times that Christendome must expect no Trafficke at Sea for they are alreadie grown to the number of fifteene saile of great ships belonging to Tunis some bearing 40. some 30. and some 20. pecces of ordinance with men accordingly as 300. 250. and 200. men at the least in euery Ship so that I doubt and the cause it selfe may breed a generall feare that if expedition be not hastened against them the state may heareafter share a part in that sorrow which wee poore Sea-faring men haue already suffered I haue sent you a note by Leanard Crowder of diuerse ships both English and Dutch that haue been taken since Ianuary last which although it be a businesse not much pertinent to gentlemen of your profession yet I doe assure my selfe that you are so faithfull a wel-willer to the good estate and prosperitie of the common-wealth of which the Merchant and Marriners are not the least members that in pitie of our losses sustained with vs you could wish and expect a reformation since the infinite wealth that our nation hath suffered ruine of by the Turks this last yeer it were without doubt incredible to report since happily you haue heard and I doubt not to prooue that Londons losses hath amounted to aboue 200000. pound Thus hauing presented you at this time but with a relish and taste of that which heereafter shall bee stored to your expectation in a more ample and fuller feast I beseech you receiue this with my loue in good part Alwaies desirous to be commanded yours ANDREVV BARKER The true report of Captaine VVARDS Piracies done by Andrew Barker Mr. of a Ship and who was lately prisoner in Tunis SIr I haue receiued your Letter and herein am glad to consent to your request which was that since so many flying fables and rumoring tales haue béene spread of the fame or rather indéede infamie ouer the whole face of Christendome of this notorious and arch pirate Ward my selfe who had euen knowne him to be a knaue and of late yet too soone had prooued him a théefe whose fortunes had béene so much decaied by his prosperitie and who so long had béene held his prisoner 〈◊〉 who had there séene abroad heard and at Sea felt the abilitie of his strength the ordering of his actions and the vniustnes of his procéedings I might best gratifie my friends and most truely satisfie the world and their gréedy and auidous expectation what iniurie hee hath done daily doth and still indeauoureth to doe to rich estats and prouident Sea-farers to the venturing Marchant and the carefull Saylor to poore wiues and distressed children how like a villaine and an apostata he liues and how like a reprobate in persisting he resolues to die Which pleasure of yours that I may the better and more fullie accomplish and no way to seeme ingratefull for your benefits receiued in neglecting my paines I beseech you let it not be held vnnecessarie by you nor superfluous of the world that I first indeuour to deliuer truely and of mine owne knowledge the manner of his first going forth to Sea and the forme that he vsed in vndertaking these courses so shall I the more directly and in order delymate his proceedings describe his outrages dilate his customs paint out his oppressions picture his lusts image his riotts manifest his ruins and in the end giue you to expect that which is already begun of him his endlesse infamy and deserued confusion Which desire of mine being I know by your curtesie condiscended vnto and I perceiue by your letter is expected of others I pray you receiue this that followeth for truth This Ward who now hath atchieued to himselfe the title of Captaine whose desperate actions hath caused terrour to trauellors by Sea and whose name hath bred feare in the Marchants at home In the last yeare of her late Maiesties raigne was resident and had his dwelling as by my own knowledge I can certifie in the West countrie at the hauen Towne of Plimouth a fellow poore base and of no estéeme one as tattered in 〈◊〉 as he was ragged in conditions the good past that he could boast of himselfe might bee that hee was borne in a Towne called Feuersham in Kent and there liued as a poore fisherman and the vertue present that he durst talke of was he had abiding in Plimouth wherfore a while kéeping house although I haue neuer heard that he paid his rent all the day you should hardly

White Other newes I learnt not The pearle of London laden with currants from Zant was taken by the Tunis men of warre in May. Iohn Bullard of London master of the little Amitie lost goods valued to eight thousand pound Foure great ships of Holland of three hundred and foure hundred Tunnes apeece and were taken all in one day A French man of warre who had in her 95. men and fourteene peeces of Ordinance yet yeelded without any one shot shooting there were three Caualeroes of Malta in her A ship of London which came from Anconia Rebert French of Sandwich in a new ship laden with allicant wines A small Barke of Milbrooke in his company The Bull of Amsterdam of 500. Tunnes Two more in her company At the same time a small ship of Wards or a man of warre of Iunis chuse you whether of 65. Tunnes tooke a Holland ship of 500. worth foure and twenty thousand pounds My men did see her brought into Tunis ere they came away And thus hauing deliueced as much as I can trulie certifie of Wards proceeding let mee bee bold to speake somewhat of Danser for so is his name and of him as of the former no more then I can iustifie And since they be theeues in one age together liue almost in one fame together I le be bold to pricke them downe in one ranke together Of the Pirate Danser THis Simon Danser another Arch-pirate was sometimes belonging to Flushing where hauing serued the States vpon a discontent hee went to Marseles in France where leauing his wife and sonne hee came to petuall slauery and there remaine in the Galli●● This Boniton was one of the Ireland Pirates whose purpose was to goe vnto the Straits to learne newes But you haue heard how it prooued to his cost Not long after the Moone of Amsterdam a Ship that the Frenchmen bought and set foorth from Newhauen a vessell of 5. 02600. Tuns which they furnished most nobly forth and sent her to the Straits who by good hap met with the ship of Tunis which tooke me prisoner Whereof Graues was Master who in fight ouercomming him they carried to Marselis for so was the newes at Tunis when my men were there and were seconded for truth vpon their comming away So that I make no doubt but they haue put him to death and his Turks with him which were about an hundred Infidels are all made slaues But the last and best newes is that the Spanish nauy hath been in the road of Tunis there found riding fourtéene Saile of great Ships for men of warre to go toward the bottome of the Gulfe and twelue or thirteene Saile of smaller with men of warre to lie to the westward and about the Ilands of Sardmia maiork and miniake all which Ships my men which were secondly taken in a French ship in their passage homwards and carried backe againe to Tunis did see thus preparing So that I hope since the report holds that the Spaniards haue beene in that road and burnt twenty fiue saile of Ships it is infallibly true that both Ward and his assistants are at length depriued of most of their strength or at least so infeebled that they shall neuer bee able to carrie such sway againe Further it is for certaine that the said fleet is busie in the search of Danser and dispersed onely in seuerall places to cut him and his forces off Of all which proceedings of Ward Danser or their Confederates which I haue either séene or by other mens knowledge heard I haue truly giuen you to vnderstand Which paines of mine if it be either welcome to you or acceptable to the world your friend is satisfied and accounts it well bestowed Whereas it was reported in a former booke that the Yorke Bonauenture of which I was master carried fifteene cast peeces at the time of her taking she had scarce fiue which shee could vse or were fit for seruice Andrew Barker