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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 4 — LA PAIX.

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Clerk in the secretary's office. The name of Chicheley Corbin Thacker deserves a comment, for double Christian names were at that period very rare. "In forty-nine church registers out of fifty, throughout the length and breadth of England, there will not be found a single instance of a double Christian name previous to the year 1700." Bardsley, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature, p. 226.

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