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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 8 — PIRACY OF BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS.

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Roberts's hostility toward Irishmen arose from the trick played upon him by one of his lieutenants, an Irishman named Kennedy, who on the coast of Surinam ran away with both his ship and a good Portuguese prize. Ibid., pp. 166-169.

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