Note 12 — CHAPTER FIVE
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According to one of these, he was said to have been captured by a French Man-of-War, the commander of which had sent him in irons to the Great Mogul. According to another, he had gone to Darien, where the Scots had received him, and all his riches. At one time he was reported to have offered the Dutch Governor of St. Thomas, forty-five thousand pieces of eight in gold and a great present in goods, if he would protect him for a month. At another he was said to have proffered twenty thousand pounds for his pardon. In the popular imagination he had in fact figured as the Prince of Pirates for some three years before his trial. See Appendix E.