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Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast.

My name is Matt.

Thank you for listening. Last time we talked about Captain John Coxon and his raid on Santa Marta,

but much more importantly we talked about the Piracy Act of 1677.

That act turned John Coxon from a law-abiding privateer captain into an outlaw.

And in truth, it was really his own decision to continue his trade that made him a

pirate, but that Act also turned thousands of other English privateers into, well, frankly,

for most of them, it turned them into unemployed privateers, except for those very few like Coxon.

So today we're going to stay with the English privateers in the Post Piracy Act world and John Coxon.

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