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Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening.

Today's episode was going to be a Henry Everry episode, a pure Henry Everry episode.

But as I delved into the first act of this Henry Everry episode, I realized that its significance

was much more significant than I had anticipated. So today's episode will be less of a

Henry Everry episode and more an episode about the political and mostly military forces at play

in England in the summer of 1690. More, it's a story about the first major defeat

suffered by England in the nine years war. This is episode 190, the Battle of Beechy Head.

If we're talking about the highest echelons of English politics, there's nowhere to begin,

but with the King and Queen. I find that I'm often guilty of overlooking Queen Mary the second.

William and Mary were after all co-monarchs with equal power. There are a few reasons for that,

I think. Partly it's by design, by the design of the royal family. Queen Mary always purposefully

took a back seat to her husband. But in part, of course, it's the war. William III was the commander

in chief of the forces of England after all. When it comes to pirates and privateers, he was the

supreme military commander responsible for all of that. William's name appears on the commissions

of privateers like William Kid and Thomas II ultimately. William III was Henry Everry's boss.

But I think also what has to do with the Parliament. When William and Mary ascended the throne,

their royal powers were significantly curtailed. They're considered, and really are, the first

constitutional monarchs in England. And for that alone, if not a number of other things,

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