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

Last time we ended with the open letter that Henry Every wrote to all English commanders.

It was a letter that proclaimed his unwillingness to attack or rob or even harm.

Any English subjects or even non-English subjects that were not active enemies of the English people.

If we break it down in essence, what that argument was all about was Henry Every saying,

Look, everybody, I'm a man of fortune, and I aim to seek my fortune. I am a pirate.

I'll own up to it sure, but it's not my fault. I may be a bad guy, but I'm not a bad guy.

We were all forced into this position by greedy, vile bankers and business owners like James Hublone,

men of power and influence who made big promises and then just threw us out like the garbage.

They were planning to sell us to the King of Spain, so we turned pirate.

But we're not going to attack any of our own here. We're going to attack the enemy.

And those are pretty decent arguments. The problem, though, despite how these sentiments may have moved the English people,

is that they did not move the authorities.

In part, that's because the authorities were on the side of those greedy bankers and business owners,

but more than that, it's because Henry Every was lying.

This is episode 207, a piratical account.

Last time we sort of just blew past the first nine or ten months of the voyage of the pirate ship Fancy.

From the day of the mutiny all the way to their arrival at Madagascar, I noted a few bullet points of the journey,

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