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Last time I did all of you a terrible disservice

I named that episode that Perfidious Pirate

and I failed to give any good reason for using a word like Perfidious.

When I told you that the British Archives were rife with tales of John Ward in the months following

the capture of the Rainierra I soderina, I wasn't exaggerating. In fact, I might have downplayed it a bit.

There was not a single letter or report or address from the English Ambassador to Venice, nor the Venetian Ambassador to London that failed to mention Jack Ward, even a year more after the event.

Even when they became more concerned with other matters, every one of those communiques would end with an update about John Ward or at least someone in his growing Caball of associates.

So for example, on 5 December 1607, Zorsi Guistinian, the Venetian Ambassador to England,

informed the Privy Council, quote,

a few days ago I heard from a good source that there was an English ship landing in Tunis with certain goods plundered from the soterina.

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