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Last time we talked about the English Ambassador to Venice and the Venetian Ambassador to England,

Henry Watton and Zorsi Guillostinian, respectively.

Today's episode is going to be almost a direct continuation of last time.

We're going to continue our story of Watton and Justinian.

We're going to throw in a dash of Henry Pepwell, the King's Man in Barbary, and

we're going to tie in John Ward and the Pirates of Barbary on a much more concrete level.

The reason I wanted to talk about these two men at all, Watton and Guillostinian, is because their documents,

along with the Admiralty Court, are the best sources we have on John Ward.

There are a number of others, which we've used on this show, pamphlets, plays, and

poems all about Ward, but all of those are at best secondary sources. They attempt to tell a complete narrative, and they may have had access

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