This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The Pirate King, the strange adventures of Henry Avery, and the birth of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan are here with me. The story so far, Henry Avery, makes the biggest score anybody's ever heard of in England. Lots of piracy stories, but this is the biggest.

He's a wanted man. The mogul has made it very difficult for the East India Company to continue,

and that's a source of great wealth for the early days of the building British Empire,

going through religious wars. William is a Protestant.

He will be succeeded by Anne as a Protestant, and she will be succeeded by George as a

Protestant, the beginning of the Georges.

However, the Catholics went back in, and the Catholic king of France is sponsoring all

the time rumors about James, who was deposed in the Glorious Revolution,

to come back and take his crown.

So there's tension in the air.

Our writing hero, Daniel the Foe, has won favor with the court, and especially with the Williams Court.

And it is now Decembercember seventeen hundred where in

an inn in falmouth which is the node for mail going overseas and coming in the

falmouth packet sitting in an inn called penny come quick is a man in the disguise whom we

know as hen Avery,

although he introduces himself as Mr. Wildest,

and in the door walks Mr. Gillo.

Sean, who is Mr. Gillo?

What are these two up to in 1700?

Well, Mr. Gillo's being a bit of a busy boy spoiler alert this is

actually Daniel Defoe in disguise the foe has managed to climb himself all the way to

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