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 Mughal 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 Fo, has won favor with the court, and especially with the Williams Court.

And it is now december 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 henryvery, 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

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