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Henry Every

Newton Ferrers, Devon

The King of Pirates: the richest raid in history, and he was never caught.

Henry Every was born near Plymouth. In 1694 he led a mutiny aboard the Charles II in Spain and renamed her the Fancy.

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When
Born c. 1659
Where
50.3100, -4.0400
Group
Pirates

Visiting

Newton Ferrers and the Yealm estuary, south of Plymouth.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
From the book

Blood and Gold

It is this ordinary, unremarkable beginning that makes Every’s later transformation into the most wanted man on earth so striking: nothing in his first three decades marked him out as exceptional.

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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