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John Callice

Tenby, Pembrokeshire

An Elizabethan pirate protected by powerful friends in Wales.

John Callice was one of the most notorious pirates of Elizabethan times, raiding ships in the Bristol Channel and beyond. He sold his loot in Welsh ports, protected by local gentry and officials.

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When
1570s
Where
51.6700, -4.7000
Group
Pirates

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Tenby is a walled harbour town with a Tudor Merchant's House.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

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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