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Anstis, Thomas
The crew of Thomas Anstis ridicule the law by holding a mock trial. The judge, using an old tarpaulin as a robe and a mop-end as a wig, sits in a mangrove tree and declares: "I'll have you know, Raskal, we don't sit here to hear Reason - we go according to Law."
Active: - English - Ship: Good Fortune
In , Anstis left the Bahamas with Howell Davis. After Davis' murder in June , Anstis sailed with Bartholomew Roberts. When Roberts captured an 18 gun brigantine in the West Indies (renaming her the "Good Fortune") he made Anstis captain of her.
Anstis and his crew deserted from Bartholomew Roberts in As they approached Africa in April , Anstis made off with the Good Fortune. Anstis went to the Caribbean, where he plundered 3 or 4 small merchant ships. According to Daniel Defoe in his "General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates", the pirates were especially brutal to the passengers of an English ship taken off Martinique. The pirates beat and wounded one man who tried to save a woman from rape. They then forced the woman each in turn, afterwards breaking her back and flinging her into the sea. Later, Anstis captured a lar
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Thomas Anstis
English pirate
Thomas Anstis (died April ) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts, before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Piracy".
Early career
[edit]Anstis is first recorded as a member of the sloop Buck, which sailed from New Providence in the Bahamas in (the ship having arrived there with Governor Woodes Rogers[1]). During the course of the voyage, Anstis conspired with six other crew members (including Walter Kennedy and Howell Davis) to attempt a mutiny aboard the ship which, upon doing so, stated their intentions to sail southward as pirates. Howell Davis was elected captain. After Davis' death Bartholomew Roberts replaced him as captain, and eventually had several ships. Anstis commanded one of these, the brigantine Good Fortune.[2]
Roberts, Fenn & Admiral Flowers
[edit]During the night of 18 April , Roberts' ships headed for Africa, but Anstis and his crew in the Good Fortune slipped away in the night and continued to operate in the Caribbean. Between Hispaniola and Jamaica, the Good Fortune plundered two
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